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Opinion Poll

If there was a general election tomorrow, for whom would you vote?

Conservative		27%

Green		2%

Labour		7%

Liberal Democrat		46%

a national party in Wales/Scotland/Ireland		2%

Monster Raving Looney		7%

Respect		0%

UKIP		0%

Veritas		0%

Other		0%

Spoil ballot		0%

Deliberate abstention		7%

Don't Know		0%

Total: 41 members' votes (19 comments...)

Handles

Following on from the recent Club Money message board thread, what's your favourite kind of handle?

Wooden (Smooth)		3%

Wooden (Rough)		50%

Plastic		12%

Foam		18%

Synthetic Suede		3%

Messiah		9%

Water Music		6%

Total: 34 members' votes (11 comments...)

Favourite Blackadder Episode?

A year on from the Cornwall training camp, where I suspect we watched at least 80% of all the Blackadder ever produced, I wonder which episode is most beloved by all? Full scripts can be found here. Feel free to ask

1.1: The Foretelling		0%

1.2: The Queen of Spain's Beard		0%

1.3: The Archbishop		5%

1.4: Born to be a King		9%

1.5: The Witchsmeller Pursuivant		0%

1.6: The Black Seal		0%

2.1: Head		0%

2.2: Bell		0%

2.3: Potato		0%

2.4: Money		5%

2.5: Beer		5%

2.6: Chains		9%

3.1: Dish and Dishonesty		0%

3.2: Ink and Incapability		14%

3.3: Nob and Nobility		0%

3.4: Sense and Senility		0%

3.5: Amy and Amiability		0%

3.6: Duel and Duality		5%

4.1: Corporal Punishment		5%

4.2: Captain Cook		0%

4.3: Major Star		0%

4.4: Private Plane		0%

4.5: General Hospital		27%

4.6: Goodbyeee		18%

Total: 22 members' votes (8 comments...)

Favourite outing type?

UT2		19%

Fartlek		6%

2x19' pyramids		10%

Power water work		16%

3 courses		32%

6 x 3'		3%

6 x 500m		13%

Row to Ely		0%

Swapping blades over		0%

Total: 31 members' votes (22 comments...)

Optimal Easter vac training?

What mix of the following will give you the edge for May Term crew selection?

Lots of sculling (added benefit of tanning)		38%

Lots of pairs rowing (also tanning)		56%

Numb bum ergo sessions		53%

Beach weights		31%

Maxim		9%

Swimming		22%

Rowing diet (it's all about food - sod the exercise)		47%

Steroids		19%

Tubbing		9%

Running		50%

Lunges		22%

Analysis of 2005 Boat Race technique		28%

Shiny new lycra		34%

Cox press-ups (2004 2nd May VIII special)		16%

Holiday job as a labourer		6%

Holiday job in the sporting arena		9%

Plenty of fluids...		50%

Total: 32 members' votes (1 comment...)

Where will you be on Boat Race day?

Last year I watched the Boat Race on television, which had the advantage of me being able to see the whole race (although sadly not the Goldie/Isis race), but the disadvantage of missing out on the brilliant atmosphere on the bank. This year, ITV have the television rights, so I'll probably head down to London. What will everyone else be doing?

On Boat Race day, I will be...

On the bank at Hammersmith watching the action live		32%

In a pub along the course		9%

Watching on the big screens		15%

In the launch		0%

Listening on the radio		6%

Watching on television		56%

Supporting Cambridge		94%

Supporting Oxford		0%

Wearing an item of Cambridge Blue clothing		29%

Drunk		26%

Revising :(		15%

Not watching the boat race, I have better things to do with my time		0%

Total: 34 members' votes (7 comments...)

BOAT CLUB

We all know there are lots of rules about Boat Club, but with which of them do you agree?

1st RULE: You do not talk about BOAT CLUB.		39%

2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about BOAT CLUB.		43%

3rd RULE: If someone says _stop_ or goes limp, taps out the outing is over.		21%

4th RULE: Only eight guys to a boat.		32%

5th RULE: One boat at a time.		25%

6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes.		50%

7th RULE: Outings will go on as long as they have to.		96%

8th RULE: If this is your first night at BOAT CLUB, you HAVE to row.		57%

Total: 28 members' votes

Will the women's boat club gain the Lents Headship within the next 3 years?

