Hi guys, I am starting a new organisation that incorporates going barefoot while going green. Am in desperate need for supporters, if only you could like the page i've created on facebook, here : http://www.************/pages/Fuck-Shoes-Love-Earth-FSLE/179900122043394 alternatively you can search "FSLE" on facebook and see it. We hope to make it as huge as "Earth Day" where people bare their soles (souls) to mother Earth and going barefoot pledges one to be green. It is a symbolic act in which people can follow. Thank you! Dave
I suspect FB will remove the group because of the F-word. I (and I suspect a few others) would be more inclined to join a group without it, to be honest Sorry to be such a word-Nazi
Me Too clayts, To Be Honest I'm Getting Rather Sick Of The F-Word.... If Somebody Needs To Resort To The F, Or C Word To Express Themselves, I Really Don't Want To Know Them.. Cheers Glen.
Nope, still very common. Especially in the Appalachian region. Especially/Especially among people who don't wear shoes or gloves when in the dirt.
Unless you're barefoot in fecal-packed dirt, where hookworm eggs are most liable to occur, chances of contracting are nil. 'Course, one can get AIDS from a dirty toilet seat.....
I don't even go barefoot in my own house! This is Scotland, the only country in the world to actually get colder during the "global warming" epidemic
If you want to go for a four-letter word, starting with F and ending with K, why not follow the example of Glen A. Larson who invented the word "Frak" for the Battlestar Galactica series to evade TV censorship? At least the new version had a barefoot Cylon in it. Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~
Hookworm has a very slight chance of transmission between species, but it's still very rare. It sounds like you should read up on some cognitive biases. I saw that episode of Mystery Diagnosis with the person who had a worm in his eye, so I know where you're coming from. But frankly, it's a bit fallacious to assume that trans-species hookworm infections are tangible risks of going barefoot.
They are tangible risks because it happens. Although chances are low in the USA (Less than 10 per 100,000 and rising) for contraction it is still very possible. My mother does medical missionary work in several central American countries and if you saw some of the pictures she brings back you would be concerned also. You can debate the probability all you want but the fact is that if you catch hookworms you will most likely not even know until they start really hurting you. Like I said, Do what you want. I'll keep my shoes on. PS Sorry for hijacking your thread.
I'm in North Dakota. It's not a good climate for hookworm; from what I've read, it's only endemic to within at most 40 degrees from the equator. I'm sitting at 46 right now.
If everybody were to be afraid if every possible event occurring, no matter how slim the possibilities, nobody would get out of bed in the morning. (WAIT! Isn't that a GOOD idea???) Anyway....shit happens. But I'm going barefoot anyways!
