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Penneys opened today and some people up at 3am for it

  • 12-06-2020 1:20pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,318 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    I kind you not 3am to go to fuking Penneys which was not supposed to open untill 10.30 am but opened earlier because of these people. Have they no shame?
    Then spending on average of 200 euro on clothes that will fall apart or be old in a year or two. I just thats crazy. Yes sure I have bought stuff in Penneys but only if it's on deal and no I would not be up at 3am in the morning waiting for it to open feck that. Would you?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    AMKC wrote: »
    I kind you not 3am to go to fuking Penneys which was not supposed to open untill 10.30 am but opened earlier because of these people. Have they no shame?
    Then spending on average of 200 euro on clothes that will fall apart or be old in a year or two. I just thats crazy. Yes sure I have bought stuff in Penneys but only if it's on deal and no I would not be up at 3am in the morning waiting for it to open feck that. Would you?

    Mind your own business


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Still one of the most memorable Xmas commercial jingles ever no matter what else about them. Takes me right back to beig a young lad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    I think the world is just mad right now. People eating bats a million miles away effectively shutting the down the world, cancelling all sorts of shows/movies on the off chance it offends people, queuing for knickers 7 hours before a shop opens. It's mad. I'm going to bed and setting my alarm for June 12th 2050. See ye later lads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,170 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    2Mad2BeMad wrote: »
    Mind your own business

    But but, there's common people buying common stuff!
    And getting some craic out of it.!
    It's not on!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭chops018


    The amount of judgment going on for people queuing to get into various shops (IKEA, McDonalds, etc.) is ridiculous, very sad. Let people queue if they want. Once it is done safely, then let them off.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    How dare they!!!! They should be sitting in quiet fear inside their homes and more and more businesses and jobs can then go bust least we anger our vengeful virus.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    chops018 wrote: »
    The amount of judgment going on for people queuing to get into various shops (IKEA, McDonalds, etc.) is ridiculous, very sad. Let people queue if they want. Once it is done safely, then let them off.

    The same people moan and call you a virtue signaller, that you don’t care or respect lockdown if you go to a BLM protest.... do nothing and you’re a keyboard warrior

    When the pubs open and there’s queues it’ll be a different story again for people who were laughing at the Penney’s queues

    Basically, everyone who doesn’t go or want to go to Penney’s getting knickers in a twist over those that do, maybe because they wanted to go themselves but didn’t, or maybe they’re just looking for the latest outrage

    It made literally 0.000% difference to my day that people went out in the rain at 3am to queue. I’ll go up next week when it’s all died down. The queue is not for me, nothing more to it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,024 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Just extraordinary the Q"s outside various penny's. I wondered how much the Covid-19 unemployment payments have to do with this carry on

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,549 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    We need people to get out and spend money, and to get as many back to work and off the Covid payment as possible.

    I still wouldn't queue at 7 though, I'm lazy like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    Take an employment survey of those queuing outside pennies and you may find the stats one sided. Nobody holding down a job will queue from 3am, 5am or even 7am for pennys.

    I heard an interview this morning and she queued from 5am for " PJs and eyelashes" both items readily available elsewhere.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    I would queue from 3am for a pint and a carvery as my last one was 24th of feb. Suspect the same for these people queuing to shop at primark.

    Tis all relative.


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yes. Let's all judge people who queue secure in the knowledge that we are so much better and have far richer lives than they. After all they are probably all 'working class' and shopping for their outdoors pjs. How dreadful.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭boardise


    The same people moan and call you a virtue signaller, that you don’t care or respect lockdown if you go to a BLM protest.... do nothing and you’re a keyboard warrior

    When the pubs open and there’s queues it’ll be a different story again for people who were laughing at the Penney’s queues

    Basically, everyone who doesn’t go or want to go to Penney’s getting knickers in a twist over those that do, maybe because they wanted to go themselves but didn’t, or maybe they’re just looking for the latest outrage

    It made literally 0.000% difference to my day that people went out in the rain at 3am to queue. I’ll go up next week when it’s all died down. The queue is not for me, nothing more to it


    That's the spirit !


  • Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭seamusk84


    So what, we have been locked down for a quarter of a year. If they want to queue as shopping in Penny's is their thing, more power to them.

