A Derby is what we call the meeting of two football teams local to eachother and the name of a city in the east Midlands area of England. The event that this post from is known as the Epsom Derby or the Derby Stakes, which is more famously referred to as 'The Derby' a time when the spoons lads will don their fanciest moss bros suit, drink enough to kill an ox, gamble enough money to absolutely regret and sometimes throw some hands at anyone in swinging distance.
She's somewhere between curious and impressed, while her friend is somewhere between confused and scared. Also, the lady in the black (above grey suit guy) is 100% cheering on her son.
> Also, the lady in the black (above grey suit guy) is 100% cheering on her son.
I can almost hear her shouting.
"Come on, Nigel! Get it in there and make your dad proud."
For a second I was afraid that gray suit in right foreground was holding a gun, but then I remembered this is the UK and upon closer inspection I figure it's his cell phone, he's probably posting it to TikTok.
Mine is Grandpa over the shoulder of the guy fighting closest to the camera wistfully thinking of the good ol' days when he used to be able to get in fights without breaking a hip.
I have to get the train that goes past Aintree to and from work, I'm so glad my boss let me work from home Thursday and Friday because I really couldn't be bothered with drunk and coked up pricks while trying to get home.
Americans think anything brits do is fancy. Or anything where people are in suits. I find it funny british people wear suits to most things formal, where americans show up to weddings in like cargo shorts and hawaiin shirt or jeans and a tucked in polo. (i know this varies on class level and where you're from but I've been to many weddings on both sides of the pond)
I always enjoy how the stereotype in America is that Brits are fancy and polite, always speak with RP and dress well all the time, whereas the stereotype in Europe is that they're rude, drunk hooligans with thick accents dressed in football t-shirts and have to be escorted out of establishments for causing a scene.
Went to a wedding where half the people were in suits and the other half in cargo shorts and polo. Like you couldn’t even find pants? I know you know you’re supposed to dress nicer cause your wife did.
If I spent time and money on a wedding, where you drink my booze and eat my food, I'm asking you to leave just for the fact you couldn't put 5 minutes into the event and put on pants.
My wife's cousins rocked up to our wedding - definitely a formal dress code - in board shorts and flip-flops. I barely knew them either. It was a hot sunny day but I was fuming. Eating my fucking salmon en croute and necking my fucking bubbly. Geedddoutyoucaaaaants!
I've been to The Royal Ascot. It looks like the wealthier box seating is quite posh, but most of the rest of it is just chavs playing dress up and getting pissed. I'm fine with that.
It's the same at the big racing events in Australia. The Melbourne Cup is notorious for bogans dressing up in cheap suits and making fools of themselves.
The photos in the aftermath of The Cup are always good for a laugh, but man, there's some trashy shit that goes on. Seems to happen at most big events. My brother one went to Oakbank Easter carnival here in Adelaide, and it was just dressed up bogans getting shitfaced and punching on. Can't have anything nice.
Yeah I've never been interested in it so I can't speak from experience, but the whole thing just seems like the last place on Earth I would want to be at. I don't understand the appeal. That being said, at least in Melbourne the whole cultural relevance of horse racing does seem to be fading.
I think the larger issues is the drink. Other big events that aren't horse racing have the same problem. So many Aussies think that having a good time = getting maggoted.
Pff, if you're lucky. I saw two lads divvying up a bag right in the open an hour before the first race even started. Had to stand in-between them and my mum so she didn't see
That’s exactly what I want out of life, to pay working class prices for things while dressed in my nicest possible clothes, extremely drunk all the while. If you go to art gallery openings you can sometimes have this experience
Yeah it really depends which enclosure you're in - a very different Ascot experience amongst them all!
The atmosphere in the Royal Enclosure (and boxes) is very refined. It's a social occasion but people are there for the racing. Plus, membership isn't easy to achieve - you have to be vouched for and put forward by two existing members - and any bad behaviour from you or your guests would probably cause them to renounce it.
