Are shoes off people a bit weird?

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Anonymous wrote:Having sweaty guys’ bare feet on your rug is gross but having everyone’s shoes that walk around outside in excrement daily is grosser.

Perhaps just don’t walk in $hit. It’s easily avoidable if you have functioning eyes

You can't see fecal matter, urine, vomit, and other bodily fluids that have residuals all over streets and sidewalks. Imagine walking all over the streets of a city like San Fran where it smells like urine everywhere, and people are constantly defecating in the streets. Sure, you might not step in a mound, but the residue is everywhere. You really want to walk in the streets of San Fran that's teeming with hepatitis C and then all over your house to track it on the floors and carpets? So nasty.

Well I don’t live in San Francisco nor do I have carpet. We wear shoes inside

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Anonymous wrote:I get everyday shoes-off people. I don't get asking guests to take their shoes off.

It's one night. Clean your floors tomorrow.

But what if you have to walk through the house after the party is over but before the cleaners have had a chance to arrive?

Then you get HIV and lead poisoning.

And Covid

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I wouldn't force someone to take off their shoes but they might never get invited again. I don't understand people who think it is weird to take off shoes in a home. Actually, I don't understand people who don't think it is disgusting to not take off shoes. Are you a barbarian? Have some respect for your own home and for other people's homes.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't force someone to take off their shoes but they might never get invited again. I don't understand people who think it is weird to take off shoes in a home. Actually, I don't understand people who don't think it is disgusting to not take off shoes. Are you a barbarian? Have some respect for your own home and for other people's homes.

That's a relief. Thanks for not inviting us!

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Anonymous wrote:Billions of people in the world don't wear shoes in the house. Americans are just dirty and nasty. It's not normal to wear shoes in the house at all.

Well anyone who keeps saying nasty is 11 years old

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This is a white American thing with squawking about taking shoes off

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Seattle. Everyone is shoes off. Everyone. Every party. I actually specifically tell people not to take their shoes off when I have parties and no one listens to me. It's so weird.

Seattle is the homeland for fussy, anxious people.

I've been there once, and it was one time too many.

Seattle has a large Asian population where it is customary to remove shoes. So maybe you are just a racist?

Nope. White person here who lived in downtown Seattle for a blessed brief period.

The sidewalks there are absolutely disgusting. I think that city relies only on rain to clean them, and with climate change the constant rain has just become a very mind-warping daily drizzle that just makes sure the crap on the sidewalk is moist enough to cling to the bottom of your shoes.

I'm not a shoes-off-or-I-kick-you-out person, but I became one in Seattle.

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I truly don't get it. For those of you who wear shoes in the house, how are you not uncomfortable? do you ever want to put your feet up on the couch? Do you enjoy having to professionally clean your carpet every month?

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Anonymous wrote:how do the shoes off people accommodate older guests who have to wear shoes?

I have to wear inserts and shoes all the time or I am in pain.

I have a shoes-off house and am from a shoes-off family. My parents (who need inserts) travel with their own "indoor shoes." Other guests who aren't comfortable without shoes I would tell to keep their shoes on but it does make me cringe a bit. Almost everyone I know is shoes off in their own home, although the flexibility for guests varies. To be honest I not as grossed out the always shoes on houses (if everyone wears shoes all the time it just means your household floors are basically the sidewalk) so much as baffled -- why do you all want to wear your shoes all the time? Do you also wear your bra right up until you go to bed at night?

Yes? My breasts don't stop needing support at 6 pm.

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Anonymous wrote:Having sweaty guys’ bare feet on your rug is gross but having everyone’s shoes that walk around outside in excrement daily is grosser.

Perhaps just don’t walk in $hit. It’s easily avoidable if you have functioning eyes

You can't see fecal matter, urine, vomit, and other bodily fluids that have residuals all over streets and sidewalks. Imagine walking all over the streets of a city like San Fran where it smells like urine everywhere, and people are constantly defecating in the streets. Sure, you might not step in a mound, but the residue is everywhere. You really want to walk in the streets of San Fran that's teeming with hepatitis C and then all over your house to track it on the floors and carpets? So nasty.

Well I don’t live in San Francisco nor do I have carpet. We wear shoes inside

DP. Well I live in NYC and it's the same thing - my block (an otherwise nice block on the UES) constantly smells like urine, dog and human. I'm not tracking that in. I moved from Bethesda and have definitely become more strict about it now; if I have to walk back into my apartment to grab something I forgot, I will still take my shoes off. The streets here are disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:I find these people hilarious with the no shoes rule, but you’ll touch a door handle at every store with zero problems. Like Chris Rock says “Selective Outrage”.

We have a no shoes policy as well as a no touching door handles policy and a wash your hands frequently policy.

Huh. I have a no germophobes policy at my house.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a white American thing with squawking about taking shoes off

Racist! Plenty of white people tale their shoes off. Check yourself

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having sweaty guys’ bare feet on your rug is gross but having everyone’s shoes that walk around outside in excrement daily is grosser.

Perhaps just don’t walk in $hit. It’s easily avoidable if you have functioning eyes

You can't see fecal matter, urine, vomit, and other bodily fluids that have residuals all over streets and sidewalks. Imagine walking all over the streets of a city like San Fran where it smells like urine everywhere, and people are constantly defecating in the streets. Sure, you might not step in a mound, but the residue is everywhere. You really want to walk in the streets of San Fran that's teeming with hepatitis C and then all over your house to track it on the floors and carpets? So nasty.

I don't think that is how hep c is transmitted.

According to google:

Hepatitis C is spread through contact with blood from an infected person. Today, most people become infected with the hepatitis C virus by sharing needles or other equipment used to prepare and inject drugs.

No one is saying you're going to get hep C from walking inside with your shoes on, but you're still walking all over streets and sidewalks with nasty residues of human and animal bodily fluids and waste, plus dirty, grime, grease, and other revolting stuff. Why bring it in the house?

It sounded that was what the pp said

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how do the shoes off people accommodate older guests who have to wear shoes?

I have to wear inserts and shoes all the time or I am in pain.

I have a shoes-off house and am from a shoes-off family. My parents (who need inserts) travel with their own "indoor shoes." Other guests who aren't comfortable without shoes I would tell to keep their shoes on but it does make me cringe a bit. Almost everyone I know is shoes off in their own home, although the flexibility for guests varies. To be honest I not as grossed out the always shoes on houses (if everyone wears shoes all the time it just means your household floors are basically the sidewalk) so much as baffled -- why do you all want to wear your shoes all the time? Do you also wear your bra right up until you go to bed at night?

Yes? My breasts don't stop needing support at 6 pm.

No, they stop wanting to be imprisoned. Let them fly, PP! Let them fly!

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Anonymous wrote:This is a white American thing with squawking about taking shoes off

It's funny, because even white people in Northern Europe find shoes in the home revolting. It is very rude to walk into a home with shoes on in many of those Scandinavian countries Americans are supposedly in love with as well as in Austria.

Americans are just dirty people.