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Queuing for things at midnight

  • 17-09-2013 07:11PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    I once got out of bed at an unGodly hour to make sure I secured 2 tickets for the then girlfriend to go and hear Madonna screech her way through Slane in 2004. Suffice to say we didnt last long after that.

    It's sort of understandable to queue up for things when there's a limited amount of them but the pics today of people going out at mad hours for GTA 5 were a bit strange. They'll still be at sale at lunchtime?

    What have you queued up for at all hours and now look back and think "the fcuk?"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Roll on 2 and a half hours on a Friday night, and I queue for disgusting food I wouldn't eat when sober.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Tickets for a concert, sports event or any other limited numbers event is ok.

    Queuing up for a computer game, phone or anything else that you could get the next day or over the week is ridiculous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    I once got out of bed at an unGodly hour to make sure I secured 2 tickets for the then girlfriend to go and hear Madonna screech her way through Slane in 2004. Suffice to say we didnt last long after that.

    It's sort of understandable to queue up for things when there's a limited amount of them but the pics today of people going out at mad hours for GTA 5 were a bit strange. They'll still be at sale at lunchtime?

    What have you queued up for at all hours and now look back and think "the fcuk?"

    I don't think it's done here but when I lived in England, there used to be people buying cars at midnight when the new regs came out so they could 'be among the first' with the new reg. If buying a computer game is ridiculous, surely buying a car is 10 times worse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    tickets for 'the cure' in 89 and again in 91. never thought WTF though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    I once got out of bed at an unGodly hour to make sure I secured 2 tickets for the then girlfriend to go and hear Madonna screech her way through Slane in 2004. Suffice to say we didnt last long after that.

    It's sort of understandable to queue up for things when there's a limited amount of them but the pics today of people going out at mad hours for GTA 5 were a bit strange. They'll still be at sale at lunchtime?
    What have you queued up for at all hours and now look back and think "the fcuk?"


    Yes but by that time nearly 12-13 hours will have passed of GTA playing time.
    When you wait nearly 5 years for something every second more is torture.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Ive queued up for books, tickets and consoles and always had a great time with the other folk lining up. Feels more magic when its dark.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    SV wrote: »
    Yes but by that time nearly 12-13 hours will have passed of GTA playing time.
    When you wait nearly 5 years for something every second more is torture.

    8 of which you'll be asleep for


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    8 of which you'll be asleep for

    and? People who buy the game at midnight don't buy it and then go to bed.
    They go home and play the game until the morning, 90% of the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    I DESPISE those fools who queue for Apple stuff. Especially when they have the last generation model they bought 3 months before. I get we all like the new stuff. But these people are Díckheads of the highest order.

    Sad little men and women


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    GTA 5 were a bit strange. They'll still be at sale at lunchtime?
    Shops often sell out of toys & things. I don't think that madonna gig even sold out BTW!

    Some want it ASAP, like listening to new albums, want to be the first of their friends to get it. Others will go for the unity, like a bunch of schoolgirls queuing for one direction stuff. Some products first release can have freebies.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Will never actually do it myself but I don't think it should be dismissed outright. Often times the emotional excitement a person gets in anticipation of a product provides a unique experience. They'll probably enjoy the game. For some though they'll also enjoy the excitement of queuing and watching as their excitement slowly builds up to a climax of receiving something they've long being anticipating. It's like any goal a person has built an emotional attachment to, be it completing a marathon, passing your exams, getting a new job. They all provide an experience that makes the person feel alive, if only for a fleeting moment.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    rubadub wrote: »
    I don't think that madonna gig even sold out BTW!

    It didnt :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Jernal wrote: »
    Will never actually do it myself but I don't think it should be dismissed outright. Often times the emotional excitement a person gets in anticipation of a product provides a unique experience. They'll probably enjoy the game. For some though they'll also enjoy the excitement of queuing and watching as their excitement slowly builds up to a climax of receiving something they've long being anticipating. It's like an goal a person has built an emotional attachment to, be it completing a marathon, passing your exams, getting a new job. They all provide an experience that makes the person feel alive, if only for a fleeting moment.