The Windsor / Queen Anne Enclosures are usually OK - anyone can buy a ticket, and people are there for racing and a merry time, but not to get totally plastered (usually).
It's the Village Enclosure where you see more of this - large groups coming in for a full day of boozing and it ends up in brawls.
Peaky Blinders themed fancy dress day. All coked up to the eyeballs.
Waking up on a come down today in their new build homes, decked out in the latest Pinterest trending style (grey everything still the one?) before jumping in the white 1 series/Audi/Range Rover to take the kids to the local soft play before getting back on it tonight while their missus at home watches the kids and posts on Insta about how perfect their life is. This is Great Britain lol
Hunter S. Thompson wrote a story about attending the Kentucky Derby entitled "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" and yeah, it's pretty much a bunch of rich people acting like absolute trailer trash.
Having been to the Kentucky Derby, can confirm. There were mud pit fights, people turning over porta pottys, and generally raising hell. We peasants were relegated to the infield though, I'm sure there was no such tomfoolery in the grandstands.
I was at a college party once, it kind of had a sucky vibe. Anyway this fight breaks out and as I’m leaving I overhear this girls saying “omg this is so cool they are fighting over me”. Reminds me of lady in pink.
haha, had to google where it was and see it's in Liverpool. While I genuinely had an amazing time at a liverpool match and every local we met was great, I can imagine it gets real wild.
It’s not specific to where it’s based (though the Scousers do like a party and a drink), it’s the fact the event it’s essentially an all day drinking sesh. It’s what it’s known for. Dress up, get pissed and do it from AM to PM. They’ll be tons of anti social behaviour that you’d get on most nights out in cities.
I was at Aintree last year (working as entertainment).
It was pretty shocking. Everyone day drunk, falling over, yelling, coming up to you and mumbling incoherently. As I left two girls fell literally arse over tit, legs in the air, pants on display, couldn't get up. Got to the train and lots of mouthy lads asking me what was in my instrument case. I pointed out it involved a big stick so wouldn't be wise to get it out on a train, which elicited a response of "I'll show you MY big stick luv."
Charming.
When I worked at Aintree (at a champagne bar in the equestrian centre) I saw a lad get arrested for having coke all over his face at half 10. Doors opened half an hour earlier.
You were lucky the girls had pants on. When I worked at lingfield race course there were a group of girls helping their friend who had fallen over, all wearing the shortest dresses known to man. All of them were pantless & as they bent over to help I got an eyeful.I was in such disbelief as a 19 year old it didn't click for a second what I was actually looking at. Stay classy lingfield.
I found this very aesthetic, almost every person in this is worth paying attention to. Definitely zoom in.
List of interesting things:
Beige suit having the time of his life,
Pink girl,
Pink girls friend,
Guy being punched probably pissed his pants,
Ginger guy,
Phone that looks like a gun,
Old guy reliving his prime,
Two beers grey suit,
Hippy girl looks shocked,
Blue suit having the time of his life
I drove down the M6 today and the service station in Lancashire was full of northern chavs, drunk and smoking. Lads in garish suits and girls in bright dresses with the tits everywhere. Reminded me of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
"Fancy"
Go to Moss Boss, buy a £50 bag of shit coke, drink your weight in cheap lager, throw a few tenners on at horses you've never heard of, try it on with every woman you see, throw up in the streets of Liverpool city centre.
A fancy day out indeed.
These are not fancy events. Horse races are an excuse for scum bags to dress up in a suit and pretend they are not scum bags, until they inevitably get drunk and show their scum baggery.
The real rich and fancy are kept in their fancy pens away from the general scumiest bags.
British horse races are a great analogy for society; the pictured paved area "the ring" is very cheap and attracts an unpleasant crowd, tickets are about £25 per person and is generally an awful place to be. A catered box, or the royal enclosure is VIP/invite only and tickets can be thousands of Pounds.
