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AIBU Tesco shoppers in PJs 'Disgusting' REALLY?

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1DAD2KIDS · 05/01/2017 18:10

Just read this article

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/outraged-man-asks-tesco-to-ban-disgusting-shoppers-from-wearing-pyjamas/ar-BBxVcVl?ocid=spartandhp

Wearing PJs in Tesco's should be banned because its offensive and making people feel uncomfortable, Ridiculous. Not sure about you but I generally don't find anything threatening or to be worried about by people in PJs? I cant see that its indecent either; I doubt people are parading down the isles in skimpy Lingerie this time of year. Even if they were there is nothing wrong with the human body. This isn't Calvinist Geneva or Taliban controlled Kandahar. Some people are offended by or feel uneasy around Goths, Clowns, Women in niqab or burka, Transsexuals, people in football shirts etc. It doesn't mean that their personal hang ups should restrict other peoples freedom of dress. People are so easily offended these days.

Anyone else offended by people in PJs in Tesco?

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Mrsglitterfairy · 05/01/2017 21:30

Offensive? No..
Lazy and scruffy? Yes
And mums wearing pjs on the school run is embarrassing for the kids. I am not snobby in any way (shop at Aldi, live in a council house kinda girl) however it just comes down to having a bit of self respect. A few weeks back I was off work sick, I was dropping my boys at school then going home to bed,however I still managed to get dressed, have a wash & do my teeth and run a brush through my hair. Why? Because I have respect for myself and my children

MadMags · 05/01/2017 21:36

You weren't joking Holiday. You were trying to prove a point, teaching the snobs a lesson by using their words against them, presumably...

Meh.

PrincessFiorimonde · 05/01/2017 21:43

I know this is a topic that gets some MNers going. It always puzzles me a little, because I live in quite a rough area, yet I've never once seen anyone round here going to our local Spar/Co-op/Asda/corner shop in their nightwear. (Whether or not they've just nipped out for 'a crate of Stella, a packet of smokes and a top up on the lecy meter card': all of which I've shopped for - fully dressed! - in my time.)

I don't think it would bother me if I saw someone shopping in their PJs. Unless their attire was, umm, a bit revealing, I suppose.

Just remembered that about 30 years ago I knew someone who used to put her coat on over her PJs on a Sunday morning, go out and get a newspaper and then go back to bed to read it, but she was a teacher, so maybe that was ok...

mereswinesaliva · 05/01/2017 21:46

Never seen it myself, would never do it myself, but I honestly wouldn't have a problem with others doing it.

In fact, I doubt I'd notice.

I really am one of the most unobservant people. I am bad at supermarket shopping and am too busy trying to find what I want and forgetting stuff I need to notice other people's clothing.

WhooooAmI24601 · 05/01/2017 21:48

I wouldn't do it, but certainly wouldn't judge it.

Main reason I wouldn't do it is simply that DS1 has ASD and if he thought going out in a onesie was acceptable japes he'd be doing it all the time; he's very black and white, so it's easier not to allow the thought to cross his mind.

It's hardly disgusting, though. Not brushing your teeth before leaving the house is disgusting. Yes, DS2, I'm looking at you.

HolidaySpiritsReinbeerAndWhine · 05/01/2017 21:48

MadMags I never said I was joking - I said ironic and sarcastic- but glad to see you agree people are being snobs.

MuseumOfCurry · 05/01/2017 21:49

And mums wearing pjs on the school run is embarrassing for the kids.

I remember the realisation even when I was a kid that my mother in her polished state was my mother in her best state. I really liked and admired that version of her, not because I really cared how she looked, exactly (although I admired her beauty) but because I knew that there was a mental transformation that accompanied it.

MerryInthechelseahotel · 05/01/2017 21:51

I don't care what other people wear. I can't believe so many people here do! As I say to my kids if they don't like looking at something "don't look then!"

PrincessFiorimonde · 05/01/2017 21:57

There is a story, 'A Woman without a Country', by John Cheever (1959, I think), about a woman who one morning has to unexpectedly drive her husband to a train station so he can get to work. She doesn't have time to get dressed, so just throws a jacket over her flimsy nightie and drives him there, but on her way back the car breaks down.

It's not her fault, but all this leads to an encounter that proves her social ruin. Shock

So - be warned, daytime nightwear-wearers! Grin

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MadMags · 05/01/2017 21:58

Sorry, I should have had the quote marks around snobs. I don't think people who wear clothes to the supermarket are snobs.

Different standards, I guess.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 05/01/2017 22:00

Last time I wore PJ's to the supermarket (I believe it was waitrose) I had just finished a 22 hour shift was covered in blood and what I can only assume was brain muck, my assistant had already taken my office clothing stash for a service wash so the only thing I had was a pair of PJ's I had waiting to give my sister for her birthday.

