“Hookwoorms, get in my feet please!”
Protip:
Submitted 3 months ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also all the tire dust that is releasing chemicals onto the skin.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
definitely don’t think about what breathing it in does to you :)
juliebean@lemm.ee 3 months ago
unless you’re in a place where human shit flows freely, that is not much of a concern. stores are usually not such places.
FryHyde@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
SOMEBODY’S never been to a Ross Dress For Less, I see…
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
City streets on the other hand
joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Canine worm can spread to humans and canccause blindness
dbtng@eviltoast.org 3 months ago
Ok. I guess this was the additional detail that I needed. Don’t walk in human shit in order to avoid hookworms. Check. Noted.
ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Humans suck at remembering history when they can’t see the consequences anymore.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
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.
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The linoleum floor of a supermarket is a godless abomination, further from mother nature than any other surface
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
‘linoleum’ is one of those words you read and immediately have to feel what its like to say
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 months ago
Linoleum floor in a supermarket? Haven’t seen that in the US nor Mexico.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nothing quite like a spiritual connection with concrete
juliebean@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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.
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Wanna get grounded, stick a fork in an electrical socket.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
#1 being that if i wore shoes in the summer i would have to periodically empty out the ocean of sweat in them
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
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.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
There are people who tie a wire around their toe to ground them to the earth when they sleep in bed… So
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Connecting to some basic ass tile work.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Daring to call linoleum “tile work” is like calling a Walmart a “home”
lime@feddit.nu 3 months ago
just wait until someone in your circles finds out about “frequency therapy”.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
That would be an awesome name for some EDM production
bieren@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
People that walk around cities barefoot need to be avoided at all costs.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
people who care this much about what others wear need to be avoided at all costs
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
People who say people should be avoided at all cost, should be avoided at all cost.
No wait, I mean… 🤔
herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 months ago
Sounds like she was also mentally ill, dang.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Since when is it illegal? Nobody has ever raised any objection, let alone tried to stop me going dogs out to the shops.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have never seen a sign for this.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
Godric@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
juliebean@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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.
Taldan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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)
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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…
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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?
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
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.
1) Yes, only in the aforementioned contexts
2) asked and answered
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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 emough to give a fuck, it’ll be some old crotchety lady that needs you to know your bare feet are ruining her life.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If the store has a rule for it, you would be trespassing without shoes.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I guess where I'm from a lot of stores don't enforce any such rules they may or may not actually have 🤷♀️
daannii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I’d say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.
Also, parasites 😬
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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?
Glifted@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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?
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I just like the way it feels. Though because of all the risks, I wouldn’t do it except at home or similar environments.
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
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
Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s kind of disgusting.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not kind of! Lol
IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s just seasoning.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Based.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Based on my understanding of the state of the ground in cities, that is gross.
darkmogool@feddit.org 3 months ago
It’s absolutely disgusting!
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Toph-core
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
“Finally! A fashionable shoe for the blind earthbender.”
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
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)
POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 3 months ago
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?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I wanna live somewhere with weather that nice and clean infrastructure.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
illegal???
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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 🤭)
Godric@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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???
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Uncommon yes, but not illegal.
RedStrider@lemmy.world 3 months ago
reverse sandals
BingoBongoBang@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Combine the drawbacks of wearing shoes with the drawbacks of going barefoot.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I like going outside barefoot but this is just disgusting.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 months ago
Why are you walking barefoot whilst constricting your toes that’s confusing me
tdawg@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Damn I coulda saved money on getting my soles redone
rabber@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’ve seen this somewhere before and they are an influencer who really is all about being barefoot everywhere
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Did they use wirebrush to wash their feet after arriving home?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
That is so asinine. Don’t go places that require shoes or just wear shoes if you have to.
Or, get body paint and paint on a pair of shoes. At least that takes some skill and you don’t look like a spoiled jerk.Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just paint your foot??
Auth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Noerknhar@feddit.org 3 months ago
I sometimes question if we are truly the same species.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
we are very diverse