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| Which of these Winter Olympic sports is your favourite? | |
To do or to watch, it's up to you. | Ice Dancing |   | 22% | | | Luge | | 19% | | | Downhill (skiing) | | 32% | | | Skeleton | | 5% | | | Slalom (skiing) | | 5% | | | Super-G (skiing) | | 3% | | | Ski Jumping | | 5% | | | Curling | | 8% |
Total: 37 members' votes (26 comments...) |
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| What next? | |
Rich and Dan have rowed across the Atlantic and are surely deserving a well-earned break. But once they've rested and feel like doing something extreme again, which of these events or teams should they compete in/for? Total: 23 members' votes (9 comments...) |
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| Are you a giver or a taker? | |
As requested a couple of weeks ago in the Deal or No Deal poll. Total: 26 members' votes |
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| What is your greatest fear when rowing on the Thames? | |
I believe all of these have been encountered by FaT / CU members at some point (with the possible exception of the CowboyNeal option). Which one gives you most nightmares? | Snapped rudder strings | | 13% | | | The Harbour Master | | 0% | | | The Black Buoy | | 13% | | | Fulham Flats | | 17% | | | Gastroenteritis | | 13% | | | Sofas | | 9% | | | Acer Nethercott | | 0% | | | Donald Legget | | 26% | | | Whales | | 9% |
Total: 23 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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| When should we schedule the pre-Boat Race pub crawl? | |
Recent years have seen members of First & Third and Black Prince tour the 10 pubs that overlook the Championship course on one of the days before the Boat Race. There are several possible dates for this in 2006, each with pros and cons. Which should go in the diary? | Saturday 25 March (pro: day of the men's 8s Head so more people than usual in London, with some working up a thirst. Race is at 11:30 so enough drinking time afterwards - just. And no work tomorrow. Con: Lots of other rowers getting in the way) | | 14% | | | Sunday 26 March (pro: nothing else going on that day. Con: work the next day, plus will people still be in SW London after watching the race yesterday?) | | 23% | | | Saturday 1 April (pro: eve of Boat Race, lie-in tomorrow. Con: clashes with Henley races - Henley lacks sufficient pubs to replicate crawl.) | | 45% | | | Sunday 2 April (pro: day of boat race, so lots of people there. Race is late afternoon so could be a crawl with Race in the middle, and bonus pints at the boat club bars. Con: lots of people in SW London. Work the next day.) | | 18% |
Total: 22 members' votes (2 comments...) |
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| Deal or No Deal | |
| Deal | | 7% | | | No deal | | 26% | | | I calcuate (total prize fund left / boxes remaining) while Edmonds is talking to the bank and if it's lower than the offer then it's Deal | | 22% | | | I have no idea what you're talking about | | 44% |
Total: 27 members' votes (10 comments...) |
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| New Year's Resolutions | |
| train more | | 66% | | | train less | | 16% | | | win blades | | 31% | | | qualify for/row at Henley | | 19% | | | beat Oxford | | 6% | | | take a break from rowing | | 22% | | | take up rowing again | | 19% | | | do all the stretches my physio tells me to do | | 25% | | | row (across/on) the English Channel | | 19% | | | wash my kit | | 56% | | | spend less time on this website | | 34% | | | spend more time on this website | | 19% | | | get on a Boat Club committee | | 9% | | | stomp | | 56% | | | get a (new) job | | 34% | | | buft | | 31% | | | win the fancy dress prize at Cardinals | | 3% | | | drink more (alcohol) | | 16% | | | drink less (alcohol) | | 34% | | | get more blue and gold clothes | | 31% | | | trial for GB/CU | | 9% | | | not make any resolutions | | 16% |
Total: 32 members' votes (2 comments...) |
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| Which of these did you eat/drink on Christmas Day? | |
