In the 1980s former Fleet Street editor Derek Jameson fronted a TV programme called Do They Mean Us?, in which clippings from foreign documentaries about the British way of life were screened.
A lot of the content was less than riveting but a Polish photographer has recently been doing much the same thing - with discomfiting results.
Maciej Dakowicz took his lens to Cardiff and reported "a vibrant nightlife" and a recognition that the British "know how to party and have fun".
He was being polite of course. The images he captured included the bloodied, the comatose and the vomiting. Welcome to the weekend.
Granted, Dakowicz could have travelled to virtually any British city on any weekend to take similar pictures. But he chose Cardiff, where next month Wales's National Social Services Conference will be held.
I see that a pre-conference drinks reception is planned. Your behaviour will be noted.
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