    I'll be down at my local gastro pub for lunch on the 29th first in line/booking to get my pint of Guinness and whatever else I need to buy to make them serve me. That's my thing and to hell with your begrudgery!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I seen videos of mainly women dressed as Bianca from EastEnders that have just got their free welfare payment and are now running to spend it in pennys.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    I might queue from 3 am for a SuperMacs Mighty Mac meal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,908 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    The same people moan and call you a virtue signaller, that you don’t care or respect lockdown if you go to a BLM protest.... do nothing and you’re a keyboard warrior

    When the pubs open and there’s queues it’ll be a different story again for people who were laughing at the Penney’s queues

    Basically, everyone who doesn’t go or want to go to Penney’s getting knickers in a twist over those that do, maybe because they wanted to go themselves but didn’t, or maybe they’re just looking for the latest outrage

    It made literally 0.000% difference to my day that people went out in the rain at 3am to queue. I’ll go up next week when it’s all died down. The queue is not for me, nothing more to it

    This thread didn't make any difference to your day either but you're still complaining about it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    I seen videos of mainly women dressed as Bianca from EastEnders that have just got their free welfare payment and are now running to spend it in pennys.....

    Keeping the economy mooooving


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I might queue from 3 am for a SuperMacs Mighty Mac meal.

    Please God don't, that food is pure dirt....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    chops018 wrote: »
    The amount of judgment going on for people queuing to get into various shops (IKEA, McDonalds, etc.) is ridiculous, very sad. Let people queue if they want. Once it is done safely, then let them off.

    We also desperately need to get our largely service based economy moving again - the middle class curtain twitchers cowering in their homes dont seem to get this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Keeping the economy mooooving

    I thought I seen a few beached whale


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,024 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    I thought I seen a few beached whale

    LOL, some sight to behold with some of the video's doing the rounds, there was more Gardai on duty than penny's staff by the look of things

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    They must be really bored.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I'd say Maggie and her football team subbed by the state will be there too.....

    She had no issues taking over €300 worth of goods free.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    chops018 wrote: »
    The amount of judgment going on for people queuing to get into various shops (IKEA, McDonalds, etc.) is ridiculous, very sad. Let people queue if they want. Once it is done safely, then let them off.

    Oh please, everyone judges others at one time or another. This isn’t coronavirus-related tutting. You hear the same about sales and product releases. Some of us consider it bonkers. Sure, you’re judging those of that do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    I’m delighted to see so many people make the effort to go out and spend money to support local jobs and businesses, and long may it last.

    Penney’s is a huge employer and the more staff they can keep on after being closed for just under 3 months the better. It’s great to see people back to work.

    The other side of this is that if they had been allowed open up earlier there wouldn’t have been such high demand today, when you cut off the supply the demand just increases causing big queues when the service reopens. This is a no brainer, it was the same with IKEA and McDonald’s etc.

    I didn’t queue at 3am but I did head in at around 11am and only had to queue for half an hour, I’ve often queued longer for Dunnes. They had an excellent well managed set up in store and it was a lovely hour of normality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,024 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Best Post of the day "lovely virus!, where did you get it hun??, Penny's!! :)

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    AMKC wrote: »
    I kind you not 3am to go to fuking Penneys which was not supposed to open untill 10.30 am but opened earlier because of these people. Have they no shame?
    Then spending on average of 200 euro on clothes that will fall apart or be old in a year or two. I just thats crazy. Yes sure I have bought stuff in Penneys but only if it's on deal and no I would not be up at 3am in the morning waiting for it to open feck that. Would you?

    They're called cúnts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    Didn't see as much fuss on twitter and the like when the Indo (I think) interviewed some woman outside Brown Thomas the other day when she was going into buy a EUR 1,200 hand bag (as she told them).

    If people are queuing, so what. As long as they are going to do it safely.

    We are going to be queuing for most retail visits going forward so get used to it!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    AMKC wrote: »
    I kind you not 3am to go to fuking Penneys which was not supposed to open untill 10.30 am but opened earlier because of these people. Have they no shame?
    Then spending on average of 200 euro on clothes that will fall apart or be old in a MONTH or two. I just thats crazy. Yes sure I have bought stuff in Penneys but only if it's on deal and no I would not be up at 3am in the morning waiting for it to open feck that. Would you?

    FYP ;) the clothes shrink and twist like hell after a couple of washes, disposable crap made by poor people in appalling conditions.

