I like going outside barefoot but this is just disgusting.
Once upon a time I was a barefoot hippie. If you extrapolate flip-flops down to their Platonic ideal, you can arrive at something you can fold up into your back pocket.
I’m reminded of this one barefoot hippie who would do nature survival shows without shoes. I understand how it worked for him in the forest or desert with brambles and whatnot, but how does that work in an urban area?
Idk if we’re thinking of the same show but it was a gear oriented army dude and a barefoot hippy doing survival things together. The only time I saw the hippy crack was going barefoot in a blizzard lol.
Prolly the same one, yeah! Hippie man was going barefoot in the desert with cactus and snakes. Mad respect to him!
Yeah he was honestly badass af
Asphalt is hot but as long as you keep moving, and you’ve built up some callouses, it’s not that bad. I always kept to the grass on the side when I could.
Oh man, I don’t know how this could be true. I work manual labor, in sneakers. I spend all summer recreational time in either flip flops or barefoot. So while I don’t have huge callouses on my feet, I’ve got some. Not tender baby feet.
But still, one day it was like 70 or 80 out, I changed out fancy clothes into shorts, but forgot to pack my flip flops. I really wanted to walk down to an event that was going on, but I didn’t want to wear black fancy shoes with my shorts. So I went barefoot on the sidewalk, about 3/4 of a mile.
I did like you said and walked in the grass a lot, but man the concrete was hotter than I expected. It didn’t hurt at first, but each new step I took found freshly warmed concrete that just heated my foot more. Keeping moving definitely wasn’t helping. Eventually it started to hurt, even with walking in as much grass as I could.
I got to where I was going, grass covered area, and didn’t think too much of it.
When I went to leave? Oh man. My feet hurt. Looking at them closely, I had several blisters on both feet. I cooked em. I couldn’t walk back, I had to call my friend to pick me up.
That was on regular concrete. I cannot imagine doing that on asphalt, I wouldn’t make it a hundred feet.
Maybe I really do have tender baby feet 🤔
Depends on where you live. In my city, sometimes shoes aren’t even enough.
Painted lines are always cooler too.
all i can say is that i’ve been barefoot for a couple years now and… it’s fine? never really had an issue beyond cold and sharp gravel (especially when it’s on a hard surface)
I just don’t give a fuck. Adidas slides are basically my only good weather shoe. And most of the time I slide them into each other and stick them into my cargo short pocket. I have been doing this for like over 30 years and I hope to keep living life like this for the next 30 years.
I wanna live somewhere with weather that nice and clean infrastructure.
These feets are made for walking.
You built up a healthy layer of thick skin after a while.
Yeah I do and lose a bit in the winter. Gotta start walking on gravel when the weather gets warm.
I’m looking for flip flops that roll up small to take hiking as camp shoes. Do you have a recommendation on where to look?
“Hookwoorms, get in my feet please!”
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.
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.
Since when is it illegal? Nobody has ever raised any objection, let alone tried to stop me going dogs out to the shops.
I have never seen a sign for this.
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.
This rule is ancient. I never seen such signs in my life - read about them in history books tho
Yeah the signs used to be on like every shop years ago. I see them less now but still do.
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.
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.
I mean, that IS kind of impressive, ngl
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 🤷
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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 🤷♀️
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 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?
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!
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.
#1 being that if i wore shoes in the summer i would have to periodically empty out the ocean of sweat in them
Wanna get grounded, stick a fork in an electrical socket.
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
just wait until someone in your circles finds out about “frequency therapy”.
That would be an awesome name for some EDM production
Toph-core
“Finally! A fashionable shoe for the blind earthbender.”
That’s kind of disgusting.
It’s absolutely disgusting!
Not kind of! Lol
It’s just seasoning.
Based.
Based on my understanding of the state of the ground in cities, that is absolutely disgusting.
Why are you walking barefoot whilst constricting your toes that’s confusing me
That’s how you pick up all the soup ingredients for later.
Earth Spice.
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?
I just like the way it feels. Though because of all the risks, I wouldn’t do it except at home or similar environments.
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.
People that walk around cities barefoot need to be avoided at all costs.
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.
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.
Damn I coulda saved money on getting my soles redone
Soles redone: $IDK, ask the local Faeries whilst the cobbler naps.
Barefoot: $Priceless!
Did they use wirebrush to wash their feet after arriving home?
Wash?
some barefooters like not washing their feet. personally, i don’t get that. if my feet are dirty when i get home, i just wash them in the sink real quick. don’t need any special tools; hands, water, a bit of soap, and maybe a washcloth will be plenty.
…washing my feet in the sink is trivial; drying them well-enough not to track around slightly-damp feet afterward is a hassle…
have you considered a hand towel? they work equally well with feet.
…those are what i use, but whereas i can avoid touching anything with my hands until using a towel and any residual dampness air-dries between my fingers and skin, hopping across the bathroom to a towel one foot at a time is awkward and best and my feet are pretty much going on the ground immediately after mostly-drying them…
Meh, just clean water spots in the shape of feet, it’ll dry 🤷♂️
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
reverse sandals
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