After their fantastic performance this Lents, it's not that far away. Can they do it in 3 years?

Yes		57%

No		43%

Total: 37 members' votes (16 comments...)

Name the new novice VIII

Something eye-catching, flash, witty. Something like...

Ricardo		26%

Camilla		3%

Will Thorne		3%

kss@firstandthird.org for formals		10%

Break bows here (with a dotted line around the bow section)		23%

Nimbus 5000		3%

GO ON BRYN!		3%

Eat my bows		0%

Nick Kingsbury		0%

David Jones		0%

The Munro (welcomes freshers 8/9 at a time)		3%

Penetrator		0%

Nothing, it will have to be replaced within a year		0%

The Bathtub		0%

Log		0%

Sir Martin Rees		15%

FiT FaT VIII		0%

Crab Central		0%

We don't need sponsors		3%

No name but a comical face with sharks teeth and evil eyes		10%

Total: 39 members' votes (9 comments...)

For Valentine's Day I gave...

Tick all that apply.

Card		81%

Chocolates		42%

Dinner		50%

Flowers		15%

Maxim		15%

Underwear		19%

Head		35%

Total: 26 members' votes (7 comments...)

Where's Ditton?

Some people refer to the Ditton end of the reach as the

Top of the reach		32%

Bottom of the reach		68%

Total: 37 members' votes (35 comments...)

Rampant boaties - what inter/intra-boatclub carnage have you been involved in?

We've all been to formal hall lots of times. I'm sure most of us have tried it on with an unsuspecting member of the opposition. But with members (past or present) of how many boatclubs have you actually been successful?

First and Third Trinity BC		84%

Caius BC		31%

Christ's College BC		28%

Churchill College BC		9%

Clare BC		34%

Clare Hall BC		3%

Corpus Christi College BC		13%

Darwin College BC		6%

Downing College BC (shame on you)		9%

Emmanuel College BC		16%

Fitzwilliam College BC		6%

Girton College BC		16%

Homerton College BC		34%

Hughes Hall BC		3%

Jesus College BC		25%

King's College BC		3%

LMBC (tut tut)		31%

Lucy Cavendish BC (?!)		3%

Magdalene BC		13%

New Hall BC		19%

Newnham College BC		22%

Pembroke College BC		41%

Peterhouse BC		25%

Queens' College BC		16%

Robinson College BC		9%

St Catharine's College BC		19%

St Edmund's College BC		3%

Selwyn College BC		19%

Sidney Sussex College BC		9%

Trinity Hall BC		13%

Wolfson College BC		6%

Black Prince BC		50%

CUBC		13%

CULRC		16%

CUWBC		22%

Leander		3%

Rob Roy BC		16%

Any other town club		13%

Any Oxford club		22%

Total: 32 members' votes (1 comment...)

In which boat will the first men race the Lent Bumps?

So far they've taken out BP2 and BP3...

Black Prince 1		31%

Any one of the other Black Princes		6%

A novice shell		17%

A different boat every day		11%

Fair Maid of Kent		36%

Total: 36 members' votes

What constitutes 'cooperation' in the incest chart?

A line == a pull. But what is a pull?

Touching		4%

Kissing		4%

Kissing with tongue (sometimes called 'French kissing', but not by me)		54%

Shagging		11%

Marriage		4%

Mixed double outing		21%

A stroke		4%

Total: 28 members' votes (1 comment...)

Who do we hate most?

Caius		15%

Downing		53%

LMBC		32%

Total: 34 members' votes (25 comments...)

What's the highest rate you've ever clocked?

Bonus points for small boats

less than 40		14%

40-45		18%

46-48		32%

49		0%

50		0%

51		0%

52		9%

53		0%

54		5%

55		5%

56+		18%

Total: 22 members' votes (9 comments...)

New Year's Resolutions

This year, I resolve to

train more		73%

train less		3%

win blades		27%

qualify for/row at Henley		27%

take a break from rowing		3%

take up rowing again		23%

do all the stretches my physio tells me to do		37%

wash my kit		40%

spend less time on this website		30%

spend more time on this website		10%

stomp		40%

get a (new) job		33%

smile more		30%

buft		40%

win the fancy dress prize at Cardinals		3%

drink more (alcohol)		17%

drink less (alcohol)		27%

not make any resolutions		10%

Total: 30 members' votes

Who delivered more Christmas presents this year ?

