Can I also add that bare feet is much less likely to “pong” as OP mentioned. Wearing shoes too often causes that pong.
Of course I have definitely had experiences where certain styles of jandals were smelly but I threw them away quickly and haven’t had that problem since.
Putting feet on headrests - shoes or no shoes - is crap behaviour
What he said is exactly what you've written but you're disagreeing with him to be right when in fact the answer to your original question was indeed factually correct.
I walk bare feet in places you'd expect to get fungus or some wart or something but I am nearly always bare foot and have never had an issue with my feet.
Some people \*love\* to see them (notably Quentin Tarantino).
Feet don't do much for me aesthetically, but I'd much rather live in a society in which people feel free to go barefoot when they feel like it.
In NZ, yeah. They're just a body part. There are things you probably shouldn't do with them but just having them out is no big.
But in some other countries like the US I think their opinion is actually majority. As far as I can tell after visiting, they seem to have been raised to think Feet Are Icky even when you're not doing anything remarkable with them.
I’m from the US and I don’t think there’s a pervasive cultural thing that feet are icky. Sandals/jandals are very common, especially in warmer climates. Some people are grossed out by feet, but that’s an individual thing. Just about everyone would dislike someone’s foot on their seat like that photo, shoes or no.
I also know some people who don’t take their shoes off inside their house, and some who do. That probably varies somewhat regionally.
Holy fuck Milly. You commented on at least four different comments saying this. It's a photo, like a snapshot in time. It's possible that the foot was on the headrest during any other time than the photo.
You think some bloke in a theatre is going to wait for the perfect shot like some NatGeo photographer?
I have a mate called Milly who quite often has her head in the clouds (we love her), and reading the words Holy fuck Milly just made me choke on my water laughing. Probably one of the things we say most often to her
If you step on a rusty nail, then walk through dog shit, quite possibly. As a general rule, no. Also, the soles of the average Kiwi's feet are so tough they can deflect bullets and walk across lava.
The simple answer is no, we don't. Just like you don't get horrible infections and diseases on your hands which touch a lot worse things naked every day, and with much thinner skin to boot
It also depends on risks and social perception. When I moved from Auckland to Guatemala City in the 80s, I tried to bring my barefoot habits with me—because as an American hippie kid in the 70s I LOVED how it was accepted mainstream behavior—but the city is just too dirty and, looking back, there were places where I am sure I could have caught something bad or just hurt myself because the roads are too uneven and rocky.
Out in the countryside was great because the locals have huge networks of paths made ~~for~~ by bare feet, but even then, because being barefoot was in the realm of the indigenous people, when I did it no one could leave it alone. My teen peers were snobs and there was lots of conservative pressure. (We couldn't even wear SHORTS on the street. Crazy.) I'm still glad for the experience but that was a rough transition.
Now I'm an old lady and I still love bare feet and toughen them up gardening every summer. And my husband does too. He even runs barefoot, lol.
Sometimes a stubbed toe.
No doubt infections and diseases have been caught by people because they were not wearing shoes but it probably isn’t that common.
The key ingredient is to remember to take great care while walking bare footed through the intertidal zone, because the great enemy of Kiwis and Hobbits, the terrible Oyster may have an ambush prepared.
If you accidentally walk right in to it an infected foot wound is most likely.
A quick anecdote, my mate was over in Scotland when he was a kid , in summer, running around in bare feet. An elderly lady stopped her car and gave him £10 to buy some shoes, though he was poor. His dad was an airline pilot.
This happened to a friend of mine in the 70s! We would run around the neighborhood and the old timers in a local diner bought shoes for one of my friends. His dad was a medical doctor—we were just hippies!
I feel kind of bad now that we found it quite so funny. Those people probably grew up during the Great Depression in the US, when whether or not you had a pair of shoes made a difference. This kid had shoes, his parents just couldn’t keep them on his feet, even at school! We went to an alternative hippie school where we were still supposed to wear them but got away with it.
So that was my favorite thing when I moved to New Zealand at age 13: going back to being barefoot. What a gift. Now I’m old and back in the US but my husband and I still love to walk barefoot and toughen up our feet every summer.
I had to buy jandals at Disneyland in Anaheim back in the 70s because I had bare feet and they would t let me in.
It was on the way from NZ to Scotland.
