Dublin dole office bans those in pyjamas. page 1

Tardigrade

27th January 2012, 11:04 AM

Gowan out ov dat, yi durt burds.

A social welfare office in Dublin has banned interviewees from wearing pyjamas.

A notice has appeared at Damastown social welfare office which warns claimants that "pyjamas are not regarded as appropriate attire when attending Community Welfare Service at these offices".

It is believed the decision was made after a number of people complained.

It is not the first time sleep wear has made headlines. Two years ago, Joe McGuinness, the principal of St Matthew's Primary School, Belfast, sent a stern letter to parents saying wearing pyjamas on the school run was "slovenly and rude".

Last year a head teacher from a school in Middlesborough, England, also asked parents to get properly dressed before the school run.

The issue gained even more prominence when a Tesco store in Cardiff, Wales, put notices up asking customers not to shop in their pyjamas or barefoot.

cont. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16740199

Pyjamas: Yay or nay?

Grumps

27th January 2012, 11:31 AM

Don't give a shit. They're on the dole. If they wear pyjamas in public, they're not likely to care two whits about much as it is.

And pyjamas are fucking expensive, so they can't be an alternative to day clothes for the poor man.

Adenosine

27th January 2012, 11:51 AM

Pyjamas in Ireland? Yea.

It's bloody cold there and if you have a good pair of woolen PJs more power to you.

Fuzzy

27th January 2012, 03:17 PM

I sleep naked so I'd probably get arrested if I wore my pyjamas in public.

rudeigineile

27th January 2012, 08:21 PM

How I know I'm shoving on is seeing people in their PJ's in public puts my teeth on edge as does the al bundy thing that is getting more and more prevalent. But how are the dole going to enforce it? I think Tesco tried it about a year ago and gave up.

Magicziggy

27th January 2012, 11:41 PM

Freedom of Attire

Whilst an employer may feel the need to enforce a dress code on its employees, I'm finding it hard to find an argument for a government agency to enforce one on it's clients.. or a shop on its customers. Unless there is an applicable health and safety regulation.

charlou

28th January 2012, 01:41 AM

They're just items of clothing .. I really don't see what qualitive difference it makes. A cotton tank top and denim shorts are okay, but the same items in satin with pics of teddy bears holding hearts are not? Silly.

nostrum

28th January 2012, 04:36 AM

let people wear what they damn well want

surely they should only have a rule about people wearing fuzzy's pj's to an interview

charlou

28th January 2012, 05:28 AM

yes, much as I love nakedness, I'm very choosy about who I share freckle space with. :)

nick

28th January 2012, 07:19 AM

I misread thread title as "Dumbledore office..."

rudeigineile

28th January 2012, 08:33 AM

I just don't get the PJ thing, when I see someone in the street in their pj's I immediately think they haven't washed that day, maybe I'm wrong, maybe they have special going about town pj's laid out for after their shower.

I misread thread title as "Dumbledore office..."

It is meant to be Dumbledore office the op made a typo, everyone else was just too polite to point it out :colbert:

Jerome

28th January 2012, 12:59 PM

This is what happens with government encouraging generational dependence, an inability to be a part of societal norms, thus no ability to ever get out of the circumstance and a captive class is fostered.

nostrum

28th January 2012, 05:34 PM

Jerome you can be so cute!

rudeigineile

28th January 2012, 06:08 PM

This is what happens with government encouraging generational dependence, an inability to be a part of societal norms, thus no ability to ever get out of the circumstance and a captive class is fostered.

Is it or could the answer be the insidious influence of these guys :hmmm:

http://15min.org/images/1998-06-24_ce.jpg

nostrum

28th January 2012, 06:20 PM

Oh, I don't know. Insidious seems a bit harsh. The prison stripe look is just a classic fashion look.

LOL I once saw a man (dressed in day clothes) being chased through a supermarket by presumably his woman who was in pjs and dressing gown. He was trying in vain to escape her tongue lashing and she didn't care about leaving home looking like she did.

Jerome

28th January 2012, 06:25 PM

LOL I once saw a man (dressed in day clothes) being chased through a supermarket by presumably his woman who was in pjs and dressing gown. He was trying in vain to escape her tongue lashing and she didn't care about leaving home looking like she did.

that might have been daphne and i ...

nostrum

28th January 2012, 06:26 PM

Oooh you are so busted :hehe:

rudeigineile

28th January 2012, 06:27 PM

The first person I saw wearing pyjamas in public came into the hotel where I worked looking for her boyfriend who was at a conference. I assumed she had somehow got locked out of the house and was collecting the key. I felt sorry for her predicament and asked if she was ok, she gave me a withering look and said she was fine, when her boyfriend met her in the lobby she tried to go for lunch in the bar and was outraged at being refused.

