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[Arbenol68]

spud the mackem, on 08 April 2012 - 10:49 PM, said:

You are dead wrong there blue,the most boring event ever is watching Oz trying to play CRICKET....Shambles unlimited...

Although I'd extend that to watching anybody play cricket

[hetrodoxly]

Arbenol68, on 08 April 2012 - 11:15 PM, said:

I am a Brit.

That's no excuse.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

I love how someone who graduated from an elitist college, runs an elitist business that stays afloat because of his family's money gets to make a stand against elitism "I've benefited from elitism, but now that I'm all done doing so, elitism is bad!".

[spud the mackem]

Arbenol68, on 08 April 2012 - 11:15 PM, said:

I am a Brit.

Incidentally I went to a sheep shearing contest on saturday. It was even more boring than the boat race - if that's possible.

Ha Ha good one Pom,at least you're honest.My sport (religion) is Footy.My apologies for thinking you were Oz..I've been there a few times and its ok apart from the beer,which is a joke,but you can't win them all I guess.cheers..

[Arbenol68]

spud the mackem, on 09 April 2012 - 08:58 AM, said:

My sport (religion) is Footy.

Agreed.

Down here everyone's mad for this strange sport they call 'footy'. As far as I can tell the only rules are that someone picks up a 'ball' (I use this term loosely), and then everyone else tries to stick their heads between his thighs.

And they have the nerve to call it a 'real man's game'.

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Arbenol68, on 09 April 2012 - 10:39 AM, said:

Agreed.

Down here everyone's mad for this strange sport they call 'footy'. As far as I can tell the only rules are that someone picks up a 'ball' (I use this term loosely), and then everyone else tries to stick their heads between his thighs.

And they have the nerve to call it a 'real man's game'.

STOP!!!!!      you're killing me.....

[spud the mackem]

and then, on 09 April 2012 - 12:24 PM, said:

STOP!!!!!      you're killing me.....

Thats not footy Bro' thats a very strange game called Rugby,where they pick up the ball which is shaped like a prune,run away with it with everyone chasing,until he's caught or drops it,and they have no goal keeper,then they kick it over the goal between 2 long posts,to score..and they have 15 players,then they have a "scrum" where they try to grab your nuts or bite your ears,really wierd man...not like the beautifull game of football where skill is involved...but I guess the Oz dont know about that...skill I mean...nothing skillfull about necking a "Tinney",and shouting loudly "Good on yer Blue"...Slainte !

[ealdwita]

I studied at Oxford and was very disappointed at the outcome of Saturday's race. Not so much the result itself, but the antics of some pretentious nonentity who will leave no trace of his existence in the pages of history other than this act of tomfoolery! Posters on this thread have remarked how boring the Boat Race is - OK, that is your opinion, good luck to it. It's the same opinion that causes me to switch off the TV when the prospect looms of watching 22 over-paid semi-morons kick a ball from one end of a patch of grass to another, but I wouldn't drive a plough across their pitch to prevent the event going ahead! I know how much these rowers put into this race and the fact that some weirdo leftie who's arrogant enough to think he has the right to interfere with other people's day out leaves me wishing that one or other of the bow men had decapitated the twerp with his oar!

BTW, he 'studied' at the London School of Economics, a notorious breeding ground for rebels without a clue! His subject? 'Contemporary Urbanism'! Let's see what the LSE's prospectus says - the contemporary urbanism course teaches the need to recognise and build upon the ‘cultural diversity’ of cities and requires students to be ‘sensitive to social and cultural difference’. That sounds like it'll be useful then!

[itsnotoutthere]

ealdwita, on 09 April 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

I studied at Oxford and was very disappointed at the outcome of Saturday's race. Not so much the result itself, but the antics of some pretentious nonentity who will leave no trace of his existence in the pages of history other than this act of tomfoolery! Posters on this thread have remarked how boring the Boat Race is - OK, that is your opinion, good luck to it. It's the same opinion that causes me to switch off the TV when the prospect looms of watching 22 over-paid semi-morons kick a ball from one end of a patch of grass to another, but I wouldn't drive a plough across their pitch to prevent the event going ahead! I know how much these rowers put into this race and the fact that some weirdo leftie who's arrogant enough to think he has the right to interfere with other people's day out leaves me wishing that one or other of the bow men had decapitated the twerp with his oar!

