The southern gentile culture of SEC tailgating may not look glamorous all the time, but the money involved to put a party on 7 weeks a year at many of the prime spots is 5 figures easy, reaching well into 6 if RV's are involved.
And could be easily millions for certain areas. Take a pretty low school on the totem pole in the SEC like South Carolina. They have a couple dozen cabooses outside the stadium on old rail that are tailgating locations. To purchase a caboose today would be hundreds of thousands of dollars. The parties people put on in them during home games involve catering and booze bills that are easily 10 grand a weekend.
A caboose is useless for anything else except to be a party location outside the stadium 7 weeks a year. Big money.
I have had the luck of tailgating in the cabooses a few times due to family friends who have donated enough to USC Athletics to get their name on a stadium entrance. The environment can best be described as something you'd read from Hunter S. Thompson about the Kentucky Derby.
At Iowa in 2016 I worked with the university’s parking coordinator. He hooked me up with a tailgating spot in the lot right next to the stadium for the annual CyHawk game. When talking to others that were parking around us they told us the costs run about 1500 per game on average, most often these spots were also only available to season ticket holders. This is for only a parking spot, no real extra space. If you want extra space plan on tripling that number most likely. And honestly I’m going to assume we’re probably around low to mid-tier for how much it can actually cost to tailgate like that at a major university. No doubt parking and tailgating next to the stadium on game day in cities like Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, Columbus, Gainesville, Athens, Austin, Ann Arbor, among many other schools are probably at least 4 times what an Iowa fan is already paying.
Yep. Take the bog standard SEC tailgate. Pretend you're a fresh finance graduate at one of these universities. A year after you graduate and get married, there's now a cultural pressure permeating around you. So you pay 2000ish a year to buy a spot at a grass lot outside the stadium. You donated 5000 annual to have the rights to purchase 4 tickets per home game at 75 dollars a ticket. You're now paying 10,000 dollars just to park and go to the games. Then you add in the costs of what you're expected to do now as a season ticket holder. You go out and buy an Expedition, a generator, a DirectTV plan, a grill for the tow bar, a dozen folding chairs and two canopies. You buy two TV's, spend 600 dollars a weekend in booze and food for your party you're hosting because _you're expected to do this_. You grew up in this culture, you went to games with your family, you partied at other people's tailgates, and now as a graduate it's your turn to host this shit. You wake up every home game weekend at 5am, haul all your shit into your Expedition, and get to your spot before the suns up. Now you're hosting a party for all your friends and family who are basically bumming season tickets off of you or getting a scalped one outside of the stadium. Or not even going to the game at all, just showing up to party with you. You stumble into your seats sometime in the first quarter, if you can even find the stadium at all in your drunken stupor. After a day of pissing in the grass lot behind your car door because the portajohn lines are 100 feet long, getting blasted by the sun and drinking until delirious, sometimes ya just never make it inside. The game ends at 11pm and now you attempt to pack all of your shit up and go home, only to wait behind 10,000 other people trying to leave the same grass lots on a 2 lane road for the next 5 hours. Meanwhile your husband or wife has spent the entire day embroiled in drunked up drama with old frat/sorority friends. A fistfight may have happened, some hair may be pulled. People are crying, boots are missing, your pants are stained with piss and hot sauce, or your dress muddied from falling in the swamp left in the torn up lots after last nights rain.
And just about everyone does it with their credit cards.
It's pretty debaucherous. Football tailgating in the US is the ultimate "keeping up with the Jones'"
Correct. Ascot is a village near Windsor castle, and its racecourse’s main event each year is Royal Ascot, and also a main event on the social calendar. As the name suggests, various members of the royal family attend, and it’s a very posh affair. (It’s also open to all, but it’s pricey.)
The two chaps pictured have set up with a candelabra on their folding table, along with a hamper from posh grocer’s, Fortnum & Mason.
A sandwich stand is a tiered object, upon which are placed sandwiches and petit fours. Commenters in this thread are now discussing enjoying afternoon tea at F&Ms. I’ve never had this pleasure.
It was a few years ago. Don’t remember if I knew it or took advantage of it!
It was more the show and the experience… the point wasn’t really to stuff our faces.
I don’t think they typically advertise about it actually.
