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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Who runs the heat that high? In this economy?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This is the internet, the tweet could be from Australia or half a year old, or 10½ years from all we know

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or from a dog, who would indeed look silly in pants

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog

[–] raynethackery 5 points 6 days ago

Maybe they are just naturally warm. When I was younger you could feel the heat pouring off of me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or live in an apartment and leech heat off of your neighbours

There have been at least a few times where I had to open a window up in the winter just because it was getting too warm just from it being an apartment lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I had a place like that. The landlord that owned the building was too tight to put up any kind of insulation so everyone on the ground floor had exorbitant heating bills, and I on the top floor had the windows open all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

10.5 hrs from all we know?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Heat? The AC is running where I'm at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The heat in my apartment runs via osmosis.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 6 days ago

Whys the heat gotta be high to have my pants off I got fuzzy blankets that feel good against my legs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

maybe it was summer, otherwise I don't know either

[–] idunnololz 3 points 6 days ago

I wear pajamas when im home and switch to "outside pants" if people come over

[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 6 days ago

This is why you keep pants by the door.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honey, you almost certainly don't look stupid in pants while at home, no matter what anybody or your brain tells you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I may not look stupid, but I feel stupid wearing clothes that are all tight and clothes-y instead of comfy stuff in my own home.

[–] kamen 6 points 6 days ago

My sincerest condolences.

[–] BanjoShepard 8 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I think I'm the odd man out here, I'm always fully dressed at home. My wife never understands why I wear shoes in her house, but my feet are cold and I'm not going to buy another pair of shoes (slippers) when I already have shoes that are perfectly warm and comfortable.

[–] hinterlufer 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

As a European, wearing outdoor shoes at home indoors feels gross and unhygienic.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I feel the same as an American but while less common than in Europe or Asia, I think there are many households in America that still habitually remove their shoes at the door.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

As an American: yes.

[–] zloubida 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In German, slipper is Hausschuhe, literally “home-shoes”. I have two pairs of shoes, one for the exterior of the house, and one (my slippers) for the interior of the house, because my exterior-shoes are dirty with exterior-things, when my home-shoes stay clean. Cleanliness is the only reason I have slippers.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I know what you mean, but English, “exterior of the house” usually refers to the outside walls of the house. So I am imagining you walking around on the exterior walls of your home with your special wall walking shoes like Pipi Longstocking.

[–] zloubida 6 points 6 days ago

Again, my bad English makes others laugh, and that makes me happy :-).

[–] jaybone 1 points 6 days ago

I don’t remember that Pipi Longstocking episode. Is that the one where she is possessed by the devil?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Sorry to tell you but your house floor is still dirty. With the flesh from your body, the debris from entropy dissolving your possessions, even with outside things like tyre dust and petrol fumes and pollen and evaporated dog piss. If your shoes are wiped to where they look clean, wearing them indoors isn't going to make much difference. And you should always assume every floor is dirty when you make a 5-second rule decision. Now excuse me, I gotta go swiff my floors.

[–] AA5B 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Both sides the same, huh? Stepping in dog shit or someone’s spit outside is the same as stepping in dust from your own body inside?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

If you step in dogshit and don't clean it off immediately you're an ass. If you spit on the ground you're also an ass.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

Oh and don't forget your shit particles expelled sideways with force because you closed the lid before flushing

[–] papalonian 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Now excuse me, I gotta go swiff my floors.

With one tongue-in-cheek sentence you unraveled your point lol. The difference between the ground outside and the floor inside is that I regularly clean the floor inside while outdoors remains outdoors. I don't think people are wearing slippers so their floors will be perfectly sanitary and able to be eaten off of, it's so that you're not bringing in piles of dirt and nastiness every time you come inside. It helps keep your floors clean for longer and makes cleaning them easier.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

My point is that there's a big difference between coming inside with visually-clean shoes and "bringing piles of dirt and nastiness." I observed during COVID "lockdown" when I and my husband didn't leave our apartment at all because of his vulnerability, and there was absolutely no difference in the amount of grime I swept off our floors from the previous weeks. Nor has it increased now that we exit and re-enter. Neither my shoes nor his wheelchair tires are tracking in any measurable amount of additional dirt. What did make a difference was the Palisades Fire. We were on the eastern edge of the Warning Zone, upwind, and evacuated as a precaution, leaving our door and windows shut and HVAC off. We returned to find a thick layer of ash on our balcony and a thin dusting of ash throughout the indoors. So I maintain the outside gets in regardless. If you don't choose to take off your shoes, wipe your feet.

[–] thesystemisdown 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My house shoes don't have whatever I walked through in the rest station bathroom on them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago

By the time I'm home the only thing left on my shoes is dust from the outside hallway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

and this is the reason why bird flu is gonna make you look ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Changing shoes is not going to protect you from bird flu. It's respiratory like regular flu and COVID and RSV, all of which are why I KN95 up when going indoors around people away from home.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

so do I, but trailing in bird shit certainly doesn't help

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

that are perfectly warm and comfortable.

and dirty??

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Bringing that public bathroom floor vibe to the living room. Noice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't underestimate the comfort of slippers

[–] abcdqfr 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Man's not stepping out of his crocs and socks

[–] spankmonkey 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Man needs house crocs then!

He can even keep the socks on when switching.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Do you live in separate houses?

[–] spankmonkey 5 points 6 days ago

A pair of house shoes is fantastic! My house shoes are light and slip on, with soft soles and easy to pop on and off for the couch, bed, etc. They are regular shoes too, not slippers.

[–] AA5B 2 points 6 days ago

When my feet are cold, I sometimes put on socks

[–] jqubed 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait, is this the creator and star of Abbott Elementary? I’ve seen this before but never noticed who the poster is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, the post probably predates the show though.