i thought the guys in the boat would hit the pole from the back straight on i was like, OMGITWOULDBEFUNNYIFTHEYHITIT so not as funny as it could hav been…
The best thing about “first” comments is that they’re only one comment of off-topic spam. The other 50 comment of off-topic spam come from people bitching about “first” comments.
And apparently there’s one comment of off-topic spam pointing out the irony of it all.
I know you didn’t, Avis, but I just wanted to warn the others.
Ye gods, things are more comfortable around here now. I must have succeeded in my luck roll.
The safety boat is suppose to yell “Weigh Enough” not “stop rowing”, but it’s all academic as it’s obvious the cox and the rowers didn’t hear the safety boat.
No they’re not. Apart from the slight problem that “weigh enough” is a term that is quite possibly only used in the US, so won’t get much of a response in Australia (where this video is from), you’d also have the boat’s momentum taking it into the post.
Whatever the Aussie version is of “hold it up” / “hold water” would be the correct call.
To further the academic discussion, “Weigh Enough” is only used in the ’state.. still, totally moot. doesn’t seem like they would have stopped for anything.
It’s really hard to hear someone in another boat if their voice isn’t amplified somehow. Plus, the person yelling was fighting over the noise from the motor and the fact that the rowers were so focused on…rowing. Still, I’ll be the first to admit that the coxswain needs to be thrown into the lake…who hits a pole, honestly?
Actually this is the 2005 first eight crew from St Ignatious Collage, Sydney. It occured during the Gold Cup Regatta, the week before the Head of the River which is like ths finals. They were favourites to win Head of the River until they hit the pole and trashed their boat for a couple of weeks at least.
The part that always confused me about this video was why did one of the guys from the middle fall out, not someone from the bow?
I think those are pretty new Crokers…a couple of hundred pounds each?
I’m just amazed the cox didn’t see the post and wasn’t aware of the hazard? Most coxes tend to at least look at a map of the course, if only for references for distance to tell their crew.
Alternatively the pole may have been concealed to the cox (a small person) by the crew. However, she(?) should have known the pole was there.
Trolls are big monsters who live in the dark and turn to stone if they are hit by sunlight. They were said to be made in mockery of Ents, just like Orcs were created in mockery of Elves. The 13 dwarves who travelled with Bilbo during his quest, were captured by three Trolls named Tom, Bert and Bill Huggins. They were tricked however and while they were discussing the way in which to cook their captives they forgot the sun was rising and they turned to stone. Frodo came by this place many years later and saw the three stoned trolls. Source: http://www.lordotrings.com/tour/trolls.asp
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Maybe that will help?
Looks like a freak occurrence where the coxswain’s (often a small, light person) view of the pole was completely blocked by the crew. The coxswain maintained a rock steady course, so the pole never moved out from behind the crew, and was possibly never seen by the coxswain.
oh yeah, right…that explains why, even though the coxswain was distant and facing away from us, we could hear him yelling as clearly as if he was right by the camera mic…uh huh
So cicili, you’re saying that even though the coxswain is some distance away and facing away from the camera, we hear him…as if he’s right next to the microphone?
It’s called the blind zone. The cox can’t see a small segment directly in front of the boat for a considerable distance, ‘cos there’s eight big people in the way. Thus, looking at the course the cox was steering, she wouldn’t have been able to see the pole until the last few seconds, and she does finally steer the boat off a direct collision course. If the pole had impacted on the bow, they would have destroyed the eight and probably the people sitting at bow and two seat. It it had hit the riggers on the stroke side, it would have ripped the side of the boat off. Really, it could have been much worse.
That would be true if they had employed a garden gnome for the job and he was wearing a big hat and a welding mask… That is a big pole and one assumes it didn’t just materialise in the middle of the river as the boat got to it.
Yes, it’s true that the coxswain maintained a steady course so they did see the pole . . . but it’s also the coxswain’s job to look around the rowers to make sure that there’s nothing in the way. I was a pretty short coxswain compared to my rowers, so I constantly had to peek around them to make sure there was nothing in the way.
There’s no excuse for not seeing that pole-it’s not like it jumped out of nowhere . . .
the guy yelling sounds like the guy at the end of that one Pink Floyd song – I kept expecting him to yell that if they hit the pole they couldn’t have any pudding…
THe command isn’t “stop rowing,” it’s “weigh enough.” Either that, or get your port rowers to row harder to AVOID the pole. Therefore, this is a coxswain fail.
