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Old Yesterday, 14:32
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Look out, look out, there's a strawman about!

Calling me out as being "silly" for something I've not said (i.e., that people who have finished work should go home and shower) makes no sense.

I'm entitled to my thoughts and feelings about people going out in PJs. I don't think it's offensive - I just think it's grubby and would find somewhere else to shop if I saw a significant number of people wearing PJs in my local store.
Okay, I'm assuming you don't know what offensive means or encapsulates. That's fine, have a good evening.
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Old Yesterday, 14:59
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Okay, I'm assuming you don't know what offensive means or encapsulates. That's fine, have a good evening.
Ironically, your tedious posts are becoming offensive to me. Using your definition obviously
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Old Yesterday, 15:02
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I went to the GP in the week between Christmas and New Year. Appointment was at 8.45 am. As i sat down in the waiting room i noticed opposite an entire family - mum, dad and three kids all waiting. All 5 of them were wearing pjs, dressing gowns and slippers!
I wondered at what point it had been agreed that they all wouldn't bother getting dressed.
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Old Yesterday, 15:11
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I went to the GP in the week between Christmas and New Year. Appointment was at 8.45 am. As i sat down in the waiting room i noticed opposite an entire family - mum, dad and three kids all waiting. All 5 of them were wearing pjs, dressing gowns and slippers!
I wondered at what point it had been agreed that they all wouldn't bother getting dressed.
To be fair it was the week between Christmas and New Year, cut them some slack.
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Old Yesterday, 15:31
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I can't really see the problem with it myself not in the supermarket.

I did see a few in the job centre a few years ago who would turn up to sign on at 11am still in their pyjamas. I couldn't help think that if they couldn't be bothered getting dresses to go to sign on , then they aren't going to make the most reliable employee.
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Old Yesterday, 15:43
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there is something undeniably slobby about people who are content to wear the same clothes 24 hours a day (as I continually tell my teenage son)
Lol. Every now and again I treat myself to a "pyjama day". There's nothing more relaxing than being a total slob for a day once in a while.
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Old Yesterday, 15:48
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I went to the GP in the week between Christmas and New Year. Appointment was at 8.45 am. As i sat down in the waiting room i noticed opposite an entire family - mum, dad and three kids all waiting. All 5 of them were wearing pjs, dressing gowns and slippers!
I wondered at what point it had been agreed that they all wouldn't bother getting dressed.
That's quite funny.

Like most I always shower and put clean clothes on before visiting the doctor. You never know, he may want to examine me somewhere! I can't imagine rolling out of bed and heading off to the health centre!
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Old Yesterday, 15:51
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That's quite funny.

Like most I always shower and put clean clothes on before visiting the doctor. You never know, he may want to examine me somewhere! I can't imagine rolling out of bed and heading off to the health centre!
You mean... like the Public Library, in the greengrocer's ... or in Wetherspoon's?
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Old Yesterday, 16:01
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I went to the GP in the week between Christmas and New Year. Appointment was at 8.45 am. As i sat down in the waiting room i noticed opposite an entire family - mum, dad and three kids all waiting. All 5 of them were wearing pjs, dressing gowns and slippers!
I wondered at what point it had been agreed that they all wouldn't bother getting dressed.
They maybe wouldn't be happy reading what their GP has written down in their records, about them doing that. On the other hand, perhaps they wouldn't care two hoots !

Every time you attend a medical professional for anything, a clinical letter is sent back to your GP about the appointment - how it went, how you appeared, what was said etc - all to file into your medical records. If you're rude, late, or you turn up unwashed and dishevelled, they let your GP know and that goes down into your records, and what's more, is read by the person scanning the letter into the computer, not just your GP ! So be warned folks, be presentable.
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Old Yesterday, 16:19
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So, if we allowed night attire to be considered acceptable, it would mean that if someone challenged that man for shopping wearing only his underpants, he could say "ah - but this is not just my underpants - this is actually my night attire".
I wouldn't like to see men shopping in just their pants, but if they're wearing nice, smart nightwear like this http://www.darcyclothing.com/shop/ni...rts-nw430.html , I think it would quite make my day.
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Old Yesterday, 16:28
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The picture that was sent to Tesco of the two 'ladies' in the night clothes came from their Salford store. Isn't that near where Jeremy Kyle is filmed?
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Old Yesterday, 16:35
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I went to the GP in the week between Christmas and New Year. Appointment was at 8.45 am. As i sat down in the waiting room i noticed opposite an entire family - mum, dad and three kids all waiting. All 5 of them were wearing pjs, dressing gowns and slippers!
I wondered at what point it had been agreed that they all wouldn't bother getting dressed.
And the issue? I don't think I wore anything without an elasticated waist between Christmas and when I started back work on Tuesday.

