being barefoot is NOT GROSS

i am a good canadian and wear my running shoes all year long with boots on the bad winter days....after maybe 3 months the nikes are thrown into the washing machine...

i use the old pair/new pair rotation where i buy new ones before the old ones are too unsightly and then i slowly phase out the old ones

i NEVER wear my shoes without socks...the insides are relatively clean...i wouldnt eat a gummy bear out of them but i have no problem stashing dope in them or putting valuables in them when visiting someone

i step in chicken shit everyday of my life...what is on the bottoms of my shoes doesnt bother me


i have had many surgeries on both feet and ankles...double fusions with multiple pins and plates and screws...

i ask permission to leave my shoes on at peoples homes because i need the support they offer...never been turned down

 

I rarely wash my flip flops. The white ones get dingy so I scrub them every once in a while.

I'm just a lazy stoner, can't be held responsible for my own actions... pssh.

 

I think many people misinterpreted my earlier post.

I mean to say,

I hate walking barefoot in public.

If you want to do it, do it just don't complain about other people giving you shit about it. I wasn't exactly saying "fuck off for being barefoot" but "fuck off for complaining all the goddamn time"..

In the end, no we don't have rights because we all do whatever thefuckwegonnado anyway.

Rights are an imaginary tool created by governments to make us think we mean something to them other than money.

 

It very well can be gross. I've stepped on snails on dog shit, but shoes are still worse.

sidenote: I agree with everything dazedgatsby just said, although I would've worded it differently. We do have rights, but not because any group of people gave them to us. I think we're on the same page though.

Oh, and I don't hate being barefoot in public, I just agree that you shouldn't complain about it, which I don't.

 

Ah. True colors at last. Takes one to know one Sir.

Particularly telling that you felt the need to minimize Shakti by emphasizing his/her short period here. Very hip of you.

Fair nuff. Ya a few comments came across as complaining. Not really much diff from venting about getting shit for other behaviors, clothing, lifestyles, etc.
I do though disagree with your take on the source of rights. Ya, there are gov't rights that are pretty much a game, sure. But I feel a central belief of progressively leaning folk is that there are many self evident universal rights.
One should be free to pick and choose who they associate with. Asking people to remove their shoes when visiting, or don't come barefoot, or stay out of my store cause you have no shoes, all should be one's own free choice and so then, a right.
Or, whatev.

 

Seriously thanks, but don't worry it's not an issue I don't have hurt feelings or problems of acceptance :2thumbsup: If I wanted to answer questions I would have, but sometimes it's just not worth typing because you can almost predict the response.
Oh an BTW it's 'she'
Shayla x

 

Well he/she shouldn't enter into it either. Just because someone is newer somewhere, using that in response to a comment is rather weak sauce. It's just a way of marginalizing someone rather than having a conversation.

But welcome anyways newbie

 

It's not gross in my opinion, either... but it seems to be horrifying, judging from this reaction I got, when doing my Saturday grocery shopping barefoot, and riding the tram:



"Relax, lady! I'm just walking barefoot...!"

:smilielol5:

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

Lol ...funny picture. She either looks shocked beyond belief, or totally mesmerised.

The look may have been because a total stranger was taking a picture of her on a tram, though?

 

Before I snapped the picture, she was alternately gaping at my feet, then into my face, then back at my feet... I took the picture of her, after she had repeated that routine several times.

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

Never mind yer feet what's with the pink hat girls! Looks like your not the only one with their own sense of fashion

 

Haha, well spotted! They do look a bit odd in their matching hats. That pictures got so much going on

 

You stole the old lady's pink hat, didn't you?

 

Haha, yeah, those girls... there was a group of six of them in those matching piggy-pink cop caps... oliceman: looks like they were on their way to some weird motto party... and wearing those things, they were so bold as to giggle about my bare feet... talk about fashion sense, there.

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

It does, well done! The look on the older womans face, f*in priceless.

BTW Peri... fancy seeing you here. Out for a barefoot stroll 'round the forums are you? :2thumbsup:

 

She looks as though she's never seen a naked foot before, geeez! That look on her face.....too funny!!! Thaks for posting that Ganesha!

 

Ah! good plan :2thumbsup: When barefootin' I shall wear something so crazy that my feet go un-noticed....now where's that latex dress :clown:

 

Barefoot is best. When my soles are black or dirty it feels like I did a lot. I feel lazy when my feet look more clean. Besides, dirt and grime is something a shower will take care of.