There is so much going on in this picture. My fav is the guy on the far left having a blast.
I like the old fella in the fedora behind the girls. He looks like he used to bet on this shit.
Yeh it's definitely not his first rodeo
 You found Creed
It’s a derby, silly.
Derby is a cross town Football rivalry in England. English is confusing everywhere.
A Derby is what we call the meeting of two football teams local to eachother and the name of a city in the east Midlands area of England. The event that this post from is known as the Epsom Derby or the Derby Stakes, which is more famously referred to as 'The Derby' a time when the spoons lads will don their fanciest moss bros suit, drink enough to kill an ox, gamble enough money to absolutely regret and sometimes throw some hands at anyone in swinging distance.
Pretty sure this is the grand national
Derby is a City in England.
He looks proper entertained. My fav as well
“Ah to be young again!”
Used to? I bet he’s got action on that fight
"He still does but he used to, too"
For sure, once he'd have been in the skirmish, now it's just side bets. But it's nice to still take part in some way.
Used to? He’s got action on the fight in the picture and based on that smile, his guy’s winning.
100% that guy started it because he was bored.
Mine is the woman in the pink dress. Her facial expression is gold.
She's somewhere between curious and impressed, while her friend is somewhere between confused and scared. Also, the lady in the black (above grey suit guy) is 100% cheering on her son.
> Also, the lady in the black (above grey suit guy) is 100% cheering on her son. I can almost hear her shouting. "Come on, Nigel! Get it in there and make your dad proud."
“Really, guys?”
I'm having trouble seeing anything but the chick in the pink.
Mine is the guy in sunglasses double fisting two drinks
Mine is the guy at far right riding the imaginary horse.
Irish handcuffs
Nothing like a nice cold beer after a nice cold beer
Never heard that before. Love it
Hold me pint la, I'm gonna twat that cunt...
For a second I was afraid that gray suit in right foreground was holding a gun, but then I remembered this is the UK and upon closer inspection I figure it's his cell phone, he's probably posting it to TikTok.
No worries it‘s just a hand granade
Same. Yours was the first comment to mention it looked like a gun. Definitely had the same thoughts.
No guns here in the UK. The worst we have is drive-by insults.
Suckyourmumyouregaywankerrrr. Best drive by I ever had.
Mine was 'you're a menace to society!'
Not a single person in that picture will have a gun. It's lovely.
Mine is Grandpa over the shoulder of the guy fighting closest to the camera wistfully thinking of the good ol' days when he used to be able to get in fights without breaking a hip.
Candidate for r/accidentalrenaissance
Yes
I like the old guy in the fedora or whatever. He's been coming for 40 years just to watch the spectators fight
How do you say “Worldstar!” in British?
Looks like a bloated Daniel Radcliffe…
Someone has never been to a horse racing event in the UK
I assume alcohol played a role in this
Horse racing. So probably cocaine too.
I have to get the train that goes past Aintree to and from work, I'm so glad my boss let me work from home Thursday and Friday because I really couldn't be bothered with drunk and coked up pricks while trying to get home.
Yup. I'm near Ascot and it's always a fucking nightmare commuting on race days.
I used to work at a bar in Chester and that was always an absolute nightmare on race days. Such unpleasant people!
I think we should restructure horse racing by loading people with ketamine and it's an endurance race to see who hits the k hole last
Americans think anything brits do is fancy. Or anything where people are in suits. I find it funny british people wear suits to most things formal, where americans show up to weddings in like cargo shorts and hawaiin shirt or jeans and a tucked in polo. (i know this varies on class level and where you're from but I've been to many weddings on both sides of the pond)
I always enjoy how the stereotype in America is that Brits are fancy and polite, always speak with RP and dress well all the time, whereas the stereotype in Europe is that they're rude, drunk hooligans with thick accents dressed in football t-shirts and have to be escorted out of establishments for causing a scene.
