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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Shoes on at home or shoes off?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:11:48 -0400
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On 4/30/2025 1:52 PM, JAB wrote:
> Shoes on at home or shoes off? If you care about your health, it's a
> no-brainer
> 
> One study reported that 96% of shoes carry coliform bacteria, commonly
> found in faecal matter. So why is it so uncool to ask visitors to take
> them off?
> 
> It is a truth almost universally unacknowledged in the UK that wearing
> shoes in the home is gross. More than gross, actually - there's
> scientific evidence it could have serious health consequences and
> even, if you want to come over all dramatic about it, be
> life-threatening. And yet I can count on the fingers of no hands the
> people I know who ask me to remove my shoes when I visit.
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/shoes-on-at-home-or-shoes-off-if-you-care-about-your-health-its-a-no-brainer

I would never let anyone enter my home wearing shoes. If anyone is 
offended, too bad.


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ADH
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