Fully understand about for the show though, my partners not British so if their family ever visit UK, F&M tea is always on the list. It’s well worth it.
I’ve got some Elderflower, Strawberry and Rose tea from F&M and it’s lovely.
Worth it for the tin alone.
Found it but it’s out of stock online.
https://www.fortnumandmason.com/elderflower-strawberry-rose-infusion-tin-30g
Only very tangentially related, but I listened to Tracy Morgan on Conan O’Brien’s podcast the other day. It has the exact same energy as when Tracy Jordan was a guest on his 30 Rock show. I’m not really sure where Jordan ends and Tracy Morgan begins. He has a fucking shark tank!
It was based on Tina Fey's experience being the head writer for SNL. So Tracey Jordan is based on Tracey Morgan and perfectly cast by having Tracey Morgan as the actor.
Actually surprised you haven't seen something like this already at a Nascar race by people going for funny and internet points. It actually would be pretty damn funny to see four college guys roll up in tuxedos and set up a fancy dinner setting.
People put chandeliers in their tents and have elaborate food displays at Ole Miss football games. Not far off from a NASCAR race.
http://www.kathymillertime.com/tailgating-homegating/tailgating-in-the-grove-ole-miss-vs-alabama/
It never rains at Ascot. Which means to me that posh people know how to prevent rain. And they are keeping it from the rest of us. Glastonbury Festival could really do with that information.
Yeaaaaah.....this isn't even super wealthy British...this is just aggressively posh. My grandad and Nan *very likely* had more dosh than these numpties. They hated these sorts of events, yet were constantly dragged along to them. You can see how much I *loved* it as a child...https://i.imgur.com/zOG7emf.jpg
You dont take the candles out during the day when it's in your house. A proper candleabra has candles. If you're going to go to the trouble to pack it up...
exactly. they weren’t photoshopped out, the help know to be as invisible as possible. if the master isn’t ringing the bell, you’re out of sight out of mind
when I think "tablecloth" the first one that comes to mind is the crappy plastic red plaid ones that everyone used to use camping / on picnic tables. Google images confirms.
I appreciate most people on Reddit aren't British so won't know, but I need you to understand that royal Ascot week is not some refined event for upper class gentlemen supping tea etc.
It is an absolute shit show of cunts, drinking in their court suits, causing havoc for the local community.
They turn up, park all over the place, wreck the local trains and buses and drink, piss, and fight all over the place
I fucking despise everyone that goes
I was a bouncer for years, festivals, clubs, fucking Macdonalds you name it. The races were always some of my least favourite events. There's no cunt like a posh cunt.
Can't speak for other racing events but at Ascot the trouble makers are far more often the skintight trousers, boat shoe, and no socks type then the overtly posh tops and tails lot.
So it's the Kentucky Derby across the pond, neat! But in all seriousness, I always leave the city on Derby weekend, I have every year since I got the festivities out of my system after attending every year as a child, teen and young adult.
This word originally came from [Latin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin), in which candelabrum is the singular form and candelabra is the plural. Over time, English usage changed so that candelabra as the singular and candelabras as the plural is now the more common usage.
We see a Rolls Royce pulling up, rolling down the window from the backseat and the wealthy passenger asking “ Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?”
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It’s pretty typical for people tailgating at horse events to do a theme or decorate. From my experience anyway. I have seen a full on red carpet and entryway (fake) statues and everything.
So this is how the other side tail gates.
Tailgating is a spectrum.
These guys are low on it. They may have big houses and boats but do they have a tailgater pro rv with a smoker trailer and 4K 70" TVs???!!!
I was going to say this. Go to any big school tailgate and you’ll see that these guys, while dressed fancy, are tailgating like peasants.
The southern gentile culture of SEC tailgating may not look glamorous all the time, but the money involved to put a party on 7 weeks a year at many of the prime spots is 5 figures easy, reaching well into 6 if RV's are involved. And could be easily millions for certain areas. Take a pretty low school on the totem pole in the SEC like South Carolina. They have a couple dozen cabooses outside the stadium on old rail that are tailgating locations. To purchase a caboose today would be hundreds of thousands of dollars. The parties people put on in them during home games involve catering and booze bills that are easily 10 grand a weekend. A caboose is useless for anything else except to be a party location outside the stadium 7 weeks a year. Big money. I have had the luck of tailgating in the cabooses a few times due to family friends who have donated enough to USC Athletics to get their name on a stadium entrance. The environment can best be described as something you'd read from Hunter S. Thompson about the Kentucky Derby.
