knackers in pyjamas

I live near Pearse st and have the 'luck' to work in Thomas st(Digital Hub) and on a daily basis I see so many knackers wandering around in their pyjamas thats its really puzzling me.

Are they just too feckin lazy to even get dressed each day? I've been tempted so many times to ask them but I know I'll prob get a fist full of sovereign rings in d face if I dare ask them anything!

So anyone out there know their secrets?? Is wearing pyjamas secret code for something??

Banphrionsa

Maybe a new fashion statement, to go along with the slept-in hair look?

Ag marbh

It's an inner city trend often mixed with a foot long Superking hanging out of the mouth. I think it's funny

aidan_walsh

Maybe they were filming a new childrens show for RTE?

"Ye's know what might be good fer a laugh, K1?"
"Dunno, K2. What might be good fer a laugh?"
"Goin' down to Ratzo's shop and robbin' the f***er..."

KTRIC

I first seen this in Donaghmede about 5 or 6 years ago. I was amazed then and I still am. How can these people think its acceptable to wear pyjamas in public ??:eek:

SoupyNorman

Deleted User wrote:

I live near Pearse st and have the 'luck' to work in Thomas st(Digital Hub) and on a daily basis I see so many knackers wandering around in their pyjamas thats its really puzzling me.

Are they just too feckin lazy to even get dressed each day? I've been tempted so many times to ask them but I know I'll prob get a fist full of sovereign rings in d face if I dare ask them anything!

So anyone out there know their secrets?? Is wearing pyjamas secret code for something??

Its their neighbourhood.....Go into alot of working class estates and you would more then likely see it too.

Before I go on, I grew up in whitestown in Blanch so I know what I'm talking about in case anyone thinks I have an opinion on something I know nothing about.

Alot of the time their just running down to the shops and I wouldnt really call them knackers, townies maybe.

Its not illegal, it dosnt harm you so leave them be.

wheres me jumpa

I would actually like to propose that this is made acceptable. Pyjamas are just so damn comfortable!

sinjin_smythe

ehh i ve seen this going on for about a year, i think its only the lady knackers that do this (correct me if im wrong), its apparently the new thing, D4 have their dubes and knackers (scumbags) have their Pj's. And the circle of life continues !

tq

bravestarr082 wrote:

Its not illegal, it dosnt harm you so leave them be.

Exactly, who cares to be honest

Hobbes

Its not knackers.. you are getting old. Appears to be fashion among the bebo generation.

My nieces friends all wander around outside in thier pyjamas now. The sister however put her foot down and isn't allowing my niece to do the same though.

weemcd

always wanted to ask this, why do chef's wear them ceptic pajama trousers they have?

Gandhi

It's a huge thing among female college students near me. Every time I go through a college campus, all the chicks are in pyjama pants.

fade2black

People still wear pyjamas?

Huggles

Yep yep i work in thomas street also and i see it everyday. I also walk home in the evenings down thomas street, through town then out the northside and you see hundreds of them in the North Strand area, I actually don't understand it at all. Over the winter I saw a few of them coming back from shopping with there Penneys bags and pyjama bottoms under there coats.

I agree with the OP they now can't be arsed getting dressed!

galah

saw a girl in Galway wearing her PJs recently - I really wanted to stop her and ask if she's ok, or if I should call an ambulance/social services since she seemed confused and didn't manage to put her 'outside' clothes on...maybe something bad had happened and she had to leave her house in a hurry?

My boyfriend intervened unfortunately (always spoiling the fun, he is..;-) somehow he doesn't like it when I'm trying to be nice and helpful...).

Next time, I will ask though!

BlueSpiral

knackers in pyjamas
ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I'm putting that slogan on a t-shirt.

spurious

They have pyjamas for sleeping in and then they often have another set for going to the shops in.

Kind of like the guys would have a tracksuit for going out in and another tracksuit for going to football training in.

Either way, hardly the end of the world.

mavish

I have it on good authority that they dont wear pyjamas to bed at all, they just put them on in the morning. Apparently they call it their "daysuit". I find nothing more confusing than seeing some of the girls walking around with some elaborate hairdo and makeup an inch thick but in pjs... Why?

