Bush gets the shoe!

floydpink · 12-15-2008, 05:54 PM

I read that in Arabic culture, showing the bottom of your shoe to another man is an insult. Throwing a shoe is a huge insult.

Now beating your wife for not being obedient enough is perfectly acceptable.

replicant_argent · 12-16-2008, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by floydpink

I read that in Arabic culture, showing the bottom of your shoe to another man is an insult. Throwing a shoe is a huge insult.

Now beating your wife for not being obedient enough is perfectly acceptable.

Well, I suppose if you were walking around in a place where there might be dog piles, refuse, rotting offal piles, and who knows what, you might have something offensive on the bottom of your shoe and yeah, showing it to someone might have a reaction. Personally, I don't want to visit or live in places with garbage, dog crap, or other vile stuff so common you might step in it. I really can't think of anything else that might form some rational basis for the whole "bottom of the shoe insult" thing. I find it amusing though.

As far as throwing your shoe as a common insult, or to be so common as to have some relevance or tradition?

That's just plain funny.

Scene: Two guys facing off......

Guy 1: shows the bottom of his shoe to guy two.

Guy 2: gets his panties in a bunch

Guy 1: sneers and shows the other shoe sole to Guy 2.

Guy 2: starts shaking uncontrollably, pops a vein in his forehead, bugs eyes. Takes off shoe and throws it at Guy 1.

Guy 1: dodges Shoe 1 from Guy 2.

Guy 2: Gets redder in the face. Removes Shoe 2, and missiles it at Guy 1.

Guy 1: smiles, because that is what he has been waiting for. Chases down Moron Boy 2 in bare feet and beats the ever loving stuffing out of him, catching him easily because he was dumb enough to throw both shoes at Guy 1, and can't run through garbage strewn street without puncturing his tender extremities on sharp detritus.

muziq · 12-16-2008, 09:57 AM

This is mostly what I've heard about the insult-factor associated with shoes, soles in Islam: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-the-shoe.html

"The shoe is such an offensive symbol that it is seen as culturally rude to cross an ankle over a knee and display the sole of the shoe while talking to another person.

"The shoe is also considered unclean in the Muslim faith and believers must remove them before prayers.

"Wearing shoes in mosques is forbidden.

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