Are Towns and Cities gonna be a SH~~IT show tomorrow?

sasta le

What do you reckon with everything opening up

Car99

No it'll be grand.

Your Face

sasta le

Im thinking its gonna packed

freshpopcorn

They'll be a good few in Penney's and people will be having meltdowns online saying just think of the numbers in two weeks.

Potential-Monke

I won't be going anywhere near a city or large town for a few days! It's great that it's all opening up again and people can get back to some semblance of... normality (ugh), but the biggest problem with the current lifting is the insistence that it's now up to the people to police themselves, which people don't really have a great track record of.

Yes, I know, I'm not saying it's the vast majority, but there's a sizeable chunk of the population who unfortunately make up the above "rule breakers". I hope it doesn't happen*, but I can see lockdown again in January.

*Actually, i'm enjoying lockdown so can't say I'm being totally honest when saying that...

Graces7

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I won't be going anywhere near a city or large town for a few days! It's great that it's all opening up again and people can get back to some semblance of... normality (ugh), but the biggest problem with the current lifting is the insistence that it's now up to the people to police themselves, which people don't really have a great track record of.

Yes, I know, I'm not saying it's the vast majority, but there's a sizeable chunk of the population who unfortunately make up the above "rule breakers". I hope it doesn't happen*, but I can see lockdown again in January.

*Actually, i'm enjoying lockdown so can't say I'm being totally honest when saying that...

Wise words. I am staying safe out here in my solitary outpost. It will be sheer pandemonium out there. ugh!

punisher5112

sasta le wrote: »

What do you reckon with everything opening up

Well technically it is tomorrow so what you going to do about it

Ish66

Naggin in the pocket and just dive in.

punisher5112

The sheeple are going to lose their sh1t

screamer

i think reopening combined with child benefit day will see utter mayhem in some shops. theres queues already for penneys in some places.....

punisher5112

screamer wrote: »

i think reopening combined with child benefit day will see utter mayhem in some shops. theres queues already for penneys in some places.....

I actually just don't get it.....

Penny's seams to be the only thing needed even if a nuke was going to be dropped they'd be running to penny's

PsychoPete

All these people queueing for pennys at 4am just to buy what? Socks? T-shirt?

People are idiots

sasta le

screamer wrote: »

i think reopening combined with child benefit day will see utter mayhem in some shops. theres queues already for penneys in some places.....

People on lower incomes may need clothes underwear bedding etc

screamer

punisher5112 wrote: »

I actually just don't get it.....

Penny's seams to be the only thing needed even if a nuke was going to be dropped they'd be running to penny's

i think its the dopamine hit they get from getting chape clothes and impulse buying..... i don't get it either TBH but then i'd rarely set foot in penneys anyways.

Stevieluvsye

sasta le wrote: »

People on lower incomes may need clothes underwear bedding etc

That’s right. Us middle income households go around starkers and sleep on floors

punisher5112

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

That’s right. Us middle income households go around starkers and sleep on floors

Few that's great to know.... Way it should be....

Atlantic Dawn

PsychoPete wrote: »

All these people queueing for pennys at 4am just to buy what? Socks? T-shirt?

People are idiots

I can only assume they are seeking fame trying to be on TV or in the papers, no other reasonable explanation.

Wibbs

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I can only assume they are seeking fame trying to be on TV or in the papers, no other reasonable explanation.

Idiocy? Well not necessarily complete stupidity, but the herd in action in those more susceptible to that. EG the buying bog roll in bulk in the early stages of this. I saw a few get drawn into that panic.

Graces7

Wibbs wrote: »

Idiocy? Well not necessarily complete stupidity, but the herd in action in those more susceptible to that. EG the buying bog roll in bulk in the early stages of this. I saw a few get drawn into that panic.

There is a scene in a Thomas Hardy novel where a badly trained sheep dog drives one sheep over a cliff and they all follow....

Fit the characters ...;)

I only ever was in Penney's once. In Killarney when the Dealz opposite ran out of cheap Christmas tree lights. . A very swift purchase

It will be on the news; folk barely able to walk for the weight of their shopping.

Plumbthedepths

I think it was a genius idea to create 6 weeks of pent up demand three weeks before Christmas. I hope whomevers brainfart of an idea it was gets a bad case of Montezuma's revenge the first restaurant meal they have. ;-)

readyletsgo

Madness. Heard one 'woman' on the radio going into Pennys to pick up 12 sets of pajamas for family and how she feels all 'christmassy' now.
So much for the 'Fast Fashion' movement that came up during the 2 lockdowns.

