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What do FaT members miss most about the club during the holidays?
Most undergraduates leave for the holidays, leaving those who do stay deserted -- so everyone misses out in some way. What do members miss the most?
Banter  78%
Erging  17%
Rowing  74%
Pasta  43%
Lard  48%
Circuits  26%
Lock runs  17%
Coker  17%
Total: 23 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Dark days for BPBC
For the third time in four years, the novices have beaten BPBC II in the Fairbairn Cup. However, a look through the archives demonstrates that there are plenty of sub-prime BPBC results. But which of these events ranks as BPBC's poorest performance?
Coming last in the HRR Qualifiers (?2002)  5%
Equipment failure: Royal Canadian Henley, summer 2000  59%
Losing to Downing II: Fairbairn Cup 2000  9%
7 riggers & a Bathtub: Head of the River 2003  18%
Fried Dough and last-but-one twice: Head of the Charles 2005  0%
'Umitigated disaster': City Sprints 2007  9%
F & T Novices 3, BPBC II 4: Fairbairn Cup 2001 - 2008  0%
Total: 22 members' votes   (12 comments...)
Will FaT NM1 beat M2 in senior Fairbairns this year?
Yes, by a long way  10%
Yes, narrowly  29%
No  61%
Total: 31 members' votes   (8 comments...)
Who will be the next President of the USA?
Hillary Clinton  22%
Sarah Palin  17%
A proper African-American  0%
Arnold Schwarzenegger  61%
Total: 18 members' votes
Who will be the next President of the USA?
McCain  3%
Obama  59%
Osama  11%
John W. Earl  27%
Total: 37 members' votes   (4 comments...)
Marmite
I love it  29%
I hate it  35%
I can take it or leave it  35%
Total: 31 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Who is the greatest Olympian of modern times?
Michael Phelps's achievements in Beijing have reignited the argument as to who is the greatest Olympian. Who gets your vote? (Summer Olympics only, since 1896.)
SWIMMING: Mark Spitz - won 9 gold medals, including a (formerly) record 7 in 1972 (when many fewer were available than the 34 on offer in 2008), setting a world record in each  0%
Michael Phelps - has won a record 14 gold medals, including a record-breaking 8 in Beijing  6%
ATHLETICS: Paavo Nurmi - won 9 middle & long distance gold medals from 1920-28, plus 3 silver medals, and might have won more in 1932 had he been eligible to compete  11%
Jesse Owens - won 4 gold medals ((100m, 200m, long jump, sprint relay) in 1936 at 'Hitler's Olympics' in Berlin  6%
Emil Zatopek - won gold medals in 1952 at 5000m, 10000m and the marathon (which he only decided to run at the last minute), plus gold and silver in 1948  0%
Fanny Blankers-Koen - won 4 gold medals in 1948, and only the rules prevented her from competing in more events, such as the long and high jumps, for both of which she held the world record  0%
Al Oerter - won 4 gold medals in discus from 1956 to 1968 and is one of only three people to win an individual Olympic gold medal at four consecutive games  0%
Ed Moses - unbeaten from 1977 to 1987 in the 400m hurdles, and was (almost certainly) only denied three consecutive gold medals by the US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics  0%
Daley Thompson - one of only two men ever to win two Olympic decathlons (1980 and 1984), setting a world record in the second  0%
Jackie Joyner-Kersee - won the heptathlon gold medal in 1988 and 1992 (and silver in 1984) and still holds the world record, and also won the long jump gold in 1988  0%
Carl Lewis - won 9 gold medals from 1984 to 1996, including 4 (100m, 200m, long jump, sprint relay) in 1984, and is one of only three people to win an individual Olympic gold medal at four consecutive games  6%
Jan Zelezny - one silver and 3 golds in the javelin from 1988 to 2000  0%
Michael Johnson - won 400m gold in 1996 and 2000 (only man ever to retain that title), and also won 200m gold in 1996, shattering the world record in 19.32 seconds  0%
ROWING: Steve Redgrave - won gold medals at each of 5 Olympics from 1984 to 2000, plus a bronze in 1984  33%
Matthew Pinsent - won gold medals at each of 4 Olympics from 1992 to 2004, and never lost an Olympic race  6%
Elisabeta Lipa - won gold medals at 5 Olympic Games in rowing between 1984 and 2004, plus silver and bronze in 1988 and silver in 1992  11%
OTHER: Paul Elvstrom (sailing) - the third man to have won four consecutive individual Olympic gold medals (1948 to 1960), one in the Firefly class and three in the Finn class  0%
Aladar Gerevich (fencing: sabre) - won gold medals at a record 6 Olympics between 1932 and 1960 (7 total golds), the last aged 50, and holds the record for time between gold medals (28 years)  0%
Larissa Latynina (gymnastics) - only female athlete to have won 9 Olympic gold medals, between 1956 and 1964, and also won 5 silver and 4 bronze, making a record total of 18  0%
Nadia Elena Comaneci (gymnastics) - awarded the first ever 'perfect 10', then awarded 6 more en route to 4 gold medals in 1976, aged 14, and won another gold in 1980  0%
Birgit Fischer (kayaking) - won 8 gold medals at a record 6 different Olympics from 1980 to 2004 (missed the 1984 games because of the Eastern Bloc boycott), plus four silver medals, and holds the women's record for time between gold medals (24 years)  11%
Eric 'the eel' Moussambani (doggy-paddle) (video, in case you missed it 11%
Other (please comment below)  0%
Total: 18 members' votes
Will Great Britain (and Northern Ireland) finish ahead of Australia in the medal table at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games?
The table is ranked by number of gold, then silvers, then bronze medals.
Yes  43%
No  57%
Total: 23 members' votes   (1 comment...)
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edyufgj  33%
Total: 3 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Oympic Grandstand
China is in a different timezone to the UK, so events will be largely through the night (including the swimming finals, moved to the morning to suit US tv. How will you get your fix?
I do not intend to watch any of the Olympics  0%
I shall hear about it on Radio 5  0%
I'll watch the prime time evening highlights  11%
I'll stay up for the bits I'm interested in  44%
I'm going to live on Chinese time for the duration  44%
Total: 9 members' votes   (2 comments...)
HRR
How far will FaT get at Henley, before being knocked out ?
Qualifiers  5%
Wednesday  41%
Thursday  14%
Saturday  0%
Sunday  0%
They'll win  36%
Friday  5%
Total: 22 members' votes   (7 comments...)
How should future headships be celebrated?
News from upriver suggests that boat burnings are not always safe. In these eco-aware times, what about the carbon footprint of a burnt boat? And the lack of wooden boats to burn?
Find a wooden boat, even if it means buying a skiff, and burn it  57%
Build a wooden boat and burn it  26%
Give an old boat to an underfunded school rowing club (cf Magdalen Oxford when they went head of Eights in 04, for the first time in decades)  17%
Give money to a FISA project to set up rowing in a small country (on condition that any boats bought are called Black Prince)  9%
Hold some sort of lantern festival with lanterns on boats floating along the backs, timed so that they launch mini fireworks displays as they go past the Wren  4%
Hold a ball on the Monday after bumps  48%
Make all boat club activity carbon neutral  13%
Total: 23 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Which Division 1 Positions Will Be Occupied By 1st & 3rd At The End Of The Week?
With 3 boats in their respective 1st divisions any position is possible, but where do we think they'll end up?
Head  90%
2nd  23%
3rd  3%
4th  0%
5th  10%
6th  37%
7th  0%
8th  0%
9th  7%
10th  20%
11th  37%
12th  23%
13th  3%
14th  0%
15th  0%
16th  0%
17th  0%
Total: 30 members' votes
Are there too many races on the Cam?
Much as we love the end of term blow outs, are there now so many events during the term that normal training is being hindered? Or should every outing be at firm pressure anyway?
Yes  26%
No  74%
Total: 19 members' votes   (4 comments...)
Which Convention is most dull?
Democratic Party  8%
Republican Party  8%
Star Trek  25%
Fairport  58%
Total: 12 members' votes
If there was a General Election tomorrow, who would you vote for?
British National Party  0%
Conservative Party  17%
Green Party  3%
Labour Party  7%
Liberal Democrats  21%
Scottish National Party  3%
UK Independence Party  0%
John Earl  48%
Total: 29 members' votes   (2 comments...)
What should be done to protest at the Olympics about the Chinese in Tibet?
Torch protesting has begun, but there are various suggestions about further demonstration. What do you think is appropriate?
