It's the 'Boat Race Disruption Thread'......
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...is-oar-in.html

So a protester swims into the path of the Oxford and Cambridge rowing boats, thus bringing the event to a complete halt......... when asked 'why?' he says 'it's all on my blog'.........

So - off to http://elitismleadstotyranny.squarespace.com/ to see a rambling collection of non-sequiturs and spelling mistakes......... this is a job for Norm or Ethos.........

[PS - I notice his copyright jobby at the end has his own name spelt wrong.......]

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I especially like this suggestion;

" Are there networking events designed for the elites and their sympathisers where you could let off a stink bomb? "

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More people than ever are going up to Clare Balding and saying, "shame about the boat race..."

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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He seems like a very confused man. The fact he has had a half-decent education, has access to the internet and lives in a country that does not immediately jail people for such actions makes him elite to much of the world.

I gave up on his blog after a couple of paragraphs. He has had his five minute of fame, so can go away now.

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Eighteen stinky students arrested on suspicion of causing alarm and despondency to a poor chap trying to have a quiet swim in the river......;)

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I've always liked the tradition of the winning eight dipping their cox into the river afterwards.........

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Yaaay! Perhaps the BBC would like to stop spending our money televising this absolute pile of wank year after year.

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It's just for a few hours on one day a year. I quite like the tradition of it.

I'd rather they stopped showing golf or athletics.

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Most of the Beeb are 'Oxbridge Elite' so his elitist theory may have some meaning after all .

Jobs for the boys ... chin chin !

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According to a journo friend in the UK who was trying to contact him yesterday, this chap is Australian.

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What tradition? Tradition that 1% of the population is involved in?

If it's just a few hours per year, surely leaving it out altogether wouldn't matter much?

I find it all sickening. Just like the phoney strawberries and ice cream, at Wimbledon, the stupid hats at Ascot, the Grand National, etc etc. It's not just a few hours now is it?


BTW I would totally agree with the removal of golf from TV.

Re: It's the 'Boat Race Disruption Thread'......
 

sevenseas

Have you seen the men in the teams- 6 foot something of hunky muscle- long live the boat race i say :D

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Hey kittycat,

Don't forget the Stroke - used to sit near the Cox. As his name implies he sets the stroke rate for the rest of the crew!

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the cox and the stroke... smutty snigger