Father Christmas		33%

St. Nicholas		6%

Santa Claus		11%

Kriss Kringle		0%

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer		11%

Royal Mail		39%

Total: 18 members' votes

What is your 2k PW?

That's Personal Worst if it's not obvious - only counting pieces you started with the intention of doing a flat out 2k, and discounting any you didn't finish

10:00+		0%

9:40-9:59		0%

9:20-9:39		0%

9:00-9:19		4%

8:50-8:59		4%

8:40-8:49		4%

8:30-8:39		4%

8:20-8:29		7%

8:10-8:19		0%

8:00-8:09		0%

7:50-7:59		7%

7:40-7:49		14%

7:30-7:39		11%

7:20-7:29		4%

7:10-7:19		21%

7:00-7:09		11%

6:50-6:59		7%

6:40-6:49		0%

6:30-6:39		4%

6:20-6:29		0%

6:10-6:19		0%

6:00-6:09		0%

<6:00		0%

Total: 28 members' votes (29 comments...)

Which of these have you experienced on an ergo?

Following on from our discussion of personal worsts, which of these have you done on an ergo?

Thrown up		48%

Got buttock cramp		72%

Shat your pants (preferable to rowing for LMBC)		4%

Had sex		20%

Passed out		4%

Given up		72%

Total: 25 members' votes (4 comments...)

I won the Fairbairn Cup...

In 1956		10%

In 2004		19%

For second boats		24%

For novices		5%

For Fours		10%

In my single scull		67%

Total: 21 members' votes

How often do you wash your kit?

More than once a week		29%

Once a week		24%

Once a fortnight		29%

Once a month		9%

Once a term		3%

When it rains		6%

Total: 34 members' votes (11 comments...)

What is your 2k PB?

>8:20		6%

8:10-8:19		0%

8:00-8:09		0%

7:50-7:59		12%

7:40-7:49		3%

7:30-7:39		3%

7:20-7:29		0%

7:10-7:19		0%

7:00-7:09		6%

6:50-6:59		12%

6:40-6:49		9%

6:30-6:39		15%

6:20-6:29		18%

6:10-6:19		9%

6:00-6:09		3%

5:50-5:59		0%

5:40-5:49		0%

<5:39		3%

Total: 33 members' votes (37 comments...)

Allegiance?

Black Prince BC		44%

First and Third Trinity BC		56%

Total: 50 members' votes (6 comments...)

HoR4s. Select all the options that you think will occur

FaT Men beat BPBC Men		10%

FaT Women beat BPBC women		20%

FaT Men finish higher than they start		65%

FaT Women finish higher than they start		75%

FaT Men have a positive net overtaking record		55%

FaT Women have a positive net overtaking record		45%

FaT men overtaken by BPBC Men		15%

FaT Women overtaken by BPBC Women		5%

FaT Men best college crew		25%

FaT Women best college crew		10%

FaT Men get under the 2nd Lamppost		60%

FaT Women get under the 2nd Lamppost		45%

FaT Men have a huge blade clash		45%

FaT Women have a huge blade clash		50%

FaT Men have a huge blade clash with FaT Women		10%

Total: 20 members' votes (7 comments...)

Which rowing term made you snigger most as a novice?

Stroke		38%

Cox box		0%

Entry		8%

Rack		0%

Pull		0%

Shaft		46%

Scull		0%

Rudder		8%

Total: 13 members' votes (9 comments...)

It is rumoured that most rowers are scientists. Are you?

You need not base this entirely on your degree although I think it will be clear for most

Scientist		65%

Artist		18%

Both		12%

Neither		6%

Total: 34 members' votes (13 comments...)

How should the novices be taught to row?

From backstops		23%

From frontstops		42%

Slowly		35%

Total: 26 members' votes (25 comments...)

Who should the club back as Sports Personality of the Year?