This isn't ordinary Christmas food; this is First and Third Christmas food... | Smoked salmon & scrambled egg | | 8% | | | (Home cooked) ham | | 28% | | | Full English fry-up | | 3% | | | Bucks Fizz | | 18% | | | Champagne/Cava/similar | | 46% | | | Alcohol before 11am local time (does not include Communion) | | 36% | | | Crisps | | 44% | | | Some sort of chocolate snack/bar | | 64% | | | Shortbread | | 8% | | | Turkey | | 72% | | | Gammon | | 0% | | | Game | | 0% | | | Duck | | 5% | | | Goose | | 5% | | | Vegetarian alternative | | 8% | | | A non-poultry alternative (let us know below) | | 10% | | | Sausagemeat | | 56% | | | Potatoes | | 92% | | | Sprouts | | 62% | | | Parsnips | | 49% | | | Carotts | | 77% | | | Peas | | 33% | | | Yorkshire Puds | | 15% | | | Other vegetables | | 51% | | | Stuffing | | 72% | | | Bread Sauce | | 31% | | | Cranberry sauce | | 54% | | | Gravy | | 92% | | | Some sort of BBQ or similar because you're in the Southern hemisphere | | 5% | | | Red wine | | 59% | | | White wine | | 67% | | | Port | | 18% | | | Brandy | | 13% | | | Whisky | | 13% | | | Other spirit | | 33% | | | Mince pie | | 46% | | | Christmas Pudding | | 49% | | | The coin from the Christmas Pudding | | 0% | | | Other pudding | | 49% | | | Cream | | 36% | | | Ice cream | | 15% | | | Brandy Butter | | 31% | | | Sugar | | 28% | | | Cold turkey (e.g. in sandwich) | | 18% | | | Other sandwich | | 3% | | | Cup of tea | | 49% | | | Bubble & Squeak | | 0% | | | Second helpings of any of the above | | 79% | | | Any of the above repeated at seperate meals or doubling up as a snack | | 49% | | | Tree decorations | | 18% | | | Chestnuts (open fire optional) | | 10% | | | Riveta | | 3% | | | Water | | 82% | | | None of the above | | 3% |
Total: 39 members' votes (3 comments...) |
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| First and Third 2005 Fashion Awards | |
Vote for your top three fashion innovations of 2005 Total: 25 members' votes (3 comments...) |
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| Who fills your stocking; Father Christmas, or Santa Claus? | |
What do you reckon the guy in red with the white beard and the reindeer and the sleigh who comes down the chimney and eats the mince pies and sherry is called? | Father Christmas | | 69% | | | Santa Claus | | 14% | | | My parents | | 17% |
Total: 36 members' votes |
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| Rich and Dan | |
Now they're off, you can be honest. They're: | Barking | | 77% | | | Brave | | 74% | | | Brilliant | | 74% |
Total: 31 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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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? | I was a boatie before I arrived at Trinity | | 6% | | | They got me at the Chaplains Squash and it's been downhill ever since | | 26% | | | As soon as I'd been tubbing | | 2% | | | By midway through my novice term | | 30% | | | After I'd done Clare Novices | | 0% | | | After novice Fairbairns | | 2% | | | Once I'd experienced my first Bumps | | 21% | | | Once I'd experienced Bumps, in the warm sunshine, with Pimms afterwards | | 4% | | | Me, a boatie?! I don't think so! | | 9% |
Total: 47 members' votes (8 comments...) |
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| Do different pasta shapes taste different? | |
Macaroni goes with a cheesy sauce. Fusilli goes with a tomatoey sauce. Spaghetti was invented to go with bolognese, and you can't have cannelloni without spinach and ricotta. All of these shapes have their merits, but do they actually taste different from one another? Total: 42 members' votes (19 comments...) |
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| Which club will do best in the Clare Novice Regatta? | |
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Rounds Won divided by Crews Entered | First and Third Trinity BC | | 51% | | | Caius BC | | 0% | | | Christ's College BC | | 3% | | | Churchill College BC | | 0% | | | Clare BC | | 0% | | | Clare Hall BC | | 0% | | | Corpus Christi College BC | | 0% | | | Darwin College BC | | 0% | | | Downing College BC | | 0% | | | Emmanuel College BC | | 0% | | | Fitzwilliam College BC | | 3% | | | Girton College BC | | 0% | | | Homerton College BC | | 0% | | | Hughes Hall BC | | 3% | | | Jesus College BC | | 3% | | | King's College BC | | 0% | | | LMBC | | 15% | | | Lucy Cavendish BC | | 0% | | | Magdalene BC | | 0% | | | New Hall BC | | 3% | | | Newnham College BC | | 0% | | | Pembroke College BC | | 0% | | | Peterhouse BC | | 3% | | | Queens' College BC | | 0% | | | Robinson College BC | | 0% | | | St Catharine's College BC | | 0% | | | St Edmund's College BC | | 0% | | | Selwyn College BC | | 0% | | | Sidney Sussex College BC | | 0% | | | Trinity Hall BC | | 0% | | | Wolfson College BC | | 0% | | | CULRC | | 18% |
