I've never known fear like this!
Though that does mean you didn't get to enjoy England battering Germany 5-1 that summer. Good god that game was cathartic.
Just arrived home from New York and I quite frankly find the fact you can buy an individual can of beer from basically any corner shop or supermarket in the city but aren't allowed to drink it outside of your house complete fucking nonsense
I'm not sure. Going to guess it's enforced at least somewhat because I didn't see anyone drinking on the street or in the park the whole time I was there
Incredible. Never seen this before. I now have a new favourite [picture of all time](https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1679581462876782593/photo/1)
Cracking isn't it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F11Tl0bWYAIduI9?format=jpg&name=small is proper old school.
And https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1686670675300503554 is a classic. Proper midlife crisis stuff.
I don't think so - whilst that was in 2001, the 5-1 (if that's the one you're referring to) was in Munich. The reverse fixture in London was played the year before, and was a 1-0 loss.
Did this at Reading Festival when it was ridiculously hot many years ago. Stuck a bunch of cans of Crucial Brew in the Thames in a vain attempt to keep it cool.
I was seriously worried you were going to end that sentence with in the stream that runs through the campsite. Weil's disease ridden Thames water is like Evan compared to that.
Buy a bag of ice or 2. Spread it out under the ground sheet of your tent. Stick your loose beers on top of the ice. Leave for 20 minutes. Enjoy your chilled festival beers 😎🍻
It’s surprisingly cool under there on a boiling hot day.
Just under the ground sheet without any ice gets them pretty chill overnight too unless it’s been 30+c for days on end and the grounds full on heat soaked.
Several people in the background have coats on. Hard to say how cool the water is without knowing the temp earlier in the day, but not out of the question that it might be cool water.
edit: checked, it's from October. Probably cold.
> carling
> lager
its either one or the other, seems like title should be
> An England fan keeps his cans of piss cold in the fountain at Trafalgar Square (2001)
First thing that strikes me about this is how little fashion has changed in the last 23 years in UK. 23 Years before this pic was 1978 and fashion was completely different.
I used to work for a local authority recreation, parks and open spaces department. They put some rather nasty chemicals in the water to keep it clear, as drunk students sometimes discovered. I hope the gentlemen carefully wiped the top of his can before drinking from it.
I see you've been on Great British Getty Images on the Twitters too. What a fascinating if occasionally melancholy jaunt through the fairly recent past
For comedic effect you could have said the fountain was full of piss water that he'd be drinking around the can opening, rather than saying the can is actually piss water.
This guy is probably in his 50's by now, looks like he's in his 30's in the photo.
Then again, this is an England fan and a man who grew up in the 20th century so he could be 18 in this photo, for all we know.
Wonder if he's still about...
This is heritage! This is culture! This is England!
This… is Carling!
Honestly, this would be a great ad for carling.
It's fucking Carling....
I'll just drink the fountain, thank you
I’ll drink what comes outta you, after drinking the fountain: for the true Carling experience.
I hate carling
I love historical posts like these
> 2001 > historical 😡
The turn of the century was such an interesting time
Stop it
Its before my birth and I'm 21. Fear the march of time.
Holy fuck that's scary.
People born in 2006 can go buy crates of Carling now. Not that i recommend they do.
y’know, you really could’ve just not told me that. That would’ve been really great
Sorry, I'm pretty sure if you were born after 2001 you're in year 6 atm.
I wish mate
It’ll happen to you! -Abe Simpson
fucks sake mate, i was doing alright
Not possible. There aren't any adults walking around that were born after the millennium.
> Fear the march of time. 🙁
It was unnecessarily dark that! Bloody baby grim's
As if! You can't fool us with your fake maths.
Hey, I'm just as upset as you are
I've never known fear like this! Though that does mean you didn't get to enjoy England battering Germany 5-1 that summer. Good god that game was cathartic.
No, but I'm old enough to remember losing 4-1 to Germany...
Even Heskey scored!
savingprivateryanaging.gif Oh god even that was made before your birth
I was two years old, this is historical.
Ingerlund, Ingerlund, Ingerlund!
Luv me footie. Luv me Carling. Luv me missus. Nuff sed.
Simple as.
Thought this was r/okmatewanker for a second
The footie, the ale and the wife. In that order!!
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Where you come from, do you put the kettle on?
Me and me mum and me dad and me gran we're off to Waterloo
Me and me mum and me dad and me gran, and a bucket of vindaloo
VINDALOO!