The coxswain’s command to a crew isn’t “stop rowing,” but the referee’s command to a cox *is*.
The ref’s first instruction was for the coxswain to correct his course (he could also have said “OBSTACLE!”)…when it became clear that a course adjustment would take too long, the ref switched to “STOP ROWING!” Which they should have done.
I don’t think it would have mattered if he had shouted “WEDDING TACKLE” or “DEAD HERRING” or anything else. I would have been tempted to throw a half brick, anchor or possibly a boat hook at the cox to get his attention.
FAIL. You’ve given the command for US rowers. That isn’t the universal command. It may well not be understood in, say, Australia. Which is where I reckon this video is from, judging by the accents.
“Stop rowing!” should be pretty clear to anyone who speaks English, though.
Ok, this is killing me. Does any one else have the “hilarious costumes” advert?
Have you looked at the one for the genie? Specifically the wording on the costume?
I have been giving the ads on the side the quizzical eye since I first started reading these posts. I was wondering if I should say anything but was worried only I could see them.
I guess your right, it would seem that if one were to become a genie that one could not grant his/her own wishes however we are talking about a halloween costume of a genie with a ginormus woody soooooo…..
That coxswain is an idiot, i’ve never seen anything like that. I’m amazed that no one was seriously hurt. i thought there would have been a few more ejections. oh man…. rowing isn’t for everyone.
it occurs to me that the dummy in the stern, the one that doesnt do any paddling, is supposed to be steering. that would be why they are facing forward….
It wasn’t the fact that the crew hit the pole that was funny. You must look beyond the obvious to the more subtle, abstract elements that add humor to a situation. To some, this ability comes naturally. To others, it takes some work.
For example…you are remarkably verbose for a person whose words has escaped him/her.
oh man, if the principal of this school new about this he’d shit himself. Its a school from the GPS competition in Australia, they’re a really upper class school in sydney, and they are VERY prided about their success in rowing… (they USUALLY do pretty well in the schools competition)
Wow, that was quite an impressive failure, and they can’t say loudmouth didn’t warn them.
This is my first time posting on this site, what normally happens here? Just reading through the comments I’ve been stunned by the intelligent discourse, not at all what I was expecting. Then there are all the way to the endless “First” posts, which is kind of what I thought blog comments would be.
I believe that this is either an Oxford or Cambridge boat doing a warm up piece a couple of weeks before that do their varsity race around easter time. By the way the eights are usually worth around £20,000 which would make it about 32,000USD then you have to add on the 8 oars at around £300 a pop. Not a cheap toy. The people in the boat are highly trained athletes at the top of their game, they will usually train for about 5 hours a day, everyday. The boats are usually packed full of olympians and world class athletes with nothing better to do than take a year out to do a ‘masters’ and try to win one of the most coveted events in the rowing world.
No, this is an Aussie school. You must have been away from the UK a long time to think it can look that warm in Britain in February/March…
Although a few years back the Cambridge crew did pile at full speed into 15 tonne launch, and about 20 years earlier, Cambridge managed to wreck their boat on a barge while going up to the start…
My girlfriend lives a quarter of a mile from the Chattahoochee River in north Georgia and typically rows 2-3 times a week, plus competitions. (But she doesn’t visit this blog, which is why I’m commenting.)
The technically-correct command to stop rowing is “Weigh Enough”–possibly to keep crews from being confused by trolls on the shore shouting things like, “Stop rowing!”
Coxswains (“coxes”), male and female, are typically built like jockeys, e.g., tiny, and often cannot see over or around the crew to the water ahead. They rely on coaches in separate launches to guide them around obstacles–and the correct command from coach to cox is, “Weigh Enough.” Referees don’t enter into it. [Someone above said the "referee's" command was "Stop Rowing"--not so.]
My girlfriend and her team get LOTS of practice in all of this, as the ‘Hooch is not straight, is shallow and rocky, and may be occupied by many other craft while they are practicing. Which makes them KILLERS when they are put on an unobstructed competitive course!
Except, the technically correct term in this case would have been “hold it up” or “hold hard” depending on which English speaking country you are in. If you’re in the US (which your girlfriend is but the Australian crew ramming the giant pole isn’t) then “weigh enough” is the command where you stop rowing but allow the boat to glide serenely onwards under its own momentum. Not a good call when the boat is about to hit a giant pole.