I wore them was hungry so stopped on my way home to eat. I'm pretty sure I don't give a fuck if anybody noticed

beanfilledfish · 05/01/2017 22:01

course it's skanky to go to the shops in you pyjamas, if you spend more than your sleeping hours 'in pjs' you really need to join the working world

Butteredpars1ps · 05/01/2017 22:02

This debate gets me. I shouldn't care, because it honestly doesn't matter, but i really do wonder how people reach the conclusion that it's OK to go it in PJs, slippers and a dressing gown.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 05/01/2017 22:02

Oh and I drive to work most days wearing a onsie

NeedsAsockamnesty · 05/01/2017 22:03

And I'm pretty sure I have only ever worn PJ's to bed if I'm in hospital

MuseumOfCurry · 05/01/2017 22:04

Last time I wore PJ's to the supermarket (I believe it was waitrose) I had just finished a 22 hour shift was covered in blood and what I can only assume was brain muck, my assistant had already taken my office clothing stash for a service wash so the only thing I had was a pair of PJ's I had waiting to give my sister for her birthday.

You're amazing.

kiki22 · 05/01/2017 22:04

I've not read this whole tread so this may have been asked but I always wonder 3 rhings if your out in pj's
1 - do you have last nights underwear on?
2 - do you have no underwear on (not that that's a problem I just come to that after thinking #1)
3 - or did you put them on clean to go out and if so why not put some comfy clothes on instead which are bound to be warmer and more suitable for outdoor use?

Dizzybintess · 05/01/2017 22:05

Very slovenly! I'm afraid my Judgy pants are well and truly pulled up on this one.
If you look at videos of Edwardian times and even up to the 1950s everyone was dressed smartly with a degree of decorum, regardless of class or being poverty stricken. People upheld standards.

I'm not saying everyone should be sauntering round in suits but when it's slid so far the other way that people can't even be arsed to dress to leave the house..... that's fucking depressing!

Alfieisnoisy · 05/01/2017 22:07

My friend occasionally does this but in her defence she has severe back problems s due to a degenerative spine problem. Sometimes it's painful for get dressed and so I will take her shopping (she likes the chance to get out) in her Onesie with a longish jacket over the top. She doesn't wear her slippers though Grin, she would love to...if only to wind me up lol. I help her with a shoe change before we fol

CaraAspen · 05/01/2017 22:07

OP:
Yes, it is grossly offensive.

CaraAspen · 05/01/2017 22:10

"NeedsAsockamnesty

Last time I wore PJ's to the supermarket (I believe it was waitrose) I had just finished a 22 hour shift was covered in blood and what I can only assume was brain muck, my assistant had already taken my office clothing stash for a service wash so the only thing I had was a pair of PJ's I had waiting to give my sister for her birthday.

I wore them was hungry so stopped on my way home to eat. I'm pretty sure I don't give a fuck if anybody noticed"

Do I take it you don't care either if anyone notices your inability to punctuate correctly?

Bluntness100 · 05/01/2017 22:11

Lol. There're even wearing their dressing gowns, and yup, they look like a pair of twats, 😂

Would I do it, nope. Am I offended, nope, do I judge, yup, but only that they are a pair of attention seeking twats,,,,

RubbishMantra · 05/01/2017 22:11

Ooh, just remembered. When DH was still my BF, I flung my coat on to nip out. "Are you going out like that?", he said. I thought "hmm, you're a Mr. Critical Judgypants." Looked in the mirror, and I'd pulled on my fleecy dressing gown on instead of my coat. I wonder how long it would've taken me to realise if he hadn't alerted me... Grin

HolidaySpiritsReinbeerAndWhine · 05/01/2017 22:13

MadMags I guess so. I don't think anyone who calls anyone lazy, dirty, a scrote or chav has any leg to stand on when it comes to judging others though. People like that sound like nasty bullies to me rather than someone making a passing judgement on something they personally 'wouldn't do'. Class comes in many forms.

I could be biased on my views of supermarket etiquette though. I'd (genuinely this time) rather have a supermarket full of skanky, chavvy, pj wearing women, than ever coming across a bloke who starts masturbating next to me in the ready meal aisle (again). At least he was suitably dressed for shopping though, which automatically makes him a better person than the dirty mothers who don't take care of themselves. I mean, he was probably just mentally ill, or just having a bad day. Women - especially mothers - should know better. But, you know what these chavs are like! Who needs to make an effort to pick up a bottle of Lambrini and a pack of fags, they're only going to go back home to watch Jeremy Kyle after all.

PrincessFiorimonde · 05/01/2017 22:23

CaraAspen to a pp: Do I take it you don't care either if anyone notices your inability to punctuate correctly?

On a thread posted outside Pedants' Corner, does that really matter?