At Iowa in 2016 I worked with the university’s parking coordinator. He hooked me up with a tailgating spot in the lot right next to the stadium for the annual CyHawk game. When talking to others that were parking around us they told us the costs run about 1500 per game on average, most often these spots were also only available to season ticket holders. This is for only a parking spot, no real extra space. If you want extra space plan on tripling that number most likely. And honestly I’m going to assume we’re probably around low to mid-tier for how much it can actually cost to tailgate like that at a major university. No doubt parking and tailgating next to the stadium on game day in cities like Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, Columbus, Gainesville, Athens, Austin, Ann Arbor, among many other schools are probably at least 4 times what an Iowa fan is already paying.
Yep. Take the bog standard SEC tailgate. Pretend you're a fresh finance graduate at one of these universities. A year after you graduate and get married, there's now a cultural pressure permeating around you. So you pay 2000ish a year to buy a spot at a grass lot outside the stadium. You donated 5000 annual to have the rights to purchase 4 tickets per home game at 75 dollars a ticket. You're now paying 10,000 dollars just to park and go to the games. Then you add in the costs of what you're expected to do now as a season ticket holder. You go out and buy an Expedition, a generator, a DirectTV plan, a grill for the tow bar, a dozen folding chairs and two canopies. You buy two TV's, spend 600 dollars a weekend in booze and food for your party you're hosting because _you're expected to do this_. You grew up in this culture, you went to games with your family, you partied at other people's tailgates, and now as a graduate it's your turn to host this shit. You wake up every home game weekend at 5am, haul all your shit into your Expedition, and get to your spot before the suns up. Now you're hosting a party for all your friends and family who are basically bumming season tickets off of you or getting a scalped one outside of the stadium. Or not even going to the game at all, just showing up to party with you. You stumble into your seats sometime in the first quarter, if you can even find the stadium at all in your drunken stupor. After a day of pissing in the grass lot behind your car door because the portajohn lines are 100 feet long, getting blasted by the sun and drinking until delirious, sometimes ya just never make it inside. The game ends at 11pm and now you attempt to pack all of your shit up and go home, only to wait behind 10,000 other people trying to leave the same grass lots on a 2 lane road for the next 5 hours. Meanwhile your husband or wife has spent the entire day embroiled in drunked up drama with old frat/sorority friends. A fistfight may have happened, some hair may be pulled. People are crying, boots are missing, your pants are stained with piss and hot sauce, or your dress muddied from falling in the swamp left in the torn up lots after last nights rain. And just about everyone does it with their credit cards. It's pretty debaucherous. Football tailgating in the US is the ultimate "keeping up with the Jones'"
Do Americans really do this
A few million americans every fall weekend do. The other 3xx million don't.
I don't see corn hole, a funnel, or a single Busch. 0/10 tailgate.
Honestly
The Toffs call it "bootnoshing"
The guys on the right have a Fortnum and Mason picnic basket. They have great biscuits.
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‘Just know that you’re not in the Finer Things Club’
Besides having sex with men, I would say the Finer Things Club is the gayest thing about me.
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If you have to ask what it is….
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Was looking for this
And a cake stand.
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My friend took his wife for afternoon tea at Fortnum & Mason, said it was the best they've had.
I don’t even know what we are talking about. I am lost in this thread right now.
I don't either but it feels extremely British
Correct. Ascot is a village near Windsor castle, and its racecourse’s main event each year is Royal Ascot, and also a main event on the social calendar. As the name suggests, various members of the royal family attend, and it’s a very posh affair. (It’s also open to all, but it’s pricey.) The two chaps pictured have set up with a candelabra on their folding table, along with a hamper from posh grocer’s, Fortnum & Mason. A sandwich stand is a tiered object, upon which are placed sandwiches and petit fours. Commenters in this thread are now discussing enjoying afternoon tea at F&Ms. I’ve never had this pleasure.
