Curtain Twitchers and Retired Colonels29 Jan 2010 09:22 am

Not A Prude

By Nelson

Something about wearing pyjamas to the shops.

I fully support Tesco’s action. It is high time that all people learned to have and show respect for others and this is just one way to do it. This attitude should prevail in schools, workplaces, actually everywhere and maybe we would then see less ASBOs and cruelty.
Dani Bertschy, Poole, United Kingdom

Yeah, that ought to do it. The crime rate would plummet if everyone took the time to put on a pair of chinos and a smart jacket. I mean, when’s the last time someone well-dressed turned out to be a lying, corrupt, selfish, racist, warmongering, mass-murdering, money-grubbing, right honourable, power-crazed fuck?

I used to live in the Dunfermline area and had cause to speak to the management of Asda.
It was a warm summers day and a man came into the store to buy items for a barbeque, he was only wearing a pair of shorts, no shoes, no top. He was a very hairy and heavy chap and was leaning over open produce counters, I found this to be completely inappropriate. I am not a prude in any sense of the word but his state of undress was suitable for the back garden or the beach NOT A FOOD HALL
Anne-Marie, Stirling

I looked up “prude” in a few online dictionaries for you and found definitions as diverse as:

  • a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
  • a person who is easily shocked by rude things, especially those of a sexual type
  • someone who is overly concerned with modest or proper conduct, speech, dress, or the like

… are you absolutely, completely, 100% positive you didn’t mean “prune”?

36 Responses to “Not A Prude”

  1. on 29 Jan 2010 at 9:43 am   Fish

    I was going to add my impressions of how school uniform didn’t stop my experiences of education of being ones of cruelty, barbarity and general contempt for human values, but to be fair I did grow up in Essex.

  2. on 29 Jan 2010 at 9:58 am   Sideways

    Seconded, Fish. And with luck, I’m second too :D

  3. on 29 Jan 2010 at 10:16 am   Philbert

    I used to live in the Dunfermline area and had cause to speak to the management of Asda.
    It was a warm summers day and a man came into the store to buy items for a barbeque, he was only wearing a pair of shorts, no shoes, no top. He was a very hairy and heavy chap and was leaning over open produce counters, I found this to be completely inappropriate. I am not a prude in any sense of the word but his state of undress was suitable for the back garden or the beach NOT A FOOD HALL
    Anne-Marie, Stirling

    I too used to live in the Dunfermline area. The gentleman described was probably a member of staff.

  4. on 29 Jan 2010 at 10:56 am   blabla

    I too used to live in the Dunfermline area. The gentleman described was probably a member of staff.

    More likely he was the manager. They don’t call it Normal For Fife for nothing.

  5. on 29 Jan 2010 at 11:56 am   Rod Wrongnob

    Inevitably, the anti-chav sneerfest turns to the usual subject:

    Are they going to ban Hijab’s and burkas aswell ? I dont think so !!
    Lets have one rule for all.
    Phil, Cardiff

    At least someone’s trying to lighten the tone.

    I went to Tescos in my pyjamas and got arrested. I sleep in the nude.
    Dumbfolk, Rugeley

    But… umm… oh, never mind.

  6. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:02 pm   Charles Exford, Oxton

    Apparently Elaine Carmody claimed that it was “really early, like, 10.30 or 11 in the morning.”

    I think someone has been channelling rubbish TV sketch shows.

  7. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:03 pm   Rod Wrongnob

    This one made me do a lol.

    Surely it’s a matter of basic hygiene? The same reason they don’t allow dogs and cats and spider monkeys.
    [angelholme], Blackpool

  8. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:08 pm   Should be working

    When first reading this I laughed. Unfortunately, it is also sobering to realise how far standards in this country have dropped since the 1950′s. There was once a time when women wouldn’t leave the house without their make-up on, gloves & a hat. Men would always wear hats which they raised to women they passed in respect. And that respect is what is missing from most of todays society. If we can’t respect ourselves enough to dress appropriately, there’s no chance of respecting others is there?

