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Anyone else disgusted by Miles and Rio wearing their shoes indoors?
- Thread starter Lion
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1.) I do find the aversion to wearing shoes a bit extreme. Like going off this thread you'd think that most people were wading through mounds of sand and mud any time they're outdoors.
Although that largely depends on where you are living.
I don't really see a cleanliness difference unless it's raining or something like that.
2.) With that said, I hate wearing shoes. And any opportunity to take them off is always going to be taken.
Although that largely depends on where you are living.
I don't really see a cleanliness difference unless it's raining or something like that.
2.) With that said, I hate wearing shoes. And any opportunity to take them off is always going to be taken.
I can understand this in Australia. No one wants to step on a poisonous animal that made its way in doors.
No one needs to see shoes off and on scenes in media and I'm guessing actors generally prefer having shoes on...
It's not surprising at all that it's the default shoes on indoors in media.
Americans don't wear their shoes at home but yeah it's kinda like most of us don't mind if guests are more comfortable with their shoes on, especially if it's a quick visit it's kinda silly to force someobe to take their shoes off and put them back on.
It's not surprising at all that it's the default shoes on indoors in media.
Americans don't wear their shoes at home but yeah it's kinda like most of us don't mind if guests are more comfortable with their shoes on, especially if it's a quick visit it's kinda silly to force someobe to take their shoes off and put them back on.
Same. Never wear them indoors and I feel like most people I know don't either.
Growing up I always kept my shoes on in anyones house ( unless I was specified to take them off, even the the only time I can remember someone asked me to take shoes off at the door was in the projects and...... There was no reason since the floor was already dirty 🤣.) Usually don't like taking my shoes off also cus, as I notice at least with black people where I'm from, if we take our shoes off at your house, it's considered "gettin comfortable " and end up staying there for almost 8 hrs
Basically this. And I reckon it's the same in a lot of places in Europe.
I believe people are more and more getting used to the custom of taking your shoes off. Where I live everybody does it (there's a step at the entrance of the houses that shows the limits of where you walk with your shoes), and when I go back to Spain I also take my shoes off at the entrance and my mom started asking visits to do the same.
What bothers me is when people take their shoes up to their beds or something. Yikes..
Also, people's feet stink because they keep their shoes on the whole damn day. Take them off at home and if possible maybe even change footwear at the office (at my office some people wear crocs or sandals that let their feet breath -- and no, it doesn't stink because they've only wore normal shoes for a couple hours tops before that).
OK hold on. Those who wear shoes in what is your floor like? Some people keep mentioning wood and it does not sound like people use carpet much, just wondering what type of layout people have.
I agree up in the Midwest ( Gary, Indiana) and everyone I knew wore shoes inside
It might be a cultural thing, but it sure as hell isn't an American thing.
Grew up middle class Midwest, now living West Coast and I don't know a single person who would wear shoes inside. It would be considered terribly rude to do so.
Shoes come off at the door. No one wants all that crap from outside tracked into the house.
I only show my feet for my simps
I am a terrible American though and wear my shoes indoors. Fight me.
I am a terrible American though and wear my shoes indoors. Fight me.
I'll dust it off outside and then sit my ass down as quickly as I can
Fucking. Thank. You.
I was literally in the middle of making a big post about this but you summed it up better than I did. As someone who grew up in the South (a black man) I'm seeing people immediately go to dirty floors and people being nasty when talking about Americans but nobody mentioned anything about showing disrespect and getting comfortable. Like, taking your shoes off can be seen as similar as putting your feet on someone's couch when really it's not your couch, it's theirs. That's showing disrespect to them and their property. Not everybody wants you to get completely relaxed like it's your house when you visit their house even if they're cool with you.
Not gonna lie, this Era thread disappointed me. People literally started to make it like Americans are dirty and rather than asking legit questions it's turned into another tipping thread where people take shots because they don't understand it lol.
I literally have never went to anyone's house and immediately wondered how dirty the floors are. The fuck, who does that shit lol.
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I mean you sometimes have people at home that been in shoes for work all day or you coming back with them after hanging out for a couple of hours outside.
It not really a matter of hygine or switching socks, just depends on the person. Diferent people sweat more or less then others, you can be in shoes in a couple of hours and be fine or smell bad in the same time-frame.
Most houses here are hard wood and like I sair never asked or had a guest ask to take shoes out.
Can't speak for all of Spain, but no, carpets are not that incredibly common in houses. Some do, and sometimes just in bedrooms, but most houses I've been to, included mine, have wood flooring. It's normal to go in shoes. Not so much a hygiene issue when wearing them, as it just simply being seen as getting too comfortable when taken off. I'd love if Spain changed in that regard (and again, I believe a lot of Europe does this too), but it will take a while, probably. My mom does it, but even some of our relatives were weirded out a bit at first.
