Won't somebody please think of the children? Adult Store opens in Drumcondra

PizzamanIRL · 22-06-2015 05:06PM

In a strange way, they kind of are thinking of the children.

ScumLord · 22-06-2015 05:09PM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Who buys porn in a shop these days ffs.

Even costumes, dildos and the like I would imagine people would prefer to buy online.

I'm surprised they make any money at all.

They were on Newstalk a week or two ago and they basically are an online business. The shop will be as much for storage as anything else, I don't think they really expect a lot of walk in business.

seamus · 22-06-2015 05:26PM

I'm waiting for someone to post a picture which shows that "across the road from a boy's school" actually means, "half a kilometre down the road and in a shopping centre", as usually happens with this kind of nonsense story.

RDM_83 again · 22-06-2015 05:26PM

arayess wrote: »

if anything we should have more sex shops and normalise sex in society.

clearly leave it 18s to enter but I think it would be better if sex was seen as a normal thing and not something secretive and down dark alleys.

I'm not really sure sex shops normalise sex, I mean its taking something humans have done forever and commercialising it.

eviltwin wrote: »

Adult shops tend to be very discrete looking from the outside, the name is very innocuous....unless they have dildos and porn mags in the window I don't see the problem. Drawing attention to it in this way just makes it worse.

Some shops are pretty graphic in terms of props one I used to walk past regularly in templebar had those creepy as hell full body no face pvc restraint suits and gags with attached funnels for "liquids". Obviously I tended to have a gawk at it but I'm not sure its something kids should be exposed too, picture the conversation
"daddy whats that.... well son when two people love each other very much sometimes the dominant partner likes to wrap the submissive in pvc bind them and strap them to the wall, beat them with a riding crop then finish by doing a pee pee in their mouth"

ScumLord · 22-06-2015 05:29PM

seamus wrote: »

I'm waiting for someone to post a picture which shows that "across the road from a boy's school" actually means, "half a kilometre down the road and in a shopping centre", as usually happens with this kind of nonsense story.

From what I remember of the Newstalk interview they're around a corner down an alleyway. The protesters should help everyone identify where it is.

seamus · 22-06-2015 05:31PM

ScumLord wrote: »

From what I remember of the Newstalk interview they're around a corner down an alleyway. The protesters should help everyone identify where it is.

Yep, looking at Google maps and the alleged location, it's 200m away, across two roads, and not visible from the front gate of the school.

These protestors are gibbering fncking morons.

Specialun · 22-06-2015 05:34PM

I hear you can see boobs on the interweb now

One eyed Jack · 22-06-2015 05:35PM

Medusa22 wrote: »

Some people just need a cause to be outraged about. I doubt the children will even notice or pay attention to the shop, it is usually some of the self-righteous parents who make a fuss even though the children remain unaffected.

This really. There's a couple of sex shops around where I live and in the centre of town there's an Ann Summers shop and a Costa Coffee place. No need to guess where the little fcukers all hang out on their lunch hour with their free wifi and their half cappo-lattes, they've simply no interest in the over-priced shyte in Ann Summers! :pac:

(actually even funnier now I think of it is the Specsavers shop across the road from the Ann Summers shop, it's like they compliment each other!

)

arayess wrote: »

if anything we should have more sex shops and normalise sex in society.

clearly leave it 18s to enter but I think it would be better if sex was seen as a normal thing and not something secretive and down dark alleys.

Dunno what rock you've been living under, but sex is normal in society, has been since time began

The days of the bricks and mortar sex shops are numbered anyway with the availability of more choice and better quality products online, and a hell of a lot cheaper too! As another poster already pointed out, this is nothing more than a warehouse for their online sales market. This time next year there won't be a word about it.

One eyed Jack · 22-06-2015 05:40PM

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Some shops are pretty graphic in terms of props one I used to walk past regularly in templebar had those creepy as hell full body no face pvc restraint suits and gags with attached funnels for "liquids". Obviously I tended to have a gawk at it but I'm not sure its something kids should be exposed too, picture the conversation
"daddy whats that.... well son when two people love each other very much sometimes the dominant partner likes to wrap the submissive in pvc bind them and strap them to the wall, beat them with a riding crop then finish by doing a pee pee in their mouth mind your own business son!"