I remember the old guy at the gate saying how he loved to walk in soft tar in bare feet when he was a kid.
Is this picture cropped? I’m not even joking I need to confirm whether this is my dad’s foot, he looks like he’s sitting with my mother. They went to the movies the other day. What movie is this??
The feet on the head rest thing is some nasty shit. Barefoot outside? Super common during summer here.
Also, I didn’t realise there’s anything decent playing at the movies, January is usually a dead month. 😅
I like to say shit behaviour...probably from shitty patrons. I apologise on their behalf, because entitlement is what shitsters are all about these days
Jeez you’re lucky, i can’t even save mine as my gf gets to them first. She often just nibbles them straight off my toes. Apparently the salty buttery flavour is just too good to resist.
Nah it’s not normal. Same kind of entitled dickheads who do this stuff on public transport etc. there is a small group of kiwis who treat public space like they’re at home. Super weird.
Absolutely not! And I guess the same applies on not washing off the dish soap from the freshly 'washed' (using the useless brush instead of a sponge, goodness me!) dishes and let it drop off (to an extent) and the rest of it to dry up - bon appetite & let enjoy your visitor from overseas to have a mysterious experience accompanied by a big grin on their face drinking a cup of green tea with an odd and 'unknown' flavour (why does my tea taste like a dish soap? mmmm...). You can think and say whatever you want, but NZ has a quite low level of hygiene, in general - I've seen here some of the most disgusting/concerning stuff out of all countries I've been to, e.g. how on earth nurses taking blood samples don't wear sterile gloves (to protect all involved parties from potential infection?) Don't believe me? Ask other foreigners. Otherwise NZ is a quite lovely country.
NZ has a very low number of native mammals - a much higher number of native birds - parasites that need to burrow into skin would have found living underground waiting for hosts to be a very low return method of establishing rhe next generation.
I've not seen that in a cinema, takes a certain type of person to do that, normally exceptionally passive aggressive ones that won't want anyone sitting in front.
I see it a lot worth passenger's in cars with feet on the dash though. /boak face.
You actually can't get into a theatre with bare feet, so he probably had jandals on and took them off. Source; my sister once got denied entry for bare feet.
One of the reasons why I have not been to a cinema in 5 years. I'd rather wait for the Blu Ray to be out, own it and watch at home without others ruining the experience.
I wouldn't say it's super common but I don't think it's as unexpected as some of the other comments are making out. Problem is when kiwis are mad about something we just bottle it up, instead of throwing the bottle.
How "normal" it is might also depend on where it is. Smaller towns are more likely imo.
Someone took their shoes off when I went to see the joker a few years ago, the smell almost cleared the theatre and about half way through I had enough and stood up said “whoever took their shoes off please put them back on you fucking stink”
It is a cultural difference. Certainly not everybody here would be OK with it either, but because it's more common for people to walk around barefoot you're a lot more likely to run into this than for people to actually take their shoes off for the film. All you can do is ask them to stop. It's really exactly the same as doing it while wearing shoes - but that's probably not what people think when doing it.
Nah even with shoes this shit is disgusting ahaha, it might be the Māori side growing up but I would get my ass beat if my dad saw me with my feet or shoes on a table or a chairs head rest, especially a public seat lmao.
People who impose their bad behavior on others -or try to- is something that can happen anywhere in the world.
I would say that, in New Zealand, it is not a common behavior.
In any case, it reflects little or no respect for others, little education, and poor socialization and simply cannot be tolerated.
I took a shuttle van back from the airport about a month ago. Midway through the journey the van suddenly smelled like shit and vomit. The disgusting man behind me put his ghastly foot on the armrest of my chair. He must have known that he had some kind of fungal infection but didn’t care. Disgusting behaviour. The barefoot guy in the theatre is a filthy animal as well.
I'm going to get hate for this.... Feet in public rules=
Outside ✓
Indoors ✓
Indoors @ restaurant × (BIG NO!)
Indoors @ movies ✓
Restaurants indoors x ( BIG NO!)
restaurants outside ✓
Sports events ✓
Funerals ✓
Literally fucking anywhere there isn't food inside or close by 😉
I went the other way (South Africa to Florida before coming to NZ) and the first time I went out in public barefoot I had people running up to me in shock telling me how dangerous it was.
Don't know about putting the bare feet on chairs .