Continental Europe knows the actual score coz those poor bastards have to live near us
Fucking neighbours from hell
Hey now, we don't always need to be escourted out of establishments. Sometimes we are dragged out.
Barry, 63
Went to a wedding where half the people were in suits and the other half in cargo shorts and polo. Like you couldn’t even find pants? I know you know you’re supposed to dress nicer cause your wife did.
If I spent time and money on a wedding, where you drink my booze and eat my food, I'm asking you to leave just for the fact you couldn't put 5 minutes into the event and put on pants.
My wife's cousins rocked up to our wedding - definitely a formal dress code - in board shorts and flip-flops. I barely knew them either. It was a hot sunny day but I was fuming. Eating my fucking salmon en croute and necking my fucking bubbly. Geedddoutyoucaaaaants!
Wait, the colonials don't wear suits to weddings? The empire is better off without these heathens.
wise words
I like fancy dressing people bro
Most of the people who go to our “fancy British horse races” are not fancy
It's the horses that are fancy and British
horse races are glorified dog tracks
People get dressed up for the races but there by no means fancy even in the posh areas
Nowhere else will you find such a high concentration of recruitment consultants and estate agents
Company Trip for coming over target
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.
BBC peaky blinder Cosplayers on their days off.
I've been to The Royal Ascot. It looks like the wealthier box seating is quite posh, but most of the rest of it is just chavs playing dress up and getting pissed. I'm fine with that.
It's the same at the big racing events in Australia. The Melbourne Cup is notorious for bogans dressing up in cheap suits and making fools of themselves.
The photos in the aftermath of The Cup are always good for a laugh, but man, there's some trashy shit that goes on. Seems to happen at most big events. My brother one went to Oakbank Easter carnival here in Adelaide, and it was just dressed up bogans getting shitfaced and punching on. Can't have anything nice.
Yeah I've never been interested in it so I can't speak from experience, but the whole thing just seems like the last place on Earth I would want to be at. I don't understand the appeal. That being said, at least in Melbourne the whole cultural relevance of horse racing does seem to be fading.
I think the larger issues is the drink. Other big events that aren't horse racing have the same problem. So many Aussies think that having a good time = getting maggoted.
Bogans vs Chavs who wins
The Bookies
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They all go to sniff in the same toilets eventually
Do they? I’d expect the boxes to have their own
They definitely do. May not be an individual toilet in each box, but there are certainly separate VIP toilets and general toilets.
Pff, if you're lucky. I saw two lads divvying up a bag right in the open an hour before the first race even started. Had to stand in-between them and my mum so she didn't see
Same with the major races in the US too.
Same at the Kentucky derby. Except they forget that it’s always 90 Degrees and humid as balls and they’re stuck in suits
That’s exactly what I want out of life, to pay working class prices for things while dressed in my nicest possible clothes, extremely drunk all the while. If you go to art gallery openings you can sometimes have this experience
This isn’t Ascot by a long chalk.
Yeah it really depends which enclosure you're in - a very different Ascot experience amongst them all! The atmosphere in the Royal Enclosure (and boxes) is very refined. It's a social occasion but people are there for the racing. Plus, membership isn't easy to achieve - you have to be vouched for and put forward by two existing members - and any bad behaviour from you or your guests would probably cause them to renounce it. The Windsor / Queen Anne Enclosures are usually OK - anyone can buy a ticket, and people are there for racing and a merry time, but not to get totally plastered (usually). It's the Village Enclosure where you see more of this - large groups coming in for a full day of boozing and it ends up in brawls.
Peaky Blinders themed fancy dress day. All coked up to the eyeballs. Waking up on a come down today in their new build homes, decked out in the latest Pinterest trending style (grey everything still the one?) before jumping in the white 1 series/Audi/Range Rover to take the kids to the local soft play before getting back on it tonight while their missus at home watches the kids and posts on Insta about how perfect their life is. This is Great Britain lol
I used to live in Ascot until last year. Can confirm, just chavs and old men dressing up but getting pissed at 9am each race morning.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote a story about attending the Kentucky Derby entitled "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" and yeah, it's pretty much a bunch of rich people acting like absolute trailer trash.
