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| Is women's emancipation a good idea? | |
| Total: 9 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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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...) |
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| 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? Total: 22 members' votes (12 comments...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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 |
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| 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...) |
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| Marmite | |
| I love it | | 29% | | | I hate it | | 35% | | | I can take it or leave it | | 35% |
Total: 31 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| 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 |
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| 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. Total: 23 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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 |
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| 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? Total: 19 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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| Which Convention is most dull? | |
| Democratic Party | | 8% | | | Republican Party | | 8% | | | Star Trek | | 25% | | | Fairport | | 58% |
Total: 12 members' votes |
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| 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...) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Is this the best photo yet on the website? | |
This is the 8,040th photo uploaded onto the site. Is it the best? Total: 29 members' votes (1 comment...) |