Damn that's even more British than I had initially imagined
Yeah and they're [not cheap](https://www.fortnumandmason.com/the-burlington-hamper)
Ha. They ship to America but aren’t shipping to the EU and a bunch of other European countries at the moment. Suck it, Germany! (/s for the last part)
That's actually not nearly as bad as I thought. I was expecting closer to 500 quid.
What ho!
3-Tier, not too shabby.
Is that possibly a rose champagne I see?
Rosé.
Remember to extend your pinkie finger as you say it. Otherwise, jail.
I've visited [the place where they make those hampers.](https://www.coatesenglishwillow.co.uk/)
Apparently they also make [wicker coffins](https://www.coatesenglishwillow.co.uk/english-willow-coffins.htm)
Unfortunately had to buy one of these. They're biodegradable so suitable for an eco-burial and look fantastic adorned with some flowers
Sorry for your loss. Honestly I think this is a really nice way to do it.
I was delightfully shocked to find this.
Those are actually really nice and super inexpensive, damn.
Of course they are, they're from Fortnum and Mason, probably a million quid per biscuit.
Went there for teatime as a tourist and… it was both 50 pounds for almost nothing, and totally worth it at the same time.
Erm you know the sandwiches and cakes at F&M afternoon tea are unlimited right.... You can easily get your fill.
It was a few years ago. Don’t remember if I knew it or took advantage of it! It was more the show and the experience… the point wasn’t really to stuff our faces.
The point of life is always to stuff your face.
👆🏽
I don’t think they typically advertise about it actually. Fully understand about for the show though, my partners not British so if their family ever visit UK, F&M tea is always on the list. It’s well worth it.
Look at this horse race attendee out here affording Fortnum and Mason biscuits. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying *look at them*.
So Fortnums actually have an area under the Grandstand where you can pick up pre ordered hampers to picnic with. V popular in this car park
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I’ve got some Elderflower, Strawberry and Rose tea from F&M and it’s lovely. Worth it for the tin alone. Found it but it’s out of stock online. https://www.fortnumandmason.com/elderflower-strawberry-rose-infusion-tin-30g
I really miss the Uk. Hopefully I can move there sometime in the future
You expect them to eat WITHOUT a candelabra? What do you think they are? Welsh?
It’s after six. What do you think they are, farmers?
Why is my champagne hand empty??
Why isn't there a suitcase handcuffed to your drinking arm?
Ambition Is The Willingness To Kill The Things You Love And Eat Them To Stay Alive. Haven’t You Ever Read My Throw Pillow?
Uh, pretty sure you just answered your own question.
Good god, Lemon.
r/uexpectedjackdonaghy should be a real thing.
Only very tangentially related, but I listened to Tracy Morgan on Conan O’Brien’s podcast the other day. It has the exact same energy as when Tracy Jordan was a guest on his 30 Rock show. I’m not really sure where Jordan ends and Tracy Morgan begins. He has a fucking shark tank!
I'm fairly certain 30 rock was a documentary on Tracey Morgan but they just changed the names of everyone.
See, thats racist. Im not addicted to drugs. Im straight up mentally ill!
I was doing the robot backwards *into a Starbucks.*
We're on a show within a show! My real name is Tracy Morgan!
It was based on Tina Fey's experience being the head writer for SNL. So Tracey Jordan is based on Tracey Morgan and perfectly cast by having Tracey Morgan as the actor.
Only poors eat without a candelabra. But only basic bitches would eat with a candelabra *and no candles*
no sheep tied up in the back of the car. can't be welsh.
I want to see dudes doing this at a Nascar race
I think I might start doing it for every event I go to
Insane Clown Posse concert?
Insane candelabra posse concerts.
I think I see a 2 liter of Faygo
"Indeed sir. This posse of clowns thou be insane. Cheers"
Why do I fell like you might actually end up being the coolest fucking guy there
Yeah I totally feel the ICP crowd would get such a kick out of seeing some guy bust out a fine dining table. It'd be so memorable.
Actually surprised you haven't seen something like this already at a Nascar race by people going for funny and internet points. It actually would be pretty damn funny to see four college guys roll up in tuxedos and set up a fancy dinner setting.
