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| Message board > Members' Opinion Polls > Members' poll: After how much rowing would you have classified yourself a boatie rather than just a rower? | |
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| After how much rowing would you have classified yourself a boatie rather than just a rower? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Are you in a boatie relationship? Do you spend more than two hours a day at the boathouse? Have you ever worn lycra for anything except rowing? Are more than fifty percent of your friends rowers? Do you arrive (late) at lectures in your splashtop? Come to think of it, do you miss most of your lectures/supervisions because you're still at the boathouse? If the answer to more than two of these questions is yes, you are a boatie. But how long did it take for this addiction to creep up on you?
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| by Totally Boatified - Sun 27th Nov 2005, 10:03pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amelia said: Are you in a boatie relationship? Do you spend more than two hours a day at the boathouse? Have you ever worn lycra for anything except rowing? Are more than fifty percent of your friends rowers? Do you arrive (late) at lectures in your splashtop? Come to think of it, do you miss most of your lectures/supervisions because you're still at the boathouse? If the answer to more than two of these questions is yes, you are a boatie Oh dear. I think all of these apply to me. I seem to spend *considerably* more than 2 hours a day atbh, wear lycra most of the time (underneath normal clothes when not rowing though), and have binned most of my 9ams this term in favour of either rowing or coaching. And yes, I think rather more than 50% of my friends are boaties. However, I did attempt to resist the boatie label until well after my first Bumps race...! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Bored in La Gomera - Mon 28th Nov 2005, 1:05pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
and have binned most of my 9ams this term in favour of either rowing or coaching. Careful people - it can get a real grip on you. I have suddenly found I have binned my whole life for two months in favour of rowing... :) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Tom C - Mon 28th Nov 2005, 1:40pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luckily I manage to avoid this particular stigma, perhaps the next poll should determine what proportion of the boat club are "mathmos". But I must object to the point about wearing lycra, as there are a great many activities for which it is perfectly natural to wear lycra, regardless of whether one has rowed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Sarah - Mon 28th Nov 2005, 1:58pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tom C said: there is a goth boy in my office, who is notorious for his strange taste in clothes - often comes in on fridays wearing his 'going out clothes' imagine my suprise when he turned up wearing what I would have sworn was a JL coolmax top (white, black arm stripe, strange shape embroidered on chest) to everyone else's amusement I pulled the one I'd worn to cycle to work that morning out of my bag to prove the similarity... apparently they're good for 'dancing all night' in..But I must object to the point about wearing lycra, as there are a great many activities for which it is perfectly natural to wear lycra, regardless of whether one has rowed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by the grammar could let me down here.... - Mon 28th Nov 2005, 8:08pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| the acid test: i went on a date with someone wearing lycra. beat that. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Simon - Tue 29th Nov 2005, 3:08pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amelia said: Are you in a boatie relationship? Do you spend more than two hours a day at the boathouse? Have you ever worn lycra for anything except rowing? Are more than fifty percent of your friends rowers? Do you arrive (late) at lectures in your splashtop? Come to think of it, do you miss most of your lectures/supervisions because you're still at the boathouse? If the answer to more than two of these questions is yes, you are a boatie. Or a Land Economist.Btw, I really tried to resist being a boatie, instead trying to be "someone who rowed but who had a life outside of it". I refused to buy an all in one for well over a year, relying mostly on rugby shirts for training, and then continued to wear random assortments of non-club kit well into the 4th year and the Lent VIII (including 5 different shades of blue for one outing). I've never bought a splashtop. I didn't have to miss any supervisions for rowing, nor many lectures. Now, somehow, I'm a boatie who doesn't row. There's irony for you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Andy - Wed 30th Nov 2005, 1:20am | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amelia said: Are you in a boatie relationship? For coxes it's when you start driving on the wrong side of the road. This could also be attributed to excessive play of GTA... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Jacob - Sat 3rd Dec 2005, 3:07pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andy said: For coxes it's when you start driving on the wrong side of the road. Does that mean for rowers it's when you start reversing all the time? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
