The Boat Race - two and a half *hours*?

[TVC]

Never mind there's a whole month of football on soon.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I think those of us with an Oxbridge education* find all this snobbery a bit tiresome.





*Speedwell Infants and St Nicholas CP.

 

[Profpointy]

I have no problem with rowers doing their thing. Only with the BBC devoting two and a half hours to it on their premier channel.

a whole two and a half hours every single year !

 

[subaqua]

We were in Henley a while back, crewing a steam launch for some nob or other, when we observed members of some rowing club wearing black and yellow striped jackets.
"They look like wasps" said Hover fly "and for pretty much the same reason, as a warning."

You are aware steam gives way to sail ( or powered gives way to unpowered )

 

[arranandy]

What gets me is that its always the same 2 teams in the final......

I'll get my coat

 

[PK99]

I really should go down to watch it but i never do . Plus rowers are nobbers .

A bit like cyclists then?

 

[HLaB]

Never mind there's a whole month of football on soon.

I thought that was last night

 

[Fnaar]

Shame about the Boat Race:

 

[Cuchilo]

A bit like cyclists then?

No not really , cyclists don't go past people at 530 in the morning shouting through a megaphone or complain about the wash and then have some little prick in a speed boat following them causing stupid amounts of wash while shouting through a megaphone . They also wouldn't do a 17 point turn in the middle of the road without looking to see if any one else is remotely near them or set off from a mooring without checking that the way is clear from other traffic .

 

[srw]

What gets me is that its always the same 2 teams in the final......

I'll get my coat

Why do Oxford and Cambridge always get to the final?

And that's a TMN to @Freds Dad

 

[Freds Dad]

And that's a TMN to @Freds Dad

TMN?

 

[Dayvo]

TMN?

Tinymynewt.

 

[Dayvo]

Shamelessly copied from another cycling forum:

TMN. CC member and verb: to TMN someone is to more or less repeat what they've said without attribution.

 

[srw]

Ms Newt is only a woman, and so her contributions are often overlooked by the far more important masculine contributors to a thread, who repeat what she has said. There's an original example somewhere in the vaults.

 

[Joffey]

I was disappointed with the coverage. The BBC spent quite a lot of time interviewing drunken young toffs gorging on Pimms. It's a pointless race and has no place taking up 2.5 hours of TV time. I'd have much rather they put 'Murder She Wrote' on in its place.