Boxing day sale, next. go feck yourself !

24-12-2015 04:28PM #1

So the local Next has a sign on its door saying they have a sale on at some crazy hour on Boxing day. So not only are they exploiting workers they also have contempt for Ireland. We don't have a boxing day. So in the spirit of an Irish Christmas, go screw yourself next. When I am in your shop again I am going to steal something !

Baggy Trousers · 24-12-2015 04:30PM

It's wrong on so many levels. We are becoming Americans.

MRnotlob606 · 24-12-2015 04:30PM

Brits out.

sabat · 24-12-2015 04:30PM

So you'll be worshipping St Stephen all day and not touching a single box?

Kristopherus · 24-12-2015 04:30PM

6541 wrote: »

So the local Next has a sign on its door saying they have a sale on at some crazy hour on Boxing day. So not only are they exploiting workers they also have contempt for Ireland. We don't have a boxing day. So in the spirit of an Irish Christmas, go screw yourself next. When I am in your shop again I am going to steal something !

Will you be staying in the TF so you can have a quick jog to the one in Castlebar????:D:D:D

stimpson · 24-12-2015 05:09PM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Brits out.

No foreign games!

Up Celtic!

kneemos · 24-12-2015 05:11PM

Everybody knows Boxing Day is the 17th of March.

Patser · 24-12-2015 05:14PM

Aye 6am Stephen's Day!

Our traditional family fight is only getting going then, after highly contentious monopoly game.

Buona Fortuna · 24-12-2015 05:15PM

Torch the place.

Notorious97 · 24-12-2015 05:16PM

I like me tits like i like me brits, out!

Sunnyisland · 24-12-2015 05:16PM

Think they say boxing day up in Donegal areas, Do you know that Donegal is the most northly county in the south of Ireland, tis confusing place alright...

24-12-2015 05:23PM

Hup da RA, are ya allowed say that in after hours ?

ted1 · 24-12-2015 05:23PM

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

It's wrong on so many levels. We are becoming Americans.

Em no Boxing Day is British.. Not American

Sunnyisland · 24-12-2015 05:29PM

Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers,[1] in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France. It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland. In some European countries, most notably Germany, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and those in Scandinavia, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.[2]

just for the record before ww6 breaks out :-)

Pinch Flat · 24-12-2015 05:31PM

There's a next near me. I guarantee there'll be a load of muppets queueing there from around 3am rain, hail or shine

5starpool · 24-12-2015 05:32PM

realies wrote: »

Think they say boxing day up in Donegal areas, Do you know that Donegal is the most northly county in the south of Ireland, tis confusing place alright...

It is the most northerly county in all of Ireland, which is probably what you tried and failed to say I guess, but no harm clarifying.

Harry Palmr · 24-12-2015 05:34PM

ted1 wrote: »

Em no Boxing Day is British.. Not American

I suspect a whooooooooooooooosh!

Annasopra · 24-12-2015 05:39PM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Brits out.

I always laugh at the hypocrisy of staunch Shinners who support Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea etc

5starpool · 24-12-2015 05:46PM

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

I always laugh at the hypocrisy of staunch Shinners who support Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea etc

It's good to have things that make you laugh

Anesthetize · 24-12-2015 05:46PM

I always refer to it as Boxing Day as St. Stephan's Day is a Christian holiday.

Sam Kade · 24-12-2015 05:49PM

6541 wrote: »

So the local Next has a sign on its door saying they have a sale on at some crazy hour on Boxing day. So not only are they exploiting workers they also have contempt for Ireland. We don't have a boxing day. So in the spirit of an Irish Christmas, go screw yourself next. When I am in your shop again I am going to steal something !

We also don't use American slang words

emo72 · 24-12-2015 05:55PM

I wouldn't mind, they always seem to bring in tat for the sale anyway. But that's besides the point. It's sad that they are opening, should be the 28th at the earliest. To me the 26th is the best day of Christmas, the most craic, a few pints too. The thoughts of being back in work the next day is woeful. Death to the bad retailers!

Sunnyisland · 24-12-2015 06:06PM

5starpool wrote: »

It is the most northerly county in all of Ireland, which is probably what you tried and failed to say I guess, but no harm clarifying.

na I didn't try and say that at all at all, as its Christmas and this after hours I was trying to be funny, but obviously failed, sorry :-(

Cee-Jay-Cee · 24-12-2015 06:07PM

realies wrote: »

Think they say boxing day up in Donegal areas, Do you know that Donegal is the most northly county in the south of Ireland, tis confusing place alright...

....and Galway is geographically further north than Armagh.

Boxing Day will never be a patch on black-eye Friday.

Sunnyisland · 24-12-2015 06:41PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

....and Galway is geographically further north than Armagh.

Boxing Day will never be a patch on black-eye Friday.

patch....black eye...Friday...boxing day .....

after hours joke here somewhere I is looking .....

Guy:Incognito · 24-12-2015 06:41PM

It's good to see all the hardline churchgoers come out in support of such an important day in their calendar. Wonder how many will be in the pews on Saturday and how many will be sleeping off hangovers?

But then, at least we dont dishonour our beloved church by using a dreaded brit term, that would be wrong.

Guy:Incognito · 24-12-2015 06:43PM

emo72 wrote: »

I wouldn't mind, they always seem to bring in tat for the sale anyway. But that's besides the point. It's sad that they are opening, should be the 28th at the earliest. To me the 26th is the best day of Christmas, the most craic, a few pints too. The thoughts of being back in work the next day is woeful. Death to the bad retailers!

But its ok for the people that you might need stuff from to work on Christmas day etc? Like the tv stations, various utilities, maybe the odd garage in case of emergency?

24-12-2015 06:47PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

But its ok for the people that you might need stuff from to work on Christmas day etc? Like the tv stations, various utilities, maybe the odd garage in case of emergency?

Exploiting the workers by ..... paying them to work in retail...?

Guy:Incognito · 24-12-2015 06:53PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Exploiting the workers by ..... paying them to work in retail...?

Bloody Brits, coming over here, paying us a wage.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 24-12-2015 06:53PM

Anesthetize wrote: »

I always refer to it as Boxing Day as St. Stephan's Day is a Christian holiday.

Couldn't you just refer to it as December 26th?

Seeing as the holiday is not celebrated in this country.

People manage not to refer to the 4th Thursday in November as Thanksgiving for the same reason.

Gaygooner · 24-12-2015 06:54PM

Don't sweat the small stuff op

Boxing day sale, next. go feck yourself !

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