Damn glad these coments are normally hidden…thought i might get some extra info on the video , but thats not gonna happen with so many tools posting rubish like this
lol well croker oars, which these are, i have a set for my boat, – for just the standards, £300 each, that $600 each, x4 broken =$2400 ……if they where superlights like mine then £500 each, $1000 so $4000
Since you’ve done this before, I’ve always had a question about the sport. Can the rowers actually hear and understand the coach? The distance plus all of the water splash must make this difficult (esp Olympic crew)? Was that why they didn’t react?
yeah as a 3rd year rower ive seen one of our own new coxyns steer one of our 4s into a concret pillar and just bout broke the boat.
ive also seen our coach hit a fence with our boats on the trailer and break bout the last foot off the end of it
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
I won’t even bother saying the rule about “First” posts.
There is a rule? rules are rabbish
phew, *wipes forhead* I thought you were going to say they were rubbish.
No, he meant rabbish. It’s spoken by Jewish leaders and adorable bunnies everywhere.
Ouch.
Indeed.
rabbish FTW!!~~
i thought the guys in the boat would hit the pole from the back straight on i was like, OMGITWOULDBEFUNNYIFTHEYHITIT so not as funny as it could hav been…
STOP ROWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOOP ROOOWEIN!!!!! STOP ROWEHIN’! STOAP ROAEHN!!!!!!
THIS VIDEO IS SO FUCKING OLD.
It’s ironic that this whole post above is contains a fail on a site about failure. Rabbish… hilarious.
What about adorable bunnies that are Jewish leaders?
So the rabbis and bunnies have been setting rules for us all?!
The best thing about “first” comments is that they’re only one comment of off-topic spam. The other 50 comment of off-topic spam come from people bitching about “first” comments.
And apparently there’s one comment of off-topic spam pointing out the irony of it all.
It’s ironic that you would say that
I see the irony in your comment.
I can see Iran…. Does that count for anything?
Yes, it counts as Foreign Policy experience.
LOL win!
Burn! ROFL
I can see Russia from my house.
That’s nice Mrs.Palin , now please stop trying so hard it might kill you.
Hush now before I slice you to pieces with my spork.
*waves spork*
That’s nice now put down the spork before a rogue FBI sniper takes you out… Second thought keep it up John likes that type of maverick tactics.
Ha! your rogue FBI agent is not match for……….
*pulls out Tina Fay*
- Pulls out a pink slip and blowtorch with a can of hairspray attached- Well?
Isn’t it “Fey” ?
….so they would have you believe.
Did Blue2thFairy just reply to x-bert’s comment.
I thought the comments wouldn’t nest anymore?!?!
OMG I think mine is going to nest as well… WTF?
are they nesting or is it more like perching?
i can has kilt you boaf?
Just FYI, it wasn’t Palin that ever said that. It was only on SNL.
I can hear I Ran… it counts for a Flock of Seagulls.
See spot ran.
See Spot Get blown up by a roadside bomb…. Morbid
Spot ‘n Bits?
At least…. If not Spot pudding.
Quick, someone call Bill Cosby!
Bits of liquefied Spot on your shirt. Spots of Spot.
Why would there be a roadside bomb in Iran?
You’re possibly thinking of Iraq, sweetie.
Hush this isn’t geo-political debate club is it?
Eh, actually, it is. Sorry, I hope you’re not too embarrassed.
*awkward silence amongst the geo-political debate club as we look at six-of-eleven*
Oh…. I thought this was the D&D Club….
it’s NOT?
And here I’m left holding my dice…
Yeah it still your turn to roll for the skill check.
We had a gaming kid come by a week ago. He had a “thing” for
Dragonwriter. His game-speak didn’t go over so well.
*rolls percentile dice*
DAMN!!
DO NOT SPEAK THE NAME!!!
I know you didn’t, Avis, but I just wanted to warn the others.
Ye gods, things are more comfortable around here now. I must have succeeded in my luck roll.
Are we referring to the… C…?
Hello! It’s a *rolls dice* PLEASURE to meet you!
I get to be Dungeon Master!!!!!!!
Oh do you mean that kid C-com….
*muzzles ErickB*
It’s your Cloak of Hiding +1.
HAHAHAHA, roto you are here too?
first
You guys are just so freaking FAIL with your freaking FIRST comments, who gives a freak??!! I’m sick of seeing it on every FREAKING post!
There’s a REASON that the guy in back has the name he has.
Apparantly.
So, What part of “STOP ROWING!!!” do you think they didn’t understand?