Sugreeva

28th January 2012, 07:27 PM

Sure, like 99% of the people who post here aren't unemployed shut-ins who sit in front of their computer in their sweats or pajamas until their mom or dad tells them to take out the trash.

Grumps

28th January 2012, 07:33 PM

Sure, like 99% of the people who post here aren't unemployed shut-ins who sit in front of their computer in their sweats or pajamas until their mom or dad tells them to take out the trash.

I am employed by my mother and father.

So hah.

Sugreeva

28th January 2012, 07:50 PM

I said take out the fucking trash!

Tribal-Ni

28th January 2012, 11:42 PM

When I see people wearing bikinis and swimwear in this little seaside town I live in.
I have no objection to PJ'S.

Fuzzy

28th January 2012, 11:54 PM

If I don't make it in academia my backup plan is to bake cookies for money

Fuzzy

28th January 2012, 11:55 PM

Eta: Naked

charlou

29th January 2012, 02:11 PM

cookies with a chocolate starfish in the centre?

rudeigineile

29th January 2012, 02:14 PM

If I don't make it in academia my backup plan is to bake cookies for money


http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/akrinst/bunny_cookie.jpg

Fuzzy

29th January 2012, 07:17 PM

If I don't make it in academia my backup plan is to bake cookies for money


http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h79/akrinst/bunny_cookie.jpg

:cheer:

charlou

30th January 2012, 12:32 AM

I would buy your cookies, Fuzzy. :)

Jerome

30th January 2012, 01:23 AM

I would buy your cookies, Fuzzy. :)
Not if he was wearing jammies on the street.

charlou

30th January 2012, 04:56 AM

would too .. aspeshally then ... even more so if his pubic hair is curling gingerly out of the front of his jammies :)

Grumps

30th January 2012, 04:58 AM

would too .. aspeshally then ... even more so if his pubic hair is curling gingerly out of the front of his jammies :)


http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z202/PhantomShifty/do-not-want-dog.jpg

charlou

30th January 2012, 05:00 AM

I'm such a perv

Grumps

30th January 2012, 05:02 AM

I'm such a perv

I do not dispute.

Fuzzy

30th January 2012, 05:11 AM

I'll have you know I have a delightful bush.

Free Falling

30th January 2012, 11:35 AM

It's not all that different from wearing sweats in public.

Tacky, looks sloppy as hell, but whatever.

Jerome

30th January 2012, 02:25 PM

would too .. aspeshally then ... even more so if his pubic hair is curling gingerly out of the front of his jammies :)

:stare:

Facetious

30th January 2012, 08:28 PM

It looks rough and slobby. Round my neck of the woods it's mainly teenage girls who go for this look, pyjamas tucked in to fake ugg boots - it just looks wrong.

Free Falling

30th January 2012, 10:21 PM

I'm less offended by PJ's than buttcracks and excessive cleavage.

rudeigineile

30th January 2012, 10:24 PM

I'm less offended by PJ's than buttcracks and excessive cleavage.

They aren't mutually exclusive, I'd gotten used to but cracks, the ball cradling is new and disturbing though.

Facetious

30th January 2012, 10:54 PM

ball cradling?

rudeigineile

30th January 2012, 11:08 PM

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/518/skanger.png

the new trend :dunno:

Fuzzy

31st January 2012, 01:08 AM

I have no problems with excessive cleavage.

Hermit

31st January 2012, 01:14 AM

excessive cleavage.
Oxymoron alert

Adenosine

31st January 2012, 03:36 AM

It looks rough and slobby. Round my neck of the woods it's mainly teenage girls who go for this look, pyjamas tucked in to fake ugg boots - it just looks wrong.

You live in outer north Brisbane too?

nostrum

31st January 2012, 07:41 PM

It looks rough and slobby. Round my neck of the woods it's mainly teenage girls who go for this look, pyjamas tucked in to fake ugg boots - it just looks wrong.

You live in outer north Brisbane too?

:snicker:

nostrum

31st January 2012, 07:41 PM

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/518/skanger.png

the new trend :dunno:

:staregonk:

Facetious

31st January 2012, 08:10 PM

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/518/skanger.png

the new trend :dunno:

oh that. I've never understood the need to do this.

Facetious

31st January 2012, 08:11 PM

It looks rough and slobby. Round my neck of the woods it's mainly teenage girls who go for this look, pyjamas tucked in to fake ugg boots - it just looks wrong.

You live in outer north Brisbane too?