Just order stuff online. Still loads of time

ednwireland

honestly great to see some life around the town, but yes people will go mad i suspect, and yes we will be back in lockdown by January

Thelonious Monk

Who will be in these shops going mental? People buying stuff for their kids for Xmas is all I can think of, and I suppose they don't have a choice really.
I reckon numbers will be through the roof in a few weeks and hello lockdown no 3.

I passed a big queue of cars heading into Galway this morning. Definitely people out shopping.

sbsquarepants

PsychoPete wrote: »

All these people queueing for pennys at 4am just to buy what? Socks? T-shirt?

People are idiots

Have these people never heard of the fúcking internet?


How have pennys managed to convince an entire generation that there's no other way of getting your hands on poorly made, ill fitting, sweatshop crap?


Whoever does their marketing is an absolute genius!

Wibbs

readyletsgo wrote: »

Madness. Heard one 'woman' on the radio going into Pennys to pick up 12 sets of pajamas for family and how she feels all 'christmassy' now.
So much for the 'Fast Fashion' movement that came up during the 2 lockdowns.

Just order stuff online. Still loads of time

People can be bright, or average or stupid, but the mob is always as dumb as rocks. Humans being social animals are prey to mob thinking, so when they hear that enough people are heading to the shops they'll follow like lemmings. Add in that most people like and are even slaves of sorts to the routines they've built up over their lives and this virus has massively disrupted that. I have found people, even most people not good with change, or they tend to react to change in a polarised fashion. In this pandemic you have those who will just "follow orders", the majority and those who will see control/conspiracy and won't, the minority. So a fixed point of sorts like Christmas and all the routines attached to it will bring out the low level panic to get back the normalcy of that fixed point in the middle of what is out of the norm that this pandemic has brought.

Plumbthedepths

readyletsgo wrote: »

Madness. Heard one 'woman' on the radio going into Pennys to pick up 12 sets of pajamas for family and how she feels all 'christmassy' now.
So much for the 'Fast Fashion' movement that came up during the 2 lockdowns.

Just order stuff online. Still loads of time

Penny's doesn't sell online and many people like to see a product in 'the flesh' so to speak before they buy.

PsychoPete

Was listening to newstalk this morning and they were interviewing people outside pennys. One woman buying 12 pairs of pyjamas for family that staying for Christmas and some other woman buying lashes. You've all day and the rest of the week to buy these things, you don't need to be queueing at 4am for these things

Graces7

Wibbs wrote: »

People can be bright, or average or stupid, but the mob is always as dumb as rocks. Humans being social animals are prey to mob thinking, so when they hear that enough people are heading to the shops they'll follow like lemmings. Add in that most people like and are even slaves of sorts to the routines they've built up over their lives and this virus has massively disrupted that. I have found people, even most people not good with change, or they tend to react to change in a polarised fashion. In this pandemic you have those who will just "follow orders", the majority and those who will see control/conspiracy and won't, the minority. So a fixed point of sorts like Christmas and all the routines attached to it will bring out the low level panic to get back the normalcy of that fixed point in the middle of what is out of the norm that this pandemic has brought.

Someone who is usually wise told me that the lemming thing is inaccurate. a myth so I use " sheep" ….which are totally stoopid…. so your post fits. Sheep NEED leading. To have someone to think for them. To be docile and obedient.

Goats are different; the rebels! (I had sheep and a goat for years. it was an education..)

Fits your post well..

punisher5112

PsychoPete wrote: »

Was listening to newstalk this morning and they were interviewing people outside pennys. One woman buying 12 pairs of pyjamas for family that staying for Christmas and some other woman buying lashes. You've all day and the rest of the week to buy these things, you don't need to be queueing at 4am for these things

One thing about that is, there are that many like her she actually will need to especially with that amount....

The dinner would want to be amazing

readyletsgo

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Penny's doesn't sell online and many people like to see a product in 'the flesh' so to speak before they buy.

Yup I'm fully aware Pennys dont sell online. Never have.
But there a BILLION other websites that DO sell the same stuff at the same price online. Just a very quick search on 'de googles' will help. Its a pandemic, bit of common sense would think, best not to go in and see and 'feel' the products, to then throw on the floor for the poor underpaid staff to fix back up all day long.