    Hard to understanding their logic but if it makes them happy let them at it.

    Personally I'd rather remove my teeth with a rusty pliers but each to their own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭chops018


    Oh please, everyone judges others at one time or another. This isn’t coronavirus-related tutting. You hear the same about sales and product releases. Some of us consider it bonkers. Sure, you’re judging those of that do.

    Ok, fair enough, judge away and have an opinion on the matter all you want but the level of vitriol towards people queuing for different shops or food places is unreal. They don't deserve to be called idiots or worse obscenities for doing so. Personally, I wouldn't be bothered queuing up at those times for a shop reopening just like I wouldn't queue at midnight for a new game being released etc., but each to their own and if the fact they get to shop in Pennies again keeps them happy and they are not doing any harm to anyone then let them off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Each to their own. I will wait for a couple of weeks. Won't hurt!


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They're called cúnts.

    What? For wanting to go in to a shop?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Reminds me of the kind of people that stand up as soon as the plane lands. You've waited 3 months to go to penney's, could you not wait a few more hours or days to avoid queuing.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭afro man


    AMKC wrote: »
    I kind you not 3am to go to fuking Penneys which was not supposed to open untill 10.30 am but opened earlier because of these people. Have they no shame?
    Then spending on average of 200 euro on clothes that will fall apart or be old in a year or two. I just thats crazy. Yes sure I have bought stuff in Penneys but only if it's on deal and no I would not be up at 3am in the morning waiting for it to open feck that. Would you?
    AMKC

    You must be tight if you only buy stuff in pennys that is on deals :D:D


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  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd say Maggie and her football team subbed by the state will be there too.....

    She had no issues taking over €300 worth of goods free.

    You have such a horrible attitude.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,170 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    You have such a horrible attitude.

    I think I'd rather live with Margaret Cash than someone like him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    chops018 wrote: »
    Ok, fair enough, judge away and have an opinion on the matter all you want but the level of vitriol towards people queuing for different shops or food places is unreal. They don't deserve to be called idiots or worse obscenities for doing so. Personally, I wouldn't be bothered queuing up at those times for a shop reopening just like I wouldn't queue at midnight for a new game being released etc., but each to their own and if the fact they get to shop in Pennies again keeps them happy and they are not doing any harm to anyone then let them off.

    I personally haven’t heard vitriol, just the usual “who are those sad sacks?”.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,170 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    I personally haven’t heard vitriol, just the usual “who are those sad sacks?”.

    Read the thread.
    The looking down the nose at the underclass is strong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    There is something wrong with some people.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    What? For wanting to go in to a shop?

    No, for queuing up outside for hours. Cúnts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Reminds me of the kind of people that stand up as soon as the plane lands. You've waited 3 months to go to penney's, could you not wait a few more hours or days to avoid queuing.

    Would you wait if your knickers were hanging off down around your knees?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    They're called cúnts.

    Some ppl use that term to describe lads that pull out the guitar at any opportunity. Each to their own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭matchthis


    Found a good few people giving out about the ques and they’re in the que themselves. I think it’s good these places are busy and still operating under a new process. A lot of people need it, not just the customers, but the staff, the company and the exchequer. Fair play to the lot of em


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    Car99 wrote: »
    Some ppl use that term to describe lads that pull out the guitar at any opportunity. Each to their own.

    And this is connected to the thread in what way? And yes I agree, people who take out guitars at any opportunity are in the same boat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,849 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    It’s the first day and they’ll be a crowd. Some places weren’t even that bad.

    Some just like the drama of everywhere being closed. They’ve there fingers crossed now that they’ll be a surge in two weeks and they’ll can blame people going to Penny’s for it.
    They were giving out a few weeks ago about people going to the beach and to Woodies,etc now it’s Penneys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    It's nice to see the Irish supporting Cambodian child employment


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Would you wait if your knickers were hanging off down around your knees?


    Huh?


  • Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭Cal4567


    You know, to some the weekly visit, perhaps even more, to the shops is the new religion. There's a bit of that in what we have seen here and at IKEA earlier in the week. To do something you have to do, which you actually enjoy, and to be forced not to do it, for so long.

    A lot of pent up frustration here. Look at it this way. People going shopping is helping the economy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭stevek93


    2Mad2BeMad wrote: »
    Mind your own business

    Was it you up at 3am? :D


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