There, problem solved :pac:

whiskeyman · 22-06-2015 05:41PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

thats Berties old constituency office

So anyone who loves screwing people still visit here...

Not a NSA agent · 22-06-2015 05:42PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Anyone remember the outrage when they opened the first sex shop in Limerick? Crowds in the street praying etc.:D The same god botherers probably hadn't had a decent seeing to for decades.

There was a sex shop opened in Donegal within the last 10 years that had people praying outside of it. I think it was praying, they could have been practicing getting on their knees while they waited to get in the shop.

Muahahaha · 22-06-2015 05:48PM

ScumLord wrote: »

They were on Newstalk a week or two ago and they basically are an online business. The shop will be as much for storage as anything else, I don't think they really expect a lot of walk in business.

Yeah I heard the owner say that the location of the shop is not for his expectation to have a lot of walk in business, he is locating there because 80,000 cars pass his front door everyday and he hopes them seeing his website address over the door will drive more business to his website. The shop is effectively a warehouse and distributions center for the Dublin area and he has located it on one of the busiest roads in the country as an advertisement to increase online sales.

bb1234567 · 22-06-2015 05:48PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

This really. There's a couple of sex shops around where I live and in the centre of town there's an Ann Summers shop and a Costa Coffee place. No need to guess where the little fcukers all hang out on their lunch hour with their free wifi and their half cappo-lattes, they've simply no interest in the over-priced shyte in Ann Summers! :pac:

(actually even funnier now I think of it is the Specsavers shop across the road from the Ann Summers shop, it's like they compliment each other! )

Dunno what rock you've been living under, but sex is normal in society, has been since time began

The days of the bricks and mortar sex shops are numbered anyway with the availability of more choice and better quality products online, and a hell of a lot cheaper too! As another poster already pointed out, this is nothing more than a warehouse for their online sales market. This time next year there won't be a word about it.

If it was normal you'd have no problem talking about it to your mum, dad, siblings, grandparents, teachers, boss. But you wouldn't because its not appropriate or normal, sex is only normal when you're with a sexual partner. Whether thats a good thing or not I don't know, but Im just backing up the poster you quoted. Sex isn't normalised in our society, we know everyone does yet we are all secretive about it.

One eyed Jack · 22-06-2015 06:08PM

bb1234567 wrote: »

If it was normal you'd have no problem talking about it to your mum, dad, siblings, grandparents, teachers, boss. But you wouldn't because its not appropriate or normal, sex is only normal when you're with a sexual partner. Whether thats a good thing or not I don't know, but Im just backing up the poster you quoted. Sex isn't normalised in our society, we know everyone does yet we are all secretive about it.

I think most people understand the difference between 'secretive', and simply being discreet.

I certainly don't want to know what my parents, grandparents, teachers or anyone else for that matter, get up to in their sex life, and I certainly have no wish to discuss my sex life with anyone else. That's perfectly normal and there's nothing secretive about it.

If I want to know the details of someone's sex life, I have no problem in asking them, but I simply have no interest in anyone else's sex life, and most people I know, have no interest in mine! :pac:

22-06-2015 06:08PM

It's not the first one in that area.

When I lived in Drumcondra, circa 2011, one of my roommates worked in a porn shop & "adult cinema" nearby. Dodgy as fook. I used to stop by sometimes on my way home from the Wool Shed.

It looked like a 1990s XtraVision, with its old smelly carpet, gaudy purple walls, and shelves of raunchy DVDs. It had a revolting smell of sweat, jizz and cheap cologne.
At the back of the shop, there was a curious little door that let down into a eerie, cold stone stone basement, where pornos were shown on a rickety old projector and middle-aged men pulled the plums off each other.

There was a large, British transexual called Patricia or Deborah or something like that. We talked about Margaret Thatcher. From a nearby school for the deaf, teenagers came to swap used DVDs for new ones. There was a former priest browsing bondage with his Asian boyfriend. There were married taxi-drivers seeking a homosexual rendez-vous.

The place was like a comedy of menaces, from the Harold Pinter plays. A cave of lust and squalor. Never been anywhere quite like it. Would recommend it. Just for a look-see.

suicide_circus · 22-06-2015 06:19PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's not the first one in that area.

When I lived in Drumcondra, circa 2011, one of my roommates worked in a porn shop & "adult cinema" nearby. Dodgy as fook. I used to stop by sometimes on my way home from the Wool Shed.

