It's the only time of the year I can get /sp/ to actually discuss rowing, so let's do it! Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race is today and I'm hyped af.
Will Oxford men beat the odds and hold the title?
Will the Cambridge women lose by a more respectable margin this year?
Why is this the only university sport in England that gets tv coverage, while the americans teleivse so much of their college sport?
Will Claire Balding be on form?
>they've started pushing it as the Boat Races to try and get people interested in the women's one
Where can I watch this?
>>66422447
>not liking women's rowing
Why not? It's basically exactly the same thign as men's rowing only slightly slower.
>Why is this the only university sport in England that gets tv coverage, while the americans teleivse so much of their college sport?
nobody cares about university sports over here, that's why
>>66422490
One of these channels?
http://theboatraces.org/tv-and-radio
>>66422443
posh cunts
>tfw no The Open University in this race
>tfw you will never go to Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Yale etc. and create your own social networking site with a cosy soundtrack to support you
>>66422778
>went to oxford
>Spent 3 years shitposting on /r9k/
>Finals approaching and will probably do disasterously
You would end up the same
>tfw Cambridge grad
>tfw never went to the Boat Race because it's in the Easter hols and I was always five hours away from London
>tfw we keep losing
This is our year, lads.
>>66422790
>implying I'd make it that far
Kicked out of sixth form master race.
>>66422790
This was pretty much my experience too except I discovered /sp/ then. Passed with a Desmond but the amount of time I spent on 4chan was ridiculous.
>>66422794
>mfw encountering tab scum
>>66422492
>Slightly slower
Someone post that video
What's the standard even like for the women's race, as women go? When the men are bringing in Olympians etc, the women must be shit unless they're doing the same.
>>66422880
This year neither crew has olympians because they're all busy training for the olympics.
Last year the women had a double gold medalist (Caryn Davis) while the best the men had was bronze from Constatine Loloudis.
What is the chance of terrorist attack?
You're the anon who made those rowing threads for the Olympics, right?
They were good threads.
>Who won the boat race this year?
>They both did. Cambridge won the men's race and Oxford won the women's. It was a draw.
...oh.
>>66422897
Not high enough.
>>66422944
No sorry, gave up on making rowing threads on /sp/ around 7 years ago. Don't really visit this board except on boat race day.
>>66422972
poortherner detected
I'll kill myself if Cambridge doesn't win.
>watching toff-paddle
I hope they all drown
>when cambridge is mentioned in the same breath as oxford
top kek most overrated uni world
>>66423107
Stay mad.
>More Nobel prizes
>More world leaders
>>66423119
>guardian score
What do they score them on?
>>66423119
>>66423128
diversity primarily
>>66423128
Results, research, employability, student satisfaction. A lot of things.
>>66423107
>be an oxford student
>friends invites me to visit him in cambridge
>prepare myself to enjoy the sights and sounds of a beautiful city, while pretending to his face that I think it's shit.
>actually go to cambridge
>It's an ugly shithole which pales architecturally in comparison to Oxford, and has few redeeming qualities
>best day of my life
>>66423145
Extremely comfy for everyone except the poor fuckers actually rowing.
>>66422803
>kicked out of sixth form
how do you survive?
Posh cunts race is not a sport
This is the yearly rich kids laugh at poor people
Daily reminder both these unis import world class rowers from all over the world put them on piss easy degrees so they are race in this race
>>66423201
Thats literally what happens in every professional sport in the USA, except not in the world, just across the country
Fuck off Tarquin
Daily reminder a 3rd from Oxbridge is worth more than a 1st from Manchester or some other pleb uni
I have a 3rd in Law from Newnham college cambridge. Started working in Slaughter & May as a Trainee solicitors on £35k a year
>>66423248
>A third
Not even taking the piss, but how? I did the bare minimum and got through with a 2:2
>>66423248
In that case chances are you would have gotten the contract at uni through daddies contacts (which is clearly how you got your contract).
Top law firms fail to even interview a substantial chunk of oxbridge students who apply, most of whom are at least predicted 2:1s. So you're either full of bullshit or have a rich daddy.
>>66423248
I got a 2:1 from manchester and am on £80k at dla pipers as a fully qualified solicitor tho
Come on you dark blues!
>>66423448
Why do people feel the need to lie on 4chan
Televised coverage starting
Fuck the tabs
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY
>>66423873
Again why do people feel the need to lie
>>66423894
you can literally look me up in the legal 500, why are you so shocked about someone earning the average wage of an experienced solicitor?
>>66423910
Because this is /sp/ where everyone lies
>>66422897
>>66422972
so much edge
Clare baldings hair is like a shit version of Trumps
>this comedian
never let him on live TV ever again.
>Oxford ahead at Hammersmith bridge
And they've won it
>>66422868
here, famalam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCgVCV8pCbQ
>just turned this on
>Cambridge literally fucking sinking
10/10
>Brits can't build 2 boats that don't sink
lel
These women have some great bums.