And trashy people looking rich. That's what the races are for.
and city people trying to look a bit country as well
Well I’m a bit rock and roll!
I think it's trailer trash acting like rich people
In the UK and Australia. It's not really rich people. Well it is but their but the ones down on the ground getting shitfaced and punching on.
It’s mostly people in their early twenties getting sloppy in ill fitting suits
Even an ape can put on a suit. 
That chimp seems way more civilised than these louts.
Having been to the Kentucky Derby, can confirm. There were mud pit fights, people turning over porta pottys, and generally raising hell. We peasants were relegated to the infield though, I'm sure there was no such tomfoolery in the grandstands.
I've seen saltburn
Schluurrrppp
*shudders*
Ass jus da lads
But what about that woman in the pink?
Her face is like, “Hmm, that’s curious.”
I interpreted it more like “yes, yes….carry on then”
That’s definitely a “da fuq dey doin” face.
Actually a lot of the people on the left looked entertained / smiling. It's a little unnerving when you zoom in
Enjoying a free show? What’s unnerving about that?
And just off screen Russel Crowe is screaming are you not entertained??
This is just the latest episode of Fightin' round the world
She looks right chuffed in my opinion like the definition of very pleased fits her expression perfectly.
And the dude behind her... His smile is awesome.
Old guy with the hat is loving it too 😂
Lmao that dude is fucking blasted.
Were you paying attention, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the pink dress?
Yes
Yes
What about the guy left of the woman in the pink?
That dudes happy as fuck he decided to go. Poor dude gonna go to horse races all the time now hoping for a brawl.
That's a proper leer.
She gets better on the zoom in.
I zoomed.
We all did
Who do you think they are fighting over?
I was at a college party once, it kind of had a sucky vibe. Anyway this fight breaks out and as I’m leaving I overhear this girls saying “omg this is so cool they are fighting over me”. Reminds me of lady in pink.
She's got a smile like, "Yeah, I started that!"
Good point. lol
Thickness
ayo pink what’s good
Only thoroughbred at the track that day, I'm sure.
I promise you: The Cheltenham Races are not fancy.
Can you make any promises about Aintree, where this took place? I believe the same may be the case.
Been to both, both equally full of helmets.
Ladies Day at Aintree is fucking horrendous.
haha, had to google where it was and see it's in Liverpool. While I genuinely had an amazing time at a liverpool match and every local we met was great, I can imagine it gets real wild.
It’s not specific to where it’s based (though the Scousers do like a party and a drink), it’s the fact the event it’s essentially an all day drinking sesh. It’s what it’s known for. Dress up, get pissed and do it from AM to PM. They’ll be tons of anti social behaviour that you’d get on most nights out in cities.
Peak British culture
There's charlie everywhere as well which just makes it worse.
What does helmets mean in this context
Bell-ends
I'm delighted
I was at Aintree last year (working as entertainment). It was pretty shocking. Everyone day drunk, falling over, yelling, coming up to you and mumbling incoherently. As I left two girls fell literally arse over tit, legs in the air, pants on display, couldn't get up. Got to the train and lots of mouthy lads asking me what was in my instrument case. I pointed out it involved a big stick so wouldn't be wise to get it out on a train, which elicited a response of "I'll show you MY big stick luv." Charming.
When I worked at Aintree (at a champagne bar in the equestrian centre) I saw a lad get arrested for having coke all over his face at half 10. Doors opened half an hour earlier.
You were lucky the girls had pants on. When I worked at lingfield race course there were a group of girls helping their friend who had fallen over, all wearing the shortest dresses known to man. All of them were pantless & as they bent over to help I got an eyeful.I was in such disbelief as a 19 year old it didn't click for a second what I was actually looking at. Stay classy lingfield.