BlueSpiral

BlueSpiral wrote:

knackers in pyjamas
ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I'm putting that slogan on a t-shirt.

Try this! Sorry bout low quality,rush job

Running Bing

This is a trend that has evolved over the years. They started out wearing standard nike/addidas tracksuits. They then began wearing those really soft velvety tracksuits, recently they began wearing those strange bottoms which are a cross between tracksuit bottoms and pyjamas. Now they just wear pyjamas. The young chav-about-town hardly has the time to change nowadays anyway after waking up at 3 oclock in the afternoon after a long night of sipping cider and nibbling on KFC. I like this new trend, kinda alzheimer's chic.

BlueSpiral

Deleted User wrote:

Try this! Sorry bout low quality,rush job

If they sell well, I'll give you 50% of the profits

knackers in Pajamas
You see them everywhere
knackers in pajamas
they hardly even care

BlueSpiral

BlueSpiral wrote:

If they sell well, I'll give you 50% of the profits

knackers in Pajamas
You see them everywhere
knackers in pajamas
they hardly even care

grand,I'll get a contract drawn up!

Dooom

BANANAS, IN PYJAMAS

All in favour of redesignating knackers as bananas?
Bananas will henceforth be known as those long yellow things you peel before you eat and if you leave them for too long they go black.
So as to avoid confusion.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I don't own a pair of pyjamas, but if I did.. and they were very comfortable, I'd wear them to the shop if it was withing walking distance.

so **** all of you!

fascists

takola

This new fashion mustn't have reached Limerick yet.. i havent seen anyone in pyjama's.

Nixmix that was Genius!!!!!!!

DOLEMAN

I don't think the "it's their neighbourhood" argument is valid really. I live in the city centre and I would never walk around Grafton Street in my pyjamas (note: I don't actually jave pyjamas).

Not only is it a little odd, but I can imagine the pyjama material is not quite made for the street? It looks too brittle/sponge like.

It's funny though, and I actually like seeing it! I'm looking forward to the day the townies who sleep naked decide to wander to the shops...

Sam Vimes

saw this in town the other day. a girl walking dow parnell street in pyjamas complete with slippers. odd

DOLEMAN

Commander Vimes wrote:

saw this in town the other day. a girl walking dow parnell street in pyjamas complete with slippers. odd

It's funny because they probably think they're not "conforming" by wearing their pyjamas outside. When it fact, it's complete conformism (considering all their peers do it.)

FX Meister

I tend to shout at the peasants to put some clothes on while driving by. It doesn't bother me but I like to look down and laugh at them

simu

Yeah, it's the inevitable next step after tracksuits really. So many people have no appreciation for good tailoring but I suppose their function as a laughing stock for the stylish must be appreciated. :-p

Dooom

Just think of them as the volunteers that test out new forms of fashion.

Tracksuits? No.
Pyjamas? No.

One day, they might get it right. One day.

blu_sonic

Ah it goes on here in crumlin, but it doesn't effet me, i've been known to go into the garden in my vest and shorts on occasion (as far as the car anyway)

Merrick

OK I'll admit too that I once went to the shop down the road in my pj's. I was only a kid at the time, but I was a good few years ahead of the fashion industry. Oh yeah!!! How stylish am I?

pisslips

Spike wrote:

Just think of them as the volunteers that test out new forms of fashion.

Tracksuits? No.
Pyjamas? No.

One day, they might get it right. One day.

Tracksuit/pyjamas?...*vomits*

I Hate those scummy pink pyjama tracksuit bottoms and loads of non-knackers wear them, absolute scuzzbag.

irlirishkev

I live up around Parnell St. and see this the whole time.

I think it's gross tbh. I mean, what are they wearing under those pyjamas? And did they just roll out of bed and walk straight out the front door? Or did they stop to have a wash first.. maybe brush their teeth?

A big jacket, a pair of boots.. would it be too much hassle to put some more clothes on?

ick.

Fajitas!

Brilliant thread title!!!