Nothing, the Olympics are about sport and should be apolitical  24%
The torch protests make the point well enough  7%
Political leaders should boycott the games  62%
Athletes should boycott the games  3%
Everyone should buy Pepsi to send a consumerist message  3%
Total: 29 members' votes
Is this the best photo yet on the website?
This is the 8,040th photo uploaded onto the site. Is it the best?
Yes  14%
No  86%
Total: 29 members' votes   (1 comment...)
What's your favourite Blondie song?
They might not move a boat very fast, but they knocked out some awesome tunes. These are all on youtube.
X-Offender  0%
Denis  5%
Hanging on the Telephone  14%
Heart of Glass  14%
One Way or Another  14%
Dreaming  0%
Call Me  10%
Atomic  14%
Rapture  0%
Maria  24%
The Tide is High  5%
Total: 21 members' votes
Boat Race
Light Blues  30%
Dark Blues  15%
BPBC  55%
Total: 20 members' votes
Who should be in the Trinity BC football team?
11 men to beat the old boys. I've just taken the mubs list, feel free to suggest others.
Ahmadnia  19%
Braviner  24%
Carr  43%
Hill  14%
Chow  10%
Chung  29%
Coker  43%
Dehabadi  10%
Denby  24%
Dunleavy  33%
Fletcher  33%
Ford  14%
Garcia  19%
Garrod  48%
Gruessing  43%
Jane  52%
Kebschull  19%
Kiely  10%
Laffan  38%
Leadbetter  29%
Lewis  14%
Li  10%
Malmberg  29%
Masset  14%
Mertes  29%
O'Neill  10%
Ostrowski  10%
Preiss  38%
Richardson  10%
Routh  10%
Cunha  33%
Smith  19%
Stoneman  29%
Strawson  48%
Vial  24%
Total: 21 members' votes   (6 comments...)
The Big One redux
neither  3%
men  12%
women  6%
both  79%
Total: 33 members' votes
Who will get on?
The GoR is on Friday afternoon - choose 7 men's and 8 women's crews from the following.
Trinity Hall WII  5%
Pembroke WIII  32%
Christ's WII  50%
Downing WII  27%
CCAT WII  14%
Emmanuel WIII  18%
First & Third WIII  77%
LMBC WIII  41%
Jesus WIII  36%
Lucy Cavendish/Hughes Hall WII  23%
Magdalene WII  9%
Peterhouse WII  18%
Sidney Sussex WII  0%
King's WII  14%
Churchill WII  9%
Selwyn WIII  9%
LMBC WIV  18%
Magdalene WIII  0%
Sidney Sussex WIII  0%
Homerton WII  32%
Fitzwilliam WII  14%
St Edmund's WII  14%
Darwin WII  5%
Christ's MIII  23%
First & Third MV  68%
CCAT MII  36%
Homerton MII  45%
Pembroke MIII  45%
Girton MIII  9%
St Edmund's MII  14%
Darwin MII  0%
Sidney Sussex MIII  5%
Corpus MII  14%
Churchill MIV  9%
Magdalene MIV  5%
CCAT MIII  9%
Fitzwilliam MIII  14%
Jesus MIV  41%
Magdalene MIII  9%
First and Third MVI  41%
LMBC MV  41%
Pembroke MIV  23%
Hughes Hall MII  5%
Total: 22 members' votes   (4 comments...)
Most aesthetically pleasing setting for a regatta
Any lake in New Zealand in February  19%
The Ouse at Bedford in May  14%
The Wear at Durham in May  0%
The Tyne at Hexham in June  0%
The Cam at Plough Reach in June  29%
The Thames at Henley in July  19%
The Ouse at St Neots in July  0%
The Rotsee near Lucerne in July  10%
The Thames at Maidenhead in August  0%
Dover Harbour in August  0%
The NIA in Birmingham in November  10%
Total: 21 members' votes
Which is your favourite race to watch?
They all have their charms, whether you are looking for comedy, rivalry, tradition, international crews showing off, men in lycra or just the best pub located along the course. But which is your favourite?
Bumps - upper divisions  48%
Bumps - lower divisions  14%
The Boat Race  19%
The Henley boat races  0%
Henley Royal Regatta  19%
Henley Women's Regatta  0%
Total: 21 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Who in the mens squad needs a haircut the most?
Bryn  8%
Tom  23%
Dan  58%
Emma  12%
Total: 26 members' votes   (3 comments...)
Who's the shortest?
A poll with no purpose other than to get rid of the Christmas one.
Ming  60%
Peter Ford  17%
Laffan  23%
Total: 30 members' votes   (1 comment...)
How many times did you train on Christmas Day?
 63%
 30%
 7%
3+ (liar)  0%
Total: 27 members' votes   (1 comment...)
So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun...
Frankly this is no better than 'Daddy or Chips'...
Ho ho ho  60%
Humbug  40%
Total: 20 members' votes
What's your favourite mince pie?
I'm sure they're better if you make your own, but who has the time?
Tesco Deep Fill  21%
Tesco Finest  7%
Mr Kipling  0%
Sainsbury's Deep Fill  21%
Sainsbury's Taste The Difference  0%
M&S Classic  0%
Waitrose All Butter  14%
Duchy Originals  0%
Four'N Twenty  0%
Other - add below  36%
Total: 14 members' votes   (6 comments...)
Who will win BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
Joe Calzaghe  7%
Lewis Hamilton  33%
Ricky Hatton  0%
Andy Murray  0%
Christine Ohuruogu  0%
Paula Radcliffe  4%
Jason Robinson  0%
Justin Rose  0%
James Toseland  0%
Jonny Wilkinson  0%
Ming-Chee Chung  56%
Total: 27 members' votes   (1 comment...)
How should seating be organised at the Fairbairns Dinner?
By crew  0%
W1 with NM1, M1 with NW1 etc.  9%
W1 with M1, NW1 with NM1 etc.  2%
W1 with NW1, M1 with NM1 etc.  2%
Boy-girl-boy-girl...  2%
Fit-ugly-fit-ugly...  5%
Random selection (genuinely random)  0%
Random selection (rigged for carnage)  7%
Random selection (rigged for incest)  41%
Random selection (rigged for novice retention)  5%
Random selection (rigged for awkwardness)  2%
Alphabetically by surname  0%
By 2K time  14%
First come, first served  2%
Sec's discretion  9%
Total: 44 members' votes   (4 comments...)
What are your Fairbairns predictions?
FaT men to beat BPBC men  87%
BPBC men to beat FaT men  3%
FaT women to beat BPBC women  47%
BPBC women to beat FaT women  43%
a FaT novice crew to beat a FaT senior crew  20%
a FaT novice crew to beat a BPBC crew  13%
a BPBC member to require medical assistance  20%
a BPBC member to make the 'three-stroke practice outing' joke  63%
every BPBC member to make the 'I won Fairbairns in my single scull' joke  57%
someone to criticise Byrne's catch  67%
Coker to turn up too drunk to row  50%
Coker to turn up too sober to row  33%
JCBC to do better than expected  73%
Total: 30 members' votes   (7 comments...)
That's a negative Ghost rider, the pattern is full...
Apparently congestion in the mornings is getting worse (although we reached gridlock years ago). A 'leaked' CUCBC paper has suggested banning novices from the mornings, prompting some discussion. What to do?
Ban novices from early mornings  3%
Ban CULRC from early mornings  43%
Ban seniors from early mornings in November  29%
Ban rowing  9%
Allow limited senior outings in the dark  26%
Move novice races to the middle of Lent term  17%
Build a bigger river  74%
A quota system of early morning outings  14%
Build an air traffic control tower at Chesterton and require all boats to proceed under its control during outings  34%
Total: 35 members' votes   (6 comments...)
What happened to Granta in the Fours head?
The Granta coxless four finished last in the Fours Head in a time of 47 minutes (their event was won in just over 20 minutes). What happened?
Gate opened, blade lost  0%
Hit bridge  0%
Steering wires broke  0%
Hit debris  0%
Training plan called for technical pairs work  14%
Aliens  14%
Very localised counter-current tidal wave  4%
Thames whale  4%
Ran aground on Fulham flats  0%
They didn't 'use the stream! Stream one! Stream two!'  7%
Nothing - it was a good time for them  57%
Total: 28 members' votes   (13 comments...)
Favourite MLB team
With the World Series currently taking place, let's see which baseball franchise the Club supports. If you know nothing about baseball, select Other and then make up a name by taking the name of a US state or town and adding a word/words of your choice.