I don't know what that means. But as it happens, no, I live in the UK.

Fuzzy

31st January 2012, 11:09 PM

Who does that? Ballcradling is a phenomenon I have never encountered.

Adenosine

1st February 2012, 02:54 AM

It looks rough and slobby. Round my neck of the woods it's mainly teenage girls who go for this look, pyjamas tucked in to fake ugg boots - it just looks wrong.

You live in outer north Brisbane too?

I don't know what that means. But as it happens, no, I live in the UK.

Just mocking the place I live. PJs and Ugg boots are the height of fashion around here.

I'm guessing the ballcradlers are just making sure they're still there.

Hermit

1st February 2012, 05:36 AM

I'm guessing the ballcradlers are just making sure they're still there.They are rebels, and the indignation their appearance and behaviour generates reinforces those habits. Eventually, the majority rejoins the straight-laced environment those rebels spring from, settle down, get married, have kids and struggle to make ends meet. A very small minority remains on the fringes of society, and on very rare occasions an individual will become an oddball, creative success, and re-enter the mainstream via the back door without appearing to be reintegrating with it. We've seen it happen with the bohemians, Wandervögel, beatniks, hippies and the people some of whom who finished in the eventually fashionable Rive Gauche, the Bloomsbury Set or Greenwich Village.

I am a textbook example of a part-time rebel who finished up back in the fold. There is another, even more extreme example at Rationalia. Others are easy to find.

FedUpWithFaith

1st February 2012, 07:02 AM

Someday I'm going to wear a Snuggie to work, if I ever go back to work (don't know if non-Americans know what they are - they are ridiculous looking blankets with sleeves sold on TV infomercials). My younger son always told me he'd wear one to school but he never had the guts - the conformist!

Izdaari

1st February 2012, 11:22 AM

The first thing I thought of is, it'd be really hard to make a rule that defines pajamas.

Ok, no birthday suits, fair enough. And since I sleep naked that's my real pj's.

I would not wear obvious pj's in public. But I have several pairs of "lounge pants" that are not obviously pj's, and I don't have any problem with wearing those or sweat pants in public. It's very casual of course, but I like very casual.

rudeigineile

1st February 2012, 02:11 PM

I think this is more about belittling people signing on than anything. I don't think the social services office are doing it deliberately but like many of these civil servants they practice a lack of civility or service to their clients, whom they seem to perceive as a source of annoyance impeding them in their work rather than the reason they have a job.

Governments do this all the time they try and set people against each other when they are unpopular, instead of being annoyed at our government who this week have been practically begging Merkles approval and Sarkozy's autograph, we are tutting about scumbags.

I mean really! How much more of a simpering lap dog can our head of state be?
http://nimg.sulekha.com/business/original700/enda-kenny-nicolas-sarkozy-dimitris-christofias-2012-1-30-10-1-22.jpg

Hermit

1st February 2012, 03:37 PM

I think this is more about belittling people signing on than anything. I don't think the social services office are doing it deliberately but like many of these civil servants they practice a lack of civility or service to their clients, whom they seem to perceive as a source of annoyance impeding them in their work rather than the reason they have a job.
That attitude is not limited to public servants.

Cleese based Basil Fawlty on a real person, Donald Sinclair, whom he had encountered in 1970 while the Monty Python team were staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay while filming inserts for their television series. Reportedly, Cleese was inspired by Sinclair's mantra, "I could run this hotel just fine, if it weren't for the guests." He later described Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met," although Sinclair's widow has said her husband was totally misrepresented in the series. During the Pythons' stay, Sinclair allegedly threw Idle's briefcase out of the hotel "in case it contained a bomb," complained about Gilliam's "American" table manners, and threw a bus timetable at another guest after they dared to ask the time of the next bus to town.

Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleese#Post-Python)

rudeigineile

1st February 2012, 04:08 PM

Funnily I worked in hotels for years and have met people like that. When I was 19 I worked in a small family run hotel where the owner had his lackey go to all the rooms when the guests (a stag party) were out gather up their luggage and put it outside the front door of the hotel which he then locked. He did this because they asked when the bar would be open.

Jerome

2nd February 2012, 02:19 AM

agreed, no one should belittle any other.

Free Falling

2nd February 2012, 03:06 AM

Ball cradling wTF??
Anyone beyond elementary age (some allowances made for persons with cognitive impairment) who fondles their goods in public should be arrested!

Jerome

2nd February 2012, 03:21 AM

Anyone beyond elementary age who fondles their goods in public should be arrested!

This definition is too restrictive.

charlou

2nd February 2012, 03:38 AM

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