Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How the hell did Canada become a shoes off country when it’s not only surrounded by shoes on but also both of its major contributing cultural influences (UK and France) are supposedly shoes on?

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  • troot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know for UK, but France is not a full shoes inside society. It really depends where you live, and probably when.

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  • Snowballfighter@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Our outdoors can be very mucky and wet and very dry and dusty depending in the season. Polite northern folk are clean, and we like to keep our hosts houses clean too. Shoes on is considered quite rude. During the summer we allow for short walk throughs with dry shoes on, but you ask first if its ok. House slippers are common but not everyone wears them, up here it’s a “socks or slippers” debate.

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is exactly it. I’m mostly in the sock camp, and only wear slippers at my computer in the basement.

      Bare feet is somehow almost as bad as shoes, the only caveat is if you show up in sandals

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the snow?

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Quite possible

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• BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Japan is a shoes-off country, but they often have slippers that they wear indoors. They just change their shoes like Mr. Rogers, but with less singing.

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  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is objectively the correct answer to the problem.

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not an expert but my partner is from SE Asia.

    She’s quite judgemental and inflexible about this. I’m not condoning her views but they might provide some cultural insights.

    Shoes on inside is perceived as rude. It’s particularly awkward when you go to someone elses house and they ask you to leave your shoes on. Taking your shoes off is tied up with hygiene and reverence and respect and being asked to disregard that is being asked to… diminish yourself in some way.

    People in our orbit tend to wear footwear you can just slip on and off. That doesn’t mean sandals or flip flops. You just tie off your laces at the “right” length and you can slip them off without untying, and slip them on by, at worst, putting your finger in behind your heel to pull them into place. Some shoes just don’t work in this way, and these are reserved for longer outings like work et cetera.

    We do have several communal pairs of slippers for use exclusively in the tiled area of our living room. They’re just really cheap practically disposable open toed slippers. The kind you get in hotels.

    We have toddlers and, thankfully they seem to be excluded from the shoe-rules.

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• ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wear house shoes. What does that make me?

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look at this one, owning 2 pairs of shoes!

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m imagining you got bird houses on your feet.

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    • ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t do that.

      Yet.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Full on shoes? That’s very odd.

    Why not sandals? That’s very normal and imo way more convenient

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  • doug@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do that too.

    They’re bright white Allbirds that would get too dirty too quickly if ever I wore them outside, so it’s a bit of a mental nudge for me to take them off and put on my outdoor shoes in case I forget to do so.

    …sidebar: how do I clean bright white fabric shoes? it’s bleach, right? I don’t know why I’m intimidated by the task.

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    • ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would try dish soap and a toothbrush first. If that doesn’t work, a weak bleach/water mixture might work, but make sure to rinse it well. Too much bleach can discolor it. I’m sure there are some howto videos out there.

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See that’s definitely shoes on. The existence of house shoes - sliders and crocs - demonstrates that some people in that country are shoes indoor people. Those types of shoes exist purely to facilitate a shoe on lifestyle.

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    • ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For me, I have a tendon issue in a couple of toes that refuses to heal. I can’t walk around barefooted without aggravating it. So I have a couple pair of slides that are only house shoes.

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• BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hawaii?

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    100% shoes off, or failing that, flippahs.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shoes on at home

  Shoes off on the street or in the shops

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I went to an Indian house and those guys wore shoes inside

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• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As an American, I don’t believe I’ve ever been in someone’s home that allows me to wear my shoes indoors unless I am only on non-carpeted floor, and/or not staying long.

  People don’t like other people dragging shit on the bottom of their shoes into their living spaces. 

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m curious what state you are in. White people in California very much wear shoes inside.

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• slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Boomer from Hamilton , Ontario, Canada, and growing up it was probably 70% shoes ON in my parts…lots of kids, in and out constantly.Obviously, snow and mud were exceptions. The 30% shoes OFF homes were the outliers…

  It wasn’t until my late teens that I started to notice a shift, personally and societally, to shoes OFF.

  Nowadays, even if the host *insists* that I keep my shoes ON, it doesn’t feel right, so I tend not to.

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This. Shoes on was the default, not so anymore.