I would say all of it by watching the video
Following instructions fail.
The safety boat is suppose to yell “Weigh Enough” not “stop rowing”, but it’s all academic as it’s obvious the cox and the rowers didn’t hear the safety boat.
Not bad. Only took three nests (or was it two? I don’t count so good) to actually comment on the video itself.
*still laughing at the Palin reference, best off-topic burn she’s seen so far*
Did you just join IRow?
What was yelled:
“STOP ROWING, STOP ROWING”
What was heard:
“____ ROW___, ____ ROW___”
No they’re not. Apart from the slight problem that “weigh enough” is a term that is quite possibly only used in the US, so won’t get much of a response in Australia (where this video is from), you’d also have the boat’s momentum taking it into the post.
Whatever the Aussie version is of “hold it up” / “hold water” would be the correct call.
How ever they call it, “STOP ROWING!!!” would be enough for me to get the idea that something isnt quite right.
To further the academic discussion, “Weigh Enough” is only used in the ’state.. still, totally moot. doesn’t seem like they would have stopped for anything.
Well, eventually they stopped . . .
“Whoops. Sorry, i thougt i was meant to swear at you. Don’t you look where you row?”
Being a coswain… Sometimes we don’t. BUT, I’ve never hit anything! Only missed the dock by 10 feet.
I agree! It’s extremely difficult to see where you’re going with 8 people between you and the finish line. Bow loaders ftw!
PS I’ve never hit anything either… Except the pillar on the dock BEFORE the boat even went in the water. That was embarrassing…
lol….STOP FUCKING ROWING GDAMNIT!!!!
STOP GOING! STOP GOING! XD
Seriously…….some people are dumb…..pretty dumb
I wonder how much one of those paddle is costs
“Stop Rowing” dummy.
Apparently this is the rowing team from the deaf school.
It’s really hard to hear someone in another boat if their voice isn’t amplified somehow. Plus, the person yelling was fighting over the noise from the motor and the fact that the rowers were so focused on…rowing. Still, I’ll be the first to admit that the coxswain needs to be thrown into the lake…who hits a pole, honestly?
Actually this is the 2005 first eight crew from St Ignatious Collage, Sydney. It occured during the Gold Cup Regatta, the week before the Head of the River which is like ths finals. They were favourites to win Head of the River until they hit the pole and trashed their boat for a couple of weeks at least.
The part that always confused me about this video was why did one of the guys from the middle fall out, not someone from the bow?
$30 a piece. Dad taught it at the school he taught at….
… that’s it?
Damn, I gotta find out where you’re buying them from.
It depends on the materials and the length. Some of them can get in the $200 range.
True enough
“oars”
I know a $30 dollar oar.
You meant whore didn’t you.
I’d rather have a splinter than a disease.
Always cover your coxswain.
And your coccyx.
And your cock.
And your cockles.
With a coxcomb.
something that links in Mr cocks (my old science teacher and yes it was spelt that way not cox)
What about a coxoctamy
That’s a lot of cock and bull.
Oh poppycock!
our cox may be small but our strokes are long and hard
That won’t work, you will fall off the end of your cox. Solution… longer cox!
about 300-500 dollars
I think those are pretty new Crokers…a couple of hundred pounds each?
I’m just amazed the cox didn’t see the post and wasn’t aware of the hazard? Most coxes tend to at least look at a map of the course, if only for references for distance to tell their crew.
Alternatively the pole may have been concealed to the cox (a small person) by the crew. However, she(?) should have known the pole was there.
Those oars they are using cost about $300 a piece.
Hahaha! “Stop Rowing! Stop Rowing!”
Haha, what did the steerman think of?
Shit happens.
Row row row your boat, gently into a pole!
Merrily merrily merrily merrily, watch out for your hole.
Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily, life is such a FAIL!
Reply win.
Failed Cox
they make pills for that nowadays. talk to your doctor.
LOL!! I think they may be BLUE!
first?
nope.. I gotta be faster/more of a loser
I think you’ve got half of the equation…
That was Rabbish.
I think you should refer to your own name when trying to figure out how to spell ‘Rubbish’.
I think you should learn to recognise a troll when you see one.
Trolls are big monsters who live in the dark and turn to stone if they are hit by sunlight. They were said to be made in mockery of Ents, just like Orcs were created in mockery of Elves. The 13 dwarves who travelled with Bilbo during his quest, were captured by three Trolls named Tom, Bert and Bill Huggins. They were tricked however and while they were discussing the way in which to cook their captives they forgot the sun was rising and they turned to stone. Frodo came by this place many years later and saw the three stoned trolls. Source: http://www.lordotrings.com/tour/trolls.asp
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Maybe that will help?
