what a load of garbage...

i was browsing around the net last night and two pages popped up which i have to share with you:



http://www.stanleybeautycare.com/beautycaremagazine/article.php/94/Tips_for_protecting_your_feet..html

http://www.stanleybeautycare.com/beautycaremagazine/article.php/95/Top_Ten_Foot_Care_Tips_for_Summertime.html

now, normally i wouldnt even bother with pop-ups (they annoy the hell out of me, but these two pages, and after a quick look the whole site, seem like a load of utter nonsense.

quote "While the sunny days beckon us to open fields, beaches and swimming pools for summer fun, it’s important to be aware of the potential foot problems the season brings. To help everyone protect their feet this summer, the podiatrists of the Illinois Podiatric Medical Association are providing the following tips:

1. Avoid going barefoot. Be sure to wear shoes, flip flops or aqua shoes around the pool, on the beach and in the locker room to prevent injuries from stepping on foreign objects and conditions such as athlete’s foot and warts."quote

and it goes on about not going barefoot because the "Illinois Podiatric Medical Association" are concerned about public safety.

now, things may work differently in america, but here in England, there are far fewer medical bodies trying to intervene. sure the politicians want everyone to be wrapped in cotton woll and not drive cars with engines bigger than two litres and not offend ethnic minorities and be kind to old people and this and that and the all other nonsensical bullshit that bureaucrats spout in the name of the good of mankind.

well, i for one have a message for all the politically correct idiots - sometimes, mankind doesnt want to be helped. sometimes we like to eat red meat and drive a 5,000 brake-horsepower, 11.5 litre V12-engined monster that weighs three tons and is made out of sperm-whale teeth and runs on pure liquid adrenaline.

some people like to go against fashion and be natural, as you were when you came out of the womb. some girls like to weigh more than 110lbs and eat whatever they want. some guys dont want rippling pecs and chiseled abs or whatever mainstream culture likes in a man.

i for one am a geek. i have long hair, i like video games, books and engineering, and i like my world to be different. i like voluptuous, curvy, FEMALE girls, who dont care if they gain three ounces over christmas and dont go on liquid diets to fit into their prom dresses.

i like cars loud, big engined and difficult to drive, with no airbags. its a thrill i get when im actually scared to be driving a car, because without fear, you cannot live.

i go barefoot quite often, and its a thrill when i see people watching me, giving me confused and strange looks. i know i dont fit into mainstream culture and i love it.

and i think im slowly converting people.

a while ago i was in a city centre, where i dont get many odd looks mainly because there are other people who stand out more than i do. but anyways

so i was in the small square in front of a monastery/church/wherever monks live. theres some lawns that the monks keep tidy, flowerbeds, big fountains you can toss coins into and the like. and as such it was a really hot day. i decided on impulse to have a paddle in one ofthe fountains. i had seen people doing it before, and the monks were the easygoing kind.

i chose one of the fountains in the shade (i know from experience water and direct sunlight dont mix very well), rolled up my trousers and sat on the edge with my feet in the water, which felt wonderfully cool after the hot pavement. after a while of just sitting and feeling the water, i stepped in up to my knees and waded around, making patterns in the coins lying on the bottom.

it was still really hot so i took off my shirt and stood under a fountain-head, washing off the dirt and grime of the city. it was really refreshing and it seemd to encourage a small group of people i knew to have a dip themselves. there was three girls and five guys i knew by way of friends and relatives. the girls just sat like i did and watched the guys bare their chests and go under a fountain-head. it took a while, but one of the girls did come and join us, unfortunately she didnt strip of but it was a beautiful sight, to see her move in the water, fling her hair out of her face and shake hseself unashamedly when we got out and dried off, that was wonderful.

anyways, back to the topic i began with. people dont want to be told what to do just because some moral do-gooder wants to help prevent foot infection. people go barefoot all the time and dont get hurt, so why now do the nanny-state activists step in to take control?

can a politically-correct bureaucrat answer that?

 

Ugh, that's gay.