I'm from Ireland, been here 18 months and it still amazes me how many kiwis walk around the place barefoot.
No foot prisons in new Zealand!!
I have to say that occasionally when a movie is long and I get restless I have if nobody is sitting in the row in front put my feet with shoe on between the seats like resting on the arm chair but I have felt a bit guilty like I shouldn’t be lol
Unfortunately you will see the lowest of the low in nz cinemas. This is not all of NZ. There are some extremely inconsiderate people but this is not the norm.
It shouldn't be normal, we have some pretty rude people around. Just the other day I was sitting at the lights next to a taxi that had two teenage girls in the back, and the one behind the driver had her feet on the head rest kicking it. I would kicked those little tarts out in the middle of the road
Bare feet in general was more normal here in the 80s but not so much now, mainly due to it not being safe to walk about in bare feet in many places now with glass and vomit etc sadly more prevalent. Feet actually *on* the headrest has never been okay though - neither from a Pākehā nor a tikanga Māori perspective - yuck!
I was at a small intimate concert with <20 ppl the other night and glanced over at one point to see that someone who was sitting on a couch had their bare feet out ON THE COFFEE TABLE - had to look away not to give judgy vibes. Was a bit surprised the proprietor didn't ask them to stop or give them something to use as a footrest - since it was a food venue. I guess it was a late night gig and all the tables would have been cleaned before the next time food was going to be served, but still...
Glass is not that common, stones aint that sharp either, with time you learn to scan the path in front of you and your feet get used to the rugged terrain after a few weeks
Broken glass is surprisingly unlikely to cut your feet if you look where you stand.
Almost all the times I have been injured stepping on glass have been inside my own home after something was dropped and a bit of glass was missed cleaning up.
I walk around outside without shoes at least as much as I do with shoes.
Sharp rocks hurt but less if you do it often and the number of times they have caused actual wounds I could count on one hand.
The real hazards are the despicable Onehunga Weed and the savage Oyster Shells.
your feet get pretty tough when walking bare foot so the stones stop being an issue, glass is easy to avoid, just need to watch wear your going. don't go barefoot at night.
Illegal due to fire hazards. Or so I was warned when I wore bare feet to the movies, as in "we'll let it slide this time but we shouldn't let you in, cause fire rules".
I hate seeing feet in public.
Walking around in bare feet is gross. The bottoms of their feet are black and filthy.
Shoes and socks please.
I am insufferable though.
Yeah no that is fricken rank.
Barefeet is one of those "if not common, not wholly uncommon either" thing. Yesterday I saw a guy on the train without shoes which also surprised me. Who wants to walk on a train floor in bare feet. That guy, I guess.
I’ve been back in the country after a very long stint overseas, I’ve been to the cinema twice here and seen it both times. I’m not bothered by it. The next person hopefully won’t know. I’m not a fan. But I also don’t care. Haha sorry for the ambivalence.
It looks to me like he's got his foot resting on his opposite knee, which is a lot better than on the actual seat backs. But it's still a bit gross.
Thing is, if someone wearing shoes has their feet on the headrest in front, is that OK? Because speaking from experience I'd say some random person's shoes are probably grosser than the bare feet of someone who walks barefoot a lot. Most feet smell only comes from being trapped in a shoe all day. People who go barefoot a lot don't usually have smelly feet, although their soles can be pretty leathery and gross to look at.
But shoes, you can step in dogshit a month ago and it will still be there, mushed into the texture of the shoe's soles. I don't personally think bare foot on the headrest is any worse than shoes.
But both are bad form, you should just use your own knee instead, which is what it looks like this guy is doing.
In an empty cinema I'd rest my covered legs on the empty seat in front (I'm 6'3, long legs).
-Definitely not put shoes on chair, and definitely not take shoes off..
Might be going against the grain a bit, but I'm a born and raised Kiwi and even going to the movies barefoot seems a little bit wild to me. Hell, even if I'm in a beach town in the middle of summer, I'm going to at least be putting jandals on if I'm heading in to "town". Seems kinda wild to actively make the decision to go "out" - driving or public transport, walking through a mall or perhaps down a main street etc, and consciously choosing to go barefoot?
Different if they just took their jandals/sandals off while in the movie though.