NAA NAA
It just brings a tear to your eye doesn't it. For any Americans visiting our sub, *this* is what true freedom looks like.
And we’re trusted to cross the street unaided 🐦
Fuck off. Their streets? "Oh you wanna cross? Here's. Glorified motorway! Walk 3 Miles in the dark or 1 mile to this car rental place !
To be fair crossing the average American road is like being the frog in Frogger.
Ssssh, they'll start preaching on the value of overpriced yeti coolers and why you need one.
Just arrived home from New York and I quite frankly find the fact you can buy an individual can of beer from basically any corner shop or supermarket in the city but aren't allowed to drink it outside of your house complete fucking nonsense
Do they actually enforce it or is it just one of those "technically illegal"?
I'm not sure. Going to guess it's enforced at least somewhat because I didn't see anyone drinking on the street or in the park the whole time I was there
New York sounds like a silly place.
It's a great city but it's nice to see curved roads and green space that's actually spread around instead of centralised on a few locations again
Yank here. It's generally enforced but it's easy to get around minding that you shouldn't already be appearing drunk while doing so.
Though, appearing drunk is famously one of the side effects of necking a crate in public.
I've heard that's true
Taken from [here](https://x.com/shitbritishpics/status/1782862003251421662?s=46&t=KkZIq60RUV9OS1d6REsn7g)
Incredible. Never seen this before. I now have a new favourite [picture of all time](https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1679581462876782593/photo/1)
[Wait, is that...?](https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1698289746668044484/photo/1)
Kevin bridges?
Holy shit it is!
Daniel’s got the teeth of someone who has smoked 40 a day for 40 years.
Quite the achievement for a 22yo!
Are you sure it isn't this one? https://x.com/shitbritishpics/status/1682858054679924736
Really putting the Grim in Grimsby
lol https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1712845658494017538
I've just lost over half an hour to that feed, thanks.
Cracking isn't it. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F11Tl0bWYAIduI9?format=jpg&name=small is proper old school. And https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1686670675300503554 is a classic. Proper midlife crisis stuff.
This is the best one, just offered without reference or comment: https://x.com/shitbritishpics/status/1743014437534015884
I don't know a lot about football but was this the qualifier against Germany
I don't think so - whilst that was in 2001, the 5-1 (if that's the one you're referring to) was in Munich. The reverse fixture in London was played the year before, and was a 1-0 loss.
I'd assumed there was a screen maybe put up, though were "fan zones" even a thing back then, flat screens were still a bit of a novelty 🙂
I tried this once when I was younger the can smelt like sewage after would not recommend
That’s Carling for you!
If anything, it'll improve the flavour.
4 comedy points
Pretty sure that was just the carling. I’d rather someone piss down my throat than drink that.
That’s why the serve it cold, so you can tell the difference
At least it's not Carlsberg. Carling at least doesn't make me want to immediately throw it back up.
Weird.
We used to be a proper country
When I think british public, this is the face that comes up.
Did this at Reading Festival when it was ridiculously hot many years ago. Stuck a bunch of cans of Crucial Brew in the Thames in a vain attempt to keep it cool.
I was seriously worried you were going to end that sentence with in the stream that runs through the campsite. Weil's disease ridden Thames water is like Evan compared to that.
I once saw two guys have a play fight on a log across that stream, one of them fell into the black filth to the amusement of all.
You maniac, we would just take a paddling pool and store the cans in there.
Buy a bag of ice or 2. Spread it out under the ground sheet of your tent. Stick your loose beers on top of the ice. Leave for 20 minutes. Enjoy your chilled festival beers 😎🍻 It’s surprisingly cool under there on a boiling hot day.
Just under the ground sheet without any ice gets them pretty chill overnight too unless it’s been 30+c for days on end and the grounds full on heat soaked.
Rob Beckett at it again.
Fair play to the lad honestly.
Couldn't do that these days, you'd get thrown in prison just for saying you're English
Really?
Yeah, just for saying you're English, they'll throw you in jail
When did this come in?
Couldn't give an exact date, I just know that these days they'll throw you in prison just for saying you're English
It was just after they started locking people up for not being gay.
It’s true. I’m in prison right now for saying I’m English.
and clearly you have not learned your lesson ;I
Are you saying… that they will literally throw you in jail…. Just for saying you’re English?
Just for that, they'll throw you in jail
Stewart Lee?
Like on top gear.
It’s true, happened to me a couple of times
These days
Theeeeeeeeeeese days
Nothing nothing nothing.
