What is the deal with people...

April O Neill · 02-09-2013 05:03PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

What IS considered rude is to ask people to remove them

I'm Irish and don't find it rude. Don't speak for everyone.

Irish Guitarist · 02-09-2013 05:05PM

No

The only person who ever asked me to take my shoes off in their house was my friends mother when I was a child. She was English.

I hated the idea of walking around in my bare feet where other peoples sweaty bare feet had been.

Honey-ec · 02-09-2013 05:06PM

No

My feet'd be freezing if I just wore socks around the house. And I don't like wearing slippers while otherwise fully dressed, it just seems, I dunno, slovenly or something.

NegativeCreep · 02-09-2013 05:07PM

No

Malari wrote: »

Yes, yes they do!

I've lived in countries where you take your shoes off by the door. Sometimes it's annoying, especially if it's a party where a dress looks kinda frumpy unless you have heels on :pac: It's just a custom.

We don't wear shoes in the house at home, take them off by the door, but i wouldn't take ask a guest to take their shoes off. We do have a Scandinavian friend who always will though.

Well I don't have to worry about dresses but I think everyone looks ridiculous without shoes on, especially at a party!

April O Neill · 02-09-2013 05:07PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Also, carpet? Do people still have carpets in the 21st century?

Carpet went out for a while, but is back with a bang. It's actually better when it comes to things like asthma to have carpet rather than wooden floors. Holds the dust better, wooden floors throw it up into the air when walked across.

5starpool · 02-09-2013 05:10PM

If you think Irish people are rude for not taking off their shoes when they enter other people's houses, move to a country where people do that as a norm, which they clearly don't here. Otherwise stop whining.

NegativeCreep · 02-09-2013 05:10PM

No

April O Neill wrote: »

Carpet went out for a while, but is back with a bang. It's actually better when it comes to things like asthma to have carpet rather than wooden floors. Holds the dust better, wooden floors throw it up into the air when walked across.

Every time I imagine carpet I imagine my aunts horrifically patterned 1970's carpet :pac: Never in my life would I lay a carpet in my house :L

Roger_007 · 02-09-2013 05:12PM

BeerWolf wrote: »

in Ireland that so often walk into your house with their fecking shoes on?

TAKE IT OFF!!!

How'd you like it if I walk on your carpets with dirt and mud right off the road?? :mad:

Really fecking annoying, inconsiderate pricks.

Who the would want to visit a house where the owner adopts that tone and language. So it shouldn't be a problem. You won't have too many visitors anyway.

Honey-ec · 02-09-2013 05:13PM

No

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Every time I imagine carpet I imagine my aunts horrifically patterned 1970's carpet :pac: Never in my life would I lay a carpet in my house :L

I prefer carpet, tbh. Went out with a guy whose entire house was wood-floored and they were like Guinnesses horses walking around upstairs.

seb65 · 02-09-2013 05:14PM

It's not just Asia where it's customary to take your shoes off in the house.

In North America, if you didn't take your shoes off, your host/hostess would wonder if you were some hillbilly raised in a barn.

I don't understand why people in Ireland would even bother spending money on good floors/carpets when they just get ruined by wearing shoes in the house.

Also, the amount of bacteria that are brought in, and then babies are let to crawl all over the floor.

Than again, it's only recently the country's come around to not letting dogs s**t all over the place. Though, judging from the state of the sidewalks, there's a lot of people who still don't see anything wrong with it.

smellmepower · 02-09-2013 05:22PM

No

We don't have sidewalks here,we have the path!

shopaholic01 · 02-09-2013 05:25PM

Maybe it's my OCD, but a collection of shoes on the floor inside the front door would drive me insane. The idea of people with sweaty feet (common and not due to poor hygiene) walking around on my floors is equally upsetting.

I was asked once to remove shoes and given a pair of slippers to wear. I didn't know who had worn them before me, or what skin diseases they had - it was stomach churning.

Mar Mar Marmalade · 02-09-2013 05:32PM

Surprised "Yes" won by a good amount, if even.

I personally hate wearing shoes inside my house. Just wearing socks is much more comfy! :P

shopaholic01 · 02-09-2013 05:34PM

Mar Mar Marmalade wrote: »

Surprised "Yes" won by a good amount, if even.

I personally hate wearing shoes inside my house. Just wearing socks is much more comfy! :P

Do you remove your shoes at the door in other people's houses? I wear socks in my own house, but keep my shoes on in other people's homes.

musicfan1ie · 02-09-2013 05:35PM

No

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Maybe it's my OCD, but a collection of shoes on the floor inside the front door would drive me insane. The idea of people with sweaty feet (common and not due to poor hygiene) walking around on my floors is equally upsetting.

I was asked once to remove shoes and given a pair of slippers to wear. I didn't know who had worn them before me, or what skin diseases they had - it was stomach churning.

Yeah, I find that gross too. When I was younger, I had really bad eczema on my feet and was basically told that friends should not use nmy football socks when playing football as it was so bad.

I wouldn't a younger version of me wandering around my apartment in bare feet or those feet on any slippers!!!

rubadub · 02-09-2013 05:35PM

No

BeerWolf wrote: »

in Ireland that so often walk into your house with their fecking shoes on?

Yep, "only in Ireland", weird it never caught on here, in any UK, Australian or US films or tv programs every single character ALWAYS take them off -what is so weird and special about Ireland? the mind boggles.

