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Many Irishpersons soon to be forced into public nudity...

Post by FBM » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:19 am

Well, once a month, anyway...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16740199
Dublin dole office bans those in pyjamas
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.
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Post by Svartalf » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:25 am

Question, aren't they mistaking track suits for pajamas?

I can (barely) conceive of a disenfranchised and depressed bum not caring enough to change into daywear when having to go to the dole office...
but wearing PJs for a run just feels weird.
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Post by FBM » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:35 am

I imagine poverty and depression would encourage pj-wearing. Indoors or out... :ask:
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Post by Robert_S » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:58 am

They should wear bathrobes like normal people!
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Post by Audley Strange » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:43 am

nope, pyjamas, not sports wear. Its not a depression thing or an impoverished thing (though it does tend to be a specific subset of fat useless gobby bitches that wear them) but a fashion thing. I'm guessing that it started on a T.V. show, and was picked up from that. Its at worst tacky, but hardly inappropriate considering the way some ethnic groups dress.

However, in the setting of a dole office, one is meant to arrive to sign on or what have you, ready and available for interview. They used to get their benefits denied for the fortnight if they didn't. Still if you allow female staff to wear practically anything they like and they do, why would you expect the clients to dress professionally?
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Post by FBM » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:49 am

Robert_S wrote:They should wear bathrobes like normal people!

Hear hear!
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Post by Animavore » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:54 am

Good enough for them. They should be banned everywhere. Though I've only seen it once in real-life in the Ilac Centre on the Parnell Street side and she was a foine thing :drool:

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Post by klr » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:58 am

Where's Dev when we need some righteous indignation? :{D
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Post by Animavore » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:59 am

I might post this in MindRape :ask:
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Post by Tero » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:31 pm

Pyjama people are boring:
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Post by Azathoth » Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:02 pm

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