Atlanta Braves  0%
Florida Marlins  0%
New York Mets  0%
Philadelphia Phillies  5%
Washington Nationals  0%
Chicago Cubs  0%
Cincinnati Reds  0%
Houston Astros  5%
Milwaukee Brewers  0%
Pittsburgh Pirates  0%
St. Louis Cardinals  5%
Arizona Diamondbacks  0%
Boulder Creek Earls  16%
Colorado Rockies  0%
Los Angeles Dodgers  5%
San Diego Padres  0%
San Francisco Giants  0%
Baltimore Orioles  5%
Boston Red Sox  47%
New York Yankees  0%
Tampa Bay Devil Rays  0%
Toronto Blue Jays  0%
Chicago White Sox  0%
Cleveland Indians  0%
Detroit Tigers  0%
Kansas City Royals  0%
Minnesota Twins  0%
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim  0%
Oakland Athletics  0%
Seattle Mariners  0%
Texas Rangers  0%
Other  11%
Total: 19 members' votes   (3 comments...)
What happened to Granta in the Fours head?
The Granta coxless four finished last in the Fours Head in a time of 47 minutes (their event was won in 20'08
Gate opened, blade lost 
Hit bridge 
Steering wires broke 
Hit debris 
Training plan called for technical pairs work 
Aliens 
Very localised counter-current tidal wave 
Thames whale 
Ran aground on Fulham flats 
Nothing - it was a actually a good time by their standards 
No votes were cast
Who will win the Rugby World Cup?
Argentina  5%
Australia  19%
Canada  0%
England  10%
Fiji  0%
France  0%
Georgia  0%
Ireland  0%
Italy  0%
Japan  0%
Namibia  0%
New Zealand  43%
Portugal  0%
Romania  0%
Samoa  0%
Scotland  5%
South Africa  5%
Tonga  0%
USA  5%
Wales  0%
FaTTRFC  10%
Total: 21 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Favourite pasta shape?
The burning crew pasta issue. It has been discussed before, but never voted on. For descriptions, see here - the list got quite excessive, but your favourite should be on there somewhere.
cavatelli  0%
conchiglie  0%
conchiglioni  0%
croxetti  0%
farfalle  4%
fiorentine  0%
fiorettini  0%
fusilli  24%
gemelli  0%
maltagliati  0%
orecchiette  0%
pipe  0%
radiatore  0%
rotelle  0%
rotini  0%
spirali  0%
trofie  0%
bucatini  0%
cannelloni  4%
ditalini  0%
elbow macaroni  0%
maccheroni  0%
manicotti  0%
mezze penne  0%
mostaccioli  0%
penne  24%
penne rigate  4%
rigatoni  0%
ziti  0%
spaghetti  8%
vermicelli  0%
capellini  0%
capelli d'angelo  0%
fettuccine  0%
lasagne  8%
linguine  8%
pappardelle  8%
tagliatelle  8%
alphabets  0%
couscous  0%
conchigliette  0%
ditali  0%
ditalini  0%
orzo  0%
pastina  0%
agnolotti  0%
cannelloni  0%
mandu  0%
manti  0%
panzarotti  0%
ravioli  0%
tortellini  0%
tortelloni  0%
gnocchi  0%
spatzle  0%
chicken and dumplin  0%
Total: 25 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Most important attribute in a novice?
Height  0%
Fitness  9%
Strength  3%
Keenness  42%
Coordination  30%
Lard appetite  6%
Ability to swim  6%
Ability to memorise crew lists from the 1800s  3%
Total: 33 members' votes   (8 comments...)
What is your favourite moment of the rugby world cup so far?
England dumping Australia out  81%
France dumping New Zealand out  19%
Neither of the above - I'm an Antipodean loser  0%
Total: 16 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Where did you learn to row?
At a club  0%
At school  3%
At Trinity (in my first year)  75%
At Trinity (not in my first year)  19%
At another university  0%
At a gym  3%
Total: 32 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Who will win the World Twenty20?
Time to forget about rugby and jump ship to a new sport. Who's going to win this one?
Australia  19%
Bangladesh  0%
England  6%
India  0%
Kenya  0%
New Zealand  13%
Pakistan  6%
Scotland  25%
South Africa  6%
Sri Lanka  6%
West Indies  6%
Zimbabwe  0%
Germany (in a bowl off)  13%
Total: 16 members' votes   (6 comments...)
Tim Henman
Britain's highest ranked tennis player for years has retired from the professional game. We've all grown up in the Henman era, so how do we rate him?
A great tennis player who was unlucky to have to play against unstoppable players  36%
A solid competitor who over-achieved  27%
Average and over-hyped  23%
A choker  14%
We should encourage him to do a Masters at Trinity and get him to row  55%
Total: 22 members' votes
Favourite aspect of the summer weather?
The rain  24%
The cold  53%
The fact that you're 12,000 miles away and in glorious sunshine  24%
Total: 17 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Who deserves to call themselves FaT/BPBC multisport champions?
1. Rowing - For the second year running, FaT M1, M2 and W1 all beat their BPBC counterparts.
2. Football - In the inaugural fixture, FaT win 2-1 after BPBC have an injury-time goal disallowed.
3. Golf - BPBC run out comfortable 7-2 winners, and also win the Womens' (sic) and Adaptive version.
4. Cricket - The fixture is rained off twice; BPBC seem to have the gods on their side and retain their title by default.

So two wins apiece, but are some worth more than others? Who wins overall?
FaT  48%
BPBC  33%
draw  19%
Total: 21 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Favourite British motorway
M1 (and M10, M45, M621)  0%
M2  0%
M3  0%
M4 (and M32, M48, M49)  14%
M5 (and M50)  7%
M6 (and M54, M55, M58, M61, M65)  10%
M6 Toll  28%
M8 (and M77, M80, M876, M898)  7%
M9  0%
M11  0%
M18 (and M180, M181)  0%
M20 (and M26)  3%
M23  3%
M25  7%
M27 (and M271, M275)  7%
M40 & M42  3%
M53  0%
M56  3%
M60 (and M66, M67)  0%
M62 (and M57, M602, M606)  3%
M69  3%
M74 (and M73)  0%
M90  0%
M96  0%
Total: 29 members' votes   (10 comments...)
Town bumps
It was relevant before the website went away...
I have a better record in town bumps than CUCBC bumps  5%
I have a worse record in town bumps than CUCBC bumps  30%
I have never raced town bumps but would like to for Black Prince  65%
Town bumps is just a poor quality version of CUCBC bumps  35%
Town bumps is a more polite version of CUCBC bumps  15%
Town what?  0%
Total: 20 members' votes   (6 comments...)
What do you look for in a boat club?
Many FaTties will be training away from the Cam over the summer, and there are also plenty of BPBCites rowing for different clubs who vote in these things. Anyway, what is the first thing you look for when hunting for a new boat club?
Top coaches  24%
Top oarsmen  6%
Shiny new boats  6%
Shiny new ergs  0%
Strong recent performances  12%
Glorious past  0%
Plentiful social events  12%
Capacious bar area  6%
Lard warehouse  35%
Total: 17 members' votes   (12 comments...)
Who will win the British Open this week? (Vote by Thurs a.m.)
The British Open Golf Championship takes place this week at Carnoustie, the venue of the last British win in a major (Paul Lawrie in 1999). Which of the sport's luminaries will lift the famous claret jug on Sunday afternoon?
Tiger Woods  19%
Phil Mickelson  10%
Ernie Els  10%
Jim Furyk  0%
Justin Rose  5%
Padraig Harrington  5%
Vijay Singh  0%
Adam Scott  0%
Colin Montgomerie  10%
Luke Donald  0%
Paul Casey  0%
Retief Goosen  10%
Sergio Garcia  10%
Angel Cabrera  0%
Geoff Ogilvy  0%
Henrik Stenson  0%
Ian Poulter  0%
K J Choi  0%
Lee Westwood  0%
Niclas Fasth  0%
Stuart Appleby  0%
Zach Johnson  0%
David Toms  0%
Steve Stricker  0%
Trevor Immelman  0%
Aaron Baddeley  0%
Jose Maria Olazabal  0%
Robert Allenby  0%
Rory Sabbatini  0%
Stephen Ames  0%
Sean O'Hair  0%
Scott Verplank  0%
Thomas Bjorn  5%
Chris DiMarco  0%
Darren Clarke  0%
David Howell  0%
Justin Leonard  0%
Davis Love III  0%
Miguel-Angel Jimenez  0%
John Daly  0%
Michael Campbell  5%
Paul McGinley  0%
Paul Lawrie  0%
Tom Lehman  0%
Mark Calcavecchia  0%
Ben Curtis  0%
Mark O'Meara  0%
Nick Faldo  10%
Sandy Lyle  0%
Tony Jacklin  5%
Other (please post below)  0%
Total: 21 members' votes   (5 comments...)