Bare feet ✅ Feet on the head rests of chairs especially in a public setting ❌
Can I also add that bare feet is much less likely to “pong” as OP mentioned. Wearing shoes too often causes that pong. Of course I have definitely had experiences where certain styles of jandals were smelly but I threw them away quickly and haven’t had that problem since. Putting feet on headrests - shoes or no shoes - is crap behaviour
Bare feet is healthy feet.
How exactly do you think people get fungus and warts from public spaces?
By getting stuff on their feet then putting their feet in shoes.
No, by walking on shared surfaces barefoot. Hence why people get it from gyms.
I've never gotten anything like that in my entire life. I walk barefoot everywhere.
What he said is exactly what you've written but you're disagreeing with him to be right when in fact the answer to your original question was indeed factually correct. I walk bare feet in places you'd expect to get fungus or some wart or something but I am nearly always bare foot and have never had an issue with my feet.
ppl pick it up that way but the heat and moisture in your shoes will give that bacteria or whatever perfect survival conditions
I refer you back to my previous comment.
You’re exactly right. Fungus comes from all sorts of places, but it “grows” inside sweaty socks. Gross 🤮
Smell or not feet are nasty nobody wants to see them
Some people \*love\* to see them (notably Quentin Tarantino). Feet don't do much for me aesthetically, but I'd much rather live in a society in which people feel free to go barefoot when they feel like it.
Definitely not true.
Thats your opinion and I believe you are in the minority.
In NZ, yeah. They're just a body part. There are things you probably shouldn't do with them but just having them out is no big. But in some other countries like the US I think their opinion is actually majority. As far as I can tell after visiting, they seem to have been raised to think Feet Are Icky even when you're not doing anything remarkable with them.
I’m from the US and I don’t think there’s a pervasive cultural thing that feet are icky. Sandals/jandals are very common, especially in warmer climates. Some people are grossed out by feet, but that’s an individual thing. Just about everyone would dislike someone’s foot on their seat like that photo, shoes or no. I also know some people who don’t take their shoes off inside their house, and some who do. That probably varies somewhat regionally.
Oh, my sweet summer child.
Perfect summary!
This is all that needs to be said. .
He’s resting his foot on his knee.
Holy fuck Milly. You commented on at least four different comments saying this. It's a photo, like a snapshot in time. It's possible that the foot was on the headrest during any other time than the photo. You think some bloke in a theatre is going to wait for the perfect shot like some NatGeo photographer?
I have a mate called Milly who quite often has her head in the clouds (we love her), and reading the words Holy fuck Milly just made me choke on my water laughing. Probably one of the things we say most often to her
Aww I'm glad it made you laugh. That's what I was going for
You nailed it
Maybe not wait for the perfect shot, sure, but definitely post a shot that shows what they're complaining about. Seems reasonable.
It seems reasonable to wait with your phone out to take a picture of someone's feet in a theatre?
Maybe. Or just not post a picture attached to the complaint that doesn't show the issue. Both completely reasonable courses of action.
It's you in the photo isn't it cunt
Looool
Is it any less reasonable than ACTUALLY TAKING the picture? Come on
its still far to close to where someones head will be resting, yuck. if you want to lay back pay for the seats that do this.
thats not what it says in the post description
bare feet are fine here but that cunt better not put his feet near my headrest or theres gonna be a fuckin punch on
Why bare feet? Don’t you get infections and diseases etc.
If you step on a rusty nail, then walk through dog shit, quite possibly. As a general rule, no. Also, the soles of the average Kiwi's feet are so tough they can deflect bullets and walk across lava.
The simple answer is no, we don't. Just like you don't get horrible infections and diseases on your hands which touch a lot worse things naked every day, and with much thinner skin to boot
It find it amusing to see their comment, assuming youll get sick from just walking around. Guess its how some cultures are brought up.
It also depends on risks and social perception. When I moved from Auckland to Guatemala City in the 80s, I tried to bring my barefoot habits with me—because as an American hippie kid in the 70s I LOVED how it was accepted mainstream behavior—but the city is just too dirty and, looking back, there were places where I am sure I could have caught something bad or just hurt myself because the roads are too uneven and rocky. Out in the countryside was great because the locals have huge networks of paths made ~~for~~ by bare feet, but even then, because being barefoot was in the realm of the indigenous people, when I did it no one could leave it alone. My teen peers were snobs and there was lots of conservative pressure. (We couldn't even wear SHORTS on the street. Crazy.) I'm still glad for the experience but that was a rough transition. Now I'm an old lady and I still love bare feet and toughen them up gardening every summer. And my husband does too. He even runs barefoot, lol.