If I'm having a PJ day I get out of the ones I slept in and change into fresh ones - perhaps this is what that family did?
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Old Yesterday, 16:36
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I'm entitled to my thoughts and feelings about people going out in PJs. I don't think it's offensive - I just think it's grubby
Some people prefer to bathe/shower last thing at night. If they've done that, got into clean pj's, slept, then popped out to the shop first thing in the morning without changing, they're probably cleaner than a lot of people are by lunchtime.
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Old Yesterday, 16:40
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And the issue? I don't think I wore anything without an elasticated waist between Christmas and when I started back work on Tuesday.

If I'm having a PJ day I get out of the ones I slept in and change into fresh ones - perhaps this is what that family did?
... in which case what was to stop them from putting on proper clothes in order to go outdoors and visit a public place?
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Old Yesterday, 16:42
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Lol. Every now and again I treat myself to a "pyjama day". There's nothing more relaxing than being a total slob for a day once in a while.
Do you go shopping, have a cup of coffee, catch a film or play, get to the pub for last orders, visit a few relatives, go to M&S, get the train to the seaside and go for a paddle?


Or do you just stay in?
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Old Yesterday, 16:52
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I'm a snob about it, I think it's ghastly and lazy. You don't have to have matching shoes and gloves, but have some clothes on when you're out, not nightwear.


ETA - thinking about it, it's because it's a sort of forced intimacy - some clothes are for inside the home, sort of 'private'.

I don't want to see people wearing what they roll around in bed in.

And wearing it outside thus seems vaguely offensive, as well as sort of Jeremy Kyleish.
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Old Yesterday, 17:10
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... in which case what was to stop them from putting on proper clothes in order to go outdoors and visit a public place?
Perhaps they don't want to? Maybe PJs are more comfortable for them? I don't see why it matters.
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Old Yesterday, 17:18
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Even if you're in a rush it doesn't take much just to chuck on some clothes does it
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It reminds me of Wayne and Waynetta off Harry Enfield.
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Old Yesterday, 17:19
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What others wear outside doesn't bother me in the slightest as long as they are happy with it.
The only thing that would bother me is if someone walked around outside in their birthday suit.
Oh my.
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Old Yesterday, 17:21
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Perhaps they don't want to? Maybe PJs are more comfortable for them? I don't see why it matters.
Oh it doesn't matter in the great scheme of things. Anymore than taking your shoes and socks off in the staffroom at work and picking your feet matters.

It's just not something you do in public, just as wearing your nightclothes isn't.
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Old Yesterday, 17:35
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Good on Tesco, I wouldn't want to shop aside someone wearing their jim jams, they probably stink of wee and all sorts.
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Old Yesterday, 17:39
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Perhaps they don't want to? Maybe PJs are more comfortable for them? I don't see why it matters.
Self respect perhaps?

It shows that you are aware of social norms - such as how to dress appropriately for what you are doing that day and that you pass that concept on to your children. Do you imagine that your grandparents - regardless of their social or class position - would have dreamt of appearing in public, dressed in their nightclothes?

Nobody is suggesting that they should all be trussed up in their Sunday Best or formally attired for a simple outing to the GP surgery. Nor is there any need for multiple changes of clothes throughout the day... but slopping around in pyjamas all day and sending the message to their children that this is normal behaviour, is pretty poor parenting.
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Old Yesterday, 17:46
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The two women in Tesco could have just been having a laugh, or on their way to some kind of pyjama party. However people who would do this as a matter of course are probably just bone idle chavs.
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Old Yesterday, 17:56
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Some people need to have more pride in themselves,how long does it take to put on jeans or leg ins ?
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Old Yesterday, 18:02
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Do you go shopping, have a cup of coffee, catch a film or play, get to the pub for last orders, visit a few relatives, go to M&S, get the train to the seaside and go for a paddle?


Or do you just stay in?
Oh no, I stay in, or only go out as far as the bin/my car/the washing line. If I need to go to the shop, and I'm feeling really lazy, I'll stick jogging bottoms and a jumper over my PJs, and put shoes on.

That isn't a foolproof disguise though. I got home once and found two inches of pink pj sticking out the bottom of the leg of my joggers.
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