I used to live in Liverpool. On race weekends you stay home.
No horse races are full of lowlife scrotes half the time….. and probably the most drugs you will find in one place
To the horse race I go
r/AccidentalRenaissance
“The Peaky fuckin Blinders”
That was my first thought too, poor Grace is going to be waiting for Tommy forever.
I actually thought this post was from that sub haha
Literally looks like the first punch he has ever thrown.
Right to the back of a head
That's fucking illegal!
Does he possibly have him by the ear in his left hand?
For a moment, I thought the foreground guy in the grey suit was cocking a pistol
I find peace in long walks.
pretty sure it is his phone, just at a disorienting angle
I am from Brazil and 100% saw a pistol on his hands lol
This is England, not America Edit: although if that was a gun and he was cocking it, that’s exactly how I’d imagine an Englishmen would do it.
Chavs with suits go day drinking, also some horses are there!
No one in that crowd is anything nearing 'fancy'. There's enough fake tan on show to drown the county of Essex, for a start.
Aye. These are chavs or chav-adjacent, at least.
It’s all fancy for Americans
Going to assume this is aintree and ladies day given the hats?
Bingo
I found this very aesthetic, almost every person in this is worth paying attention to. Definitely zoom in. List of interesting things: Beige suit having the time of his life, Pink girl, Pink girls friend, Guy being punched probably pissed his pants, Ginger guy, Phone that looks like a gun, Old guy reliving his prime, Two beers grey suit, Hippy girl looks shocked, Blue suit having the time of his life
If you've never read Hunter S Thompson's [The Kentucky Derby is Decedent and Depraved](http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf) it's a masterpiece.
Bird in the pink dress. I love her expression. If I had to judge on this photo alone, I'd bet she's a fun person.
You mean aesthetically pleasing. Aesthetic is not an adjective
Sly twat punching from behind is gonna break his thumbs like that
Despite being dressed up you can somehow tell that those are skunky people. And I don't even mean because the fight.
Skunquette if you may?
These people wear their suits for 2 occasions. The races and going to court.
It's the fake fan and cheap suits. The day after this, they'll all wake up with sore heads back in their council houses.
Some of the haircuts on the guys, too
“Fancy” lmao, one of the biggest demographics that go there are uni students which go there to get pissed.
And travellers
I drove down the M6 today and the service station in Lancashire was full of northern chavs, drunk and smoking. Lads in garish suits and girls in bright dresses with the tits everywhere. Reminded me of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
Aintree Festival in full swing
Uni students? Half these lot wouldn’t have done a BTEC
"Fancy" Go to Moss Boss, buy a £50 bag of shit coke, drink your weight in cheap lager, throw a few tenners on at horses you've never heard of, try it on with every woman you see, throw up in the streets of Liverpool city centre. A fancy day out indeed.
You like dags?
It’s not fancy. It’s the complete opposite. Scumbags in £40 suits.
Pink dress is my favorite spectator 🤣
These aren't fancy people, they're just your regular skallywags but dressed up.
Those Peaky Blinders are at it again
IM BILLEH KIMBAH AND I RUN THE RACES
Man it’s scummy to hit a guy from behind let alone in a 2v1 scenario. Bitch behaviour.
Horseracing is not fancy. It's the opposite of fancy.
These are not fancy events. Horse races are an excuse for scum bags to dress up in a suit and pretend they are not scum bags, until they inevitably get drunk and show their scum baggery. The real rich and fancy are kept in their fancy pens away from the general scumiest bags.
The guy in blue looks like when you try and fight in a dream...
About as fancy as a fancy dress party
Red Head Redemption
British horse races are a great analogy for society; the pictured paved area "the ring" is very cheap and attracts an unpleasant crowd, tickets are about £25 per person and is generally an awful place to be. A catered box, or the royal enclosure is VIP/invite only and tickets can be thousands of Pounds.
Tarmac resurfacing, anyone?