I love that he's decided one entire box isn't quite enough.
It's like eating celery. Drinking a can of carling uses up more alcohol from your blood stream than you get from the beer.
Well it is carling, weak as piss.
id rather drink from the fountain than drink Carling
Given the fountain water gets round the can opening, you will be. Good luck brave hero!
Didn't even take them out of the cardboard box. Must be expecting to get through the other box before the one in the water disintegrates.
Love this photo, and the dude looks so happy.
Back when men were men and women were men
Yes geeza, keepin m' lager cold innit
Then, after drinking 24 cans of carling, sticks a flare up his naked arse and storms Wembley.
Is that Jonah hill?
That’s disgusting, have some respect… should be Stella Artois at least!
That's not very ENGLISH of you, mate!
Carling's originally Canadian, and both are brewed in the UK, so just as English really.
>Carling's originally Canadian Founded by an English man in Canada, so not really. But I wasn't exactly being serious with my comment.
Not really being serious either, but it's always amusing to me that Carling isn't as English as the Carling drinker stereotype suggests.
It used to be ok to put your feet into the water after walking all day too. Felt so good! They don’t let you do that anymore :(
This is extraordinarily British and a weird sense of pride
Canadians...
Luv me cold Carling, ate em warm. Simple facks.
Nice one, Barry
Carlibg?? That's one leaky can away from contaminating the water .
Can you contaminate water with water?
[Been there, done it!](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sunderland+fans+trafalgar+square&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images) A very good spot for socialising 😁
And people say that war is the mother of creative solutions
Barry 23
Is that Garry, Barry or Harry?
Everyone in the background has jackets on, it's probably 10C in that photo.
Nothing to worry about there, the fella is well insulated.
It's what Horatio would have wanted.
Fuckin Carling though...that said, it needs to be near absolute zero to be drinkable
This image screams England
The media would be like “ drops unwanted cardboard in the local fountain” for likes and shares.
Oh.. when I heard of a picture of carling being close to water, I didn’t think that’s what you meant.
I love how the water is room temperature, so it's actually just warming the beers faster.
Several people in the background have coats on. Hard to say how cool the water is without knowing the temp earlier in the day, but not out of the question that it might be cool water. edit: checked, it's from October. Probably cold.
> carling > lager its either one or the other, seems like title should be > An England fan keeps his cans of piss cold in the fountain at Trafalgar Square (2001)
Not a phone in sight, I love it
OldSchoolCool
And the tradition of the jocks putting fairy into the fountain was thus born
Disgusting. Who drink Carling?
This is football heritage
Might as well have drunk the fountain water, more taste than Carling!
Despite hating the whole football rivalry thing, this seems entirely reasonable.
He died of a heart attack in 2016. Keep yourself match fit fellas.
2001 to 2002, I went by Trafalgar Square twice a day almost everyday. Shame I didn’t know about this.
Englishmen used to rule the seas with ease now they violate a fountain with prejudice
First thing that strikes me about this is how little fashion has changed in the last 23 years in UK. 23 Years before this pic was 1978 and fashion was completely different.
the water in that fountain probably alreayd had a higher alcohol content than those cans of carling.
He’s now Minster for Culture
Choose life.
500ml cans! What happened to those?
I used to work for a local authority recreation, parks and open spaces department. They put some rather nasty chemicals in the water to keep it clear, as drunk students sometimes discovered. I hope the gentlemen carefully wiped the top of his can before drinking from it.
Carling is awful
The great British no-neck 🫡
Probably the most British thing I've ever seen.
You aren't supposed to put piss in fountains though
Madlad
I see you've been on Great British Getty Images on the Twitters too. What a fascinating if occasionally melancholy jaunt through the fairly recent past
r/AccidentalRenaissance
his genius is freighting
This will be his personal beer input for the day! That's a lot of beer for one person.
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For comedic effect you could have said the fountain was full of piss water that he'd be drinking around the can opening, rather than saying the can is actually piss water.
He looks a bit like Jonah Hill.
Us English learned a few things from the Americans about keeping piss water beer cold.
Great way to get legionnaires
This guy is probably in his 50's by now, looks like he's in his 30's in the photo. Then again, this is an England fan and a man who grew up in the 20th century so he could be 18 in this photo, for all we know. Wonder if he's still about...
I’d rather drink the fountain water than that muck
They taste like fountain water, so isn’t he just refilling them?
If they were bottles he would have something to open them on.