# What is happening in this picture? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495 "2011-02-15T20:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495/21 "2011-02-16T12:07:08Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I initially thought the same, but the background suggests that it’s an urban scene, and the setting looks like a park. And further, did British gentlemen go hunting in a bowler, smoking a pipe? (Now the lad in the background, he really looks like a hunter) He looks a lot more like a navvy, or a building labourer, if you ask me, and chummy in the bowler looks very like a works supervisor. I have a strong suspicion that, whatever it is that these chaps are up to, it doesn’t primarily involve standing in a hole in the ground looking out, and that they’ve been asked to pose like that by the photographer from _Picture Post._ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495/22 "2011-02-16T12:21:13Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > He looks a lot more like a navvy, or a building labourer, if you ask me, and chummy in the bowler looks very like a works supervisor. It’s like a twist on the John Cleese / Ronnie Barker / Ronnie Corbett class sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495/23 "2011-02-16T13:46:26Z")
I called it the two men (thetwomen) so I could easily find it when uploading it. The original title was something like htytyujdkjkejgtfhkj145563783jhegf672u\_n.jpg ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495/24 "2011-02-16T14:20:52Z")
Those are women traps. The two men are bait. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495/25 "2011-02-16T14:25:25Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Those are women traps. The two men are bait. I doubt they caught anything that day. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495/26 "2011-02-16T14:26:35Z")
I would guess hunting blinds, but the urban setting throws that off. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495/27 "2011-02-16T14:29:26Z")
“\*\*This _IS a Pipe_” But you still can’t pack it and smoke it… (Because it’s a picture!) Gosh… I was thinking that’s where old-time porta-potties might have been. What the hell is this picture of!? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-in-this-picture/571495.md?page=1)