Favourite rowing-related island
Chiswick Eyot (Chiswick)  10%
Oliver's Island (Kew)  0%
Eel Pie Island (Twickenham)  0%
Trowlock Island (Teddington)  3%
Raven's Ait (Kingston)  21%
Garrick's Eyot (Molesey)  0%
Hamhaugh Island (Shepperton)  0%
Queen's Eyot (Eton)  7%
Temple Island (Henley)  41%
Antigua  17%
Total: 29 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Favourite 2-digit ''A'' road
Everyone loves a retarded poll
A10 London to King's Lynn (known as the Great Cambridge Road or the Old North Road)  4%
A11 London to Norwich  0%
A12 London to Great Yarmouth  0%
A13 London to Shoeburyness  0%
A14 M1/M6 Catthorpe junction near Rugby to Felixstowe (Originally Royston to Huntingdon)  8%
A15 Peterborough to Hull  0%
A16 Stamford to Grimsby  0%
A17 Newark to King's Lynn  0%
A18 Doncaster to Ludborough  0%
A19 Doncaster to Seaton Burn  0%
A20 London to Dover  0%
A21 London to Hastings  0%
A22 London to Eastbourne  4%
A23 London to Brighton  0%
A24 London to Worthing  4%
A25 Wrotham Heath to Guildford  0%
A26 Maidstone to Newhaven  0%
A27 Pevensey to Whiteparish  8%
A28 Margate to Hastings  0%
A29 Beare Green to Bognor Regis  0%
A30 London to Land's End  4%
A31 Guildford to Bere Regis  0%
A32 Alton to Gosport  0%
A33 Southampton to Reading  4%
A34 Winchester to Salford  0%
A35 Southampton to Honiton  0%
A36 Southampton to Bath  0%
A37 Dorchester to Bristol  0%
A38 Bodmin to Mansfield  4%
A39 Bath to Falmouth  0%
A40 London to Fishguard  0%
A41 London to Birkenhead  0%
A42 Appleby Magna (M42) to Kegworth(M1) (Originally Reading to Birmingham: taken over by A34)  0%
A43 Cherwell Valley to Stamford (formerly Oxford to Market Deeping)  0%
A44 Oxford to Aberystwyth  0%
A45 Birmingham to Thrapston (Originally to Felixstowe, but eastern section taken over by A14)  4%
A46 Bath to Cleethorpes  0%
A47 Birmingham to Great Yarmouth  0%
A48 Highnam to Carmarthen  0%
A49 Ross-on-Wye to Bamber Bridge near Preston  0%
A50 Leicester to M1 Junction 22 and Kegworth (M1 Junction 24) to Warrington (formerly Northampton to Warrington)  0%
A51 Kingsbury to Chester  0%
A52 Newcastle-under-Lyme to Mablethorpe  4%
A53 Shrewsbury to Buxton  0%
A54 Chester to Buxton  0%
A55 Holyhead to Chester (The North Wales Expressway)  0%
A56 Chester to Broughton (A59)  0%
A57 Liverpool to Lincoln  4%
A58 Prescot to Wetherby  0%
A59 Liverpool to York  0%
A60 Loughborough to Doncaster  0%
A61 Derby to Thirsk  0%
A62 Manchester to Leeds  0%
A63 Leeds to Hull  0%
A64 Leeds to Scarborough  4%
A65 Leeds to Kendal  0%
A66 Workington to Grangetown  13%
A67 Bowes (A66) to Crathorne (A19)  0%
A68 Darlington to Edinburgh  0%
A69 Carlisle to Blaydon  0%
A70 Edinburgh to Ayr  0%
A71 Edinburgh to Irvine  0%
A72 Galashiels to Hamilton  0%
A73 Abington to Cumbernauld  0%
A74 Carlisle to Glasgow  0%
A75 Gretna to Stranraer  4%
A76 Dumfries to Kilmarnock  4%
A77 Glasgow to Portpatrick  0%
A78 Prestwick to Greenock  0%
A79 Prestwick to Doonholm  0%
A80 Glasgow to Bonnybridge  0%
A81 Glasgow to Callander  4%
A82 Glasgow to Inverness  4%
A83 Campbeltown to Tarbet  4%
A84 Stirling to Lochearnhead  4%
A85 Oban to Dundee  0%
A86 Spean Bridge to Kingussie  0%
A87 Invergarry to Uig  4%
A88 Larbert to Stenhousemuir (Originally what is now the A9 past Inverness: this explains the rarity of A9xxx numbers in the Highlands)  0%
A89 Newbridge to Glasgow  0%
A90 Edinburgh to Fraserburgh  0%
A91 Bannockburn to St Andrews  0%
A92 Dunfermline to Stonehaven  0%
A93 Perth to Aberdeen  0%
Total: 24 members' votes   (3 comments...)
Who have you done?
Boat Club ≡ Incest
Jane Allison  4%
Tom Andrews  4%
Narelle Baker  4%
Charley Bates  4%
Ulrike Bauer  4%
Adam Blacklay  4%
Jonathan Blazek  0%
Harriet Booker  4%
Abigail Breary  4%
Richard Bullock  70%
Lorry Carr  4%
Charles Chapin  0%
Ji-Jian Chow  0%
Ming Chung  0%
Tom Coker  0%
Rachel Croft  4%
Adam Csenki  0%
Damilola Dauda  4%
Jon Davies  9%
Will Dean  0%
Chris Dunleavy  0%
Richard Fletcher  0%
Abigail Fox  4%
Rachel Frigot  4%
Bryn Garrod  4%
Julijana Gjorgjieva  4%
Stu Gooch  0%
Joanna Heath  9%
Nicola Henshall  13%
Amy Hewer  13%
Sarah Hickey  4%
Liz Hill  4%
Dominic Hockley  4%
Phil Horler  0%
Hannah Jackson  9%
Dan Jane  4%
Magnus Jones  4%
John Kiely  4%
Konstantin Kisil  0%
Will Laffan  9%
Emma Leadbetter  9%
Andrew Lewis  9%
Sam Lings  9%
Sorcha McGinn  9%
Tristan Melen  0%
Christian Mertes  0%
Thomas O'Neill  0%
Kristina Ooi  9%
Igor Ostrowski  9%
Sebastian Pancratz  17%
Robert Patterson  9%
Sarah Pitt  9%
Lynsey Porter  17%
Philipp Preiss  0%
Helen Ralston  4%
Fran Rawlins  9%
Pedro Salgard-Cunha  4%
Matthew Sargeant  4%
Emma Smith  4%
Sarah Stoneman  4%
James Strawson  4%
Andrew Sugden  13%
Julia Summers  4%
Alex Sye  4%
Erica Thompson  4%
Corinne Vannatta  4%
Lilie Weaver  4%
P-J White  0%
Henry Wood  4%
Martin Yarr  4%
Sam Zhang  4%
Total: 23 members' votes   (12 comments...)
We row in order to...
...win  79%
...have fun  21%
Total: 39 members' votes   (40 comments...)
Bumps Predictions
Yea yea yea, we all love BumpIt, but it seems to be lacking some options. Which of the following is likely to happen at some point during bumps week (up to and including post-bop carnage)
Blades: M1  39%
Blades: M2  30%
Blades: M3  30%
Blades: M4  23%
Blades: M5  20%
Blades: W1  64%
Blades: W2  80%
Blades: W3  18%
All FaT boats to spoon  7%
Holes to appear in all Jesus' boats - FaT to retain Michell cup  34%
FaT to bump Caius  59%
Caius to bump FaT  5%
LMBC to be too red  77%
FaT buftys to outnumber everyone else on the river (including rowers)  61%
FaT to form a secret cartel to fix the BumpIt results  16%
NT to drive at >100mph with no brakes from York, every day to try and make the gun  61%
FaTAMS epidemic to occur  5%
JPD, NT, RTT, JWE etc to injure themselves in comic fashion on the towpath  55%
Iain to run down Ian T and break his arm  11%
Ian T to run down Iain and break his leg  7%
Coker to turn up drunk to one or more races  43%
Any member of FaT to be fined for 'foul and abusive behaviour/language'  64%
Coker to be fined for 'foul and abusive behaviour/language'  45%
LW to crash TR2  30%
LW to miss men's division, ABL to cox M2 (not going to happen :P)  18%
Incest chart to be in need of updating  84%
Buftys to (try and) seduce 'innocent' younger FaTers  73%
BCD to result in being banned  16%
BCD speeches to be short, succinct and to the point  2%
BCD speeches to be short, succinct and to the point (in the minds of the speakers)  77%
Total: 44 members' votes   (6 comments...)