Who is that trip-trapping across my bridge?
A paedophile.
*hides the bun bun*
Don’t worry. I’m no billygoat gruff, but not many trolls can hold out against a dragon!
Reply WIN.
Reply WIN.
Do I even need to say it…?
Unless there are some Knights Who Say Ni! blocking your way, no.
WIN
Frodo came by this place many years later and saw the three stoned trolls… surrounded by Twinkie wrappers and empty Nacho Cheese Doritos bags.
Snacking FAIL!
I know! Keep eating like that and before you know it, you’ll weigh a ton!
LOL!
What a turd. That guy totally steered them into that pole!
You must need a hearing aid.
I’m sorry, I must have had it on mute! Be nice!!!
Looks like a freak occurrence where the coxswain’s (often a small, light person) view of the pole was completely blocked by the crew. The coxswain maintained a rock steady course, so the pole never moved out from behind the crew, and was possibly never seen by the coxswain.
Bravo! Well said!
Which explains why he kept yelling at them to stop rowing…
That was Michael Caine freaking out on the docks. Not the coxswain.
oh yeah, right…that explains why, even though the coxswain was distant and facing away from us, we could hear him yelling as clearly as if he was right by the camera mic…uh huh
So cicili, you’re saying that even though the coxswain is some distance away and facing away from the camera, we hear him…as if he’s right next to the microphone?
I am pretty sure I saw the pole actually move in behind the boat. The whole thing was a set-up. Damn terrorist poles.
I think Bill Ayers was behind that one too. McCain should have his super investigative team look into that.
The shot was fired from the grassy pole!
Pity he didn’t look up, that pole had to be about 20 foot high…
The coxswain knew the pole was there, it’s his home course, they train there every day.
It’s called the blind zone. The cox can’t see a small segment directly in front of the boat for a considerable distance, ‘cos there’s eight big people in the way. Thus, looking at the course the cox was steering, she wouldn’t have been able to see the pole until the last few seconds, and she does finally steer the boat off a direct collision course. If the pole had impacted on the bow, they would have destroyed the eight and probably the people sitting at bow and two seat. It it had hit the riggers on the stroke side, it would have ripped the side of the boat off. Really, it could have been much worse.
That would be true if they had employed a garden gnome for the job and he was wearing a big hat and a welding mask… That is a big pole and one assumes it didn’t just materialise in the middle of the river as the boat got to it.
Yes, it’s true that the coxswain maintained a steady course so they did see the pole . . . but it’s also the coxswain’s job to look around the rowers to make sure that there’s nothing in the way. I was a pretty short coxswain compared to my rowers, so I constantly had to peek around them to make sure there was nothing in the way.
There’s no excuse for not seeing that pole-it’s not like it jumped out of nowhere . . .
I don’t get it
Don’t try so hard. It’ll happen for you when you least expect it.
That’s the way of the world indeedie.
STOP ROWING!
Start swimming! Abandon ship!
Hey, did I hear someone say “stop rowing?”
No, that was just the wind. Now go back to sleep.
Oh…. So that wasn’t a hamster being shot through a metal fan with sharpened blades?
Absolutely not. We only have gerbils here.
What the crap?? Idiots.
“STOP ROWING! STOP ROWING! AAAAAAAAH!”
classic.
Truth.
First…………fail or win?
fail =)))))))
That was Oaribble.
haha WIN!
That pun has caused a roaring in my ears.
Don’t you mean a “…rowing in your ears.”?
ROWING in your OARS.
Geez, man, get it right.
That wasn’t very punny.
I think he means a “reaming of his rear”
The lowest form of bread is the bun.
(Yes this is on topic, go look it up)
groaaaaaaaan … but I love you.
BTW steering fail.
The rowers do their very best.
Yes, the man responsible for steering should be scull-ded
That or keelhulled
Scuttle-butt has it he will be water-boarded
And sent to work in the scullery.
Ahhh, scullery, such a wenchy word!
Hoist the anchor and set sail on the failboat!
and shipped off to a boarding school
and shipped to a boarding school
FUCK YOU ALL HAHAHAH
fags
greedy.
Worst. Pick-up line. EVER.
“CHANGE YOUR COARSE!!!”
Now, change your pants!
