So to you, going barefoot is the same as going shirtless?

How do you stand all the people who insist on wearing short sleeve shirts, displaying bare elbows for all to see? Or the teeming hordes who eschew ties, going around with open collars?

So taking off my shoes on a plane is a bad thing? I clean my feet before a flight and wear new socks for a reason!

Eeeeeuuuuwww. Not their food as well :D:D

Funny!
 

Yeah, pretty bad typo. But that's how athlete's foot is transmitted--through the carpet. Most people don't get athlete's foot from concrete surfaces. The fungus needs small fibers--usually with moisture from the sweaty feet or from shower water--to transmit onto another human. On an airplane, the whole thing is carpeted, so if you walk around barefoot and you don't already have athlete's foot, don't say that you hadn't been warned....

Everyone knows that the bottom of a shoe is usually DIRTIER than a bare foot, right?

Just because ANY piece of skin is bare doent mean its dirty, and just because someone is dressed doesn't mean they are clean...people seem to have this infactuation that cleaning ones feet is impossible, and wearing tight shoes for hours while flying is the only thing proper...please don't put your own vices upon others.

Unfortunately quite the opposite is thought. Hence why it baffles me when people think wearing socks will somehow offer more protection and make feet stink less, completely disregarding the fact that socks harbour more moisture (thus bacteria) than bare feet alone. :rolleyes:

Get such a kick out of stirring this reaction up. Yes, it is sort of the same to me because on a plane you expect to be in close quarters with your fellow passengers who mostly would rather not sit by bare feet or armpits or midriff, but unlike the mall or other publics places cannot just move away. As has been pointed out, there is a difference between a lady in a sleeveless dress with a pretty pedicure vs. a slob showing his hairy armpits in a wife beater undershirt and taking his shoes and socks off to air out his sweaty feet.

+1^:D

I guess socks soak up sweat and offers a layer, albeit thin layer, from the elements.

Well, it baffles me that people would even want to be walking around barefoot on a plane, eww, but to each his own there.

But, that said, I just find it sad how we've become as a society. Its the whole "well, Im comfortable, you must deal with it" mentality that is constantly justified with 100 different reasons. The word decorum , apparently, has been lost. So men should go shirtless if they want? Where hats at dinner? So while, in the big scheme of things, the world won't die if my kids decide to eat their mashed potatoes with their hands to stuff them in their mouths ( and even after washing their hands), I find it completely inappropriate , just like I find the barefoot issue. Heck, I make sure my son has shoes on just to answer the door!

I think shoes indoors is pretty gross! Walking all over the pavement outside, and then over where you walk barefooted, get into your bed etc = ew!

That's what I figured -- trolling.
Always with the two extremes. What about the woman with ugly feet? Or a pleasant, clean, man with clean feet who takes his shoes off? Oh, to live in a world with such nuance and shades! How much simpler if we went back to the good old days, when gentlemen and ladies knew how to travel (with a full staff of servants, natch, including a valet) and wouldn't dream of appearing anywhere even in the slightest bit underdressed.

:rolleyes:

Indeed.

IMO, going shirtless (I assume you're talking about a man) is worse than going bare feet.. because bare feet is like wearing sandals.. very easy and comfortable to slip out of.. Watch for foot odors though.

Indeed it is difficult to express any reasonable opinion that some here do not exaggerate into an extreme.