Tariffs on pyjamas? Yes please.
By Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (13362)
Ireland
March 12, 2025 9:08am CST
I note from my isolated little idyl, complete with quacking ducks and croaking frogs, that manipulation by tariffs is the order of the day.
Much as I view this as folly, I would excuse it if applied to price certain harmful sillinesses out of the market.
Tariffs in excess of 150% really ought to be slapped on the production and sale of what are known as “Easter Pyjamas”. The shops will be full of them now back in Ireland if last year is anything to go by. It’s another way of pressuring struggling families to part with cash so that their kids don’t feel disadvantaged compared to their friends. People are paid to come up with these money-spinning nonsenses!
Really people, Easter pyjamas? Who’s going to see what your kids are wearing to bed? And no, it’s not cute that the entire family, parents included, can get matching Easter jammies.
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@snowy22315 (186884)
• United States
12 Mar
I think it is to photograph for later years. I wish they would tariff jammies in general to stop so many people from wearing them in public, at least the bottoms. Gadzooks!
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@xFiacre (13362)
• Ireland
12 Mar
@snowy22315 I have a dentist friend who sent a patient home to put on clothes when she turned up in pyjamas. Can you imagine lying on the Dentists chair in jammies with everything flapping about? She didn’t see what the problem was and became abusive. A lot of supermarkets here have notices up forbidding the wearing of nightwear. I’ve even told parents to take their kids home from church activities at night who were wearing their jammies. Does anyone think anymore?
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@snowy22315 (186884)
• United States
12 Mar
@xFiacre Good for the dentist friend that is all I can say.
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@xFiacre (13362)
• Ireland
12 Mar
@snowy22315 He stood his ground. I don’t understand why people don’t realise that they’re actually making themselves vulnerable by going out in their nightwear.
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@Fleura (31368)
• United Kingdom
12 Mar
Seriously? I have never even heard of such a thing. As if Christmas jumpers were not bad enough. Every small step forward in promoting sustainability and encouraging people to buy good-quality things and make them last, is counteracted by some stupid fashion to buy things that will only be used once or twice 
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@LindaOHio (184773)
• United States
13 Mar
What will they think of next???!!! Have a good day.
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@lilacskies (12962)
• United States
12 Mar
I laughed reading this post. Thank you for that. Hopefully, they get some tariffs.
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