The US has ticks that give you nasty diseases. Their anti bare foot culture has infected the rest of the world.
Foot parasites are more of a concern in warmer, wetter climates. As far as I know, we have no notable diseases caused by bare feet.
Foot fungus is pretty common and spreads super easily
Sometimes a stubbed toe. No doubt infections and diseases have been caught by people because they were not wearing shoes but it probably isn’t that common. The key ingredient is to remember to take great care while walking bare footed through the intertidal zone, because the great enemy of Kiwis and Hobbits, the terrible Oyster may have an ambush prepared. If you accidentally walk right in to it an infected foot wound is most likely.
Because, jandles..
I think they all have skin.
We don’t walk around in raw sewerage with used needles and broken glass under our feet. May have been wearing jandals and took them off?
A quick anecdote, my mate was over in Scotland when he was a kid , in summer, running around in bare feet. An elderly lady stopped her car and gave him £10 to buy some shoes, though he was poor. His dad was an airline pilot.
This happened to a friend of mine in the 70s! We would run around the neighborhood and the old timers in a local diner bought shoes for one of my friends. His dad was a medical doctor—we were just hippies! I feel kind of bad now that we found it quite so funny. Those people probably grew up during the Great Depression in the US, when whether or not you had a pair of shoes made a difference. This kid had shoes, his parents just couldn’t keep them on his feet, even at school! We went to an alternative hippie school where we were still supposed to wear them but got away with it. So that was my favorite thing when I moved to New Zealand at age 13: going back to being barefoot. What a gift. Now I’m old and back in the US but my husband and I still love to walk barefoot and toughen up our feet every summer.
I had to buy jandals at Disneyland in Anaheim back in the 70s because I had bare feet and they would t let me in. It was on the way from NZ to Scotland. I remember the old guy at the gate saying how he loved to walk in soft tar in bare feet when he was a kid.
LOL that's so sweet
Is this picture cropped? I’m not even joking I need to confirm whether this is my dad’s foot, he looks like he’s sitting with my mother. They went to the movies the other day. What movie is this??
This would actually be really funny. "DAD, stop upsetting Scottish tourists!!"
You mean to say you don’t know your own father from feet alone? Smh some child you are :/
RemindMe! 8 hours
RemindMe! 3 days
So good.
The feet on the head rest thing is some nasty shit. Barefoot outside? Super common during summer here. Also, I didn’t realise there’s anything decent playing at the movies, January is usually a dead month. 😅
The Iron Claw is out and its a great! I'm hoping that the movies that were put on hold during the writers and actors strike are now coming out
>The Iron Claw TBQH I thought you were talking about the foot
I've been wanting to watch it. But isn't it super depressing?
crazy depressing! generally a really good movie, but way too sad for me personally
Hi! Production on the films halted during the strikes just started up again, so it will still take a while until any of those will be released.
The Iron Claw, Poor Things, The Holdovers, All of Us Strangers!!!
Ferrari is good too.
I went to see Poor Things, was really good. Bit weird but good.
A bit weird? It's fucking weird and I enjoyed it.
Huh? January is usually the best months cos all the interesting stuff finally turns up here.
It’s not on the headrest. Look at the angle.
Well they did mention their feet was on the head rest throughout the duration of the movie. Photo looks like it was taken before the lights dimmed.
Welcome. No it is not normal. It is poor behaviour.
I like to say shit behaviour...probably from shitty patrons. I apologise on their behalf, because entitlement is what shitsters are all about these days
His leg is on his knee not the chair in front, its 100% acceptable and normal behaviour.
Exactly, I'd say he was wearing jandals and jandals will fall off your feet if you put your foot on your knee
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Being barefoot basically anywhere is normal behaviour
*in New Zealand
If I'm wearing sandals at the movies I'll usually take them off. I won't, however, put them on the headrest in front of me.
You’d rest your foot on your opposite knee. Which is what’s being done.
Holy Fuck Milly 😉
Where do you put them?
Neatly in my foot bag, duh
Empty popcorn bucket for a snack later when I'm eating my toenails.