Anyway, leave them too is. In January they will all moan about the 3rd lockdown :rolleyes:.

And I know people shop in Pennys cause its super cheap. But I'm pretty damn poor too, but I save my few squids and buy a decent garment that will last forever.

(I dont have pennys underwear and socks though :pac:)

punisher5112

Any sightings of Cash, she hasn't been able to rob penny's for quite some time....

ElJeffe

The Gardai had to control traffic going into Dundrum shopping centre this morning. People are god awful thick.

punisher5112

ElJeffe wrote: »

The Gardai had to control traffic going into Dundrum shopping centre this morning. People are god awful thick.

Passed by didn't see anything other then much more walking up the main Street etc then normal

Church on Tuesday

PsychoPete wrote: »

Was listening to newstalk this morning and they were interviewing people outside pennys. One woman buying 12 pairs of pyjamas for family that staying for Christmas and some other woman buying lashes. You've all day and the rest of the week to buy these things, you don't need to be queueing at 4am for these things

These kinds of people tend to have dull empty lives.

Do what you want I guess, but I personally think queuing for Pennys at 4 AM is pretty sad.

Plumbthedepths

readyletsgo wrote: »

Yup I'm fully aware Pennys dont sell online. Never have.
But there a BILLION other websites that DO sell the same stuff at the same price online. Just a very quick search on 'de googles' will help. Its a pandemic, bit of common sense would think, best not to go in and see and 'feel' the products, to then throw on the floor for the poor underpaid staff to fix back up all day long.

Anyway, leave them too is. In January they will all moan about the 3rd lockdown :rolleyes:.

And I know people shop in Pennys cause its super cheap. But I'm pretty damn poor too, but I save my few squids and buy a decent garment that will last forever.

(I dont have pennys underwear and socks though :pac:)

If only everyone was like you, eh?

Stevieluvsye

I'm going to Monread SC shortly to get my mop taken off, they are not answering their phone in Boston barbers. Worrying times.

Anyway, good that the government have shown some balls and stopped listening to these shower of wan!ers.

Plumbthedepths

In fairness theres only one lad there I'd class as a w**Ker and that's Ryan, two if you had put in McConkey's photo.

Stevieluvsye

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

In fairness theirs only one lad there I'd class as a w**Ker and that's Ryan, two if you had put in McConkey's photo.

Forgot about McConkey.......Staines is alright in fairness. Nabarro could tell you, you'd be dead in 5 minutes and he'd do it with a smile. Class act

Da Gascuin reminds me of my last consultant. Big clinical head on him

I was in Dundrum centre today. It was glorious and I bought TWO pairs of pjs.

*happy dance*

readyletsgo

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

If only everyone was like you, eh?

I Know!!! :P

Ish66

sasta le wrote: »

People on lower incomes may need clothes underwear bedding etc

Let us know after your visit was it crowded, I only shop in Grafton St and London myself. I heard rumours that Penneys underwear itch , Does It ?

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

I was in Dundrum centre today. It was glorious and I bought TWO pairs of pjs.

*happy dance*

I drove well clear of it happy that I sleep in the nip.

Ish66

Wibbs wrote: »

I drove well clear of it happy that I sleep in the nip.

Well you will be sorry on xmas morning, Santa does not visit ''Nip'' sleepers !:eek:

sasta le

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

That’s right. Us middle income households go around starkers and sleep on floors

Then why are people moaning about people shopping in Penneys

Aglomerado

Ish66 wrote: »

Well you will be sorry on xmas morning, Santa does not visit ''Nip'' sleepers !:eek:

It's OK. They have easy access to a "sack" of their own!

punisher5112

Queuing to get into penny's at 1230 or 130 am is just sad..... Really sad.

Plumbthedepths

punisher5112 wrote: »

Queuing to get into penny's at 1230 or 130 am is just sad..... Really sad.

Posting about others queuing to get into Penny's...equally sad imo.

zerosugarbuzz

punisher5112 wrote: »

Passed by didn't see anything other then much more walking up the main Street etc then normal

Same in Liffey valley last night, no queues for any of the shops including penny’s

punisher5112

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Posting about others queuing to get into Penny's...equally sad imo.

You ok Hun?

Woke have spoken.....