    Merson The Cat, Staffs, United Kingdom

    Recommended by 199 people

    Merson appears to have grown up inside the 1945 repression-fest, Brief Encounter. But he’s right you know. The breakdown of society can be traced back to the moment men stopped wearing bowler hats.

  9. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:16 pm   Nudist Council of Britain

    Man, the number of vicious comments about chavs, underclasses, peasants and burkhas ‘being really like pyjamas, y’know, because NO NORMAL PERSON would wear them in public’ in that thread’s quite bad. It’s like the mods hope to drain the HYS bile by letting them rant on something completely meaningless.
    At least it’s better than the Daily Heil comments on the same topic…someone proposed segregation along class lines, so that Tescos would forever be free of giant gold hooped earrings.

  10. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:21 pm   That Bloke in the Corner

    burkhas ‘being really like pyjamas,

    Mrs That Bloke insists on me wearing a burkha as jammies, something about not having to look at me.

  11. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:22 pm   Cab Grunter

    It’s a slippery slope: one minute you’re shopping for cocktail sticks in your jymjams and the next minute you’re fucking a watermelon over in fruit and veg.

    Would somebody please think of the children?

  12. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:25 pm   Lurker in a Burka

    I have a special burka for bedtime with little pictures of sleeping cats and fluffy clouds on it.

    Wouldn’t dream of wearing it down the shops.

  13. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:33 pm   Mr Cat

    “Good grief! Tesco are on their way to owning everything & now they tell us what we can & cannot wear.”

    No, the public are telling you what you can and cannot wear.

    Just like I can’t go round town wearing a mankini or even crotchless panties and bolero jacket with bovver boots.

    Not because Tesco said but because the public have said.

    You’re completely fine wearing jim-jams in your own home, or buy your own tescos.

    Mark, Exeter, UK

    Nice imagery – Mark from Exeter has really thought out his ideal costume

  14. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:33 pm   Cab Grunter

    Nelson, far be it from me to criticise (with my rushed spelling and poorly planned comments) but as we’re looking at online dictionaries, do you want to put “plummit” into Google?

    Yours, disgusted of Tunbridge Wells. Cancelling my subscription, etc etc

  15. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:41 pm   pigfrottage

    LOLs from the Blair visit to the Iraq inquiry. I imagine Tony Blair breakdancing in a way that sends Karen, London wild.

    No. He’ll either lie or spin. Either way my blood pressure wouldn’t stand it.

    Karen, London

  16. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:49 pm   Nelson

    I have now corrected the plummit error and am hoping we can forget the whole sorry episode.

  17. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:52 pm   Underscore

    women wouldn’t leave the house without their make-up on, gloves & a hat. Men would always wear hats

    Why do men have to wear several hats? Political correctness Gone Mad.

  18. on 29 Jan 2010 at 12:59 pm   Kadir-Buxton cured my gran

    Standards have declined to the point where I cannot stand the sight of most of my fellow members of the human race. When I heard people were actually in bedwear without shoes in shops I could not believe it. Have they no standards at all?

    Don’t worry, the feeling is mutual.

  19. on 29 Jan 2010 at 1:10 pm   Mr Cat

    Standards have declined to the point where I cannot stand the sight of most of my fellow members of the human race.

    That reads like the diary in se7en

    On the subway today, a man came to me to start a conversation.He made small talk, this lonely man, talking about the weather and other things.I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head began to hurt from his banality.I almost didn’t notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn’t help laughing.”

  20. on 29 Jan 2010 at 1:17 pm   Fish

    segregation along class lines

    A town quite near to me built a Waitrose for this very reason.

  21. on 29 Jan 2010 at 1:27 pm   still can't decide on a name

    I used to live in the Dunfermline area and had cause to speak to the management of Asda.
    It was a warm summers day

    Her cause to speak to the management of ASDA was presumably just to complain about the hairy man.

    In Asda you get to look down on three people for the price of two. But if she thinks she’s in a foodhall when she can press a doorbell by the eggs section to make a chicken noise………

    By the way I also used to live in Dunfermline and there hasn’t been a warm summers day since supermarkets first opened.