Who should trial lightweights next year?
Andrew Lewis  38%
Will Laffan  44%
Richard Fletcher  44%
Martin Yarr  18%
John Kiely  28%
Philipp Preiss  41%
Lorry Carr  28%
Sam Lings  21%
Mohammad Dehabadi  18%
Tom O'Neill  23%
Seb Pancratz  44%
Christian Mertes  21%
Adam Blacklay  21%
James Strawson  23%
Tom Coker  26%
Hannah Jackson  15%
Fran Rawlins  59%
Julia Summers  51%
Rachel Croft  18%
Joanna Heath  18%
Amy Hewer  15%
Lilie Weaver  49%
Toby Garnett  38%
Total: 39 members' votes   (17 comments...)
Who will be next year's Men's Captain?
Because we know its just a popularity contest anyway ;)
Tom ''El Presidente'' Coker  3%
Ming ''The Merciless'' Chung  41%
Sebastian ''I Only Scull'' Pancratz  3%
Will ''Shortest Headship Winner'' Laffan  3%
Emma ''Brian Is So Awesome'' Leadbetter  12%
Pedro ''How Can I Copy Erica After She's Gone'' Cunha  3%
Bryn ''Will Only Coach Novice Girls'' Garrod  18%
Martin ''Must Do Bigger Weights'' Yarr  3%
Chris ''Doing a PhD to Row'' Dunleavy  9%
Lorry ''Can't Look Forward'' Carr  0%
Adam ''Very Ordinary'' Blacklay  6%
Total: 34 members' votes
How to tan?
The second most important thing about Mays rowing (after bumps)... bronzing.
Stay completely covered at all times to avoid any chance of a tan (see A. Lea-Cox)  15%
Wear an all-in-one and get strap marks (see people too busy rowing to care about looks)  48%
Wear only one strap and then switch at the lock to avoid too much of a strap mark whilst still being able to row well (see T. Coker)  6%
Push both straps down to avoid strap marks and (if female) hope it holds and (if male) hope it doesn't (see Women's hour)  12%
Go topless and just take the fines for indecent exposure on the chin (see the bank balance decrease)  18%
Total: 33 members' votes   (5 comments...)
Blue and gold bikinis?
It has been suggested that the new women's Mays kit should be blue and gold bikinis. Less (/fewer?) tan lines, and proof, if needed, that we are (all) female. Aye or Nay?
Yes please!  63%
No thanks!  37%
Total: 43 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Punting skill
How good do you think you are?
I am/was a professional and made things up to tell tourists  10%
I am/was a professional  0%
I can go fast and straight  45%
I struggle if it's busy but I'm largely OK  16%
I may have hit an occasional bridge...  3%
I'm a danger to myself and others  6%
The Conservators have banned me  0%
I'm a lady so I get a burly man to punt me  6%
Water is for racing over, not drifting down  13%
Total: 31 members' votes   (13 comments...)
Favourite test?
2k  7%
5k  17%
30 minute  3%
Max. Power  7%
Max. Weights  10%
5k sculling  0%
Seat Race  13%
Rorschach  3%
Turing  7%
Edgbaston 2005  33%
Total: 30 members' votes   (6 comments...)
Eights Head
Recent results are variable. How will the 2007 vintage perform?
Legends: 88th or better  5%
Very good: 89th - 118th  45%
Above Average: 119th - 164th  45%
Average: 165th - 200th  0%
Below par for this crew: 201st - 250th  0%
Below par for any 1st VIII: 251st - 300th  0%
Disaster: 301st or below  0%
Failure to finish  0%
Failure to start  0%
Event cancelled  5%
Total: 20 members' votes   (5 comments...)
Website
It was suggested on the pub crawl that the site's login page (i.e. the navy blue background with the two large crests) be replaced with an animated lion who walks in from one side before stopping in the right pose. Thoughts?
Yes please  42%
No thanks  58%
Total: 36 members' votes
Easter training
More than term-time  20%
Same as term-time  12%
Slightly less than term-time  12%
Non-rowing related cross-training (e.g. skiing)  32%
Very little, I'm off on holidays  4%
Pub crawl anyone?  20%
Total: 25 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Grammar Police
You know who you are.
They're ensuring that high standards are maintained  66%
They're standing in the way of an evolving language  31%
There's no one quite like Grammar...  3%
Total: 35 members' votes
A beautiful game?
On Saturday (March 17th), FaTTBC FC will play BPBC FC in the final of the inaugural Football Challenge Pot. You're not a betting (wo)man, but if you were...?
FaT to win easily  30%
FaT to win narrowly  24%
FaT to win on penalties  8%
BPBC to win on penalties  8%
BPBC to win narrowly  14%
BPBC to win easily  11%
Seb to lose easily  41%
No injuries  0%
Minor injuries only  32%
One major injury  14%
Multiple major injuries  8%
Multiple major injuries to one person  32%
No cards  8%
Yellow cards only  24%
One red card  11%
Multiple red cards  30%
A full-blown fracas leading to FA charges  27%
FaT to score first  46%
BPBC to score first  30%
FaT to fail to score at all  3%
BPBC to fail to score at all  16%
FaT to concede a penalty  30%
BPBC to concede a penalty  38%
Anyone to score with a header  19%
Anyone to score with a volley  14%
Anyone to score from outside the area  43%
Anyone to score from his own half  16%
Anyone to score an own goal  54%
Anyone to score a hat-trick  22%
Anyone to score at the post-match social  49%
Streaker (FaT underwear)  38%
Streaker (inferior underwear)  5%
Streaker (no underwear)  5%
No WAGs present  11%
1-5 WAGs present  46%
6-10 WAGs present  11%
11+ WAGs present  14%
FaT's destructive gambling culture to be exposed in Varsity in the build-up to the game  19%
BPBC's specially commissioned spyplane and listening devices employed at FaT training sessions to be exposed in The Cambridge Student in the build-up to the game  16%
Lorry to be seen daydreaming  49%
Will Laffan to win a header  16%
Tom Coker to turn up too drunk to play  57%
James Strawson to turn up on the wrong day  43%
Richard Fletcher to claim he's 'fed up of not winning anything' after the game  22%
Mark Sankey to do a fartlek session at half-time while smiling  24%
Seb to do a fartlek session at half-time while grimacing  57%
Seb to suffer abuse for being German  84%
Phil to suffer abuse for being ginger  70%
QB James Scott to shout 'Red, Red, 72, 72'  30%
Neil to be accused of sexism for failing to select any girls for BPBC  62%
Dan Darley to cycle to and from the game from London  49%
Dan Holland to 'do a Din' (i.e. require hospital treatment for exhaustion)  22%
Ingers to 'do an Ingers'  35%
Graham to 'do a Graham'  27%
Simon Blackburn to attempt to have the game called off for health and safety reasons  19%
BPBC to attempt to have the game called off because Bryn tries to play his ringer  27%
Jon Glass to do the 'robot dance' after scoring  41%
John Earl to provide a half-time 'keepy-uppy' masterclass  24%
Eton Boy to ask where the Wall is  41%
Matt Byrne to crown a mazy dribble from his own half with an outrageous left-foot chip over the onrushing goalkeeper  11%
Total: 37 members' votes   (15 comments...)
What's the most beautiful piece of sport you've ever seen (live)?
*Liu Xiang broke Colin Jackson's 13-year-old 110m hurdles world record this week. That World Championship-winning run of 12.91 from CJ was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in sport. What's your favourite - not the most important or dramatic, but simply the most beautiful? (Ideally you should have watched it live for it to count.)

* denotes a link to a video clip.
