Combine the drawbacks of wearing shoes with the drawbacks of going barefoot.
Back in my hippie days, we would do a little trick. You get some hemp. Few beads. Whatever. Tie it around your big toe then loop it around your ankle. So it looks like you are wearing flip flops at a glance.
Did it all the time.
As a more informed person. I do not really recommend walking barefoot anywhere except a park or your own space. And beaches.
Cause dogs literally pee on every surface that exists in a city.
And also hepatitis.
Glass. Other sharp things.
Even if you have thick soles, they can take out gashes of it.
And the sidewalk is hella hot in the summer.
Go barefoot at your own risk. But know the risks. Mkay.?
I’d say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.
Also, parasites 😬
Why stop at the feet?
I haven’t seen the most recent seasons lol
i tried to do it for a summer as a kid in a rural area and my feet got very gross indeed and I had a lot of painful experiences. but I feel that’s the only way to do it safely, to be a kid in a small safe rural place where there is like grass to walk on
The thing about this I don’t understand is why. Is it supposed to be to exist in as much of a natural state as possible?
Not a barefoot person but I’ve heard it claimed that its better for your feet. Seems off to me but its not like we evolved shoes so what do I know?
It’s better for your feet in soft soil & grass. Our feet evolved to walk on soil, high milage walking on concrete will damage your feet.
If you wear mis-fitting shoes your feet will also get damaged.
I just like the way it feels. Though because of all the risks, I wouldn’t do it except at home or similar environments.
That’s kind of disgusting.
It’s just seasoning.
Not kind of! Lol
Based.
Based on my understanding of the state of the ground in cities, that is absolutely disgusting.
It’s absolutely disgusting!
The store owner, standing in front of the “No Shirt, No Shoe, No Service” sign looking like:
(Btw, this is a great way to getting tetanus 🤭)
Tetanus is a disease made up by corporations to sell more anti-rust “solutions”! Hemoglobin is Oxygen bound to Iron, how could Oxygen bound to Iron hurt you???
True. I never work a mask in 2020 and I turned out just fine. Don’t even understand how tiny crown shaped object or whatever woke shit they make up could even hurt me. I survived just fine. A “crown” virus? LMFAO. I wear my crown 👑 like a king 🤴, wtf is a mini crown RNA bullshit, complete utter nonsense.
/s
Yeah! I identify with the OG Frenchfries, No Gods, No Kings! I’m happy to see a comrad happy to fight a “crown” wearing royal-ass virus, probably the fault of English imperialism or papist bullshit! !!
I avoid tetanus by not standing like this
People that walk around cities barefoot need to be avoided at all costs.
people who care this much about what others wear need to be avoided at all costs
People who say people should be avoided at all cost, should be avoided at all cost.
No wait, I mean… 🤔
I’m gonna follow you now. So there.
I once saw a girl very abruptly stop walking on a rather busy street, throw herself down on a nearby bench in a hurry, take out her stuff from her tote bag and just start knitting with an oddly peaceful expression on her face as if nothing happened. I was left wondering what the fuck I just witnessed. Happened in the span of like 4 seconds.
Yes she was barefoot.
Sounds like she was also mentally ill, dang.
I like going outside barefoot but this is just disgusting.
“Hookwoorms, get in my feet please!”
Also all the tire dust that is releasing chemicals onto the skin.
definitely don’t think about what breathing it in does to you :)
Totally!! Glad those closed toe shoes are saving us all! /s just in case
also like, yes i’m sure our soles have evolved to be great absorbtion pads, not like we’d ever step on bad things in the wild
unless you’re in a place where human shit flows freely, that is not much of a concern. stores are usually not such places.
SOMEBODY’S never been to a Ross Dress For Less, I see…
Its funny you say this because I once went in a Ross with my wife and someone had taken a monster shit in one of the aisles. It was absolutely horrific. I think about it every time she wants to go to Ross now. I don’t think I’ve gone in one with her since.
Ross is the answer to someone asking, “what if JCPenney but in a demilitarized zone?”