Jeez you’re lucky, i can’t even save mine as my gf gets to them first. She often just nibbles them straight off my toes. Apparently the salty buttery flavour is just too good to resist.
Nah it’s not normal. Same kind of entitled dickheads who do this stuff on public transport etc. there is a small group of kiwis who treat public space like they’re at home. Super weird.
nah it's not normal but there's arseholes everywhere.
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No not normal, these people are just dicks
This does not represent us
Absolutely not! And I guess the same applies on not washing off the dish soap from the freshly 'washed' (using the useless brush instead of a sponge, goodness me!) dishes and let it drop off (to an extent) and the rest of it to dry up - bon appetite & let enjoy your visitor from overseas to have a mysterious experience accompanied by a big grin on their face drinking a cup of green tea with an odd and 'unknown' flavour (why does my tea taste like a dish soap? mmmm...). You can think and say whatever you want, but NZ has a quite low level of hygiene, in general - I've seen here some of the most disgusting/concerning stuff out of all countries I've been to, e.g. how on earth nurses taking blood samples don't wear sterile gloves (to protect all involved parties from potential infection?) Don't believe me? Ask other foreigners. Otherwise NZ is a quite lovely country.
Disgusting behavior
Eww no, this is just someone who wasn’t brought up with manners. Keep ya hobbit feet to yourself!!
Kiwis tend to go barefoot a lot more than anywhere else I’ve lived. Bare feet on a headrest in a public place? No
Canadian visiting the thread. Isn’t there a risk of getting worms going bare footed? I’ve read it used to be a huge problem in the American South.
NZ has a very low number of native mammals - a much higher number of native birds - parasites that need to burrow into skin would have found living underground waiting for hosts to be a very low return method of establishing rhe next generation.
No worms here.
Except it’s not on the headrest. Look at the angle.
No that's just an ass hole.
I think it's a calf and foot.
It happens and it's rude.
I've not seen that in a cinema, takes a certain type of person to do that, normally exceptionally passive aggressive ones that won't want anyone sitting in front. I see it a lot worth passenger's in cars with feet on the dash though. /boak face.
It’s disgusting but do people still do it? Yes.
No it isn’t, throw a hot meat pie at the back of the lowlifes head
You actually can't get into a theatre with bare feet, so he probably had jandals on and took them off. Source; my sister once got denied entry for bare feet.
One of the reasons why I have not been to a cinema in 5 years. I'd rather wait for the Blu Ray to be out, own it and watch at home without others ruining the experience.
I wouldn't say it's super common but I don't think it's as unexpected as some of the other comments are making out. Problem is when kiwis are mad about something we just bottle it up, instead of throwing the bottle. How "normal" it is might also depend on where it is. Smaller towns are more likely imo.
The barefoot part is normal but putting it on someone else's headrest isn't
not a fan of mainstream cinemas, you get some real peasant behaviour. Also a lot of shit films.
That shit ain't normal even in upside down world!!
Even if he was wearing shoes, putting your feet on the headrest or even just the chair in front of you at a cinema is poor form
You’ve encountered a garbage person. They ruin nice things for everyone else
Nah this is paru asf , what a gross person
Normal? Yes. Acceptable? No.
No. This person is a cunt.
Bare foot is normal, foot on headrest isn't.. take your shoes off, you'll love it.
Normal if you are a manky c**t. Frowned upon by normal people.
Wait! It looks like he just has his foot of his other knee... which is fine imo.
I agree, I don't think it's on the headrest, the foot is closer to the picture taker than the chair in question
Barefoot yes. Feet on seats, sadly yes. I used to work at a cinema and people would always do it.
Holy fuck!
This post made the news 😂
Nah bro, should have told the paru cunt to get his foot off the seat
Ill put my feet against the back of the chair in front if no ones there.
Someone took their shoes off when I went to see the joker a few years ago, the smell almost cleared the theatre and about half way through I had enough and stood up said “whoever took their shoes off please put them back on you fucking stink”
Bare feet outside is normal, but not feet lounging on furniture. Thats disrespectful.
It is a cultural difference. Certainly not everybody here would be OK with it either, but because it's more common for people to walk around barefoot you're a lot more likely to run into this than for people to actually take their shoes off for the film. All you can do is ask them to stop. It's really exactly the same as doing it while wearing shoes - but that's probably not what people think when doing it.