*switches from 80 grit to 100 grit*
*switches from khakis to denim*
What are you sanding?
actually, that’s darned witty!
Of ‘coarse’ it is
LOLOMGBBQWTFPONIES!!!!!!!!!!one
win!
the guy yelling sounds like the guy at the end of that one Pink Floyd song – I kept expecting him to yell that if they hit the pole they couldn’t have any pudding…
How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
I think the steerman just had a momentary lapse of reason, he’ll figure it out one of these days.
I think the steerman just had a momentary lapse of reason, he’ll figure it out one of these days.
Once he got to the dock, I bet he wanted to run like hell.
Oh it’s “eat”? And all this time…
OO!
*tackles raelalt*
Hi! *grin*
I thought he sounded just like Michael Caine.
Australians, actually!
(Takes one to know one etc.)
24ND my mom, used to row crew
This comment amuses me greatly.
twentyfoursecond.
It was the comma that got me, actually.
True!
I would personally never 24nd my mom. To each their own I guess.
Oh, admit it, Oedipus, you’re a chronic 24nicator!
He can no longer see your point
LOL, LMFAO, I didn;t even realize my typo
and in keeping with the theme, there is annother
And another. You define fail.
She also defines good humor. I’m pretty sure you’ll have to go look that one up.
Hear! Hear!
Eh? What’s that? I can’t hear you, there’s some crazy person yelling in my ear about rowing…
_TOP ROW__G _S__ROWIN__!
yup, like 3st and 2th refering to a previous post
I don’t know that this quite qualifies as a failboat, but at least it is close…
Coxswain fail?
YES.
I like the audible “OOwww!” from the boat, as the last rower looks at his arm as if to start crying from a booboo.
He’s lucky if he didn’t break it! Those boats can go pretty fast.
It will probable end up in a cast
I probably your comment.
Gasp! *Stairs in horror on disbelief and silently begs the blue2thfairy for a wish*
*descends the “stairs in horror” to the basement*
I wonder whats down here?
Oh it’s dark. Very, very dark.
you are likely to be eaten by a grue…..
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.
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or a basement cat
*hands over grue repellent and glowing blue sword*
Kthxbai!!
lol
*turn on torch*
*light torch*
*use match*
*Gives Marius a wish*
Choose wisely.
*takes wish and puts in pocket* Forgivness or unlimited supply of bubble gum. I will have to think this over.
e* I am sorry. I had a tuff night.
Suger-free I hope
“Suger” is the latest substitute for sugar.
Your sweet for not letting me hog all of the typos
You guys are like a comedy act of fail! I love it.
Next show is at 7.
I appreciate the *SNORTGIGGLE*s after a very rough day. Thanks!
Anytime!
*toasts Dragonwriter and chugs a much needed beer*
Don’t forget to tip your waitress!
I already gave you a wish, geeeze
OW!!
*grabs Blue2thFairy’s beer and pours it over head, extinguishing fire and causing a wee curl of smoke to rise from hair*
Next time you toast me, try not to burn me, okay?
You are going to buy me another beer….right?
Oh no! “horror AND disbelief” I think my fingers are plotting against me.
That’s alot of armstrong propelling it, to be sure.
THe command isn’t “stop rowing,” it’s “weigh enough.” Either that, or get your port rowers to row harder to AVOID the pole. Therefore, this is a coxswain fail.
The coxswain’s command to a crew isn’t “stop rowing,” but the referee’s command to a cox *is*.
The ref’s first instruction was for the coxswain to correct his course (he could also have said “OBSTACLE!”)…when it became clear that a course adjustment would take too long, the ref switched to “STOP ROWING!” Which they should have done.
Big time coxswain fail.
I don’t think it would have mattered if he had shouted “WEDDING TACKLE” or “DEAD HERRING” or anything else. I would have been tempted to throw a half brick, anchor or possibly a boat hook at the cox to get his attention.
What language is it that you UNDERSTAND?
61.
FAIL. You’ve given the command for US rowers. That isn’t the universal command. It may well not be understood in, say, Australia. Which is where I reckon this video is from, judging by the accents.
“Stop rowing!” should be pretty clear to anyone who speaks English, though.
ITS NOT WEIGH ENOUGH, its HOLD WATER (USA) or HOLD HER HARD (UK) both mean emergency stop.
alleyq….your are the worst kind of dumb
Ok, this is killing me. Does any one else have the “hilarious costumes” advert?
