# Barefooters unite!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 4, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176 "2015-07-04T00:40:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/41 "2015-10-07T04:59:59Z")

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Comrades!!! Citizens!!! …I call on you all to join the cause, to man the barricades!!!  
For this is not an issue of esthetics. This is not an issue of comfort. This is not an issue of social customs.  
No, I call on you all to shout it from the rooftops: this is an issue of _freedom!!!_.  
Let us proudly demand our rights!  
Let us fight, to the bitter end, for the essential principle, without which life has no meaning:

**A man is not free until he can wiggle his toes.**  
(especially if there’s a plush carpet.)

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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/42 "2015-10-07T11:20:53Z")

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> [@Barefoot\_Black\_Bull](#):
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> atlanta georgia here! barefoot 100% of the time. even in the fall-winter-spring. haven’t bought shoes in countless years. as a kid, ran around barefoot and shirtless everywhere. now if have strangely big feet so shoes are not worth the effort.

Well, I live in New England now, so if I didn’t wear shoes, my feet would fall off. :p:D

Weirdly, my feet are the same as my mom’s (who is not a barefoot fan) – narrow and long. Water skis!

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/43 "2015-10-08T17:55:08Z")

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> [@Barefoot\_Black\_Bull](#):
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> I got 100% barefoot for years - indoors, outdoors, public, private - don’t matter.

Even in the mens’ restroom at the local sporting stadium? Ewwwwwwwww  
Shoes are an abomination unto the Lord your God.

**Exodsu 3:5**

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> “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

**Acts 7:33**

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> “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."

**Joshua 5:15**

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> The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

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**Author:** ![Barefoot\_Black\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Barefoot\_Black\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barefoot_Black_Bull)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barefooters-unite/724176/44 "2015-10-08T21:11:02Z")

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> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> Well, I live in New England now, so if I didn’t wear shoes, my feet would fall off. :p:D
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> Weirdly, my feet are the same as my mom’s (who is not a barefoot fan) – narrow and long. Water skis!

Narrow and long feet huh? Mine are the exact opposite from being barefoot all the time for so long and lifting heavy weights bare foot! I have really wide, almost square bare feet, but also, very long and thick toes too that have spread out over time. Maybe that’s why everyone says my bare feet look like a big black gorillas feet! HA!

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