*Football: Diego Maradona's second goal, Argentina vs England, World Cup QF, 1986  0%
*Football: Marco van Basten's winner, Holland vs USSR, European Championship Final, 1988  0%
*Football: Roberto Carlos's goal, Brazil vs France, Le Tournoi, 1997  5%
*Football: Michael Owen's goal, England vs Argentina, World Cup Round 2, 1998  0%
*Football: Dennis Bergkamp's last-minute winner, Holland vs Argentina, World Cup QF, 1998  0%
*Football: Ryan Giggs's extra-time winner, Man United vs Arsenal, FA Cup SF, 1999  0%
*Football: Thierry Henry's winner, Arsenal vs Man United, Premiership, 2000  0%
*Football: Zinedine Zidane's winner, Real Madrid vs Bayer Leverkusen, Champions' League Final, 2002  5%
*Football: Steven Gerrard's last-minute equaliser, Liverpool vs West Ham, FA Cup Final, 2006  10%
*Football: Esteban Cambiasso's goal, Argentina vs Serbia, World Cup Group C, 2006  5%
Cricket: Lance Klusener's 31* off 16 balls, South Africa vs Australia, World Cup SF, 1999  0%
Cricket: Kevin Pietersen's 91* off 65 balls, England vs Australia, ODI, 1999  0%
Cricket: Matthew Hoggard's series-winning 7-61, England vs South Africa, 2005  0%
Cricket: England (477) reducing Australia to 99/5, 4th Ashes Test, 2005  0%
Rugby: Rob Andrew's last-minute match-winning drop goal, England vs Australia, World Cup QF, 1995  0%
Rugby: Jonny Wilkinson's tackle on Matt Giteau, England vs Australia, World Cup Final, 2003  0%
*Rugby: Jonny Wilkinson's last-minute match-winning drop goal, England vs Australia, World Cup Final, 2003  15%
Rowing: Searle brothers winning Gold in the coxed pair with Gary Herbert, Barcelona, 1992  0%
Rowing: Redgrave and Pinsent winning Gold in Barcelona, 1992  0%
Rowing: Redgrave and Pinsent winning Gold in Atlanta, 1996  0%
Rowing: Cambridge breaking the course record (16.19) in winning the Boat Race, 1998  0%
Rowing: British coxless four winning Gold in Sydney, 2000  0%
Rowing: British eight winning Gold in Sydney, 2000  5%
*Rowing: Oxford winning from behind at Barnes Bridge, Boat Race, 2002 (see next option for video)  5%
*Rowing: Oxford winning by one foot, Boat Race, 2003 (video 0%
Rowing: British coxless four winning Gold in Athens, 2004  5%
Athletics: Daley Thompson's decathlon Olympic Gold, Los Angeles, 1984  0%
Athletics: Colin Jackson's 110m hurdles world record (12.91), World Championships, Stuttgart, 1993  5%
*Athletics: Jonathan Edwards's triple jump world record (18.29m), World Championships, Gothenburg, 1995  0%
Athletics: Haile Gebrselassie breaking the 5000m world record by 11 seconds, Zurich, 1995  0%
*Athletics: Michael Johnson's 200m world record (19.32), Olympic Final, Atlanta, 1996  5%
Athletics: Haile Gebrselassie winning Olympic 10000m Gold, Sydney, 2000  0%
Swimming: Australia beating the USA to win Gold in the 4x100m relay, Sydney, 2000  0%
Hockey: Great Britain going 2-0 up on Germany, Olympic Final, Seoul, 1988  0%
Tennis: Goran Ivanisevic beating Pat Rafter in 5 sets, Wimbledon Final, 2001  0%
Tennis: Roger Federer beating Andy Roddick, Wimbledon Final, 2005  0%
Golf: Constantino Rocca's 60-foot putt on the 18th hole to force a play-off, British Open, 1995  0%
Golf: Tiger Woods winning the US Masters by a record 12 shots, aged 21, 1997  0%
*Snooker: Ronnie O'Sullivan's world record fastest 147 in 5min 20sec, 1997  0%
*Figure-skating: Torvill and Dean winning Gold with Bolero, Winter Olympics, Sarajevo, 1984  5%
Other (please post below, with a link if possible.)  30%
Total: 20 members' votes   (30 comments...)
Best of the rest
Yeah yeah Lent VIIIs we love you and all, but let's spread that love. In the style of the well known but trademarked movie awards, who should get the 'best supporting crew' award?
2nd Men  39%
2nd Women  13%
3rd Men  5%
3rd Women  29%
4th Men  2%
5th Men  13%
Total: 56 members' votes   (10 comments...)
How will First and Third fare this week?
Estimate the total number of places lost or gained by our crews (in total) this week. We have 8 crews on the River, and could go up a total of 28 places if all crews gain blades with no overbumps.
Down more than 5 places  2%
Down between 1 and 5  0%
Stay level  0%
Up between 1 and 5  2%
Up between 6 and 10  9%
Up between 11 and 15  41%
Up between 16 and 20  35%
Up between 21 and 25  2%
Up more than 25 places for the week  9%
Total: 46 members' votes   (3 comments...)
Grammar Police
They know who they are...
They're ensuring that high standards are maintained  50%
They're standing in the way of an evolving language  50%
There's no one quite like Grammar...  0%
Total: 2 members' votes
The Big One
neither  2%
men  22%
women  5%
both  71%
Total: 41 members' votes
Day tickets
The ARA is abolishing day tickets next month and entry into all open regattas and heads will require ARA membership (unless they run dodgy events e.g. CRA only). Which of these do you agree with?
It will have no effect on me whatsoever  56%
I have regularly used day tickets as I do 1 or 2 open events each year and this will stop me racing  6%
I fear that there will be less people for me to race at events I go to  21%
It's good because it will stop people with lots of points cheating by entering on a day ticket with 0 points  26%
ARA membership is a rip-off  29%
ARA membership is good value for money  21%
I predict BPBC will now only enter non-ARA events  32%
What's a day ticket?  29%
Total: 34 members' votes   (4 comments...)
Best indicator of form?
With only two competitions left before the Lents and, more importantly, BumpIT, which is traditionally the best indicator of who's going up and who's going down?
Cambridge Head-2-Head  0%
Head of the Nene  10%
Newnham Short Course  0%
Robinson Head  42%
Pembroke Regatta  48%
Total: 31 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Which club do we hate the most?
Over the years it has become traditional to hate some clubs more than others, but which is the worst of the lot?
LMBC  22%
Downing  61%
Caius  17%
5 iron  0%
Total: 36 members' votes   (5 comments...)
The hype starts here
It seems you can't have a game of football these days without a load of OTT build-up. We're having a game of football, how can we best hype it up?
Just a note on the blackboard @GG on the day of the game  5%
Special section of this website  14%
Kick off is moved to accommodate tv schedules - debate over whether the organisers have sold out  23%
Richard Keys of SkySports calls it 'the most important game of football that's ever been played'  5%
Speaking before the game, Neil Talbott is quoted as saying the following when asked about Bryn 'But I'll tell ya - you can tell him now if you're watching it - we're still fighting for this title, and he's got to go to Cramner Road and get something, and.  5%
Graham Fisher breaks a metatarsal next week, leading to speculation regarding his participation in the game  18%
This poll is quite enough thank you.  32%
Total: 22 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Security
The Glastonbury Festival have announced that the 2007 Festival tickets will be personalised with photos to prevent touting. Another event in June which costs a lot of money and has an issue with security is the May Ball. Which of these security measures should the Ball adopt?
Prescreening of applicants to ensure they are buying tickets for their own use  4%
Photos on tickets  16%
Fingerprints  4%
Iris recognition  4%
All guests required to wear gold socks  52%
Replacing tickets with tattos  16%
Doubling the price to take the floor out of the tout market  0%
Give up - let the free market take over  4%
Total: 25 members' votes
What's the best Christmas record ever?
So 'Best Christmas #1' sees a resounding victory for Bohemian Rhapsody, as made famous by the 2001 2nd May VIII. However, many of the best Christmas singles never made it to #1, being kept off by such abominations as the Pet Shop Boys. Which of the following is your all-time favourite Christmas track (carols etc excluded)?
