Jaycee1

As a kid growing up in Aus I can't really remember wearing shoes when we played out locally
The thing that got me was my mum had my passport picture done at the local shopping centre and I'm in my pyjamas aged 8 But that is something else....

Jaycee1

Couldn't get us some Twisties whilst your there Paul, could ya??

Dorothy

I love to go barefoot and so do my kids. If not for all the broken glass left on the parks and sidewalks we would do it more often. I don't know why people have to chuck bottles when it's just as easy to drop them in the bin.

(Broken glass - my little Australian pet peeve)

hevs

Yeah that and the dubious wet patches when it hasn't rained for weeks!

Dorothy

That's usually where the dog has peed.

hevs

Exactly Or a tramp! Or Brendon Favola

wannabauzzienurse

Still wouldn't want to walk through it !

wmoore

Surely you mean 'the old Brendan Fevola'. He's a reformed man you know.

hevs

Maybe. But hes still been slapped with the ugly stick too many times and that won;t ever change

wmoore

Can't really argue with that.

eddie007

Going back to the Original Post....

I nag the kids when we go into furniture stores or David Jones to put their shoes on... and Hospital and Drs visits... but on the whole I have gotten over it...

I couldn't go bare foot outside the front door yet... and I don't wear my PJs to walk down the street either... yet..... sure it is only a matter of time before I do both..

TiddlyPom

You blokes are a bunch of hypocrites... I bet you love it when you see this:

Kooky.

Another day, another opinion, eh?

My osteopath would strongly disagree with the article. I know myself, having arrived in Singapore - land of marble floors - six years ago and thinking it was good for me to go barefoot. I soon learned otherwise. It's amazing how many people, within a couple of months of arriving, complain of aching feet and backs.

I now have orthotics in my trainers and, now I'm wearing closed in shoes 'cos I'm cold, I will probably wear them in those too.

I'd never go barefoot outside; I'm a bit of a clean freak.


(Said osteopath also thinks those MBTs are rubbish.)

asher

I am not bothered by what people wear or don't on their feet

but my mate is a community nurse in Oz and says she is fed up of dealing with nasty crusty feet with deep gashes, crushed toes etc from people walking without footwear, she says if they want to stop wearing footwear they shouldn't live in towns

stevenglish

Saw this bloke in Picton, in a cafe! and his feet put me off my burger! just caught a glimpse and that was it, game over mind you he was about 20 stone