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  American here. My childhood home was completely covered in thick carpet, except the entryway and the kitchen, which was laminate tile. Yes, even the bathroom was carpeted. My bedroom literally had shag carpet.

  My family always wore shoes indoors. And then wondered why the carpet was discolored, worn, and tearing in places.

  I spent 20 years traveling the world after becoming an adult and learned about many other cultures who took off shoes before entering homes. Now I feel weird wearing shoes even in the entryway.

  By the way, I’m retired now and living back in my childhood home, which I inherited when my father passed away. The whole place has been re-carpeted, the bathroom and dining room floors have been swapped out for laminate/wood paneling, and when I get around to remodeling the living rooms, I’ll probably switch them to wood floors as well.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love that you got your childhood home back.

    I always dreamed of getting my childhood home back but it’s just not in the cards. It was a beautiful acreage - the house sucked, but the property was what made it great. We had about 15 40 ft spruce trees in our yard, a dogwood hedge that would grow from 5 ft to 8 ft if you turned your back on it for more than 3 days (lol), tons of Aspen for a young Shovel to stomp around in, and a slough in the back for said Shovel to catch woodfrogs.

    We sold to move into town a few years after my parents split.

    Some dickhead moved in, built a big barn thing on one side of the property and cut the bottom branches of a lot of the spruce trees which ruined a lot of the privacy the place had.

    I always wanted to move back, rip the house down and build my own house on it. Instead, I moved my young family to a small town about 15 minutes from where I grew up. I still get the country feel and the connection with the landscape I longed for, even though it’s not exactly the same, and we have a new-build house.

    I guess I did ok.

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• GroundedGator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My dad came to visit once. He’s a shoes off kind of guy. Pretty diligent about it too. Problem is, he just doesn’t like wearing them anywhere. Sure go stand in my half mud yard and smoke a cigar and then walk right back into my kitchen.

  We decided to show him around the area. Drive out to the coast. Leaving the car, “Dad you might want your shoes.” Get to the beach, as we’re strong into the sand, he stops, “I think I should put my shoes on.”

  I fucking died.

  All this to say, if you’re shoes off, make sure everyone is shoes on outside.

  That last line, I’m going to leave it, but it doesn’t make sense.

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• Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  House slippers that are never out stomping turds and spit? Nope. All good.

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have shoes I wear specifically in the house I broke my ankle a couple years ago and ever since, walking without shoes has been uncomfortable and even painful. So I have inside shoes and outside shoes.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You get a pass. That’s a legit reason

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    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Hooray!

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• RickyRigatoni@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tell me you don’t know anything about the US without telling me.

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  • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not true. Over 44% of you guys like boots inside on so you can continue to lick them. Hence the map accuracy. The remaining percentage didn’t care to vote or had too strict a purity test to rally enough consensus to kick out the boot lovers.

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    • RickyRigatoni@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      well at least your bio is accurate

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• SpacePanda@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Our house is not as clean as I want it, but, if we wore shoes in the house it would be way worse. We have a family member that lives next door and is constantly walking around our house with shoes and it drives me nuts. If they weren’t so helpful I’d say something.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well this makes me more proud to be a Canadian.

  Buuut, I’m noticing a pattern. If it’s a very dry country then I guess you have less chance of mud and are more likely to wear your shoes inside.

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• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where do slippers fall on this? I’m a shoes off person, but in the winter I’ve started wearing slippers inside.

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wear slippers or socks. Bare feet are just as bad or worse than shoes because of oils and such from your feet.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shoes stay at the door and showers are taken at night!

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah this shocked me coming to the Netherlands. Thing is, when everybody else is wearing shoes, you don’t wanna walk around in socks or barefoot cuz the floor gets nasty. It’s a vicious cycle

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like the US is very split on this.

  Personally I have all hard floors and don’t care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  chanclas ftw

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  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dobles para defensa del hogar también

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• butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know any non foreigners in the IS who keep their shoes on, with the exception of VERY rural areas.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What the fuck does this mean??

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  • Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When you walk into a house, do you remove your shoes?

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shoes off means you don’t wear shoes inside your house. The reverse the opposite.

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