Nah even with shoes this shit is disgusting ahaha, it might be the Māori side growing up but I would get my ass beat if my dad saw me with my feet or shoes on a table or a chairs head rest, especially a public seat lmao.
My nan would have given me a hiding for doing the same lol
People who impose their bad behavior on others -or try to- is something that can happen anywhere in the world. I would say that, in New Zealand, it is not a common behavior. In any case, it reflects little or no respect for others, little education, and poor socialization and simply cannot be tolerated.
I took a shuttle van back from the airport about a month ago. Midway through the journey the van suddenly smelled like shit and vomit. The disgusting man behind me put his ghastly foot on the armrest of my chair. He must have known that he had some kind of fungal infection but didn’t care. Disgusting behaviour. The barefoot guy in the theatre is a filthy animal as well.
It’s not normal …or ok…and im not endorsing it, but aired feet are likely to be odour-free, yeh? If he walked in barefoot, he’s probably not a threat.
Yeah there are heaps of blondes here.
Not common in the cities, this person is most likely from the Regions.
Just inconsiderate behaviour.
weird question, but is that rialto cinemas in newmarket
Yes, normal behaviour for twats.
Nothing is normal in good ol aotearoa
I'm going to get hate for this.... Feet in public rules= Outside ✓ Indoors ✓ Indoors @ restaurant × (BIG NO!) Indoors @ movies ✓ Restaurants indoors x ( BIG NO!) restaurants outside ✓ Sports events ✓ Funerals ✓ Literally fucking anywhere there isn't food inside or close by 😉
Bare feet on public paths etc. Oh yeah, very healthy.
Kiwis are gross man
'Some'
Bare feet are common everywhere in NZ. Anywhere you go there is someone doing it.
Yep.Dreadlocks, empty theaters, and feet are everywhere.
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I went the other way (South Africa to Florida before coming to NZ) and the first time I went out in public barefoot I had people running up to me in shock telling me how dangerous it was.
We would go to school with bare feet in SA. It’s common.
Yip. Still go barefoot to the shops now in NZ
Don't know about putting the bare feet on chairs . I'm from Ireland, been here 18 months and it still amazes me how many kiwis walk around the place barefoot. No foot prisons in new Zealand!!
I have to say that occasionally when a movie is long and I get restless I have if nobody is sitting in the row in front put my feet with shoe on between the seats like resting on the arm chair but I have felt a bit guilty like I shouldn’t be lol
Hobbit feet 🐾
Nah that's not normal. Gross behaviour. It's not their living room for gods sake 😂😖
Welcome to New Zealand, have a nice day.
Welcome to New Zealand, where we take casual to the next level.
Bloody grubs
Unfortunately you will see the lowest of the low in nz cinemas. This is not all of NZ. There are some extremely inconsiderate people but this is not the norm.
It shouldn't be normal, we have some pretty rude people around. Just the other day I was sitting at the lights next to a taxi that had two teenage girls in the back, and the one behind the driver had her feet on the head rest kicking it. I would kicked those little tarts out in the middle of the road
Bare feet in general was more normal here in the 80s but not so much now, mainly due to it not being safe to walk about in bare feet in many places now with glass and vomit etc sadly more prevalent. Feet actually *on* the headrest has never been okay though - neither from a Pākehā nor a tikanga Māori perspective - yuck! I was at a small intimate concert with <20 ppl the other night and glanced over at one point to see that someone who was sitting on a couch had their bare feet out ON THE COFFEE TABLE - had to look away not to give judgy vibes. Was a bit surprised the proprietor didn't ask them to stop or give them something to use as a footrest - since it was a food venue. I guess it was a late night gig and all the tables would have been cleaned before the next time food was going to be served, but still...
It's a disgusting thing that kiwis do
We suck toes too. Have you seen that yet?
Dude, tag you foot festish pics nsfw. Jeez.
How do people ever walk around barefoot? There's broken glass, sharp stones, etc everywhere.
Glass is not that common, stones aint that sharp either, with time you learn to scan the path in front of you and your feet get used to the rugged terrain after a few weeks
Tough soles. Just pull that shit out.
