01-04-2006, 15:32
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The boat race
No this isn't cockney slang 
Has anybody ever cared a monkies about the result? I saw a preview on ITV before and some of the rowers seemed to be American or Australian. In the past races i knew who had won (well it could only be one of two - but y'know what i mean) because the upper class BBC showed the final stretch on the news, but i was never converted.
I can't see the attraction and neither can i see why the cash strapped ITV network would wish to buy the rights?
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01-04-2006, 16:50
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Re: The boat race
Irts a good day, out to watch my friend had a houseboat on the thames.
but the TV never really excited me..
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01-04-2006, 16:56
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Re: The boat race
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Originally Posted by Shabba
No this isn't cockney slang
Has anybody ever cared a monkies about the result? I saw a preview on ITV before and some of the rowers seemed to be American or Australian. In the past races i knew who had won (well it could only be one of two - but y'know what i mean) because the upper class BBC showed the final stretch on the news, but i was never converted.
I can't see the attraction and neither can i see why the cash strapped ITV network would wish to buy the rights? |
I thought it was largely an excuse for a booze up with a fiver bet on the side for novelty purposes
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01-04-2006, 17:10
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Re: The boat race
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I thought it was largely an excuse for a booze up with a fiver bet on the side for novelty purposes
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....a bit like the Henley Regata!
Same as the Grand National me thinks - it's a good way to sting some money from Joe Public by the bookies!
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01-04-2006, 17:18
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Re: The boat race
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....a bit like the Henley Regata!
Same as the Grand National me thinks - it's a good way to sting some money from Joe Public by the bookies!
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I've always felt the Grand National was a bit of a con (isn't it all  ) with the prices they give - eg a field of often more than 35 horses the odds are often 3/1 and so on - and most of them fall over anyway  The only person who scoops any decent loot is the horse owner and, of course and as always, the bookies 
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02-04-2006, 15:47
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Re: The boat race
Hmmm, get your pims ready....
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02-04-2006, 15:53
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Re: The boat race
Look I hate football but I appeciate that the rest of the world does not share my view on this..so there is coverage of football.Same can possibly go for the Boat race surely.All tastes catered for otherwise tv is going to be excessively boring if only one type of narrow viewing is shown.
Mind I think if this event was opened out to include other university teams it would be much more interesting and more exciting.A two horse race will always be more boring than a 20 horse race.
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02-04-2006, 15:54
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Re: The boat race
i quite like the boat race, but only cos it happens so infrequently... can't say i care who wins though.
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02-04-2006, 15:56
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Re: The boat race
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Mind I think if this event was opened out to include other university teams it would be much more interesting and more exciting.A two horse race will always be more boring than a 20 horse race. |
20 horses racing in the Thames? Exciting? Mmmmmm, in my experience there is enough cr*p floating in the Thames as it is 
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02-04-2006, 16:01
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Mind I think if this event was opened out to include other university teams it would be much more interesting and more exciting.A two horse race will always be more boring than a 20 horse race. |
20 horses racing in the Thames? Exciting? Mmmmmm, in my experience there is enough cr*p floating in the Thames as it is |
So a mixed metaphore that still makes a point..
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02-04-2006, 17:53
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Re: The boat race
Were where the adverts during the race??
They do it during other races (ie F1)
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02-04-2006, 18:34
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Re: The boat race
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Originally Posted by david.ewles
Were where the adverts during the race??
They do it during other races (ie F1)
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It only lasted for 18 minutes so there would be no point.
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02-04-2006, 18:37
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Re: The boat race
I decided to put a small wager on the Boat Race!
I put £10 on Oxford to win by more than 3.5 lengths.
Won £80 - result - and I start a new job tomorrow - perhaps my luck is changing!
Anybody got any tips for the Grand National next week? 
Lee
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02-04-2006, 19:10
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Re: The boat race
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Anybody got any tips for the Grand National next week?
Lee
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A small child with a pencil,
Instructions are
Put a circle around a horsey
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04-04-2006, 15:43
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A small child with a pencil,
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Well a few years back a bloke got his toddler to give him sum numbers for the lotto, the numbers they picked won him the jackpot.
I'll think I'll call my nephew and neice for a flutter on th national
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