Ben Ainslie		7%

Freddie Flintoff		11%

Kelly Holmes		50%

Amir Khan		4%

Colin Montgomerie		7%

Matthew Pinsent		14%

RTT		7%

Total: 28 members' votes (8 comments...)

Simple:

Bowside		45%

Strokeside		45%

Darkside		10%

Total: 29 members' votes (5 comments...)

Favourite Film Trilogy

Godfather		12%

Lord of the Rings		42%

Back to the Future		15%

Matrix		0%

American Pie		8%

Star Wars (original)		12%

Indiana Jones		8%

Kill Bill		4%

Total: 26 members' votes (44 comments...)

Vote for the Champagne Moment in the BPBCCC FaTBCCC match

(if you can remember!)

Crawford surviving his first ball		38%

Garrod hitting the game's only six		0%

the only Aussie on show (Nigel Kaye) getting the only duck		5%

Lea-Cox winning it for FaT off the last ball of the match		10%

Ingram's sense of humour failure after a dubious lbw decision		38%

Other (state below)		10%

Total: 21 members' votes (9 comments...)

Which Olympic sport would you like to see in 2008?

Clearly there is a lack of erg games in the current Olympic timetable. Which one would you most like to see there?

10m erg test		35%

One arm lowest split		0%

Feet out highest rating		18%

Arms only 2k		18%

Underwater erging		6%

Armchair erging		6%

Beach erging		12%

Synchronised erging		6%

Total: 17 members' votes (1 comment...)

London hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 is...

a good idea		81%

a bad idea		14%

something I'm not sure about		5%

Total: 21 members' votes (10 comments...)

What are the most annoying things about using non boat club gyms?

Anyone who's ever used a gym - even a posh one - in the holidays will have come across some of these...

People who can't row to the extent that it's painful rather than funny		41%

Fat smelly people wearing inappropriate kit to erg in thus showing the room their ugly butt cracks when they erg		18%

The fact that there are 100s of running machines but only 3 ergs stuck in the corner		35%

The fact that you can't see the tv's from the ergs		41%

People who look at you like you're mad when you spend more than 3 minutes on the erg		24%

No bench pull		53%

The ranks of sad looking people on the running machines - why don't they go for a proper run		24%

Lack of natural light as the gym is always in the basement		12%

People who sit on weights machines in between their reps and just stare into space - don't they know some of us are in a hurry!!!		18%

People who don't have the faintest clue about rowing telling you that you've got useless technique		18%

Something else - see below		29%

Total: 17 members' votes (5 comments...)

Daddy or Chips?

Daddy		43%

Chips		57%

Total: 21 members' votes (2 comments...)

Favourite Poll

FaT		36%

North or South		7%

Vault		0%

Dancing		29%

Lech Walesa		7%

/.		21%

Total: 14 members' votes (1 comment...)

Which is your favourite part of the stroke?

Blade entry		0%

Connection		17%

Leg drive		25%

Back through		4%

Finish		21%

Extraction		0%

Hands away		4%

Bodies over		4%

Slide		0%

The bit where your hands rise up to go over your knees		25%

Total: 24 members' votes

What is your favourite weights exercise?

Select as many of your favourite exercises from the list as you want (apologies if I have forgotten any of your favourites).

Deadlift		23%

Clean		41%

Shoulder Press		23%

Bench Pull		50%

Bench Press		59%

Incline Bench Press		5%

Leg Press		59%

Leg Extension		36%

Leg Curl		27%

Calf Raise		9%

Squat		41%

Hack Squat		9%

Forward Lunge		14%

Backward Lunge		9%

Diagonal Lunge		9%

Plie Lunge		9%

Pelvic Lifts		14%

Other core exercises		32%

Hip Flexor		5%

Hip Abduction		5%

Side Leg Raises		5%

Toe Press		9%

Bicep Curl		32%

Lat Pull		27%

Cable cross-over		18%

Tricep Dip		14%

Triceps Extension		23%

Wrist Curl		5%

Press up		32%

Chin ups		50%

Sit up		50%

Dumbbell Fly		23%

Incline Dumbbell Fly		14%

Shoulder Shrug		9%

Seated Row		32%

Back Extension		14%

Overhead Press		9%

Rear Deltoid Raise		5%

Military Press		5%

Upright Row		9%

Back Butterfly		9%

Leg Pull-In		5%

Total: 22 members' votes (11 comments...)

