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• Noerknhar@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I sometimes question if we are truly the same species.

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    we are very diverse

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• Hazmatastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Hookwoorms, get in my feet please!”

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also all the tire dust that is releasing chemicals onto the skin.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      definitely don’t think about what breathing it in does to you :)

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  • juliebean@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • FryHyde@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      SOMEBODY’S never been to a Ross Dress For Less, I see…

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    • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      City streets on the other hand

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Canine worm can spread to humans and canccause blindness

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    • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • ninekeysdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s exactly what I was thinking. Humans suck at remembering history when they can’t see the consequences anymore.

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The linoleum floor of a supermarket is a godless abomination, further from mother nature than any other surface

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ‘linoleum’ is one of those words you read and immediately have to feel what its like to say

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Linoleum floor in a supermarket? Haven’t seen that in the US nor Mexico.

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  • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing quite like a spiritual connection with concrete

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  • juliebean@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wanna get grounded, stick a fork in an electrical socket.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      #1 being that if i wore shoes in the summer i would have to periodically empty out the ocean of sweat in them

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  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are people who tie a wire around their toe to ground them to the earth when they sleep in bed… So

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  • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Connecting to some basic ass tile work.

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Daring to call linoleum “tile work” is like calling a Walmart a “home”

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    just wait until someone in your circles finds out about “frequency therapy”.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That would be an awesome name for some EDM production

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• bieren@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People that walk around cities barefoot need to be avoided at all costs.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    people who care this much about what others wear need to be avoided at all costs

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    • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People who say people should be avoided at all cost, should be avoided at all cost.

      No wait, I mean… 🤔

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  • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds like she was also mentally ill, dang.

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• Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since when is it illegal? Nobody has ever raised any objection, let alone tried to stop me going dogs out to the shops.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have never seen a sign for this.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • juliebean@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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…

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m curious, and have two questions:

    1. Have you previously read/heard the phrase “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”?
    2. If you don’t mind answering, what region do you call home?

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    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the store has a rule for it, you would be trespassing without shoes.

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    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess where I'm from a lot of stores don't enforce any such rules they may or may not actually have 🤷‍♀️

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.

    Also, parasites 😬

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • Glifted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • uberfreeza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s kind of disgusting.

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not kind of! Lol

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  • IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s just seasoning.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Based.

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    • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Based on my understanding of the state of the ground in cities, that is gross.

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  • darkmogool@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s absolutely disgusting!

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• Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Toph-core

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  • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Finally! A fashionable shoe for the blind earthbender.”

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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  • POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wanna live somewhere with weather that nice and clean infrastructure.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  illegal???

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The store owner, standing in front of the “No Shirt, No Shoe, No Service” sign looking like:

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  (Btw, this is a great way to getting tetanus 🤭)

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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???

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    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Uncommon yes, but not illegal.

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• RedStrider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  reverse sandals

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• BingoBongoBang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Combine the drawbacks of wearing shoes with the drawbacks of going barefoot.

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like going outside barefoot but this is just disgusting.

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why are you walking barefoot whilst constricting your toes that’s confusing me

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn I coulda saved money on getting my soles redone

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• rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen this somewhere before and they are an influencer who really is all about being barefoot everywhere

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did they use wirebrush to wash their feet after arriving home?

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just paint your foot??

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• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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