I study on Thomas St, and have to walk through Chuch St. to get there, from that area (Sometimes from just before Capel St.) the Pj Parade are out...Some of them have the worst f*cking pajamas too. Purple silk bottoms with red cotton tops with teddy bears... What are they thinking...like?

monkeyfudge

So is knacker just a more general derogatory term now? When did that happen?

fade2black

monkeyfudge wrote:

So is knacker just a more general derogatory term now? When did that happen?

At the moment it's only an offensive term to those who haven't come in contact with them.

monkeyfudge

I live in Coolock.. I still think it's an offensive term right up there with ni gger

Anyway.. the prefered term for this particular social grouping is 'Pyjama People'... and it's been going on for at least half a decade.

fade2black

Maybe make that negative contact then.

tintinr35

sing in the theme tune of bananas in pyjamas

knackers in pyjamas are comin down your stairs, knackers in pyjamas are comin down in pairs, knackers in pyjamas are robbin your table and chairs knackers in pyjamas are smokin john players.................and so on

Skyuser

" The Knackers in Pyjamas are coming down the street,
The Knackers in Pyjamas will hit you in the teeth,
They'll steal your phone
Then leave you alone
In the middle of Athlone. "

entropi

Well living barely 2 mins from Thomas St. i see this every day, have done for a long time, it's not a new thing btw it's been going on well over 10 years Seeing as the area is a s*ithole it's quite normal to see people doing this sort of thing. Normally the girls do it, while smoking a johnny blue and going to the shops for whatever.

Hobbes

fade2black wrote:

At the moment it's only an offensive term to those who haven't come in contact with them.

So when are we planning to come in contact with you?

I recall about 15 years or so ago, one of my first jobs the manager (a girl) wore an Aran sweater, Doc Martins and long johns as pants (which as you know have a flap in front).

FranknFurter

See it almost every time I go to the local super-valu in this place.
Once asked a woman behind the till what is it all about, her response was "its always young girls isnt it, I think when they have babies its just for comfort"

:eek:

(it is a bit weird, if it IS a "fashion" thing that ya never once see guys doing it do ya)

Gummy Panda

Hobbes wrote:

..long johns as pants (which as you know have a flap in front).

A cat flap?

Sgt. Politeness

I was on campus for a few weeks in an american college in january, and most people wandered around in thier PJ's. In the canteen all youd see was chicks in pj's everywhere you looked. Not that i was complaining.

Rogueish

American students are a little wierd.

I worked in the athletic department in a college in the U.S. for a while. I was working with a female soccer team and while they would never shower after a match (communal shower rooms etc) they had no problem changing in the hall of the sports complex even though there were changing rooms available.

Or at an away match in the middle of the Bronx NY they got changed on the sideline after the match (again no showers). Turning their backs to the crowd. Just cos they had their backs to the supporters they couldn't be seen??!!!!

When I was there it was really baggy sweatpants, an overside hoodie and the requisite flip flops were the campus fashion. I suppose the Pj's were only the next step.

ODS

I only noticed this last summer; initially I wondered whether "yer wan" was a patient from somewhere. As fashions go, i dont know which is worse - this or the open-belly-ripples-of-fat-look :eek: :eek:

Send them to Saudi for a holiday - that'll sort them

dalk

Was in DIT in '92 and had a class on Sean MacDermott Street, and i used to see the locals going to the local shop in their pj's... so it's not a new phenomenon. I have only ever seen women/girls though...

Have seen the same in Rialto, Drimmnagh, Thomas Street, Inchicore...

Running Bing

Rogueish wrote:

American students are a little wierd.

I worked in the athletic department in a college in the U.S. for a while. I was working with a female soccer team and while they would never shower after a match (communal shower rooms etc) they had no problem changing in the hall of the sports complex even though there were changing rooms available.

Or at an away match in the middle of the Bronx NY they got changed on the sideline after the match (again no showers). Turning their backs to the crowd. Just cos they had their backs to the supporters they couldn't be seen??!!!!

When I was there it was really baggy sweatpants, an overside hoodie and the requisite flip flops were the campus fashion. I suppose the Pj's were only the next step.

Name of college and a list of fixtures for ladies soccer team please.:D