Brilliant street photo from Manchester on new year's eve

I like the photo but if I saw it in our gallery I may pass over it. I don't really get why it has gone viral!
 
I think it is a good photo, but not a great one.

The prostrated beer-belly blue-boy and the lady in the red skirt make the photo.
 
The picture is great and the photoshopped images are funny as hell.

But to throw the golden composition in something like this always sends shivers down my spine, Not unlike those who associated the anthropomorphic forms to Duchamp's pissoir.
 
xayraa33 said:
I heard tell that the Welsh like a drop or two also. 😀
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Australia's Northern Territory is known for being a very thirsty part of Oz!

Meet the 'Darwin Stubby.' 😀


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Keith said:
Australia's Northern Territory is known for being a very thirsty part of Oz!

Meet the 'Darwin Stubby.' 😀
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Oh my!

I wonder if one person can drink that behemoth at one sitting?

Mind you, Darwin gets mighty hot in the summer time and that might be the ticket to relieve a perishing thirst.

Australian beer is very good, better in some ways than our Canadian beer.
 
xayraa33 said:
Oh my !

I wonder if one person can drink that behemoth at one sitting?

Mind you, Darwin gets mighty hot in the summer time and that might be the ticket to relieve a perishing thirst.

Australian beer is very good, better in some ways than our Canadian beer.
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I think they eventually outlawed the Darwin Stubby .... they seriously have enough problems with alcohol consumption up there with without these on the market. 😛
 
Keith said:
I think they eventually outlawed the Darwin Stubby .... they seriously have enough problems with alcohol consumption up there with without these on the market. 😛
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I still remember in the 1960s and early 70s that Canadian Club rye whisky was also sold in a one gallon bottle, it was around 1 US gallon for sure, crazy size.

You can see one example of such bottle in the rock documentary "Festival Express ".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYumgR92B4
 
Sad but true-to-life commentary on the UK and chronic problems with alcohol / binge drinking. Saw it for myself when my relatives lived in the Midlands. We would head down to the local High Street at night and witnessed pretty much the same scene.

I have to admit the 'viral' photo is good for a laugh -- that fellow in blue lying in the road is absolutely priceless. Not a care in the world! 🙂
 
It's an interesting picture and the photographer should be commended for his good work documenting this particular aspect of social life.

I always feel very uneasy with these images and I really hate the way they are viewed as comical images. There's always a typically British self-depricating sarcastic response to them - a 'look how trashed we all were!'. I feel they're misused to normalised and justify such behaviour rather than acting as a mirror in which some much needed questions should be asked. I think it says a lot that a supposedly socially conscious newspaper like the Guardian used the photographers image for comedic output rather than questioning if we really should be seeing such behaviour in 2016.

There's a huge issue with alcohol in the UK and as others have mentioned this photograph could be easily reproduced on pretty much any high street in the country. I live in Manchester and frequently need to use public transport or walk through the city centre on a Friday or Saturday night - it's a horrible case of head-down, walk fast, don't make eye contact with violent drunks, and avoid projectile vomiting. It's a disgraceful reflection on our society.

I took a career change and now I'm a medical student. Already in my training I'm seeing the huge impact this is having. As a country we really need to shift from viewing this as a comical way of life and viewing it for the drug abuse it really is. If the photographer took a picture of a view of the many heroin addicts in the city would the Guardian be using that image for comedic value? A 'beautiful painting' of junkies?

Alcohol is costing the public services (health, police, etc) in the Greater Manchester Area £1.2 billion a year. £426 per person. The equivalent of used Leica M4 from every person every single year. Such a sickening waste - and not to mention the impact alcohol has on lives... We really should be treating alcohol as a major crisis but here were are in 2016 and the national psyche still considers violent crime and passing out drunk in your own vomit/faeces/blood on a weekend as harmless fun to be laughed at in the national papers.
 
RichardPhoto said:
There's a huge issue with alcohol in the UK and as others have mentioned this photograph could be easily reproduced on pretty much any high street in the country. I live in Manchester and frequently need to use public transport or walk through the city centre on a Friday or Saturday night - it's a horrible case of head-down, walk fast, don't make eye contact with violent drunks, and avoid projectile vomiting. It's a disgraceful reflection on our society.
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I loathe the yobbishness of much of our culture (and this weekend drunkenness is very much part of it) but it's hardly a new phenomenon – more a continuation of the very long tradition of alcohol fuelled debauchery perfectly satirised by Hogarth 250 years ago.
 
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