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dreamworld ([info]dreamworld) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-02-08 21:09:00


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Entry tags:community: customers_suck, fucking hippies, fungus among us, lol the south, miss cleo told me i'm special, no shirt no shoes no service, otf_wank's thoughts on feet, public nudity, shoes for industry!, socks: literal, they sell a product that causes cancer

Bare Feet -- Srs Bsnss
Over on Customers Suck, a poster complains about a shoeless customer coming into the restaurant where they work. In the comments ladygzb doesn't understand what the problem is.

After all, not that long ago, people of no means went barefoot as a matter of course, so why shouldn't she have the right to enter a public place with no shoes. Social conventions are meaningless. Going barefoot flaunts convention the way gay and interracial marriage does!

If your feet have a fungus it's the fault of your shoes! I went barefoot all through college and never caught anything like a fungal infection! In short, shoes are just disgusting and they make my feet hurt anyway.

And people keep on arguing with her.




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[info]evening_rose
2009-02-09 06:31 am UTC (link)
I was reading through this and about halfway down the page, realized, HEY! I wonder if this has made it to the wank communities yet.

I commented, sort of, to her little brag about walking barefoot in downtown ATL near GT. Considering my ex's brother attended the school and we were there ALL THE TIME to watch him perform on the violin, I had to agree to the bullshit call. I think even hobbits would wear shoes on that hotter-than-Satan's-furnace asphalt.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2009-02-09 07:55 am UTC (link)
Dude, I wouldn't walk at GT if I didn't have to. Part of the reason I'm not getting a degree over there is because of the location. I was over there looking for Fulton County Animal Shelter about two weeks ago and never found. It's sad when the Omni feels safer...and that's after our go through with repurposing old buildings. *shudders* Hell no. Not walking over there with the water plant a hop, skip and jump away. With our water issues? Hell no again.

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[info]dreamworld
2009-02-09 01:08 pm UTC (link)
You gonna go ask her profs if they remember the chick with the long hair who never wore shoes?

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(no subject) - [info]evening_rose, 2009-02-09 01:29 pm UTC
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[info]hypno_jango
2009-02-09 06:36 am UTC (link)
I remember when a few people complaining at one con I went to about the "no bare feet" policy. I was thinking "And why the hell would you want to walk around barefoot with all these unwashed nerds around?"

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[info]phosfate
2009-02-09 10:11 pm UTC (link)
Not to mention the sheer grossness of hotel carpeting.

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(no subject) - [info]hypno_jango, 2009-02-09 11:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2009-02-10 08:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kookaburra, 2009-02-10 08:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2009-02-10 08:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kookaburra, 2009-02-10 08:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2009-02-10 09:12 am UTC

[info]theladyfeylene
2009-02-10 02:41 am UTC (link)
I actually ended up having to walk around barefoot at a con once. :/ My cosplay had required shoes with heels, and despite starting to walk in heels months before, after a couple of hours at the con my feet were bleeding. And we got stuck at the hotel with our ride in the wind, so I couldn't go and buy some non-heel shoes, and no one I was staying with had shoes that would fit me.

I didn't go anywhere but the carpeted dealers room. (And the next day I was able to go and get comfy shoes.)

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(no subject) - [info]hypno_jango, 2009-02-10 02:57 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2009-02-10 06:36 pm UTC

[info]chaos_theory
2009-02-09 08:05 am UTC (link)
Sure, in the past people of no means were unshod, but they were HAPPY!!! and FREE!!! and not subject to the social conventions of the time. They lived the shoeless vagabond life, traipsing barefootedly and unencumbered from village to village, dancing to the beat of their own joyful shoe-free music. They existed in a veritable Eden, free from labor, while fruit-heavy trees bowed before them, groaning to be harvested, and they frolicked with the creatures of the forest. Jealous of their free and easy nude-footed lifestyle, the elite class had their tightly laced and properly shod scientists genetically engineer schistosomiosis to force these poor but happy unshoe-d gypsies to give up their wandering ways and get jobs to purchase foot protection or risk a painful parasitic blood fluke-related death. So when you think about it, shoes are just another tool of elite oppression. The only way we will be free is to take down the ruling class through violent revolution! The streets will run red with the soles of their Louboutins. Who's with me, my shod and downtrodden brethren?