City streets on the other hand
Canine worm can spread to humans and can cause blindness
Ok. I guess this was the additional detail that I needed. Don’t walk in human shit in order to avoid hookworms. Check. Noted.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Humans suck at remembering history when they can’t see the consequences anymore.
Humans suck as remembering history?
Hookworms isn’t why stores require shoes. It’s because of hippies. Laws typically require employees to wear shoes and even then it depends on the workplace.
I sometimes question if we are truly the same species.
we are very diverse
There is an actual belief out there that your feet get some sort of power by connecting to mother nature barefoot. It’s insane woo nonsense, but that meme lifehack literally would be something they might do, lol
The linoleum floor of a supermarket is a godless abomination, further from mother nature than any other surface
‘linoleum’ is one of those words you read and immediately have to feel what its like to say. Like evel knievel
Linoleum floor in a supermarket? Haven’t seen that in the US nor Mexico.
I’ve seen it in local grocery stores in really small towns. Never a supermarket
Still quite common in Australia, in old, shitty places
Are you sure that it’s linoleum, and not VCT?
Nothing quite like a spiritual connection with concrete
ugh, i hate that woo-woo “grounding” bullshit. gives the rest of the barefooters a bad name. honestly there’s so many good reasons to go unshod without bringing in magical nonsense.
Wanna get grounded, stick a fork in an electrical socket.
#1 being that if i wore shoes in the summer i would have to periodically empty out the ocean of sweat in them
I once found a pair of barefoot running sandals online that were otherwise normal with rubber soles etc, but had a copper rivet inserted through the sole to facilitate that connection to earth.
There are people who tie a wire around their toe to ground them to the earth when they sleep in bed… So
Connecting to some basic ass tile work.
Daring to call linoleum “tile work” is like calling a Walmart a “home”
But those are tiles in the he picture.
Fair enough. Withdrawn!
just wait until someone in your circles finds out about “frequency therapy”.
That would be an awesome name for some EDM production
Since when is it illegal? Nobody has ever raised any objection, let alone tried to stop me going dogs out to the shops.
I’m curious, and have two questions:
- Have you previously read/heard the phrase “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”?
- If you don’t mind answering, what region do you call home?
Elsewhere in this thread:
Nah tbh going barefoot is pretty culturally accepted in rural Australia, as long as you’re not doing it in like a restaurant or a pub.
- Yes, only in the aforementioned contexts
- asked and answered
I have never seen a sign for this.
Illegal I haven’t seen. No Shirts, No Shoes, No Service I have seen all over though. Often times near beaches. Many gas stations and restaurants have them as well. Though I don’t see them as often
It probably makes sense for places that sell anything in glass containers (especially alcohol), because all it takes is one dumbass dropping something on the floor and someone else walking through it barefoot to have a liability lawsuit on your hands. Whereas if you put up a sign forbidding that and someone manages to sneak in anyways, you can say it was their fault for violating store policy in the first place.
One drunken night 15 years ago I remember walking barefoot into a gas station to get cigarettes and the guy behind me told me my foot was bleeding. I found out I stepped on a broken piece of glass and left a blood footprint trail for about a quarter mile. It was on the ball of my foot, so it was the ball and first three toes in blood all the way down the sidewalk back towards the house party I had walked from.
My friend told me he walked that way the next day he was really impressed at how straight of a line it was in if I was drunk enough to not notice and bleed enough to feel it. Not sure I was supposed to take pride in that.
Can’t blame you. My wife left with the kids, I stayed at home to do some work. About 5 mins later, I get a call from her, that she forgot something at home. I told her to turn around and I’d await her at the curb in front of our house with $thing. As it was summer, I just went out barefoot, walked to the street, gave it to her and went back in the house again. Only after walking around a bit in the house I noticed bloody footprints on the floor. I managed to somehow step into something outside and not feel it. I wasn’t even drunk…
It’s easy to do, especially if you have callused feet from regularly walking barefoot.
Glass is sharp as hell. A sharp cut in desensitized skin is genuinely hard to notice. So, don’t beat yourself up too much!