    What a sad life these people must live


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    rubadub wrote: »
    Shops often sell out of toys & things.

    This happens every Christmas with this year's "must have" toy and them being "sold out" is cleverly organised PR by the manufacturer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    A few weeks ago we were moving from one pub to another just before midnight, & there was a crowd queueing for One Direction tickets.

    The abuse they must have got must have been fierce.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Feathers


    8 of which you'll be asleep for

    Don't know many gamers then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    A few weeks ago we were moving from one pub to another just before midnight, & there was a crowd queueing for One Direction tickets.

    The abuse they must have got must have been fierce.

    Queuing for gigs that will sell out is ok though, especially if you don't have a credit card.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    They queuing in the hope a film crew will question them so they can get on tv.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    They queuing in the hope a film crew will question them so they can get on tv.

    Ehh no.

    People are queuing because the game is definitely going to sell out and they don't want to have to wait a week or two for the next shipment.

    I really don't understand it to be honest considering you can just download the game. In Galway theres a nightclub near the Game shop and I remember on the night Skyrim came out me and a few mates were staggering up the street and we saw all the people queuing for the midnight release and we were thinking wtf are they doing?!?! The queue for the club starts up here ye dopes!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Elbaston


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    I queued at midnight for each of the last three Harry Potter books and I'm proud of it! It's nice to get excited about things and it's a bit of a laugh too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Jernal wrote: »
    Will never actually do it myself but I don't think it should be dismissed outright. Often times the emotional excitement a person gets in anticipation of a product provides a unique experience. They'll probably enjoy the game. For some though they'll also enjoy the excitement of queuing and watching as their excitement slowly builds up to a climax of receiving something they've long being anticipating. It's like any goal a person has built an emotional attachment to, be it completing a marathon, passing your exams, getting a new job. They all provide an experience that makes the person feel alive, if only for a fleeting moment.

    These emotions you talk about are the product of horrible type of instant gratification consumerism. People are blinded by this and the media hype to the absolute ridiculousness of queueing for unnecessary luxury goods that are in unlimited supply at an ungodly hour.

    I read today that people have started already queueing outside the Apple store in NY for the new phone. There are even professional queuers...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    MurdyWurdy wrote: »
    I queued at midnight for each of the last three Harry Potter books and I'm proud of it! It's nice to get excited about things and it's a bit of a laugh too

    Its nothing to be proud of tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    MurdyWurdy wrote: »
    I queued at midnight for each of the last three Harry Potter books and I'm proud of it! It's nice to get excited about things and it's a bit of a laugh too

    You better not have been wearing one of those scarfs.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    There are even professional queuers...

    Dale Winton is one................ so I've heard.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    I feel sorry for people who aren't able to get excited about things so much that they'd go to a midnight sale.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    I wouldn't do it personally, I am a lazy so and so and I love my sleep. I wouldn't call anyone who did it sad or anything, strokes for folks and all that. But I was listening to a tech\pop culture podcast called the 404 the other day and one of the guys was telling a story, they were filming one of the iPhone queues, he said that they were talking to a guy and when he got his iPhone he started crying, that's what you call the height of retardness right there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Feathers


    These emotions you talk about are the product of horrible type of instant gratification consumerism. People are blinded by this and the media hype to the absolute ridiculousness of queueing for unnecessary luxury goods that are in unlimited supply at an ungodly hour.

    Doesn't sound very instant to me.:P


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    I queued for the Harry Potter books because I wanted to read them asap to avoid spoilers. It was also great fun. Couldn't give a feck how sad that makes me in some peoples' eyes. They should find something better to waste their time worrying about.

    I don't think I'd bother queueing for things just because they will sell out. I'd be happy to wait once spoilers weren't an issue.


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