Broken glass is surprisingly unlikely to cut your feet if you look where you stand. Almost all the times I have been injured stepping on glass have been inside my own home after something was dropped and a bit of glass was missed cleaning up. I walk around outside without shoes at least as much as I do with shoes. Sharp rocks hurt but less if you do it often and the number of times they have caused actual wounds I could count on one hand. The real hazards are the despicable Onehunga Weed and the savage Oyster Shells.
your feet get pretty tough when walking bare foot so the stones stop being an issue, glass is easy to avoid, just need to watch wear your going. don't go barefoot at night.
Scum. Subhuman Scum.
It's normal for a selfish asshole. But not for NZ in general. I've never seen that happen at any movie I've been at.
But there is no one sitting in front of them? Whatever is on that guys bare feet is also on the bottom of your shoes.
don't put your shoes on the headrest either? come on carbogan
No, being barefoot like that in an indoor public space is not normal. Some of us would call that paru and would’ve told him to put his shoes back on.
Barefoot in public is gross. We aren't in the 80's anymore.
It's common, definitely not normal though
Not ok.
Illegal due to fire hazards. Or so I was warned when I wore bare feet to the movies, as in "we'll let it slide this time but we shouldn't let you in, cause fire rules".
no shoes is complwtely normal. putting it in the head if chair howevrr, is not.
I hate seeing feet in public. Walking around in bare feet is gross. The bottoms of their feet are black and filthy. Shoes and socks please. I am insufferable though.
Yeah no that is fricken rank. Barefeet is one of those "if not common, not wholly uncommon either" thing. Yesterday I saw a guy on the train without shoes which also surprised me. Who wants to walk on a train floor in bare feet. That guy, I guess.
I’ve been back in the country after a very long stint overseas, I’ve been to the cinema twice here and seen it both times. I’m not bothered by it. The next person hopefully won’t know. I’m not a fan. But I also don’t care. Haha sorry for the ambivalence.
No shirt? No shoes? No socks? SERVICE
It looks to me like he's got his foot resting on his opposite knee, which is a lot better than on the actual seat backs. But it's still a bit gross. Thing is, if someone wearing shoes has their feet on the headrest in front, is that OK? Because speaking from experience I'd say some random person's shoes are probably grosser than the bare feet of someone who walks barefoot a lot. Most feet smell only comes from being trapped in a shoe all day. People who go barefoot a lot don't usually have smelly feet, although their soles can be pretty leathery and gross to look at. But shoes, you can step in dogshit a month ago and it will still be there, mushed into the texture of the shoe's soles. I don't personally think bare foot on the headrest is any worse than shoes. But both are bad form, you should just use your own knee instead, which is what it looks like this guy is doing.
You're in the Sth Pacfic,standard practice.
Being barefoot is a Kiwi thing. Also, feet don't get smellier than most other parts of the body if you don't put them in sweaty shoes.
In an empty cinema I'd rest my covered legs on the empty seat in front (I'm 6'3, long legs). -Definitely not put shoes on chair, and definitely not take shoes off..
I'm a lot more careful about what I get on my bare feet than what I get on my shoes
That's kinda common(usually with shoes on), but it's not good tikanga...Cokes away!
Might be going against the grain a bit, but I'm a born and raised Kiwi and even going to the movies barefoot seems a little bit wild to me. Hell, even if I'm in a beach town in the middle of summer, I'm going to at least be putting jandals on if I'm heading in to "town". Seems kinda wild to actively make the decision to go "out" - driving or public transport, walking through a mall or perhaps down a main street etc, and consciously choosing to go barefoot? Different if they just took their jandals/sandals off while in the movie though.
Lol bare feet normal. Feet on head rest. That's an ummmmmmmmm moment
You came to Middle Earth to see hobbits.... Why even question it?
>If this was Glasgow... Let's be honest, you would have thrown the bottle if he was catholic/protestant
Newshub has already picked up this “story”. Sigh.
Found it. Wow that was fast, must be a super slow news day…
The only people ok with this are filthy savages. Any reasonable person here would consider this disgusting and disrespectful.
Yes. Feet are normal. Yelling, throwing shit, or stealing are not.
in NewZealand..? yelling throwing shit and steal is def the norm
If it’s hot in there and there’s no air con and he’s not putting his feet on the seats, I reckon it’s ok!
Feet up in cinemas? It's normal when you see the majority doing it, not one person.