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What's the best bit about Lent term rowing?

It's cold		66%

It's wet		52%

Everyone's ill		48%

Some days it never really gets light		69%

It's windy		62%

Head of the Nene		52%

The river's in flood		59%

All your kit is always wet		55%

Bumps is before the end of term and the next fortnight's a bit of an anti-climax		38%

Total: 29 members' votes

by RTT - Sun 18th Jan 2004, 7:17pm

Simon said: What's the best bit about Lent term rowing?
It's cold: 100%
It's wet: 100%
Everyone's ill: 100%
Some days it never really gets light: 100%
It's windy: 100%
Head of the Nene: 100%
The river's in flood: 100%
All your kit is always wet: 100%
Bumps is before the end of term and the next fortnight's a bit of an anti-climax: 100%

Someone clearly hates Lent term rowing!

by dw229 - Sun 18th Jan 2004, 9:02pm

Anti-climax? What do you mean?? You've got the HoRR too look forward to...errr...

by mjb - Sun 18th Jan 2004, 9:20pm

dw229 said: Anti-climax? What do you mean?? You've got the HoRR too look forward to...errr...

Don't forget STCS :-) Who's running it this time round ?

by STCS SU 2004 - Sun 18th Jan 2004, 9:26pm

I have a few candidates for running STCS this year, and have spoken to all of them, but I've not made a choice yet. I'll probably make a choice sometime within the next week.

by jpd - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 8:39am

RTT said: Someone clearly hates Lent term rowing!

They're voting for the best bits, so they must love Lent term rowing.

by RTT - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 8:49am

jpd said: They're voting for the best bits, so they must love Lent term rowing.

Check the source code. I think you'll find "<sarcasm>" before my comment and "</sarcasm>" after it....

by jmg - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 11:28am

RTT said: Check the source code. I think you'll find "<sarcasm>" before my comment and "</sarcasm>" after it....

I can't see it. Martin's parser obviously doesn't have a very highly developed sense of irony - perhaps he cribbed it from an american site?

by Lent term is even worse when all you've got to look forward to in Nat Champs - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 12:13pm

Don't forget Cardinals!

by mjb - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 12:21pm

Esther said: Don't forget Cardinals!

I didn't forget it, I just ignored it :-)

by dw229 - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 12:44pm

...is that a Nat Champs brag perchance, Esther? :)

by not bragging - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 1:44pm

no. i'm complaining that we do nothing in our club but train for an event that happens once a year on a windy ugly bit of water and we'll probably not win. Somewhat like the boat race i suppose

by Message Board Gimp - Mon 19th Jan 2004, 4:02pm

Yeah, I suppose it must feel a bit like that in Oxford...

:)

by Dubya - Wed 21st Jan 2004, 5:17pm

Vote for the HoNene you bastards!

by Mike - Thu 22nd Jan 2004, 2:52pm

Dubya said: Vote for the HoNene you bastards!

I did. But that's because [buft]in my day[/buft] we won it. I also voted for "It's cold" because Rich nearly got hypothermia one outing when it was snowing. Ah, happy memories...

by gf - Thu 22nd Jan 2004, 3:19pm

Mike said: I did. But that's because [buft]in my day[/buft] we won it. I also voted for "It's cold" because Rich nearly got hypothermia one outing when it was snowing. Ah, happy memories...

Had to go for the gap after bumps, although (indeed, because) [buft]it's not an anti-climax when you indulge in zymurgo-Egyptology[/buft] ;-)

by Dubya - Fri 23rd Jan 2004, 12:08am

Mike said: I did. But that's because [buft]in my day[/buft] we won it. I also voted for "It's cold" because Rich nearly got hypothermia one outing when it was snowing. Ah, happy memories...

We won it last year ;)

by fellow hypothermic - Fri 23rd Jan 2004, 5:18pm

Mike said: I did. But that's because [buft]in my day[/buft] we won it. I also voted for "It's cold" because Rich nearly got hypothermia one outing when it was snowing. Ah, happy memories...

i sympathise with Rich... there's no colder place i've been at 5 o'clock in the morning.

by Dubya - Tue 27th Jan 2004, 10:33am

fellow hypothermic said: i sympathise with Rich... there's no colder place i've been at 5 o'clock in the morning.

You thinking Pboro last year?