Have you looked at the one for the genie? Specifically the wording on the costume?
I too want a costume that says !eM duR
I have been giving the ads on the side the quizzical eye since I first started reading these posts. I was wondering if I should say anything but was worried only I could see them.
Cmon Avis, you know if any man could be a genie, thats exactly what he’d wish for.
I thought the genie was supposed to GRANT wishes, not make them.
Maybe the wish was granted to Christina Aguilera.
Agian I am sorry.
Damn!, THAT would make more sense….good call.
I guess your right, it would seem that if one were to become a genie that one could not grant his/her own wishes however we are talking about a halloween costume of a genie with a ginormus woody soooooo…..
He’s got a harrelson in this pants?
*pats Marius on the back*
*SOB* I need sleep.
Okay…I cannot see the ads, but from what I’ve been able to deduce from your comments…
It’d pretty bad.
OMG. ’s…. I suck
*crawls over to Blue2th and pats foot*
ROFLMAO. Good stuff.
I think the idea is that you’ll “rub his lamp”
You accidenty your auxiliary verb!
I think the ad is a fail in it’s own right. That or it belongs on photoshopdisasters.
Yah.. I use Adblock so I don’t ever see all the annoying clutter.
Me too. I ♥ my Adblock.
That’s more of a coxswax than a coxswain.
LAST!
I turn your irony WIN into a painfully obvious FAIL.
And Marius, I wouldn’t bet against it being a giant Allen.
hahahahaha xD
this is the dumbest fail that i have seen here.
Then you obviously haven’t looked very hard
That coxswain is an idiot, i’ve never seen anything like that. I’m amazed that no one was seriously hurt. i thought there would have been a few more ejections. oh man…. rowing isn’t for everyone.
ejections!
*masturbates*
*ejects*
Ooops. I accidenty the boat.
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
Heheheh, if only their boat were equipped with a gigantic drill! Reality needs more of those, you know.
…that they didn’t row straight away into the pole, and all dump into the river.
And they say men shouldn’t listen to their cox.
Crap, and I thought missing my race by twenty minutes was bad enough. At least I didn’t fucking break the 20,000 DOLLAR BOAT.
20000 dollars? Try 30000, probably more . Its was their brand new first eight boat.
Did you see that one guy fell into the water?
no, but I saw him “fall” into the water, and then after he “fell” I saw him not falling anymore
Up a creek without… 1… 2… 3 paddles? Four? Anyone count?
8 oars
Orate?
Ornine
it occurs to me that the dummy in the stern, the one that doesnt do any paddling, is supposed to be steering. that would be why they are facing forward….
where the posts and stuff are.
Key word is. . .
U mean a Cox… yes he does…
It’s a shame no one was warning them. someone should have yelled “stop rowing” or something like that.
lol
Well I’ll be! This guy’s hindsight must be 20/FAIL.
Now, now… what’s the row all about?
A minute’s silence for the kayak. :’(
Except for me. SOMEBODY HAS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS OBSERVING THE SILENCE. >:(
*kayak: boat recognition fail.
They were Women, what do you expect.
Stanton’s male FIRST IN THE STATE varsity hit their own four. Broke it in half, injured two rowers.
Anyone recognize the crew? I think it’s UW. It looks like Seattle.
It’s St. Ignatius. classic fail. I think every rower has seen it at least a few dozen times
Some of these fails fail so hard at being worthy of failblog that words escape me.
What the F*&%! A crew team hits a pole?
LAME.
Okay…a quick lesson in Humor 101.
It wasn’t the fact that the crew hit the pole that was funny. You must look beyond the obvious to the more subtle, abstract elements that add humor to a situation. To some, this ability comes naturally. To others, it takes some work.
For example…you are remarkably verbose for a person whose words has escaped him/her.
See? Easy!
As easy as 1,2,3,3
Dragon, I love you. You know that right? Someone nominate this woman for a BoTW, as failblog won’t allow me to.
Indeed, they had all that space AROUND the pole, but yet for whatetever reason chose to steer right into it.
Thanks, lame is lame.
I am Poopdor, poopinating the countryside
Congrats to you AND your family.
WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TRY TO WARN THEM?
[Bush administration]
No one could have forseen the presence of a pole in the water.
[/Bush administration]
*balancing oar on head* Ta-da! *little applause, audible cough*
I love the guy screaming, “STOP ROWING!!!”