2 Become 1 (Spice Girls) (listen 0%
2000 Miles (The Pretenders) (listen 0%
All I Want For Christmas (Is You) (Mariah Carey) (listen 15%
Always On My Mind (Pet Shop Boys) (listen 8%
Another Brick In The Wall (Pink Floyd) (listen 0%
A Spaceman Came Travelling (Chris de Burgh) (listen 0%
A Winter's Tale (David Essex) (listen 0%
A Wonderful Christmas Time (Paul McCartney) (listen 0%
Babe (Take That) (listen 0%
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) (listen 4%
Caravan Of Love (Housemartins) (listen 0%
Chiquitita (ABBA) (listen 0%
Christmas (The Who) (listen 0%
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (Darlene Love/U2) (listen/listen 0%
Christmas Day (Dido) (listen 0%
Christmas Time (Bryan Adams) (listen 0%
Christmas Time (The Darkness) (listen 0%
Christmas Wrapping (The Waitresses) (listen 0%
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid/Band Aid 20) (listen/listen 0%
Don't You Want Me (The Human League) (listen 0%
Driving Home For Christmas (Chris Rea) (listen 4%
Earth Song (Michael Jackson) (listen 0%
Especially For You (Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan) (listen 0%
Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl) (listen 19%
Father Christmas (The Kinks) (listen 0%
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (Elmo and Patsy) (listen 8%
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Lennon and Yoko Ono) (listen 0%
Heal The World (Michael Jackson) (listen 0%
Hello Goodbye (The Beatles) (listen 0%
I Believe In Father Christmas (Greg Lake) (listen 0%
I Have A Dream (ABBA) (listen 0%
I'll Find My Way Home (Jon & Vangelis) (listen 0%
Imagine (John Lennon) (listen 0%
I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (listen 0%
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (Wizzard) (listen 0%
JCB Song (Nizlopi) (listen 4%
Last Christmas (WHAM!) (listen 4%
Little Drummer Boy (Bing Crosby and David Bowie) (listen 0%
Little Saint Nick (The Beach Boys) (listen 0%
Lonely This Christmas (Mud) (listen 0%
Mad World (Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules) (listen 4%
Mary's Boy Child (Boney M) (listen 0%
Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin' Stevens) (listen 0%
Merry Xmas Everybody (Slade) (listen 0%
Mistletoe And Wine (Cliff Richard) (listen 0%
Mr Blobby (Mr Blobby) (listen 0%
Mull Of Kintyre (Wings) (listen 0%
New Year's Day (U2) (listen 4%
Perfect Day (Various) (listen 0%
Pipes Of Peace (Paul McCartney) (listen 0%
Please Come Home For Christmas (The Eagles) (listen 0%
Santa Baby (Eartha Kitt/Kylie Minogue) (listen/listen 0%
Santa Claus You C*n* Where's My F*****g Bike? (Kevin Bloody Wilson) (listen 4%
Saving All My Love For You (Whitney Houston) (listen 0%
Somethin' Stupid (Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman) (listen 0%
Sound Of The Underground (Girls Aloud) (listen 0%
Stay Another Day (East 17) (listen 0%
Step Into Christmas (Elton John) (listen 0%
Stop The Cavalry (Jona Lewie) (listen 12%
Thank God It's Christmas (Queen) (listen 0%
The Christmas Song (Nat King Cole) (listen 0%
The Power Of Love (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) (listen 0%
Under The Moon Of Love (Showaddywaddy) (listen 0%
Walking In The Air (Peter Auty/Aled Jones) (listen 0%
Whatever (Oasis) (listen 0%
When A Child Is Born (Johnny Mathis) (listen 4%
When I Fall In Love (Nat King Cole/Rick Astley) (listen/listen 4%
White Christmas (Bing Crosby) (listen 0%
YMCA (The Village People) (listen 0%
You've Lost That Loving Feeling (Righteous Brothers) (listen 4%
Other (please post below, with a link if possible)  0%
Total: 26 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust?
England's quest to retain the Ashes, won so gloriously last summer as predicted by First and Third, begins this week. How will they fare?
WIN: England 5 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 4 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 4 - 1 Australia  0%
WIN: England 3 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 3 - 1 Australia  4%
WIN: England 2 - 0 Australia  0%
WIN: England 3 - 2 Australia  4%
WIN: England 2 - 1 Australia  19%
WIN: England 1 - 0 Australia  0%
DRAW: England 2 - 2 Australia  19%
DRAW: England 1 - 1 Australia  7%
DRAW: England 0 - 0 Australia  4%
LOSE: England 0 - 1 Australia  0%
LOSE: England 1 - 2 Australia  11%
LOSE: England 2 - 3 Australia  0%
LOSE: England 0 - 2 Australia  4%
LOSE: England 1 - 3 Australia  11%
LOSE: England 0 - 3 Australia  0%
LOSE: England 1 - 4 Australia  4%
LOSE: England 0 - 4 Australia  7%
LOSE: England 0 - 5 Australia  7%
Total: 27 members' votes   (10 comments...)
Happy New Year?
New year, new opportunities, new resolutions... but is it all too late?
The best of my rowing career is yet to come  60%
The best of my rowing career is behind me and I'm now managing the decline  30%
In life in general, the best is yet to come  80%
In life in general, I know that, on balance, I've had my best years  27%
Total: 30 members' votes   (3 comments...)
What shall we call them?
We have a lot of new boats in need of names. Two new eights, two new sculls, the Light Four and the Coastal Four. Either pick your favourites from the options below (one for each boat), or suggest another.
Black Prince (men's eight)  89%
Riccardo (men's eight)  3%
Other (men's eight)  5%
The Ladies' Plate (women's eight)  0%
Henry the Eight (women's eight)  32%
Valkyrie (women's eight)  16%
John Pierrepoint Morgan (women's eight)  0%
Fair Maid of Kent (women's eight)  18%
Power in the Water (women's eight)  3%
The Random Buftie (women's eight)  16%
Other (men's eight)  8%
Pike and Eel (sculls)  37%
Cat and Buns (sculls)  37%
Blue and Gold (sculls)  5%
Flotsam and Jetsam (sculls)  11%
Other (sculls)  11%
Hydra (light four)  50%
Ariel (light four)  18%
Martin Rees (light four)  18%
Other (light four)  8%
Ursula (coastal)  13%
Circe (coastal)  5%
Leviathan (coastal)  68%
Other (coastal)  13%
Total: 38 members' votes   (29 comments...)
What's the best Christmas #1 ever?
By the time you read this, it will probably have been confirmed that this year's Christmas #1 is another atrocious offering from the latest winner of X-Factor. But it wasn't always like this: once upon a time, when Snickers were Marathons and a shag was a common cormorant, Christmas #1 records were enduring classics. What's your all-time favourite?
Here In My Heart (Al Martino, 1952)  0%
Answer Me (Frankie Laine, 1953)  0%
Let's Have Another Party (Winifred Atwell, 1954)  0%
Christmas Alphabet (Dickie Valentine, 1955)  0%
Just Walkin' In The Rain (Johnnie Ray, 1956)  0%
Mary's Boy Child (Harry Belafonte, 1957)  0%
It's Only Make Believe (Conway Twitty, 1958)  0%
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For (Emile Ford & The Checkmates, 1959)  0%
I Love You (Cliff Richard & The Shadows, 1960)  0%
Moon River (Danny Williams, 1961)  0%
Return To Sender (Elvis Presley, 1962)  0%
I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles, 1963)  0%
I Feel Fine (The Beatles, 1964)  0%
Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out (The Beatles, 1965)  0%
The Green Grass Of Home (Tom Jones, 1966)  0%
Hello Goodbye (The Beatles, 1967)  4%
Lily The Pink (Scaffold, 1968)  0%
Two Little Boys (Rolf Harris, 1969)  4%
I Hear You Knockin' (Dave Edmunds, 1970)  0%
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) (Benny Hill, 1971)  0%
Long Haired Lover From Liverpool (Little Jimmy Osmond, 1972)  0%
Merry Xmas Everybody (Slade, 1973)  11%
Lonely This Christmas (Mud, 1974)  0%
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen, 1975)  36%
When A Child Is Born (Soleado) (Johnny Mathis, 1976)  0%
Mull Of Kintyre / Girls' School (Wings, 1977)  0%
Mary's Boy Child-Oh My Lord (Boney M, 1978)  0%
Another Brick In The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979)  7%
There's No One Quite Like Grandma (St Winifred's School Choir, 1980)  0%
Don't You Want Me (The Human League, 1981)  4%
Save Your Love (Renee & Renato, 1982)  0%
Only You (The Flying Pickets, 1983)  0%
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid, 1984)  4%
Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin' Stevens, 1985)  0%
Reet Petite (Jackie Wilson, 1986)  0%
Always On My Mind (The Pet Shop Boys, 1987)  4%
Mistletoe & Wine (Cliff Richard, 1988)  0%
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid II, 1989)  0%
Saviour's Day (Cliff Richard, 1990)  0%
Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Queen, 1991)  4%
I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston, 1992)  0%
Mr Blobby (Mr Blobby, 1993)  4%
Stay Another Day (East 17, 1994)  11%
Earth Song (Michael Jackson, 1995)  0%
2 Become 1 (Spice Girls, 1996)  0%
Too Much (Spice Girls, 1997)  0%
Goodbye (Spice Girls, 1998)  0%
I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun (Westlife, 1999)  0%
Can We Fix It? (Bob The Builder, 2000)  0%
Somethin' Stupid (Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman, 2001)  0%
Sound Of The Underground (Girls Aloud, 2002)  4%
Mad World (Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules, 2003)  4%
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid 20, 2004)  4%
That's My Goal (Shayne Ward, 2005)  0%
Total: 28 members' votes
The lycra debate: it rumbles on
Last week's poll caused more conversation than the usual. Let's have some in depth analysis.
