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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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MissVictoria · 05/01/2017 19:52

I'm ashamed that this is my local tesco :P
Honestly yes it would bother me. It's just so lazy, and who knows how many days/nights they've been wearing those pj's. Most people wear for multiple nights, and you sweat a pint on average a night, so nasty. Even if they were clean on not slept in (but surely you'd put day clothes on?) it's very odd behaviour. I'd honestly rather they were in a bathing suit than pj's.

Purplebluebird · 05/01/2017 19:53

I love wearing my pyjamas! I don't sleep in them though, and I do not go out of the house with them, they're only for me if I'm at home all day with nobody coming round! I am not offended, but I do think it's a bit chavvy (sorry) to wear pj out and about.

MadMags · 05/01/2017 19:54

user if you were well enough to drive to Tesco, you were well enough to put on leggings and a jumper.

Lizzylou · 05/01/2017 19:54

User, if you have D&V it's best to stay indoors.
Get it out of your system and not spread it to anyone else, if you had indeed vommed all over yourself 3 times there must be quite the epidemic in your area now.
No need to go anywhere, clothed or otherwise.

DameDeDoubtance · 05/01/2017 19:55

I ran into town in my pj's the other night, with dd also in pj's, to catch a pokemon.

It was a bloody good Blastoise and if I had waited and dressed we would have lost it.

MuseumOfCurry · 05/01/2017 19:55

How can so many of you give a fuck about what clothes people wear to the supermarket? I could understand it if these were raunchy or highly sexualised clothes but they are not.

Ah, got it. It's OK to object to highly sexualised clothing, but not lazy clothing. Who are you to tell a woman she's too sexed up?

LadyOfTheCanyon · 05/01/2017 19:55

I simply can't believe that every single person wearing PJs to the supermarket is so ill that they couldn't get dressed, is on the brink of shitting themselves, has no money for any other clothes or has 'just popped in' when they'd forgotten something after a bath.
A lot of them just look like mucky scutters to me.

MuseumOfCurry · 05/01/2017 19:56

Had v and d could just about muster enough strength to get the kids in the car and get to the chemist I had to crawl to the frigging door I was so poorly

And I was sick 3 times while getting there lucky I didn't shit myself as well but as long as I am fully dressed ay

I assume you're exaggerating for effect. I'd have locked the door if I were your chemist.

itsstillgood · 05/01/2017 19:57

I have been to supermarket once in pjs and dressing gown, middle of a Saturday afternoon - I was a guider and we ran out of something at an activity (where everyone was dressed in pjs). I have also been in my wedding dress and dressed as a witch for the same reasons.

I view them all in the same way, mild embarrassment but hey ho.
Would I do it normally - no of course not! Takes minutes to throw clothes on. PJs and onesies are for bed and fancy dress!

Pootle40 · 05/01/2017 19:57

They are rough lazy slobs.

IamPoopyHead · 05/01/2017 19:57

It doesn't offend me but I would definitely be looking at any able bodied person who chose to go to the supermarket in pyjamas like this Hmm

PinguForPresident · 05/01/2017 19:59

of course it's not the worse thing in the world, and of course everyone has bigger things to worry about than seeing people in their PJs in Tesco, nad of course it's not offensive.

It's just a bit slobby, lazy and grim. If you're happy with people thinking that about you, go for it!

HolidaySpiritsReinbeerAndWhine · 05/01/2017 20:00

DameDeDoubtance - this is a damn good reason to do so. I've wanted a Blastoise for bloody ages now, I'm so close to evolving one! I'd streak through Sainsbos in the buff for one of them....

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 05/01/2017 20:00

I wouldn't wear mine out of the house unless in labour or putting out the bins.

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 05/01/2017 20:01

Some supermarkets have tried to symptom the practice in some areas too.

BantyCustards · 05/01/2017 20:01

Couldn't care less. Not harming anyone and O have no idea what crap the average stranger in the street is dealing with. Perhaps just managing to get to the shops was a monumental effort or perhaps not: either way so long as they are not walking down the aisles in their birthday suit/spreading some deadly pathogen/toting a weapon I really do not care.

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 05/01/2017 20:01

Stop not bloody symptom

Grilledaubergines · 05/01/2017 20:02

I think it's common as muck and would completely judge someone who thinks shopping in nightwear is acceptable. Plenty of other comfortable items of clothing can be worn instead. If you can't be arsed to change into proper clothes then you're as lazy as sin.

BastardGoDarkly · 05/01/2017 20:05

I'd judge on the jamas, clean, straight out of the shower, meh, grotty, slept in and couldn't be arsed? Bleurgh.

I wouldn't ever do it myself though.

Summerisdone · 05/01/2017 20:05

I wouldn't feel comfortable being out in my PJs personally, but I'm not offended or judge it. Perhaps that is because where I grew up it is the norm though; I know that my old local pub only started refusing a couple years ago, people who came in on Sunday in PJs because they were 'too hungover' to get dressed.
Although many of you saying that it's chavvy and those that do it are 'rough' etc. I can't disagree as vast majority of people can only be described that way where I'm from.

BantyCustards · 05/01/2017 20:08

My pj's are 'sweats' - I go to the shop in my 'sweats' all the time - they're freshly washed but I probably slept in them at some point. If that makes me a scrubber so be it.

missced · 05/01/2017 20:09

To be honest, I think it's awful - chavvy, lazy and disrespectful' not just to everyone else but yourself. Of course if you were ill/ extenuating circumstances and you went out to a superstore late at night you could put a big coat on and no one would notice. Wearing PJs suggests (even if it's not the case) that the wearer has been sporting them for at the very least, hours (if not days) in bed, all nice and sweaty, and that they're spilling out underwearless. We all have bad or lazy days but how difficult is it to pull on some track suit bottoms? The picture publicised had two girls in dressing gowns for Pete's sake. The only other explanation is that they think they look cool or cutting edge. Sorry, no one ever started a revolution in PJs! It's the height of chavtasticness, and I will judge. Interestingly I don't live in an affluent or "good" area and even here in the worst parts of town I have fortunately never come across this trend. Perhaps it has something to do with our weather! Horizontal wind and nightwear don't match!

CherrySkull · 05/01/2017 20:10

i think having worked in Tosco for a number of years, the only time anyones attire offended me, or i thought it 'disgusting' was when you got women coming in on hot days in bikinis.

Put a t-shirt and shorts on ffs!

I can't say i am bothered by pjs' though, they're often a lot less revealing than some of the shite people wear.

A few times, once it was 11pm and DD needed calpol and i was already changed for bed.. the fuck was i getting dressed again, so i popped out in my fleecy snoopy pjs to the shop where i work as its 24hrs and had a giggle about my attire with my colleagues while purchasing the medicine.

A couple of other times was when i had to drive DH into work at 6.30am and i decided to pop to the shop for milk or bread for my breakfast. The kids were also still in their pjs as it was the holidays and none of us needed to get dressed at 6am.

Chrissiecat · 05/01/2017 20:13

I would be very embarrassed to be seen out shopping in pyjamas.

If that's what people want to do it's up to them.

happynewyearchum · 05/01/2017 20:14

Only once have I seen one person out pjs.

She was about 16/17 wearing a onesie and fake Ugg boots. Very rough.