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I'd feel really embarrassed if someone asked me to take my shoes off in their home.

Or if people even offer to take them off it can be awkward. I had furniture delivery lads in my house who automatically started taking them off the moment they came in. I told them to keep them on, for reasons others mentioned here and for their own safety -I would never do heavy lifting of furniture barefoot. In around the house my shoes have protected me many many times.

Lux23 · 02-09-2013 05:36PM

No

I don't have a no shoes policy in my house, but if someone asks I will take them off. But it's really not the done thing in Ireland.

Mar Mar Marmalade · 02-09-2013 05:44PM

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Do you remove your shoes at the door in other people's houses? I wear socks in my own house, but keep my shoes on in other people's homes.

Hmm, kind of a yes and no for me. It's weird, I think it also has to do with the setting in someone's house. I'd take off my shoes in a heart beat in another house if they had carpet but if it was just wooden floor, I'd probably be more comfortable in my shoes! Yet that doesn't really apply to me in my own home.

Or maybe I'm just completely mad!

Miss Lockhart · 02-09-2013 05:57PM

No

I am happy to respect people's polite requests to remove shoes in their home. I only wish they were respectful enough to have clean floors when making such requests - unfortunately my experience has been filthy soles on my socks in all homes where such requests were made.

Customs differ from country to country and from family to family. What's rude in one place is complementary in another. I have no issues with people politely asking others to respect their customs in their home, but I find it rude and presumptious to simply expect others to offer to follow a custom which is far from the norm in this country.

02-09-2013 06:01PM

I think it makes sense to take them off.. Might make people wear cleaner socks. I have one friend here to doesn't have a no shoes policy and it feels weird now in his house wearing footwear.

Miss Lockhart · 02-09-2013 06:04PM

No

seb65 wrote: »

In North America, if you didn't take your shoes off, your host/hostess would wonder if you were some hillbilly raised in a barn.

Having lived in the US and Canada, this is just not true. Perhaps it varies from region to region but where I was homes where shoes were removed stood out as unusal - just as they do in Ireland. It's by no means universal. There's even a Sex and the City episode about how weird it is when Carrie is asked to remove her shoes at a party.

shopaholic01 · 02-09-2013 06:07PM

seb65 wrote: »

Also, the amount of bacteria that are brought in, and then babies are let to crawl all over the floor.

Than again, it's only recently the country's come around to not letting dogs s**t all over the place. Though, judging from the state of the sidewalks, there's a lot of people who still don't see anything wrong with it.

Babies do not need a sterile environment, exposure to bacteria will help build their immune system.

Most people do pick up dog poo off footpaths too.

Teyla Emmagan · 02-09-2013 06:09PM

I absolutely hate being asked to take my shoes off in someone's house.

Aidric · 02-09-2013 06:11PM

Lux23 wrote: »

But it's really not the done thing in Ireland.

Sure it isn't but some of the responses on here have been predictably laughable. Posters stating that they would be offended if they were asked to remove their shoes in a house where they are a guest. The mind boggles.

Miss Lockhart · 02-09-2013 06:13PM

No

Aidric wrote: »

Sure it isn't but some of the responses on here have been predictably laughable. Posters stating that they would be offended if they were asked to remove their shoes in a house where they are a guest. The mind boggles.

Just as the mind boggles at those offended by those who don't offer to remove shoes. Predictably laughable dramatics.

splashthecash · 02-09-2013 06:14PM

No

BeerWolf wrote: »

in Ireland that so often walk into your house with their fecking shoes on?

TAKE IT OFF!!!

How'd you like it if I walk on your carpets with dirt and mud right off the road?? :mad:

Really fecking annoying, inconsiderate pricks.

Would you then you ask them to put disposable covers on their feet (which you should really have in a dipenser at the front door) so that their disgusting sweaty socks/feet dont touch your pristine and germ-free floors?

Skid X · 02-09-2013 06:16PM

No

BeerWolf wrote: »

in Ireland that so often walk into your house with their fecking shoes on?

TAKE IT OFF!!!

How'd you like it if I walk on your carpets with dirt and mud right off the road?? :mad:

Really fecking annoying, inconsiderate pricks.

Taking off your shoes when you enter someone else's house isn't the done thing in Ireland.

Ask people politely and I'm sure they will oblige you. Wouldn't that be better than going off on a rant calling your visitors "Really fecking annoying, inconsiderate pricks"? :rolleyes:

eyeball kid · 02-09-2013 06:26PM

No

Generally always wear my shoes. Have never been asked to remove them going into someone else's place but I suppose I would if asked.

Would find it really weird if people coming into my place just started taking their shoes off without being asked. It would be like there were moving in or something.

Princess Peach · 02-09-2013 06:34PM

I only spent a year in a country where you always take your shoes off inside, but I can never go back to shoes in the house.

I give guests the option of taking their shoes off when they come to my house, about half refuse, makes me cringe to see them walk on my freshly swept floor!

And I always ask when I go into someone else's house, and they always so leave your shoes on, and I cringe waking on their floors!

I can't take it! It's ingrained in me now!

_Kaiser_ · 02-09-2013 06:36PM

No

I'm shoeless right now!

(and lazing on the couch considering dinner options)

Good times!

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