First.
oh man, if the principal of this school new about this he’d shit himself. Its a school from the GPS competition in Australia, they’re a really upper class school in sydney, and they are VERY prided about their success in rowing… (they USUALLY do pretty well in the schools competition)
Wow, that was quite an impressive failure, and they can’t say loudmouth didn’t warn them.
This is my first time posting on this site, what normally happens here? Just reading through the comments I’ve been stunned by the intelligent discourse, not at all what I was expecting. Then there are all the way to the endless “First” posts, which is kind of what I thought blog comments would be.
some bitches dont get it
Rowing is for tards
re… or bus…?
or maybe be mus…?
or a short bus-tard
I believe that this is either an Oxford or Cambridge boat doing a warm up piece a couple of weeks before that do their varsity race around easter time. By the way the eights are usually worth around £20,000 which would make it about 32,000USD then you have to add on the 8 oars at around £300 a pop. Not a cheap toy. The people in the boat are highly trained athletes at the top of their game, they will usually train for about 5 hours a day, everyday. The boats are usually packed full of olympians and world class athletes with nothing better to do than take a year out to do a ‘masters’ and try to win one of the most coveted events in the rowing world.
No, this is an Aussie school. You must have been away from the UK a long time to think it can look that warm in Britain in February/March…
Although a few years back the Cambridge crew did pile at full speed into 15 tonne launch, and about 20 years earlier, Cambridge managed to wreck their boat on a barge while going up to the start…
I’d like to see a video of the Peking University crew sinking at 2007 Head of the Charles. that was pretty hilarious
2006
hehehe… funny video…
On a scale of 1 to FAIL I give this a meh.
Typical private school kids
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?!”
My girlfriend lives a quarter of a mile from the Chattahoochee River in north Georgia and typically rows 2-3 times a week, plus competitions. (But she doesn’t visit this blog, which is why I’m commenting.)
The technically-correct command to stop rowing is “Weigh Enough”–possibly to keep crews from being confused by trolls on the shore shouting things like, “Stop rowing!”
Coxswains (“coxes”), male and female, are typically built like jockeys, e.g., tiny, and often cannot see over or around the crew to the water ahead. They rely on coaches in separate launches to guide them around obstacles–and the correct command from coach to cox is, “Weigh Enough.” Referees don’t enter into it. [Someone above said the "referee's" command was "Stop Rowing"--not so.]
My girlfriend and her team get LOTS of practice in all of this, as the ‘Hooch is not straight, is shallow and rocky, and may be occupied by many other craft while they are practicing. Which makes them KILLERS when they are put on an unobstructed competitive course!
Richard
Atlanta GA
Except, the technically correct term in this case would have been “hold it up” or “hold hard” depending on which English speaking country you are in. If you’re in the US (which your girlfriend is but the Australian crew ramming the giant pole isn’t) then “weigh enough” is the command where you stop rowing but allow the boat to glide serenely onwards under its own momentum. Not a good call when the boat is about to hit a giant pole.
LOL did u heer the guy? “NO! STOP ROWING! STOP ROWING! THERE’S A POLE!! STOP ROWING!!” man. priceless……
“did he say stop rowing? Or start Rowing. Cant tell the differnce. Well lets start rowing some more shall we.”
STOP ROWING!!!! STOP ROWING!!! WATCH THE POLE!!!
Damn glad these coments are normally hidden…thought i might get some extra info on the video , but thats not gonna happen with so many tools posting rubish like this
That’s my school…*sigh*
lol well croker oars, which these are, i have a set for my boat, – for just the standards, £300 each, that $600 each, x4 broken =$2400 ……if they where superlights like mine then £500 each, $1000 so $4000
expensive fail anyway!
Since you’ve done this before, I’ve always had a question about the sport. Can the rowers actually hear and understand the coach? The distance plus all of the water splash must make this difficult (esp Olympic crew)? Was that why they didn’t react?
EPIC COXYN FAIL
yeah your supposed 2 say “way enough”
but that works too if you saved a bunch of money on your boat insurance by switiching to geico
yeah as a 3rd year rower ive seen one of our own new coxyns steer one of our 4s into a concret pillar and just bout broke the boat.
ive also seen our coach hit a fence with our boats on the trailer and break bout the last foot off the end of it
i was there when that happen , the guy that fell out of the boat broke his arm funny though , go riverview
stupid fuckheads
coxswain fail!
Intelligence fail. Hearing fail.
this is another way how gymnastics prevents a guy from getting layed….lol
he said stop rowing like 5 times