Just when you thought you had seen it all in the Qantas lounge...

[RichardMEL]

Ok, has to be asked....

I always go barefoot on planes.

Including the lav?

 

[QF029]

And why not? I am barefoot right now at home. I go barefoot in my friends’ houses. I go barefoot in mosques and temples. I always go barefoot on planes.

I don’t remember whether I have been barefoot in airline lounges but I know that after a day of travelling I like to kick off my shoes and feel carpet under my toes.

Because it's gross in what is effectively a restaurant. People have sex at home. Should they do that too on the couch of an airport lounge?

 

[Mr H]

Because it's gross in what is effectively a restaurant. People have sex at home. Should they do that too on the couch of an airport lounge?

Is it gross too in mosques?

 

[QF029]

Is it gross too in mosques?

Is it in the dining section? If so, yes.

 

[Mr H]

Is it in the dining section? If so, yes.

Yes, every section. Not to do this would be so rude. There is the same train in Sikh temples including the dining rooms and Buddhist temples. You are just being ethnocentrist in your squeamishness.

 

[KSC]

Because it's gross in what is effectively a restaurant. People have sex at home. Should they do that too on the couch of an airport lounge?

OnlyFans at the Qantas lounge. Barefoot meets bareback at the Spice Bar.

 

[RichardMEL]

Yes, every section. Not to do this would be so rude. There is the same train in Sikh temples including the dining rooms and Buddhist temples. You are just being ethnocentrist in your squeamishness.

Seems to me that mosques, temples and so on is a case of following local or religious custom and that is being aware and respectful - like removing shoes in Japan and other places where it is custom and/or requested(such as private homes).

A bit different to an airport lounge in a Western country.

Personally, if someone wants to walk barefoot in an essentially public place that's up to them. I would draw the line at feet (covered or not) on furniture, tables, common touch locations for others, etc - however that is a behaviour thing imo - and a very different thing.

 

[KSC]

Yes, every section. Not to do this would be so rude. There is the same train in Sikh temples including the dining rooms and Buddhist temples. You are just being ethnocentrist in your squeamishness.

If you can understand the rules and context of a mosque, why can’t you do the same at an airport lounge.
You are sounding hypocritical to support your barefoot preference, whilst calling out people that oppose bare feet at the lounge.

 

[Mr H]

If you can understand the rules and context of a mosque, why can’t you do the same at an airport lounge.
You are sounding hypocritical to support your barefoot preference, whilst calling out people that oppose bare feet at the lounge.

I’m not being hypocritical. I’m just pointing out that your feeling that it’s gross to go shoeless - which you held out to be a universal truth - is in fact just your own personal foible.

 

[KSC]

I’m not being hypocritical. I’m just pointing out that your feeling that it’s gross to go shoeless - which you held out to be a universal truth - is in fact just your own personal foible.

I can admit it’s unsavoury and so can most restaurants and lounges policies in Australia.

I never said it was a universal truth or implied that.

We get it you like barefoot freedom and that is ok, it’s just not going to be supported at most establishments.

 

[kyle]

Because it's gross in what is effectively a restaurant. People have sex at home. Should they do that too on the couch of an airport lounge?

Still don't understand why people take so much exception when dining. It's like something they were brought up with. I like to talk about piss and poo over dinner too, a natural human thing, but people for some reason feel nauseous.

 

[JohnK]

Walking barefooted in an aircraft cabin is asking for trouble especially in the toilets.

Walking barefoot around in a lounge not only looks bad but it'd be a health and safety issue?

My wife forces me to walk around barefoot in our home in Thailand because it's Thai culture but it's also a farang's home and my preference is not to take shoes off just because I'm at home.

 

[downgraded]

You can't go in a pub without footwear for that very reason, you'd be asked to leave.

Unless you're deemed to be wearing "work boots" at the wrong time then you can't get in even though they obviously meet any safety requirement.

 

[downgraded]

Walking barefooted in an aircraft cabin is asking for trouble especially in the toilets.

Walking barefoot around in a lounge not only looks bad but it'd be a health and safety issue?I

If people feel the need to do it, it is really their choice, but why would you want to expose your bare feet to all the piss, poo, and everything else that is being spread around on the floor, tables, aircraft walls etc. I'd be objecting to those individuals setting foot in my house. Just like mask wearing, "western" culture could learn alot about hygiene from other cultures that do things differently.

 

[drron]

Funny timing but today there is an article on news.com about what cruise crews think of people who walk around a cruise ship in bare feet.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/cruise-worker-exposes-disgusting-act-passengers-do-onboard/news-story/a865efc1af7beceb7ee3b4d478232388

 

[Mr H]

Funny timing but today there is an article on news.com about what cruise crews think of people who walk around a cruise ship in bare feet.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/cruise-worker-exposes-disgusting-act-passengers-do-onboard/news-story/a865efc1af7beceb7ee3b4d478232388

Remind me why I would care what a 19 year old cruise ship employee thinks about what people wear.

 

[RooFlyer]

Funny timing but today there is an article on news.com about what cruise crews think of people who walk around a cruise ship in bare feet.

Surprised me a bit. Sure, in public seating areas like the restaurants and theatre feet should be shod, but I would have thought walking barefoot from your rom to, say the pool deck & around the sun-exposed decks would be pretty normal.

 

[drron]

Remind me why I would care what a 19 year old cruise ship employee thinks about what people wear.

I knew it wouldn't as you have made it quite plain that you don't care about what other people think. And she did say most of the crew felt the same way.

 

[UP4014]

Is it gross too in mosques?

Is it gross to wear shoes, horses for courses, no shoes for some beliefs is ok and must wear shoes in others is also ok. If you can follow the rules in a religious setting then you can follow the rules in another setting.

 

[JackMiles]

after a day of travelling I like to kick off my shoes and feel carpet under my toes.

...walk around on the rug barefoot and make fists with your toes...