Henley Regatta??
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Henley Regatta??
Corporate invite has arrived on my desk for this in a couple of weeks time.
I am in no way connected with rowing, it is a four hour drive from where I live, and although there is a free bar and I can stay overnight, is it full of pretentious **** in straw hats talking about boats?
Have heard there is an abundance of eye candy, and a colleagues who went last year said it was "a laugh" but as his social highlight is his weekly trip to the chinese, I dont really trust his opinion.
Anybody been?
I am in no way connected with rowing, it is a four hour drive from where I live, and although there is a free bar and I can stay overnight, is it full of pretentious **** in straw hats talking about boats?
Have heard there is an abundance of eye candy, and a colleagues who went last year said it was "a laugh" but as his social highlight is his weekly trip to the chinese, I dont really trust his opinion.
Anybody been?
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snot the same since they scraped the fair ground down by the rowing club!
I remember a mahoooosive haystack fire there one year probably why they banned the fair
I remember a mahoooosive haystack fire there one year probably why they banned the fair
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Henley is a nice place to visit apart from when the Regatta is on. As others have said, pished up toffs, with the females snorting and guffawing like horses, and the males looking down their noses at you, as if you have dropped out of a dogs bum isn't my idea of how to spend a day or two.
Not all of them are like that though and the ones that are not really do abhore the oiks. I recall one of my friends colleagues, who lived locally, going over to one of the oiks and asking him and his friends to stop shouting and swearing only to be told "Fak off you pleb". Didn't look so clever when the chappy pushed him into the river
Not all of them are like that though and the ones that are not really do abhore the oiks. I recall one of my friends colleagues, who lived locally, going over to one of the oiks and asking him and his friends to stop shouting and swearing only to be told "Fak off you pleb". Didn't look so clever when the chappy pushed him into the river
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dont bother - i own a business in Henley and we pretty much stop while the Regatta is on....dont go near the place till its all over.
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Pah, Levels Regatta is far better, though it's a bit far to travel. Not so many stuck up pillocks either, even better if you're on a boat, be it docked or actually racing.
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I'm going to the Regatta for the second year running and I ain't posh.
There are plenty of posh people there, but everyone I met last year was very friendly. Most people are only vaguely aware that there is some sort of mucking around in boats going on and are just there to have a great time.
Totty ratio was very acceptable.
For the record I'm going to Remenham Farm.
There are plenty of posh people there, but everyone I met last year was very friendly. Most people are only vaguely aware that there is some sort of mucking around in boats going on and are just there to have a great time.
Totty ratio was very acceptable.
For the record I'm going to Remenham Farm.
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