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[info]kookaburra
2009-02-10 12:33 am UTC (link)
I LOL'd. But that's mostly because I live in hippie central Eugene,OR, and quite a few of my friends really think like that. Hippies, man. I love 'em to death, but they are not with the logic sometimes. XD

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(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2009-02-10 06:41 pm UTC
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[info]varethane
2009-02-09 08:15 am UTC (link)
...Bees, broken glass, and tent pegs are no problem at all! Man, her soles must be hard as ROCK. For some reason I am not finding that less sketchy.

I thought it wasn't feet you were supposed to worry about with tent pegs...

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ealusaid
2009-02-09 08:38 am UTC (link)
I feel validated now that I'm not the only person who went, "Tent pegs? Really?"

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[info]platedlizard
2009-02-09 10:11 am UTC (link)
My, isn't she a special snowflake.

Huh, as a kid I had a dog who (naturally) was barefoot, you'd think she's develop tough feet and never ever have problems with broken glass. You would be wrong.


Re: tent pegs, to borrow one of the mottos from scans_daily. You're never the only one.

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(no subject) - [info]caffeine_fairy, 2009-02-09 11:51 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]varethane, 2009-02-10 02:12 am UTC

[info]honorh
2009-02-09 11:33 am UTC (link)
She'd never survive in Japan. Shoes and socks are Vry Srs Bsns around here.

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(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2009-02-09 02:26 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2009-02-10 10:26 am UTC
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[info]iamnotyourmuse
2009-02-09 01:51 pm UTC (link)
Great. Now I'm reminded of the guy with the foot fetish who used to call around the dorms at my college and try to get girls to talk about walking around barefoot in the mall.

I think he needs to meet this woman.

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(no subject) - [info]judyhazeleyes, 2009-02-09 09:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]iamnotyourmuse, 2009-02-09 10:20 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]iamnotyourmuse, 2009-02-10 02:31 am UTC

[info]dragonfangirl
2009-02-09 02:27 pm UTC (link)
You know, forget days of yore, there are all sorts of people in the third world today who don't wear shoes and they? They do not have happy feet.

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(no subject) - [info]mary_mac, 2009-02-09 06:15 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]mary_mac, 2009-02-09 08:33 pm UTC
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[info]ingrid
2009-02-09 03:11 pm UTC (link)
That 5,000 year old frozen guy (the Ice Man) was found wearing shoes.

I guess 'not that long ago' means something different to everyone.

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(no subject) - [info]littleshebear, 2009-02-09 04:11 pm UTC
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[info]zyna_kat
2009-02-09 04:23 pm UTC (link)
And in honor of the Barefoot Wank, we have Barefoot Cakewrecks!

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/02/thisll-cure-that-freaky-fetish.html

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(no subject) - [info]hangingfire, 2009-02-09 04:59 pm UTC
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[info]velvet_mace
2009-02-09 06:51 pm UTC (link)
She can get away with that in Hawaii. Wearing shoes is optional there -- even in stores, though mostly it's kids who don't bother with them. That's what happens when you are a step above 3rd world status.

As for the fungus bit, actually it isn't a problem when you don't wear shoes. Your feet are too dry for them to be happy. The only people who get it in Hawaii are those who use public showers where they fester in the warm wet tile, and then spend a lot of time in closed shoes so the fungus can dig in.

That said, it's totally socially unacceptable to go barefoot in public in most of the Mainland. Not respecting the rules of a place is just retarded behavior.

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(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2009-02-10 12:27 am UTC
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[info]vzg
2009-02-09 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Clearly they are feetist. We should start a movement! Feet can marry who they like! Feet should be able to work anywhere they want! Feet should be allowed to wear tiny hats without being discriminated against! RAAAHR!

And Quentin Tarantino would approve.