  22. on 29 Jan 2010 at 1:58 pm   ad ho

    @Underscore
    In case more than one lady managed to make it out of the house?

    It’s nice to see that our children ar being taught the standards of e dress and behaviour that are considered now lost.

  23. on 29 Jan 2010 at 2:00 pm   Ugeine

    This attitude should prevail in schools, workplaces, actually everywhere and maybe we would then see less ASBOs and cruelty.

    Exactly. This is why you never see Soldiers treating others crue…

    erm, this is why you never see unjust brutality in the police for…

    This is why you never get rich, well dressed people who are also serial ki…

    Ah, Sod it, I’ve just got a massive unform fetish.

  24. on 29 Jan 2010 at 2:17 pm   Seance Trumpet

    Be that as it may; only cunts where pyjamas in public.

  25. on 29 Jan 2010 at 2:35 pm   Soldier Svejk

    As that may be in public: Only where it cunts.

  26. on 29 Jan 2010 at 2:36 pm   Frontosa

    “Be that as it may; only cunts where pyjamas in public.”

    but only proper cunts wear them, hey?

  27. on 29 Jan 2010 at 2:48 pm   Marx & Sparx

    You’re completely fine wearing jim-jams in your own home, or buy your own tescos.

    Mark, Exeter, UK

    i.e. If you like Tesco’s so much why don’t.. blah blah.

    I claim my £5 and a bonus £2 for having a user name that’s relevant for today’s topic.

  28. on 29 Jan 2010 at 2:56 pm   Bruno

    What sort of lazy cunts can’t be bothered to put clothes on to go to the supermarket. Just put some bloody jeans on.

  29. on 29 Jan 2010 at 3:37 pm   Ugly Newt

    @Bruno

    Fuck off Neil, you’re fooling noone.

  30. on 29 Jan 2010 at 3:41 pm   still can't decide on a name

    What sort of lazy cunts can’t be bothered to put clothes on to go to the supermarket

    I’m guessing not the sort of cunt who needs to have their say

  31. on 29 Jan 2010 at 3:50 pm   That Bloke in the Corner

    It was a warm summers day and a man came into the store to buy items for a barbeque, he was only wearing a pair of shorts, no shoes, no top. He was a very hairy and heavy chap and was leaning over open produce counters,

    Hang on, was she stalking him?, how did she know he was having a barbeque and not just getting a shit load of meat and offal to smear over his hairy bod?

  32. on 29 Jan 2010 at 4:20 pm   SoulBoy

    Oddly enough we have one of these outside our local Tesco in order to bribe kids into behaving during the weekly shop

    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/103879520_1788dc0759.jpg

    Staggering hypocrisy! I feel a strongly worded HYS brainfart coming on…

  33. on 29 Jan 2010 at 4:22 pm   Gaijin

    It’s a slippery slope: one minute you’re shopping for cocktail sticks in your jymjams and the next minute you’re fucking a watermelon over in fruit and veg.

    Funny you should say that…

  34. on 29 Jan 2010 at 5:37 pm   shitferbrains

    I have a pair of pyjamas, but the fly is broken. They banned me for standing outside the school gates in them cuase my cock kept on flopping out. Fuckin Paedos!

  35. on 29 Jan 2010 at 9:18 pm   Shirley Prêt-à- Porter

    I reckon Tesco’s are missing a trick.

    Why not force the pyjama-wearers to buy something from the stylish but economical Cherokee range?

    If they’re extra lucky, they can have the security tag taken out of the crotch. Or left in and turned perpendicular, depending on preference.

  36. on 29 Jan 2010 at 10:32 pm   Jesus Chris's Chin

    I fully support Tesco’s action. It is high time that all people learned to have and show respect for others and this is just one way to do it. This attitude should prevail in schools, workplaces, actually everywhere and maybe we would then see less ASBOs and cruelty.
    Dani Bertschy, Poole, United Kingdom

    That’s how they got the Jews. If the Nazis had been scruffy, they wouldn’t have got nearly as far as they did.