Total: 39 members' votes (19 comments...) |
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| Which is sweeter? | |
| Winning men's and women's fours in the space of 30 minutes | | 71% | | | Beating LMBC four times in a week | | 26% | | | Chocolate | | 3% |
Total: 31 members' votes |
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| Who is the most comedy selfish bastard? | |
| Edmund Blackadder | | 63% | | | Basil Fawlty | | 0% | | | Homer Simpson | | 7% | | | Alan Partridge | | 23% | | | Steve Stiffler | | 0% | | | Withnail | | 3% | | | Oscar Schindler | | 3% |
Total: 30 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| What's the best exercise for when you're stuck in a queue? | |
Bear in mind ability to get moving quickly if needed, and effects of stream and wind and constrained spaces. | Roll ups | | 12% | | | Frontstops tapping | | 8% | | | Backstops tapping | | 4% | | | Standing up in the boat (i.e. by taking a stroke) | | 4% | | | Cutting the cake | | 0% | | | Swapping blades between sides | | 4% | | | Pausing on the recovery | | 8% | | | Everyone swap seats | | 62% |
Total: 26 members' votes (14 comments...) |
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| What is/was your favourite VIII | |
Everyone has a favourite boat, past or present. | BP1 | | 26% | | | Denys Lawrence | | 12% | | | BP2 | | 21% | | | Margot | | 3% | | | BP3 [Karlische] | | 18% | | | BP4 [Aylings] | | 0% | | | BP5 [the wooden thing] | | 6% | | | Peter Brandt | | 9% | | | Titan | | 0% | | | Conqueror | | 3% | | | Fair Maid of Kent | | 0% | | | Henry | | 3% |
Total: 34 members' votes (23 comments...) |
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| I remember when... | |
| you could walk past Sainsbury's without noticing it was there | | 33% | | | everything in the Bridge Street accommodation was wonky, leaking, or live | | 45% | | | Burrell's Field only had the big houses | | 3% | | | half the computers in the computer room would have blue screens which you couldn't unlock | | 35% | | | the first model C ergs arrived at the boathouse | | 13% | | | the rising bollards in Trinity Street were put in | | 18% | | | the bar was in the corner of Great Court | | 25% | | | the dining hall went through the phase of putting banana on everything (e.g. Salmon Caprice) | | 48% | | | the bop involved a live DJ, not a computer | | 33% | | | all the furniture in College rooms was like the stuff in the boathouse now | | 35% | | | no one had swipe cards | | 10% | | | Cindy's was Cindy's | | 8% | | | Cindy's was 5th Avenue | | 58% | | | Eden Lily was more than a photography shop | | 33% | | | The Baron of Beef and the Mitre were dingy pubs | | 58% | | | The maths department was in town | | 38% | | | BP2 (Janousek) was BP1 | | 20% | | | BP4 (Aylings) was BP1 | | 0% | | | BP3 was BP1 | | 3% | | | the river flooded | | 55% | | | the river froze | | 13% | | | the river was covered with green scum (and I mean the whole river, not just the odd patch) | | 18% | | | there was a NatWest at Great Gate | | 45% | | | Formal Hall cost three pounds or less | | 38% | | | you paid for meals with little tickets with the number of courses written on them | | 53% | | | there was a Z Blue Boar | | 40% | | | novices rowed 15 minutes after the seniors | | 35% | | | none of the above | | 30% |
Total: 40 members' votes (18 comments...) |
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| How often do you check the website? | |
| Every minute | | 3% | | | Every hour | | 10% | | | Three or four times a day | | 50% | | | Daily | | 23% | | | Weekly | | 10% | | | Monthly | | 0% | | | Annually | | 0% | | | I have never checked the website | | 3% |
Total: 30 members' votes (7 comments...) |