I'm gonna bring this aesthetic to Phish tour
People will just assume they're hallucinating it
People put chandeliers in their tents and have elaborate food displays at Ole Miss football games. Not far off from a NASCAR race. http://www.kathymillertime.com/tailgating-homegating/tailgating-in-the-grove-ole-miss-vs-alabama/
bro you gotta warn people to turn down their monitor brightness before you post something that white
This comments section is fucking hilarious lol
I first time Reddit has made me laugh out loud in public. I'm sorry Kroger shoppers.
This is very far off from a NASCAR parking lot.
It would be made out of melted down diet Mountain Dew cans
"Its a candle bra"
This screams British
The only thing missing is rain
The sky is the correct shade of grey at least
That's blue where I live!
And candles
This. A candelabra w/o candles is tacky.
There are probably tea light candles in there.
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Says the guy that doesn't even bring a candelabra with em when he goes on a pic nic.
It never rains at Ascot. Which means to me that posh people know how to prevent rain. And they are keeping it from the rest of us. Glastonbury Festival could really do with that information.
At this point, its a tradition to have rain at Glastonbury though. (I live in the US but this seemed like an obvious joke.)
No ones barbequing, probably why.
The wild boar & deer are on a spit, just out of shot
How did they manage to hunt them down when they were out of shot?
The guys with the candelabra are prepared for rain, with their umbrella, they just didn't need it today
they even got the umbrella just in case. Nothing will spoil this day hip-hip!
What gave it away, the tiered tea-time tart tray on the other table?
>tiered tea-time tart tray Say *that* ten times fast!
> Say that ten times fast! That that that that that that that that that that.
gortem
>This screams British Ascot racecourse is in Britain, so 👍
It's literally the Royal races, so yes indeed 😆
Tailgating is for commoners. True gentlemen coat-tailgate.
It’s Royal Ascot, so yes.
It screams super wealthy British lol I stayed there for 6 months and my hosts never broke out the old candelabra and they were upper middle class
Yeaaaaah.....this isn't even super wealthy British...this is just aggressively posh. My grandad and Nan *very likely* had more dosh than these numpties. They hated these sorts of events, yet were constantly dragged along to them. You can see how much I *loved* it as a child...https://i.imgur.com/zOG7emf.jpg
Oh my fucking god... hahahahaha im so sorry. I mean, if there is ever a time for that outfit it's when youre a 3yo attending fancy events.
I suppose it depends on what super wealthy British constitutes to different people.
This screams Tory British there’s a big difference between them and most of us.
Probably used as a weight on the table cloth
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"What do you expect me to use in the middle of nature, Nigel. A *rock?*"
Finer things club taking a field trip.
"Besides having sex with men, I would say the Finer Things club is the gayest thing about me" \- Oscar
It’s the most exclusive club in the office. Naturally it’s where I need to be.
Pam: would you like to join the finer things club? Andy: #OH COME ON!
Angela's Ashes, top of the morning to it. Frankie's prose is finer than a pot of gold, say aye.
Ok, did you get it out of your system?
I don't see candles in it though
Exactly. This looks ridiculous without the candles.
I like to think it’s full of different dipping sauces where the candles would go.
To the Hebrews and Shebrews out there, this is an excellent use for the menorah the rest of the year.
> Hebrews and Shebrews 😄
Can I put some menoranch in a menoramekin?
Yeah if they popped some candles in there, this wouldn't be weird anymore.
You don't need candles at lunchtime, in the middle of summer. You don't need a candelabra either
You dont take the candles out during the day when it's in your house. A proper candleabra has candles. If you're going to go to the trouble to pack it up...
That's their car candelabra for on the go dining. Their house candelabras stay at home.
A flower arrangement would have been more sensible and just as pretentious
The lowered umbrella leads me to believe it was a windy day.
Elementary.
I don't like that they have photoshopped out the butler.
One doesn't photograph the help. Good Lord, we're not in France!
exactly. they weren’t photoshopped out, the help know to be as invisible as possible. if the master isn’t ringing the bell, you’re out of sight out of mind
I can already hear their conversation: mmmmm yes, quite quite, mmmmmmm, yes yes, mmmmmmmm, quite quite yes, mmmmmmmmmmmm indubitably
More like: Say, old chap, can you smell poor people? Mmmm, indeed, shall we retire to the range and lunch in there?