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[info]sarkasm
2009-02-10 02:07 am UTC (link)
If regular socks and shoes are oppressive, I'd hate to see what this poster thought of ballet shoes.

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(no subject) - [info]serai, 2009-02-10 04:12 am UTC

[info]herongale
2009-02-10 04:26 am UTC (link)
Ah, allow me to propose a field test.

Person walks into a business without shoes, and is confronted about this. I theorize there will be different responses based on the type of person.

Legitimately poor person: *totally embarrassed, but dignified* I'm really, really sorry, I don't have any. I'm just here for x item. Can I get that or do you want me to leave?

Person in a shoe emergency: OMG MY SHOES THEY WERE SKUNKED AND I AM IN A FOREIGN STATE AND FAR FAR FAR FROM HOME AND PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME, I JUST NEED TO BUY SHOES.

Arrogant privileged twit: HOW DARE YOU???? *launches into shrill screed about rights and ridiculous social conventions, which either ends with a flounce or a police escort off the premises*

I wonder which category Ms. Ladygzb falls into? XD

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(no subject) - [info]tofuknight, 2009-02-10 09:08 pm UTC
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[info]pfeffermuse
2009-02-10 05:43 am UTC (link)
I walked from my high school on East 68th Street to Macy's on 34th Street in high heels, with various stops along the way. By the time I was wandering around Macy's Cellar, I had blisters and my feet were in agony. I did take my shoes off there, went out on 34th and Broadway, and caught the bus home in my stocking feet, and then walked the block home from the bus stop.

By the time I got home, I scrubbed my feet down with soap, alcohol and bleach; then spent the next hour trying to work up the nerve to pop the blisters.

Shoes may be oppressive, but daaaamn, I don't ever want to walk the streets of Manhattan in bare feet ever again.

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[info]erototoxin
2009-02-10 06:29 pm UTC (link)
Pretty much all shoes were painful for me until I figured out that my feet are wide. My New Balance sneakers are the first I've had that actually FIT.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2009-02-10 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Anyone else get achingly cold toes if they ever, EVER go barefoot? Even in the dead of summer?

Just me, then? *puts on slippers and wool socks*

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(no subject) - [info]immortal_jedi, 2009-02-11 03:16 am UTC

[info]dragonfangirl
2009-02-11 07:21 am UTC (link)
I have a shoeless story to tell (actually, I have many, all relating to my time in Japan.

Japan has very specific rules about indoor/outdoor footware, even in places where it wouldn't seem at all intuitive. Insides of public stores are usually okay to wear shoes, or business offices, but anything that's considered 'private' the shoes come off (and the slippers go on.)

One time I got shoehorned (so to speak) into attending a three-day-overnight English Camp, held in a convention center about two hour's bus ride from civilization. This fell into the category of one of the 'indoor' places, even though the building was huge and mostly floored with stone and concrete. I, foolishly, did not bring a second pair of shoes, so I thought I could wander around in my sock feet no problem.

By noon of the second day, I could not even walk. I was nearly crippled on those damn concrete floors. I eventually had to give in and wear the visitor's slippers, which are open-heeled cardboard things with a friction coefficient of negative thirty, so that I could not even lift my foot to take a step without the slipper shooting away to clatter on the floor. (Keep in mind that this is after nearly a year of living in Japan and learning to walk in various shades of slipper!)

But it was still better than going barefoot on those damnable stone floors.

Next time I went to an English camp, I was prepared -- extra pair of indoor shoes and socks with grips on the bottoms.

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[info]napalmnacey
2009-02-12 12:02 pm UTC (link)
I can't perform on stage in shoes. I don't know why. I like to feel the stage beneath my feet or something. Or maybe cause it's up high off the ground and I'm scared of heights, and all my fancy shoes are platforms.

Or maybe I'm just a nutty hippy, there's that too. But I have pretty things to wear on my bare feet on stage. I always do them up and make them look clean and pretty.

That said, this chick is fucking bonkers. My brother used to be the same way until he got this awesome pair of boots off ebay. Now he wears those all the time. :)

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