But it probably isn't a good idea to be running around barefoot if you have diabetes.. even an ingrown toenail can lead to an amputation.

Next thing you know, they'll be telling you to take showers fully clothed.

Mm. Naked feet.

 

I think the government and the pop culture out there needs to get a clue and realize that most of us are mature enough to take care of ourselves and doesnt need mommy government or some big fat snob nosed burecrat deciding for us what is best for us.

 

I'd rather have my government tell people to save the environment and be nice to minorities than to have them do nothing but pander to greedy capitalists while letting pollution, oil dependence, poor education, violence and hate crimes go totally out of control.

You think pop culture and the government will ever stop telling us what to do? That's how they make their money. It's up to us to stop listening to them and turn off our TV sets.

 

Stupid...athelete's foot is caused by shoe-wearing. Nothing like a hot, damp, dark place for fungus to be happy. Just more evidence that doctors today, for all their claims of science, have no fucking idea what they're talking about. 30 years from now all their "facts" will be different.

Barefooting is perfectly natural. Why are humans the only creatures on the whole earth that need to protect their feet with artificial coverings? Because we grow up wearing shoes, deforming our feet. These doctors study feet that have been in shoes since birth, no wonder they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. They should go to Africa or something and study natural feet, then they might learn something.

It's the same thing with all doctors (tangental rant alert). We here in the west live in a cloud of pollutants and toxins, along with major stress factors and unhealthy diets and too little exercise. Doctors rarely see a healthy human anymore, not like they did 100 years ago. If they don't know what health is, and no one hardly is healthy, all their studies are based on sick people. What is that doing for our medical knowledge? Think about it.

 

TrippinBTM, you're preaching to the choir here... I'm very sure we all wholeheartedly agree. It'd be best to take your rants to local governments, or groups like that, where it'll make some change. REFORM, BITCHES!

 

TrippinBTM makes an interesting point, one I hadn't considered. Medical knowledge is based on sick people. Well, that was certainly something that is a real eye-opener. How can they spot the problems if they never see anything BUT the problems? Interesting point.

I go barefoot around my house as much as possible, and I used to walk around campus and town barefoot sometimes too. People never gave me strange looks.

Bright Blessings!
Aphrodite Pretty

 

You know, I have my own tips for people for proper care of their bare feet that will avoid athlete's foot and stepping on things:

1. Don't put your wet feet in shoes. Let your feet dry before putting them in shoes. better yet, don't wear shoes. This will avoid Athlete's Foot.

2. WATCH WHERE THE HELL YOU ARE GOING! This will avoid stepping on things. If you can't avoid it (ie. rocky terrain), then wear shoes. But for the most part, it's ok to be barefoot. Just watch out.

That's all. You don't need 10 tips. Sheesh.

 

To be honest I didn't read the link at all...just from the reaction that it got I'm assuming it's not a good link to read. So I'm going to be a sheep today...GRRR...TEN TIPS MAKE ME ANGRY...LOL

 

seems like these "dr's" would be preaching for everyone to go barefoot if it was so dangerous for the sake of job security,hhmmmmmmmm??????????????

 

Well, who the hell is Stanley anyway. Sounds like a foot phobia freak. They are just trying to find a perfect round 10 items to talk about in their ad. Their ideas may be good for a world renown foot model who can't stub a toe or whatever. But there is no one who would read that and say "Hmmm, yes, I will start wearing shoes on the beach or in the pool while swimming." Not even those who are afraid of their feet.
I just came back from the beach and no one was wearing shoes in the sand. Stanley & Co. are dumbasses.

By the way, why don't us barefooters start some pop up ads to instigate barefooting or at least the acceptance of it? How do you do that? Does anyone know?

And is there a "Contact" link on that Stanley website? Maybe we all should contact them just to say how rediculous they are.

 

I found a contact link and posted an email in protest---trying to be as diplomatic as I can, but I'm sure it was ignored. Maybe a few more of us should try it? I think we're all too silent.