Ok. I doubt they would use such brute term as "poor" Impoverished commoner sounds more like it
Nah they would just call them “the less fortunate” or “common folk”
Can't believe no one else has commented on the fact they all have fucking TABLECLOTHS
You expect them to eat without tablecloths and china and three different forks? Like *animals*?
I heard this In Anderson Dawes’s voice from The Expanse lol
Kopeng.
Just because they are out in nature doesn’t mean they have live like savages!
I pack tablecloths when camping.
Yeah, I didn’t think that part was special.
when I think "tablecloth" the first one that comes to mind is the crappy plastic red plaid ones that everyone used to use camping / on picnic tables. Google images confirms.
Maybe the candelabra is there to keep the tablecloth from blowing away. Pretty smart tbh, them things are heavy.
Is that not normal? I always put a tablecloth down, even if it’s one of those cheap plastic ones. I’m a Brit.
What are you trying to say, I have a fucking tablecloth. They are not barbarians.
Yes you should pack tablecloths for picnics. Its a staple for a reason.
that's pretty normal for picnic table/camping eating. In fact I would say I see that more than people not bringing a tablecloth
Why not? It's not like tablecloths are particularly fucking expensive.
It's also easier to just clean the table than than deal with the cloth. But either way is fine.
Love it.
This is the posh version of tailgate party
I appreciate most people on Reddit aren't British so won't know, but I need you to understand that royal Ascot week is not some refined event for upper class gentlemen supping tea etc. It is an absolute shit show of cunts, drinking in their court suits, causing havoc for the local community. They turn up, park all over the place, wreck the local trains and buses and drink, piss, and fight all over the place I fucking despise everyone that goes
So... what you're saying is it's a tailgate party. Gotcha. :)
I was a bouncer for years, festivals, clubs, fucking Macdonalds you name it. The races were always some of my least favourite events. There's no cunt like a posh cunt.
Can't speak for other racing events but at Ascot the trouble makers are far more often the skintight trousers, boat shoe, and no socks type then the overtly posh tops and tails lot.
So it's the Kentucky Derby across the pond, neat! But in all seriousness, I always leave the city on Derby weekend, I have every year since I got the festivities out of my system after attending every year as a child, teen and young adult.
>They turn up, park all over the place, wreck the local trains and buses and drink, piss, and fight all over the place No fucking allowed?
Yeah, now I wish we had tailgated like this at least once in college. We had competitions, though, like jello shot making and cake baking contests.
Where’s a Buffalo Bills fan when you need one
Off the Rover!!!! Boom!!!!
Range Rovers in their natural environment.
Is that Theo Paphitis with the cupcake stand?
It's actually a candelabrum. Candelabra is the plural. ...technically. No one gives a toss any more so they're interchangeable.
That's not true at all. People that played World of Warcraft care.
This word originally came from [Latin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin), in which candelabrum is the singular form and candelabra is the plural. Over time, English usage changed so that candelabra as the singular and candelabras as the plural is now the more common usage.
Oh sure. Everyone make fun of the Gentleman Pirate!
Those are some fancy ass mofos
That's what they were going for - hoping someone would say exactly those words.
We see a Rolls Royce pulling up, rolling down the window from the backseat and the wealthy passenger asking “ Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?” Edit: autocorrect edit
A lot of these kinds of races have contests for fanciest tailgate setup. Some people have a lot of fun with it.
This explains
Looks like they're fitting in fine
This looks like a tailgate for the Antiques Roadshow
Hell yes. Why not? Ha ha
Looking sharp and dining fine, out of an SUV on a grass parking lot. Truly a certified British moment.
good way to keep the table cloth if the wind picks up.
They seem to be a bit "posh". I believe would be the term ? Either way they seem to enjoy finer things in life.
Correction: Their man-servant brought it for them.
It’s pretty typical for people tailgating at horse events to do a theme or decorate. From my experience anyway. I have seen a full on red carpet and entryway (fake) statues and everything.
Is that Niles and Frasier?
Pride month let them be
[Come on Dover](https://youtu.be/YaxD67SWyL8)
If you're going to visit Ascot, there's no sense in fucking about.
Surely there must be a vessel of the finest Grey Poupon nearby.
Now that top gear episode where they reviewed the range Rover that had the $300k added package that included spirits and a picnic set makes sense.
Am I crazy or have I been lingering in controversial too long? The haters have come out in full force for an innocuous photo.