All lycra-based clothing makes rowers of the opposite sex look sexy  29%
All lycra-based clothing makes rowers of the opposite sex look wrong  4%
Tech tops and leggings are one thing, it's all in ones I have a problem with  36%
It's not the material, it's the design: hoops make me look FaT  11%
I won the Fairbairn Cup in 1956 in my single scull wearing cotton slacks and a zephyr  25%
Sod lycra, I want to do the Lents in PVC  46%
Total: 28 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Rowers of the opposite sex wearing lycra (generally) look...
Sexy  68%
Minging  23%
Like gigolos/whores  10%
Total: 31 members' votes   (24 comments...)
IM?
Which is your favourite?
ICQ  8%
Yahoo  0%
MSN/Windows Live  69%
Skype  8%
Google Talk  12%
Miranda  0%
Hawaii, if I qualify  4%
Total: 26 members' votes   (2 comments...)
What injury/illness have you trained/raced through?
Real rowers don't listen to their doctors' advice. Which of the following have you refused to prevent you getting in a boat?
Prolapsed disc  4%
Food poisoning  27%
Pulled muscle in arse  4%
(Freshers) 'flu  62%
Hamstring strain/pull  23%
Conjunctivitis  4%
Injury sustained in bike accident while going to the boathouse  23%
Quinsy  4%
Hangover  77%
Blood poisoning from septic blister  8%
Nasty bug picked up from drinking Tideway water  8%
Foot and Mouth  15%
Other (please elaborate below)  42%
Total: 26 members' votes   (16 comments...)
Injuries and illnesses
Most of the following injuries or diseases have prevented members of the Clubs competing at some point. Which is your favourite?
Prolapsed disc  0%
Food poisioning  14%
Pulled muscle in arse  18%
(Freshers) 'flu  5%
Hamstring strain/pull  0%
Conjunctivitis  0%
Injury sustained in bike accident while going to the boathouse  9%
Quinsy  5%
Hangover  14%
Blood poisioning from septic blister  18%
Nasty bug picked up from drinking Tideway water  5%
Foot and Mouth  14%
Total: 22 members' votes   (9 comments...)
How many university medals will be won by FaT this week?
Medals up for grabs in (Men's) Light IVs and Men's and Women's 1st Coxed IVs divisions.
 19%
 19%
 11%
 37%
10  0%
14  15%
Total: 27 members' votes
Skiing...
It won't be long before the snow starts to fall and the ski season begins. But which of the below best describes you?
I love skiing  67%
I hate skiing  4%
I hit the slopes every year  41%
I've never been  22%
It costs too much  26%
On my salary I only go for chalets with a sauna and hot tub  7%
Apres rather than ski for me  4%
I hate getting snow down my trousers and falling on my sore arse all the time  4%
My knees are so f**ked I can't ski  11%
I'd be up for a boatie skiing trip!  30%
Total: 27 members' votes
Favourite Bond?
Connery  48%
Lazenby  0%
Moore  4%
Dalton  20%
Brosnan  20%
Craig  4%
Samantha  4%
Total: 25 members' votes   (16 comments...)
Have you ever been injured whilst training for rowing?
People are always getting injured. It's something that happens a lot and always seems to be at exactly the wrong time. An injured squad member can lose a crew a race (or their replacement win a race...), and it's always devastating to take time out when the club's doing really well.
No, never, I'm an undergrad - you have to be over 20 to start worrying about injuries, right?!  8%
No, never, I warm up properly, warm down properly, miss sessions if I feel ill and always look after myself - my body is a temple!  8%
Yes, I've been injured, but I rowed through the pain/broken ankle (and won the Fairbairns, in my single scull)  16%
Yes, I got injured, but went to the sports injury clinic (Mon, Wed, Fri mornings drop-in clinic at Addenbrooke's physio dept) and they sorted me out  12%
Yes, I rowed through it and made it much worse, I really f**ked myself over for the sake of a couple of minor events and subsequently missed some important races  16%
I routinely get admitted to hospital/row whilst on crutches/train against specific doctor's orders/am called Neil Talbott  12%
I am/was a triallist and we have a squad physio to sort out injuries and everything!  4%
I'm a cox, training is for wimps  4%
I row for BPBC, training is for wimps  20%
Total: 25 members' votes   (3 comments...)
What is your ARA rowing status?
Sweep oar - assume the crew averages the number of points you have.
Novice  44%
Senior 4  17%
Senior 3  11%
Senior 2  11%
Senior 1  6%
Elite  6%
Veteran  6%
Total: 18 members' votes   (1 comment...)
How did you cope without the First and Third website?
The website went on its annual holiday last week (was it unplugged by a cleaner again?) - what did you do?
I didn't notice because I didn't try to visit while it was down  0%
I got my fill of rowing websites by looking at the Rowing Service, Tideway Slug, etc.  5%
I watched the Mythbuster waterskiing behind an eight video on YouTube  9%
I browsed other websites (non-rowing related)instead  32%
I did some training  23%
I did some work  23%
I joined LMBC  9%
Total: 22 members' votes   (4 comments...)
The ABC and Channel 4 series 'Lost' is approaching its conclusion. Will you be watching avidly, or couldn't you care less?
It's brilliant  18%
It's rubbish  29%
Where am I?  53%
Total: 17 members' votes   (1 comment...)
What colour blades are you using at the moment?
Many FaTties will be training away from the Cam at the moment. Hopefully they are all using respectable kit, but let's make sure....
Dark blue (with or without a gold band)  27%
Black with a dark blue tip and a gold cat and buns  18%
Cambridge blue  0%
Orange  0%
Yellow  0%
Green  0%
Indigo  0%
Violet  0%
Black  9%
White  18%
Pink  9%
Red  18%
Total: 11 members' votes
Are you addicted to rowing?
Many of us find there are times in our lives when rowing becomes a little more important than other things. But are you addicted? Use this well known questionaire to guage your addiction.
Score one or more? You ought to think about Rowers Anonymous...
I feel that I ought to cut down  24%
I get annoyed when people suggest I should cut down  71%
I feel guilty because of the amount I row  12%
I need an early morning eye-opener session just to survive  18%
None of the above  35%
One of the above  29%
Two of the above  29%
Three of the above  12%
All of the above (u-oh)  12%
Total: 17 members' votes   (3 comments...)
Which of these would you most like to see permamently banned from the boathouse?
non-FaT people  17%
CU(W)(L) trialists who just cry and cry and CRY  28%
Gates with less than 36 degree pitch  0%
Bland lard  28%
Small boats  0%
Smelly co-rowers  28%
All liquids and personal electronic items  0%
Total: 18 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Which of these would you most like to see permamently banned from aircraft?
Fat people  39%
Small children who just cry and cry and CRY  25%
Seats with less than 36 inch pitch  18%
Bland food  4%
Small toilets  0%
Smelly co-travellers  7%
All liquids and personal electronic items  7%
Total: 28 members' votes   (2 comments...)
Ay caramba, it's the World Rowing Championships
The 2006 World Rowing Championships are at Dorney later this month. How will you be involved?
Ignoring  17%
Reading about it online/in newspapers  22%
Watching on TV  33%
Spectating  17%
Spectating every day  0%
Streaking & pitch invading  6%
Volunteering  6%
Competing  0%
Total: 18 members' votes
Favourite ice cream/lolly
Fab  0%
Mini Milk  4%
Solero  4%
Mars Bar Ice cream  8%
Other chocolate bar turned into ice cream  0%
Mivvi  4%
Cornetto  8%
Magnum  15%
Solero  0%
Feast  19%
Calippo  4%
Sparkle  0%
(Tangle) Twister  12%
Fruit Pastilles lolly  8%
Rocket  4%
2l tub of vanilla  12%
Total: 26 members' votes   (4 comments...)
How do you cope in this heat?
It's on the warm side at the moment (no doubt by the time you read this it will be raining though) - which of these are part of your strategy for beating the heat?
I don't feel it  5%
I feel it but can we stop all this nambypammby worrying about it  38%
My place of work has air conditioning so ha ha ha ha ha!  29%
I love it and am sunbathing everyday right now  19%
I just take my tie off/dress down  29%
I carry water and/or a fan everywhere  14%
I am carrying ice bricks with me  5%
I'm lounging in front of the tv with the curtains drawn  19%
It's a bit cooler on the river so am spending more time rowing  19%
Other strategy (below)  19%
Total: 21 members' votes   (11 comments...)

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