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An idiot swimmer has managed to halt the boat race half way through.
What happened to security? And if we can't stop this sort of thing at the Boat Race what price the Olympics ?
The Boat Race Disrupted
Idiot swimmer wrecks race
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 01:39 PM
tonytramcar, on 07 April 2012 - 01:35 PM, said:
An idiot swimmer has managed to halt the boat race half way through.
What happened to security? And if we can't stop this sort of thing at the Boat Race what price the Olympics ?
What happened to security? And if we can't stop this sort of thing at the Boat Race what price the Olympics ?
I bet the Olympics Security Supremos are all worried now! What a few moslem swimmers could do to disrupt the olympics!!
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 01:43 PM
How can you secure the Thames. What would you suggest?
The boats need nothing in front of them so the water isn't choppy. Stick a Police boat ahead and it would ruin the race.
The boats need nothing in front of them so the water isn't choppy. Stick a Police boat ahead and it would ruin the race.
Allegedly.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 01:44 PM
Got it on but the volumes down. What happned? Looking at it though, it looks like the last bastion of old Britain: White, upper-class so-far-from-the-coalface youths with silver spoons in their gobs who think this is what Britain in 2012 is still like. Honestly, if you looked at this and the one in say 1980 or whenever Hugh Laurie was in it you'd think Britain hadn't changed one single bit.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 01:45 PM
Redcellar, on 07 April 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:
How can you secure the Thames. What would you suggest?
Drain the whole thing, the only way to be sure nothing is lurking.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 01:46 PM
GBdamo, on 07 April 2012 - 01:45 PM, said:
Drain the whole thing, the only way to be sure nothing is lurking.
Indeed there might be a Thames Nessie.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 01:51 PM
pl1, on 07 April 2012 - 01:44 PM, said:
Got it on but the volumes down. What happned? Looking at it though, it looks like the last bastion of old Britain: White, upper-class so-far-from-the-coalface youths with silver spoons in their gobs who think this is what Britain in 2012 is still like. Honestly, if you looked at this and the one in say 1980 or whenever Hugh Laurie was in it you'd think Britain hadn't changed one single bit.
One of the crews had only one briton on board.
The bankers rubbed their palms together, and the economy went up in flames.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 02:03 PM
Redcellar, on 07 April 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:
How can you secure the Thames. What would you suggest?
The boats need nothing in front of them so the water isn't choppy. Stick a Police boat ahead and it would ruin the race.
The boats need nothing in front of them so the water isn't choppy. Stick a Police boat ahead and it would ruin the race.
You could have a helicopter gunship blowing swimmers out of the water just in case. High flying drones even.
it is, until it isn't tm
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 02:05 PM
okaycuckoo, on 07 April 2012 - 01:51 PM, said:
One of the crews had only one briton on board.
Why has one got a broken oar? Is he the Briton?
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 02:09 PM
One poor guy has collapsed after the race. Restart couldn't have helped. Hope he is OK. Massive strain on the body.
Crazy and nuts race.
Swimmer, broken oar and now collapsed racer.
Crazy and nuts race.
Swimmer, broken oar and now collapsed racer.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 02:10 PM
pl1, on 07 April 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:
Why has one got a broken oar? Is he the Briton?
yes- he's up sh*t creek without a paddle
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 02:12 PM
GBdamo, on 07 April 2012 - 01:45 PM, said:
Drain the whole thing, the only way to be sure nothing is lurking.
Pocket Battleship parked outside Westminster?
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 02:40 PM
tonytramcar, on 07 April 2012 - 01:35 PM, said:
An idiot swimmer has managed to halt the boat race half way through.
What happened to security? And if we can't stop this sort of thing at the Boat Race what price the Olympics ?
What happened to security? And if we can't stop this sort of thing at the Boat Race what price the Olympics ?
Why stop the race? If he is so stupid he deserves whatever happens to him. I assume it got stopped on health and safety grounds and the swimmer will sue as it is his human right to swim in the Thames.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 03:24 PM
GBdamo, on 07 April 2012 - 01:45 PM, said:
Drain the whole thing, the only way to be sure nothing is lurking.
If it save one life it will be worth it ...etc etc etc.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 03:27 PM
I don't know who this maniac was or his cause. It could be anti-war, anti-cuts, anti-vivisection... don't care... he's my hero.
Take part in a 'legitimate' protest with a just cause and the ruling classes have you kettled in a flash and if you don't like it next comes the batons, pepper spray and tazers.
So smash their tedious little boat race. Tit for tat. Fight back.
Hope this kind of protest plagues the waste-of-money Olympics. Could certainly liven up the ladies' archery semi-final if nothing else.
Take part in a 'legitimate' protest with a just cause and the ruling classes have you kettled in a flash and if you don't like it next comes the batons, pepper spray and tazers.
So smash their tedious little boat race. Tit for tat. Fight back.
Hope this kind of protest plagues the waste-of-money Olympics. Could certainly liven up the ladies' archery semi-final if nothing else.
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