LOL This is ridiculous. Not everyone wearing shoes indoors have traipsed through mud, muck, or whatever the hell else you all are afraid they are putting on your carpet. If I go to someone's house and they ask me to remove my shoes, I'll obviously do it out of respect, but I'm not going out of my way to make a big deal about removing shoes if I don't have to.
Yeah, I've lived all over the United States (25 cities across 10 different states) and most people I know take off their shoes when they get home. I know a couple that don't, but I feel it's far more rare.
Most of my life tile, hardwood, laminate, vinyl, carpet. No shoes
It's not related to how dirty the floors are at all lmao. People just randomly assumed it's related to cleanliness rather than relating to "getting comfortable" and "showing the homeowner disrespect."
Like, I don't know anyone who keeps their shoes on because floors are dirty. That ain't why people do it lol.
Y'all have got to stop generalizing shit. I don't know anyone who wears their shoes in the house.
Where I grew up in NSW Australia, it was always shows on inside, has been the same here in TAS. I've got one friend who asks for shoes to be removed and that's been about it for my whole life. If someone asks me to remove I do, if they don't, the shoes stay on
Also my homes have been mostly wood, laminate, tile, and carpeted bedrooms, with about a 50/50 split on carpeted living rooms.
Also my homes have been mostly wood, laminate, tile, and carpeted bedrooms, with about a 50/50 split on carpeted living rooms.
I'm American and I find it weird to wear shoes in the house, but I always ask when I go to other people's house because they may do it differently.
Right like especially in black/urban households, to black mothers, cleanliness is everything so they wouldn't tolerate ANY mess. Only time you are really told to take shoes off is when the floor is freshly mopped. Plus growing up when sneaker culture was really jumping off they way it is now( 2010-2014, before the hypebeast era) I made sure to take care of my shoes so they wouldn't be dirty( yo shoe game is very important in the hood. 2011-2015 is when I was in hs and if your shoes wasn't fresh you'd get clowned)
europeans ITT seeing any opportunity to shit on americans, ignoring this post:
Thanksgiving was always nuts in that regard cause the whole family came through to OUR house and not a single soul took their shoes off
Pretty much all of this. I only learned of it being an American thing like a year ago from a previous thread. You take your shoes off when you are "make yourself at home" or it's nasty outside. I have to admit, I would feel strange about a friend walking in and just taking their shoes off. When I think about it though, when kids come over to to play with our kids, sometimes they do ask where to leave their shoes but I use to take it as a kid thing because our kids will walk to the next door neighbors with no shoes on and I would never do that.
For a long time, I never even knew people wore shoes in their houses. Growing up I was always told to take my shoes off in the house. Granted part of my family is Asian and I hear this is more common in those cultures.
Now when it comes to visits, I don't believe we would outright ask guests to remove shoes. Though non-family visitors were so rare it basically never happened. Family always took off their shoes too.
Now when it comes to visits, I don't believe we would outright ask guests to remove shoes. Though non-family visitors were so rare it basically never happened. Family always took off their shoes too.
I was just raised to take my shoes off in the house, but I was "weird" like that among my friends. I just figured it was because I had an Asian mother.
Yeah though. I'd never make any guests take off their shoes, and I'd feel strange as hell if I just took off my shoes at someone else's house without any like... request to do so. That would just be weird.
Yeah though. I'd never make any guests take off their shoes, and I'd feel strange as hell if I just took off my shoes at someone else's house without any like... request to do so. That would just be weird.
Speaking as a Minnesotan, for like 8 months of the year, there's snow on the ground and if you come into my house and walk around with your shoes on, you're cleaning up the sopping wet mess you're leaving all over the place.
And uh yes, I want people who come over to feel comfortable in my house. That's why they're at my house.
And uh yes, I want people who come over to feel comfortable in my house. That's why they're at my house.
I have to wear custom insoles and those are hella expensive so I only have one pair at the moment and annoying to change into and out of shoes so i wear my sneakers almost all the time because I can't go barefoot for long safely/without terrible pain. If I had more than one pair, I could see having a dedicated house pair.
also, this has to be regional, I'd say 80% of households I've been to in the NJ/NY area are shoes on.
also, this has to be regional, I'd say 80% of households I've been to in the NJ/NY area are shoes on.
Most American households where I live wear their shoes indoors and wouldn't ask guests to take their shoes off either.
It's so normal to wear your shoes in people's homes that most people don't think to even ask if it's okay.
It's so normal to wear your shoes in people's homes that most people don't think to even ask if it's okay.
I grew up always wearing shoes inside.
After moving to Asia, I couldn't imagine doing it now. It really is disgusting.
After moving to Asia, I couldn't imagine doing it now. It really is disgusting.
Right exactly. As kids things were different but as adults things change. I'm thinking back at anytime I've visited someone's house from the ages of say 18+ and unless it was the homeowner, unless we were staying over for the night and we could really relax, we just kept shoes on.