>BNY Mellon Boat Race
They are so fucking posh
>>66424676
this
>tfw you will never get as much high class pussy as the guys on an Ivy League crew team
Why even live?
>>66424724
It is boring pussy
My ex-girlfriend went to Cambridge.
AMA.
When will Cambridge get relegated and replaced with a more progressive, diverse team?
Like SOAS.
whens the blokes turn?
>>66424819
Quarter past iirc
>>66424778
how long into uni till you broke up?
>>66424778
Why do you think we care where your ex went
>this comedian destroying my sides
started off badly but now goat
>>66424935
A week. She wanted to "explore new opportunities as a single woman."
She's currently a single mother.
This housemate is cockhungry as fuck
Who the fuck is this.
Should kill the new middle class types to be honest. Not the farmer or professional lot, the marketers and estate agent with a new Audi who go to Quinoa bars.
What the fuck is "Land Economy"?
>>66425081
piss easy degree so they can pump pros in this race.
none of them need A*A*A* that us plebs need to get in
>>66425081
Like PPE for Estate/Landholder types. Mix of all sorts.
What happened in the women's race?
Why do people give a shit about this race?
>>66424640
Only countries who are current rowing world champions may post. I'll accept New Zealand as they have a nice flag.
>they literally all do piss easy degrees
>no Medics listed
>>66425155
It's traditional
A cox is very much like a porn director.
>>66425160
>rowing
>Israel has a gold medal
Nice sport ya got here limeys.
Oxford BTFO.
posh cunts sons of bankers
Cox is literally the most beta person in the world on both sides
>>66425204
America always searching out for their buddy Israel. The countries which seem to do well in rowing are ones with excellent higher education.
>>66425236
>germany
>excellent higher education
>>66425225
THE BANKERS THE BONUSES
>>66425252
You've got very good athletes and a big pool of people to choose from.
Such a joke that only these two meme universities are allowed to compete every year. It's not the nineteenth century any more, why can't we have actual top institutions like LSE, UCL, York, Durham etc involved?
This woman's voice is making me rock hard
who won the cambridge womens reserve boat race? sisters flatmate is in it (hope they lost)
>>66425273
They all compete in their own similar events.
Just no one cares.
>>66425278
meant to say sisters flat mate's in the Cambridge team
>>66425278
doxxed
A bit blowy today, innit.
>>66425273
>yfw they have a whole tournament to qualify next year
>yfw the final is somehow Canterbury Christ Church vs University of Northampton
That's why.
>>66425273
oxbridge afraid that they'll get btfo by other universities like they are on university challenge
>>66425304
>De Montfort will never face off against Sunderland Polytechnic for the title
>>66425305
Amazingly two of the three currently qualified UC semi-finalists this year are non-Oxbridge.
>all these mad proles who went to literal who universities
I bet you pretend you didn't even want to go oxbridge.
>>66425305
We are so dominant we have to compete by college rather than university or it would be unfair on the mongs from other "universities".
>>66425337
hope peterhouse win desu. they seem like the only team that's actually having fun
>>66425305
As much as the Oxbridge colleges on UC annoy me I'm pleased to see Manchester getting BTFO now, as they get professionally coached.
>>66425334
>you will never see Southampton Solent vs London Met for the chance to face Aberystwyth in the final, live from the River Medway
Great job, boys.
blown the fuck out
oxFUCKED
(lol)
>>66422498
america has more prestigious universities, that's why
>>66423119
i actually went cambridge to get a masters degree, it was only 7 months though. it was nice :)
stream where?
>>66425416
Just finished mate. Cambridge won.
I didn't watch because we always lose...
Fuck.
>>66425381
London Met looks so grim, you pass it on the East Coast line.
>no Edge Hill/Oxford giant killing
>>66425384
The Lady of Christ's.
wtf did they just say ISIS won??? since when did they take part in the boat race
>>66425427
oh nice
Durham history undergrad reporting in, doing #1 course in the country
I bet you don't even get matriculated in a cathedral and have accommodation in a Norman castle
Top pleb desu lads
>>66425488
Durham is for Oxbridge rejects. I did history at Cambridge and the fellows always joked about how inferior shit holes like Durham are when we drank wine together before the college servants brought us our venison to eat at college history dinner.
what a bunch of snooty faggots, fucking snobs
GOATBRIDGE
>>66425526
And we used to joke about how Oxbridge babbys ate game instead of upping it
Git gud faggot, then maybe we'll talk
Pooford blow out and on pooicide watch
>tfw live in Cambridge
Literally the nicest city on earth.
>>66427623
A lot of homeless tho. Always used to be one or two on my way to big Sainsbury's from the Emmanuel North Court Hobbit hole.
>>66427620
oi fuck off. You guys practically sank
>>66427874
At least we're not the second best rowing uni in our city. Light blue til I die
>>66425409
Bama is such a prestigious university
>>66427907
>implying the true measure of a university's rowing capabilities isn't their lightweight women's squad
BUCS champions, 2015 never forget, Oxford confirmed as best rowing uni
>>66427963
Kek
