The Dean

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.......]

scrubbedexpat141

I especially like this suggestion;

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

Meow

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

scrubbedexpat141

Meow

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.

co durham boy

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

The Dean

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

seven seas

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

Meow

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.

co durham boy

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

Jobs for the boys ... chin chin !

Meow

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

seven seas

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.

kittycat1

sevenseas

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

hnd

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!

kittycat1

the cox and the stroke... smutty snigger