It looked like a 1990s XtraVision, with its old smelly carpet, gaudy purple walls, and shelves of raunchy DVDs. It had a revolting smell of sweat, jizz and cheap cologne.
At the back of the shop, there was a curious little door that let down into a eerie, cold stone stone basement, where pornos were shown on a rickety old projector and middle-aged men pulled the plums off each other.

There was a large, British transexual called Patricia or Deborah or something like that. We talked about Margaret Thatcher. From a nearby school for the deaf, teenagers came to swap used DVDs for new ones. There was a former priest browsing bondage with his Asian boyfriend. There were married taxi-drivers seeking a homosexual rendez-vous.

The place was like a comedy of menaces, from the Harold Pinter plays. A cave of lust and squalor. Never been anywhere quite like it. Would recommend it. Just for a look-see.

That place is the ground floor unit of this building

http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/0515/701360-fire-flats/

Grim to ****

Robsweezie · 22-06-2015 06:37PM

get your nipple clamps now kids!! two for one sale now on!!special discount on butt plugs!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 22-06-2015 06:39PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

The owners of the online shop Playblue have opened a bricks and mortar shop in Drumcondra right opposite to a boys primary school. RTE News sent cameras down and there was dozens of concerned parents protesting outside, backed up by FG politicians. They're outraged that an adult shop is setting up so close to a school and want it shut down. The shop owner responds to them by saying there is nothing in his shop that cannot be found by any child on a smartphone.
Drumcondra is home to the Archbishop of Dublin and much of the senior Catholic clergy, I'm sticking the popcorn on for this one :pac:

Only in Ireland (in the western world) woud this constitute "news".

Billy86 · 22-06-2015 06:41PM

rubadub wrote: »

Good customer base so.

The OP said adult store.

kfallon · 22-06-2015 06:42PM

arayess wrote: »

if anything we should have more sex shops and normalise sex in society.

clearly leave it 18s to enter but I think it would be better if sex was seen as a normal thing and not something secretive and down dark alleys.

*snigger*
Thought the age of consent was 17?

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 22-06-2015 06:46PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX1fAl1wqIg

mikemac1 · 22-06-2015 08:42PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

thats Berties old constituency office

Nah, its a car stereo place. Been around for years.

St Lukes up the road sold for over 700k recently. Fianna Fails election account is looking flush

22-06-2015 09:02PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

That place is the ground floor unit of this building

http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/0515/701360-fire-flats/

Grim to ****

Yes that's the one.

Upstairs is emergency housing for the homeless, I think. One of the shop windows has been shattered. It looks like someone discharged a gun through it.

Sort of place humanity slouches off to die.

MonsterCookie · 22-06-2015 09:19PM

seamus wrote: »

I'm waiting for someone to post a picture which shows that "across the road from a boy's school" actually means, "half a kilometre down the road and in a shopping centre", as usually happens with this kind of nonsense story.

Actually, the new sex shop is across the road from the primary school yard. So within 100 yards and visible.

_Kaiser_ · 22-06-2015 09:23PM

RTE News just said that the owner has abandoned the plans to setup there after the protests.

aloyisious · 22-06-2015 09:24PM

Just on RTE 1 TV news, the owner has closed it due to protests, is going to look for another premises elsewhere.

PopePalpatine · 22-06-2015 10:01PM

Damn, I heard even people from Gdansk were coming to see this place.

MonsterCookie · 22-06-2015 10:17PM

seamus wrote: »

Yep, looking at Google maps and the alleged location, it's 200m away, across two roads, and not visible from the front gate of the school.

These protestors are gibbering fncking morons.

Very funny. My Mrs was one of the protesters today. Your post gave us a good laugh.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 22-06-2015 10:23PM

MonsterCookie wrote: »

Very funny. My Mrs was one of the protesters today. Your post gave us a good laugh.

Considering there are sex shops all over the place here (Berlin) and no one gives a toss where they are in relation to schools and so on, perehaps you could ask said Mrs as to why are Irish kids more suscpetible than German kids?

horgan_p · 22-06-2015 10:23PM

[ah lads , 6 pages and no one posted this , what's the place turning into ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjzpKxw6Qxo

Won't somebody please think of the children? Adult Store opens in Drumcondra

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