[Politricks]

(Original post by geetar)
What an oarful human being. Ho ho.

hurhurhurhurhur

Ravishing joke, chap

[sugar-n-spice]

(Original post by ForKicks)
Or maybe it is the state school system that needs improving? Why drag education down for the sake of it? Oxford needs to maintain its standards and the state system needs to catch up. Simple as.

The boat race is a British sporting event, with only highly stereotypical connotations with anything class related. Only the retarded and idealist believe in that stereotype. I feel the people on here saying it makes it more exciting, are the type that don't watch or have ever had an interest in the boat race anyway.

...sailing is a very middle class sport thats why those who sail at the olympics always sound like they come from rich backgrounds. footballers on the other hand sound like theyve had tough upbringings because you dont need to be rich to play football whereas you do to sailling.

i sort of agree with the rest tho..the state system needs improving not the other

[rural_boy]

I honestly couldn't believe that someone did this, someone posted a link to blog on facebook and it's just such utter s**t, the stuff that he wrote was just absolute rubbish.

Essentially because he caused the race to be restarted, although I'm not saying it could've happened anyway, one of oxford's oars broke so they had to work harder hence why that chap collapsed at the end!

[FrogInABog]

(Original post by keyboard-warrior)
well at least it provided some drama to what would otherwise be yet another drab contest

Bah humbug to that!

It was shaping up to be a good race until it happened. Immediately after, an oar breaks, and from then the race was really drab...

[MSB]

(Original post by geetar)
What an oarful human being. Ho ho.

It's all water under the bridge now.

[kerplunk5]

Really feel for the guys in the boats, all that training and hard work ruined for some smirking idiot. Even for the winners, the way things turned out its not a race you could take particular pride in winning (although not everything can be blamed on that guy, its definitely the point where the race went from being a good race to a farce..). And if a rower had hit him, and he'd been seriously injured, it would have been horrible for the rower knowing they'd smashed someone's skull in even if it was their own fault. There are much more effective ways to get a point across without ruining something people have spent the best part of a year working towards. Good luck to him trying to stay illness free after having a swim in the Thames :P

[Seasick Steve]

He's just an attention-seeking nutcase. If you look at some of the amateur footage of him being led away in front of jeering crowds, you can see him smirk. He's just like that complete berk who flung a pie in Murdoch's face a few months back during the hacking inquiry. Why do all these people have such ****e names?

Bunch of useless clowns.

[MrJon]

it;s just a bit of fun.

the fact people get wound up by this says a lot more about them..

[flugelr]

The - rather terrible - irony is that in protesting about "elitism", this chap has ruined the culmination of years of hard work and training by some very dedicated individuals.

[truffle_girl]

(Original post by sugar-n-spice)
i agree you cant expect them to just accept state pupils for being form the state sector but the gap between state and private is so big it favours them an then you just look at what sort of people run the country. you cant wonder why nothing changes

I still don't see how you're proving discrimination based on elitism; correlation and causality are not one and the same. Is the gap even bigger than is the gap between the academic performance-gap, between the two sectors?

[BadCoverVersion]

I'm all for elitism. Intellectual elitism, that is. Meritocracy, yah?

To be honest, I don't think he'd thought it through much.

Edit: Not entirely sure why the neg.. I haven't said anything controversial..

[ForKicks]

(Original post by MrJon)
it;s just a bit of fun.

the fact people get wound up by this says a lot more about them..

Given his prior agenda for doing it, it wasn't just a 'prank', he believed he had a serious motive. He loves his life as a dickhead/

[ArsLongaVitaBrevis]

(Original post by ArsLongaVitaBrevis)
Very, very annoying. It really angered me to be honest - it's just so pathetic.

I wonder why this got negged... Surely nobody can see an actual point to the intervention?

[sugar-n-spice]

(Original post by truffle_girl)
I still don't see how you're proving discrimination based on elitism; correlation and causality are not one and the same. Is the gap even bigger than is the gap between the academic performance-gap, between the two sectors?

im saying the problem is further down the spout, society is elitist because it makes the rih kids better prepared which then lets them do better. the boat race is only elitist because you need to be rich in order to get into boating,

[beepbeeprichie]

God knows how this is a Public Order Offence. Sometimes I think the police just go 'hey, he's clearly doing something wrong,we just dunno what. so we'll arrest him and then figure out what for'.

[the man from space]

I think the message he was sending was right but he went about it the wrong way

Oxford and Cambridge are seen as elitist which is mixed up with wealth and therefore people hate what they don't have, if it was UCL vs LSE, no-one would really protest

All Humans are created Equally

[ForKicks]

(Original post by sugar-n-spice)
im saying the problem is further down the spout, society is elitist because it makes the rih kids better prepared which then lets them do better. the boat race is only elitist because you need to be rich in order to get into boating,

Lies. Most uni's have boat clubs and it isn't even that expensive to join a local club. As for preparation, the state can only go so far in education, upbringing and a whole range of factors come into play.

[ArsLongaVitaBrevis]

(Original post by sugar-n-spice)
you need to be rich in order to get into boating,

That's simply not true. When I used to row, the club I was at had a large proportion of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

[orcprocess]

(Original post by sugar-n-spice)
LOL

much more entertaining than some silly old boat race you only havr to look at how little chance state school kids have to get into to Oxbridge to see how elitist the whole thing is

The majority of people in Oxbridge are from state schools.

[ForKicks]

(Original post by the man from space)
I think the message he was sending was right but he went about it the wrong way

Oxford and Cambridge are seen as elitist which is mixed up with wealth and therefore people hate what they don't have, if it was UCL vs LSE, no-one would really protest

All Humans are created Equally

Surely this stunt has the opposite effect of what was intended?