The long boat game

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I like the boat race, but I would like it better if it were the final in a knockout series involving all the big universities - perhaps not the former polytechnics and teacher training colleges.
Now that would be worth following.

[mercia]

didn't Bamber Gascoigne used to swim in the Thames ........ or was it Matthew Paris .............. or both ......

[amateur51]

I like the boat race, but I would like it better if it were the final in a knockout series involving all the big universities - perhaps not the former polytechnics and teacher training colleges.
Now that would be worth following.

Commentary by Stuart Hall OBE!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Commentary by Stuart Hall OBE!!

You beat me to it, ammy



More fun than Bamber G or Paxo

[Lateralthinking1]

In the spirit of Emily Davison and metaphorically more overt. For some time afterwards, she was condemned as a female hooligan and a mentally ill fanatic.

[vinteuil]

In the spirit of Emily Davison .

Emily Davison was fighting for women's suffrage. This Australian? his plea - "This will provide the time and space for an ongoing development of post-elitism, post-capitalist thought and debate.” hmmm....

[mercia]

am I right in thinking this will be the first Boat Race without an official timing?
previous abandoned races have been re-run with a timing.

[John Skelton]

One hopes the Thames has infected his gastric system

One can't understand why anyone who didn't go to Axe-fridge or whatever it's called gives a whatever about the Bait Rice. Ditto why it's on television.

That's only one, of course.

[Nick Armstrong]

One can't understand why anyone who didn't go to Axe-fridge or whatever it's called gives a whatever about the Bait Rice. Ditto why it's on television.

That's only one, of course.

Ooo you are a one

[John Skelton]

Ooo you are a one

Me and the chip on my shoulder .

[EdgeleyRob]

One can't understand why anyone who didn't go to Axe-fridge or whatever it's called gives a whatever about the Bait Rice. Ditto why it's on television.

That's only one, of course.

Make that two !

[Nick Armstrong]

Me and the chip on my shoulder .

"Salt and vinegar for Mr Skelton!!"





(PS I agree, it's surreal and bizarre that it gets 2 hours of live BBC1 coverage. My French family tap their foreheads and shake their heads about it. I explain it as being the sort of charming English eccentricity that makes them love us so. Which it is.)

[Lateralthinking1]

Emily Davison was fighting for women's suffrage. This Australian? his plea - "This will provide the time and space for an ongoing development of post-elitism, post-capitalist thought and debate.” hmmm....

Just hours after the event, the guy is already an "absurdist", an "intellectual snob" and "simply a disturbed man" while "egalitarianism was responsible for a fair few dictatorships". And this in a "serious" newspaper -

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100149749/boat-race-spoiler-trenton-oldfield-is-an-intellectual-snob/

The Thames is publicly owned. What preferential conditions are requested by Oxford and Cambridge on boat race day and what constraints applied to other users of the river?

The same two teams have been involved since 1829. Their assumption that they have automatic rights to including nobody else, and that every other individual should just swim aside, is a grotesque anachronism.

I agree with those who say that the tradition should be kept but that it should be a final between the best of universities.

[vinteuil]

I agree with those who say that the tradition should be kept but that it should be a final between the best of universities.

Which it is.

[Nick Armstrong]

Which it is.

Ka-Pow!!!