Yeah, using OP’s picture it cut like this, so it was likely a glass cup or bottle that someone has cracked or just how my foot managed to bend when stepping. I just walked back, poor rubbing alcohol on it, put 2 things of super glue in it and kept drinking. What else are you supposed to do in college 🤷
haha good ol super glue… Just as a friendly tip: Use something like New-Skin or VetBond instead of superglue. Superglue uses toxic solvents in large percentages, but New-Skin/etc use safer alternatives and also have additives that make the cured result a bit more flexible.
Soo much better than bandaids on most scrapes/etc, although on places that still flex a ton like fingers or in/around joints, salve+bandaid can still be better.
I mean, that IS kind of impressive, ngl
But no pants is fine?
No shirt, No shoes, No Rump Shaker Coverings, No Service. I assume it just sounded better. Skirts, dresses, kilts, pants, shorts.
Quick search found this: “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service” was a response by businesses in the 1960s and 1970s to keep long-haired hippies out of stores and restaurants. There are no federal or state laws to this effect. However, there are laws that allow businesses to make their own regulations. This phrase has become an accepted norm
Really? Apart from “you must be born on or before this date to buy alcohol”, “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service” is the most common sign I see in stores
Where do you see such things? At a beach?
I’ve seen it in cities and yee-haw towns alike.
Must be US thing.
it is!
my understanding is the the american discrimination against bare feet and the still shockingly common ‘no shoes, no shirt, no service’ signs, started as a way to more discreetly target black folk after the civil rights act, as they were more likely to be poor enough to not have shoes. barefootedness had already had an association with poverty for quite a while at that time, and thanks to the legacy of slavery, poverty has always had an association with black people in america.
the anti-barefoot crowd gained more steam through the sixties and seventies as a reaction by conservative business owners against the hippie movement.
so basically, the US’s negative attitudes against bare feet have their roots in racism and reactionary anti-counterculture sentiments.
here’s an article about this history i found, if you wanna read more.
Yeah the signs used to be on like every shop years ago. I see them less now but still do.
This rule is ancient. I never seen such signs in my life - read about them in history books tho
i’ve been accosted and kicked out of places so many times for being barefoot: grocery stores, restaurants, a bar, book shops, even a shoe store. i’ve basically been bullied by society at this point into wearing shoes whenever i go out, despite my own preferences. it’s not illegal, basically anywhere, but you’ve been quite lucky to not have gotten any shit anyways.
Those places don’t want to take liability for you potentially getting injured. Even if you would never sue a place for that, they have no guarantee of that, and US liability laws are absolutely ridiculous. I hope the US fixes the liability/lawsuit culture. So many things get killed by it
(For the record, I’m not one of the barefoot people. I find it weird, but to each their own)
even a shoe store
If one did not own a pair of shoes, this seems like it would present a bit of a “chicken or egg” problem…
yeah, that was my issue at the time, my shoes had finally completely fallen apart on me and i needed a new pair for something. they fortunately let me finish my task when i explained my predicament.
If the store has a rule for it, you would be trespassing without shoes.
I guess where I’m from a lot of stores don’t enforce any such rules they may or may not actually have 🤷♀️
If you’re anywhere near a beach, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Go a few hundred miles inland and to conservative land, and you might hit some resistance. Even if it’s not from the employee who’s not getting paid enough to give a fuck, it’ll be some old crotchety lady that needs you to know your bare feet are ruining her life.
Nah tbh going barefoot is pretty culturally accepted in rural Australia, as long as you’re not doing it in like a restaurant or a pub.
Toph-core
“Finally! A fashionable shoe for the blind earthbender.”
Damn I coulda saved money on getting my soles redone
Soles redone: $IDK, ask the local Faeries whilst the cobbler naps.
Barefoot: $Priceless!
illegal???
Stores can’t dictate what’s legal, so this is not illegal. It’s just not allowed under some store rules, but the most they can do is kick you out.
This looks gross, but im also so confused at the amount of people saying walking barefoot is dangerous and gross. Walking barefoot is not to bad in my city its pretty clean and there is lots of grass.
“‘Hello, hookworms, get in my feet,’ or whatever. Some kind of worms will go in your feet.”
Never heard of hookworms, i dont think we have them.
Sorry lol it’s a quote from a cartoon called Archer.
reverse sandals
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