Annual Shopping Day

JONJO THE MISER

So how many of my fellow country brethren are heading to the big smokes today for the annual shopping trip.
Im getting all ready here, have the cold beef from yesterday ready for sandwiches, flask for the tae, lucozade bottle for the milk and a packet of custard creams and emerald sweets.
Now off to spruce myself up.

Sam Mac

what will you be buying Jonjo?

AskMyChocolate

If I don't see ya in Barry's Hotel JohnJo, I'll assume you got lucky and are meeting some young wan under Clery's clock.

Simonigs1.0

I know to avoid town now today.

Thanks Op.

Tombi!

I know this is a yearly thing. But why this day?

Vandango

Simonigs1.0 wrote: »

I know to avoid town now today.

Ironic that some call the capital city 'the big smoke', yet it is so small, it is generally referred to as 'town'.

Straylight

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

I know this is a yearly thing. But why this day?

It's a religious holiday so the schools are off.

mosstin

Straylight wrote: »

It's a religious holiday so the schools are off.

No they're not.

rsl1976

Primary schools are off today

efb

I think it's optional now

mosstin

efb wrote: »

I think it's optional now

Yup. Either take the day off or go to mass.

To Elland Back

Dundrum Shopping Centre will be like The Ploughing Championships today.

Omackeral

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

So how many of my fellow country brethren are heading to the big smokes today for the annual shopping trip.
Im getting all ready here, have the cold beef from yesterday ready for sandwiches, flask for the tae, lucozade bottle for the milk and a packet of custard creams and emerald sweets.
Now off to spruce myself up.

Everything about this post is immoral.

ian87

rsl1976 wrote: »

Primary schools are off today

I'm not. We are bringing the kids to mass instead. Tis a diocesan loophole to save our days off for later in the year.

boobar

rsl1976 wrote: »

Primary schools are off today

No they're not

efb

To Elland Back wrote: »

Dundrum Shopping Centre will be like The Ploughing Championships today.

Thought it was all Mary Street, Talbot St and Henry St with the county womenz?

cloud493

So Dublin will be full of culchies today? :eek:

ThunbergsAreGo

cloud493 wrote: »

So Dublin will be full of culchies today? :eek:

So just like every day?

The_Valeyard

Hahahahha I pity school students,

No day off anymore.

Well my young ones have the day of school, so some primary schools are closed.

But no shopping for them, lots of cows to milk, and giant chickens to feed in their big steel sheds.

cloud493

naughtb4 wrote: »

So just like every day?

Rather have the junkies than the culchies man.

the groutch

All the Dublin shops should put their prices up especially for today.

Pumpkinseeds

I would have thought the annual farmer shopping day would've ended with the advent of online shopping, no?

joe stodge

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I would have thought the annual farmer shopping day would've ended with the advent of online shopping, no?

The muck savages would need t'internet first.

twin_beacon

boobar wrote: »

No they're not

It was changed a few years ago, all schools used to be off on the 8th, if the 8th fell on a week day.

Pumpkinseeds

joe stodge wrote: »

The muck savages would t'internet first.

There can't be many of that generation left though. At least that's what TV would have us believe. It's a bit like those really short hunched over elderly people, you hardly ever see any of them anymore.

twin_beacon

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

There can't be many of that generation left though. At least that's what TV would have us believe. It's a bit like those really short hunched over elderly people, you hardly ever see any of them anymore.

im from roscommon (working in dublin for years), I know of nobody that goes to dublin on the 8th. Maybe 20 years ago it was a thing, but not any more. 20 years ago, lots of the big household names only had shops in the bigger towns, not any more though.

anncoates

II was wondering what the smell of slurry was today.

The Backwards Man

We always did our Christmas shopping in the North. Didn't matter a fcuk what day of the month it was either.

twin_beacon

anncoates wrote: »

II was wondering what the smell of slurry was today.

na, thats just dublin

anncoates

The Backwards Man wrote: »

We always did our Christmas shopping in the North. Didn't matter a fcuk what day of the month it was either.

I remember my ma and her mates going on Christmas shopping trips from Dublin to Newry as a kid. People would actually run buses up.

awec

Is this just a during the day thing or an overnighter?

Like if I go to Dundrum this evening is it going to be even more packed to the tits than usual?

cloud493

anncoates wrote: »

I remember my ma and her mates going on Christmas shopping trips from Dublin to Newry as a kid. People would actually run buses up.

People still do that round here.

The Backwards Man

cloud493 wrote: »

People still do that round here.

The euro is cat this year though. You'd be better off shopping in the free state unless you have Stg.

The Strawman Argument

twin_beacon wrote: »

im from roscommon (working in dublin for years), I know of nobody that goes to dublin on the 8th. Maybe 20 years ago it was a thing, but not any more. 20 years ago, lots of the big household names only had shops in the bigger towns, not any more though.

It was still a thing about 10 years ago, but definitely on its way out. The people I know back home who still view it as a big shopping day are gone up north to Enniskillen instead today.

Mal-Adjusted

I'd always heard about this in the past but never knew why this day. the school stuff makes sense. It must have died off in a lot of places though as Ireland drags itself into the 21st century.

To Elland Back

awec wrote: »

Is this just a during the day thing or an overnighter?

Like if I go to Dundrum this evening is it going to be even more packed to the tits than usual?

The shops will be fine, but the car park will be jammed with culchies having the hang sangwidges and tae