BTW, he 'studied' at the London School of Economics, a notorious breeding ground for rebels without a clue! His subject? 'Contemporary Urbanism'! Let's see what the LSE's prospectus says - the contemporary urbanism course teaches the need to recognise and build upon the ‘cultural diversity’ of cities and requires students to be ‘sensitive to social and cultural difference’. That sounds like it'll be useful then!

Good find. He's obviously on the wrong course. Perhaps they should lock him up in a cell with the idiot in cardiff who racially abused the footballer who had the heart
the other week.

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ealdwita, on 09 April 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

I studied at Oxford and was very disappointed at the outcome of Saturday's race. Not so much the result itself, but the antics of some pretentious nonentity who will leave no trace of his existence in the pages of history other than this act of tomfoolery! Posters on this thread have remarked how boring the Boat Race is - OK, that is your opinion, good luck to it. It's the same opinion that causes me to switch off the TV when the prospect looms of watching 22 over-paid semi-morons kick a ball from one end of a patch of grass to another, but I wouldn't drive a plough across their pitch to prevent the event going ahead! I know how much these rowers put into this race and the fact that some weirdo leftie who's arrogant enough to think he has the right to interfere with other people's day out leaves me wishing that one or other of the bow men had decapitated the twerp with his oar!

BTW, he 'studied' at the London School of Economics, a notorious breeding ground for rebels without a clue! His subject? 'Contemporary Urbanism'! Let's see what the LSE's prospectus says - the contemporary urbanism course teaches the need to recognise and build upon the ‘cultural diversity’ of cities and requires students to be ‘sensitive to social and cultural difference’. That sounds like it'll be useful then!

While I do love American football of the college variety I didn't mean any disrespect for the sport of rowing or sculling or whatever it's called.  I'm sure it requires intense training just as any other sport does and to have such an important event trashed by an idiot is enough to make you want to do violence to him.  I just didn't understand his protest - other than just being a mean spirited jerk.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

spud the mackem, on 09 April 2012 - 03:03 PM, said:

not like the beautifull game of football where skill is involved

That would be the skillful game of pretending to be hurt in the most ludicrous manner possible? Ohh he brushed past my shoulder "ARGH MY EYE!" *writhe on the ground* or "the umpire isn't looking" *take a spectacular fall and lie on the ground as if concussed*.
Yeap, got to love Football as practiced by the Continentals.

[spud the mackem]

Wearer of Hats, on 09 April 2012 - 10:47 PM, said:

That would be the skillful game of pretending to be hurt in the most ludicrous manner possible? Ohh he brushed past my shoulder "ARGH MY EYE!" *writhe on the ground* or "the umpire isn't looking" *take a spectacular fall and lie on the ground as if concussed*.
Yeap, got to love Football as practiced by the Continentals.

      I just love the way they fall over and then roll over 4/5 times and if the Ref isnt looking they get up and run off,but better still I adore all Brit teams when they stuff the Euro cheats,its Magic...

[Taun]

I agree with the posters who thought this jerk really needed a good solid 'thunk' on the noggin with an oar...

While I don't watch sculling (as we sometimes call it over here), I have noticed that my favorite University (Univ of Oklahoma) has recently started a sculling team, and unless I am mistaken, will host a major match/tourney/event/scull/whatever this year...  Go OU!!!!
Or I suppose I should be a bit more 'cultured' and say "Do try and win chaps..."

[TheLastLazyGun]

The first Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge was in 1829.  Cambridge challenged Oxford to a race at Henley-on-Thames.  Charles Merivale got the Cambridge team together and his friend Charles Wordsworth got an Oxford team together.  Oxford won.  The next race wasn't until 1836  Then there was a race each year from 1839 to 1842, then one in 1845 and in 1846, then two races in 1849, then one in 1852 and one in 1854.  Then races were held annually from 1856, except between 1915 and 1919 and between 1940 and 1945.  The course is 4.2 miles long.

In total there have been 158 races, with Cambridge winning 81, Oxford winning 76 and one dead heat (1877).

The most consecutive victories was 13, by Cambridge, between 1924 and 1936.

The course record is 16 min 19 sec, which was set by Cambridge in 1998.

Edited by TheLastLazyGun, 11 April 2012 - 06:15 PM.

[Still Waters]

Now they are worrying about the same kind of thing happening at the Olympic Games -

London Olympics 2012: Boat Race chaos sparks fears that Games will be vulnerable to 'lone idiots'

http://www.telegraph...one-idiots.html