To be bemused by these pictures of Ladies day at Aintree

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I wasn't there so don't know if photographers have picked out the bad pics, but looking at the litter it looks like a horrible day out. Absolutely horrible. Why do some people insist on getting drunk like this?

uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/photos/ladies-day-carnage-at-aintree-1396698665-slideshow/time-for-a-selfie-photo-1396700150428.html

there were quite a few litter pickers, but when its really crowded i think they leave it until the end. lots of those pictures were from the end of the day.

Willow - yes but I think that someone's idea of a good time says a lot about them as a person.

Getting a bit tipsy and having a laugh - great.

Personally if you think sticking your middle finger up at a photographer is the height of wit then I doubt you'll be what I'd class as good company. Ditto if your first reaction to any sort of attention is to hoik your skirt up to show your buttocks. I'll instantly judge you as a bit thick. Sorry.

bigred seriously, embarrassed? Atthe sight of ladies having fun, dressing how they please? It's fuck all to do with anyone else. Hope they had a fab time looking embarrassing

I work with some lovely looking spouse girls who do ladies day / grand national and their outfits are DailyMail style outlandish, and they have suitably orange fake tans. I love that they're confident enough to dress like that and not give a flying fuck what anyone thinks.

However, I do agree with you on the litter front though. That's a bloody travesty. I know it gets cleared up but it's a grim sight.

I thought they looked pretty good, some of the hair was amazing and not many overweight (usually the targets for disapproving pics)

Perhaps crowding the place with giant litter bins wasn't sensible hence the plastic glasses. Any big event causes rubbish, any field after a music festival is dire.

^^scouse not spouse

maggie the Nobs over at the DM opted for some of the plus size ladies. Those with close fitting outfits had the caption- 'one race goer plumped for a [insert colour] outfit'.

The word plump pissed me off.

I bet the journos and paps are hi giving every time they see someone overweight!!

For all the people sneering about the litter, perhaps you should remember there was a massive incident where the IRA threatened to bomb Aintree. I'm guessing there are no litter bins as a precaution against similar risks in the future.

They'd just have to disguise it as a pile of litter instead.

Hilarious OwlCapone

CoffeeTable, pictures DO lie. They can be distorted, edited, manipulated, airbrushed and staged. You are extremely naive if you think otherwise.

Hester - have you seen the pictures? Which ones do you think have been altered, out of interest?

I think the point hestet makes is that the image of Aintree is manipulated in that out of the many thousands of people who go, photographers look for the very worst of the lot which gives the impression that everybody in the North dresses terribly and/or is overweight.
I live not a million miles away from Aintree and whilst it isn't my thing I see a lot of people on their way. The majority of them are really well dressed.
hth.

I am fuming at photo 12, which the photographer has decided a pint of beer and a pair a boobs cropped so there's no head or actual person to get in the way of the objectification.

Fucking disgusting (the photographer)

Very sad to see this. Aintree needs to apply and enforce a dress code.

Not remotely interested in the racing just there to get drunk out of their heads dressed completely inappropriately.

Disgusting and ruining it for those who want to enjoy the racing and know how to dress smartly and appropriately.

I am fuming at photo 12, which the photographer has decided a pint of beer and a pair a boobs cropped so there's no head or actual person to get in the way of the objectification.

Yep, the photographer must've been creaming himself. Nice convenient 'drunken slag' shot. Lovely.

The misogyny of most of the comments on the Eurosport website the OP linked to is shocking. Whores, slags, slappers, cheap etc. etc.

It makes me really uncomfortable, like there's this pent-up reservoir of rage and hatred towards women (especially working class women) that's unleashed by a few carefully-chosen photos of girls having a few drinks, dressing up and not knowing their place.

The poster who noted, ironically, that the race goers should obviously have stayed in their council houses had it spot on.

I've got an idea. We should find out who the photographers and journalists who presented these photos are, plus the identities of the, presumably male, commenters on Eurosport (most of whom, I noticed, were too cowardly to use anything but an initial). Then we get photographers to photograph them, constantly, when they are out and about, and make comments on a widely-read website:

Having a pint? I wouldn't, with that paunch. Oh, he looks a bit scruffy waiting for a train, doesn't he? Standards are clearly slipping. Why can't he be like a real gentleman, like a Hollywood film star from the 1950s? Look at him now, queuing in KFC! How common he is. Fat bar steward. Let's all snigger at him. What woman would go near him? Etc etc.

It's them scousers. Right common lot they are.

Does nobody feel the cold, anymore? Those ones from My Big Fat Gypsy… . are always half naked.
I keep my vest on until June.

I don't really care what they wear, but I do care about the drunken behaviour. I'm Irish, live in Ireland, we were reared on the race courses as kids, my parents are big racing fans.
Now I take my kids to Leopardstown when I'm back home in Dublin, and they love it too.
Racing is marketed as a fun family day, and it is in Ireland. But before we had kids, DH and I went to many of the big race meetings in England. With the exception of Cheltenham and an evening meeting at Windsor, we were pretty disgusted at the carry on.
You had to step over the drunks at Epsom, thongs on show, and the amount of people shit faced before the first race at the GN was unbelievable!
I'm not a racing snob, loads of my friends come now too to meetings with us, and bring their kids. They all have a wee flutter, and there is a nice man at leopardstown on the Tote that lets the kids place 50 cent bets. A real family fun day. Not what we found at some of the places in England, unfortunately.
And there is a big difference with that behaviour on a saturday night in town, and 2.30pm in a place marketed as a fun family day.

Apparently they give away the flip flops

*"Once again those leaving Aintree with tired feet will be able to take advantage of free flip-flops from Merseyrail.

Staff will be handing them out after Ladies Day and the Crabbie’s Grand National, with as many as 10,000 pairs being lined up for the crowds.

Mr Cook added: “Whilst it is obviously a good piece of publicity, and assists with passengers comfort, providing some welcome relief from higher heeled movements, there is a serious safety point as well.

“It’s everyone’s view that the flip flops are highly likely to reduce trips and slips that could result in ankle injuries or possibly something more serious, and of course, they’re also bright fun.”*

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/80-extra-trains-100000-more-6902743

It looks like they are all having a great time and why not? IMy 2 year old daughter loved the dresses.

If the media are portraying women like this it's no wonder some men think it's OK to abuse.

Too right, Lady Mary.

They are quite orange. And the shoes look ferociously uncomfortable.

too tight and too short is very hard to avoid on a budget

I don't think it is, really.

Fgs. Scouse women have a famously 'unique' way of dressing. It's not my thing but they like it. Sometimes they get it spectacularly wrong and other times they actually look pretty amazing. I wish the rest of the country would get over it I'm not a scouser but I live in the parish. I've lived all over the country and I can honestly say I've never met a friendlier, warmer, funnier and family-orientated bunch of people. They don't really give a crap about how people view their looks and I rather admire that.