What is your favourite type of land training?

Long erg		13%

AT erg		4%

6x500m		9%

Heavy weights		30%

200 reps		22%

Circuits		4%

Running		4%

Lard consumption		13%

Total: 23 members' votes (15 comments...)

Favourite summer regattas

Summertime, and the living is easy. Apparently.
Choose up to 4 regattas - based on whatever criteria you choose (e.g. previous wins, beer tent quality, course, weather on past visits, all of these, etc.)

Kingston Amateur		22%

Bedford Quarts		61%

Molesey		28%

St Neots Saturday		11%

St Neots Sunday		17%

Peterborough Saturday		39%

Peterborough Sunday		22%

Royal Canadian Henley		33%

Gloucester		11%

Bristol		17%

Ross		6%

Cambridge Autumn		11%

Total: 18 members' votes (1 comment...)

Favourite boat class?

8o		26%

4x		0%

4-		17%

4+		13%

2x		4%

2-		17%

1x		17%

Laser		4%

Total: 23 members' votes (4 comments...)

Categories to be included in FaT Top Trumps

500m Ergo Score		44%

2k Ergo Score		69%

2k Ergo Score as percentage of WR		34%

Bumps Races Done		63%

Bumps Up		31%

Net Bumps Record		75%

Blades		38%

ARA Status		34%

Pots (etc.) Won		53%

Versatility (Get a point for each of Bowside,Strokeside,Cox,Sculler)		53%

Year of Novicing		63%

Age		72%

Height		81%

Weight		88%

Total: 32 members' votes (25 comments...)

Henley time!

If you could spend the day anywhere, it would be...

Leander		0%

Stewards		50%

Regatta		5%

Remenham		0%

Corporate hospitality at Fawley		10%

Barn Bar		0%

Gin Palace		5%

All of the above		0%

Boat tent		30%

Total: 20 members' votes (4 comments...)

How will First and Third do in the bumps?

If you add all the crews' results together...

Up 13 or more		3%

up 9 - 12		3%

up 5 - 8		41%

up 1 - 4		38%

level		3%

down 1 - 4		7%

down 5 - 8		0%

down 9 - 12		0%

down 13 or more		3%

Total: 29 members' votes (5 comments...)

Favourite Seat?

Bow		13%

Two		11%

Three		5%

Four		3%

Five		5%

Six		16%

Seven		24%

Stroke		13%

Cox		5%

Launch		3%

Toledo		3%

Total: 38 members' votes (32 comments...)

The best 2nd May VIII song

Each year the 2nd May boat composes a song - and there are some classics. But which is the ultimate?

2003, Boat of Legends		18%

2002, 2nd VIII - Go, Go!!		6%

2001, Second VIII Rhapsody		48%

2000, Maybe we're just a boat of perfectionists		0%

1999, Cover our spoons		12%

1998, I vow to thee my Boatclub		3%

1997, Row Hard		12%

Total: 33 members' votes (19 comments...)

That's very kind, I'll have a...

pint of lager		8%

pint of bitter		28%

glass of white wine		3%

glass of red wine		3%

vodka and bitter lemon		0%

G and T		18%

lager shandy		3%

bitter shandy		0%

orange juice		0%

orange juice and soda		3%

whisky		5%

rum and coke		3%

archers and lemonade		5%

archers and pineapple		5%

guiness		8%

lemonade		3%

lucozade		0%

smirnoff ice		3%

barcardi breezer		3%

latest trendy alcopop		3%

Total: 39 members' votes (8 comments...)

Ergos...

Float		38%

Sink		62%

Total: 34 members' votes (7 comments...)

Which was the better 2nd May VIII?

It must come down to these two, but who pips it.
Find their result histories...
Here (2002)
Here (1999)

2002: Walker, Goldmanis, Byrne, Peck, Jane, Clouting, Thorne, Davies, Adams (Up 4)		31%

1999: Remoundos, Fisher, Blackburn, Goodson, Sherrington, Peck, Ingram, Case, MacGregor (Up 3)		69%

Total: 29 members' votes (22 comments...)

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