Shoes on or off in your house?

[speed_queen75]

Ok Y'all

maybe i was a little over sensitive on that, but all in all i don't want people to think i am not hospitable, in ANY way.
Growing up in a European Cultured family, (Mother from Italy), there certain things that simply "you don't do in the house", All my friends know how i am about shoes and smoking in the house, and they respect that. That is one of the reasons i don't let Nathan do the laundry, run the vacuum, do the dishes, or cook for that matter, I will however let him grill out, but as far as the house work goes, i am solely in charge in that department. He has his tasks, he knows how picky i am about washing my hands, after i go to the bathroom, before i cook, i even wash my hands after i vacuum, my mother is the same way, you could literally eat off her floors, she is so clean. Well i am sorry if i sounded bitchy, and offended, and panthera your right not everyone is Well Hung, well Nathan does fall in the Well Hung category. .

 

[panthera]

I'm

Half Italian, Half German and Half Scot with 1/4 Irish.
The Italian half of the family did things like washing - not just sweeping - the sidewalk in front of the house...every day.
I get you Lee, I get you.
What Windex may be to the Greeks, Lysol, Chlorine Bleach and strong strong hand soap are to the Italians.
Oh, my yes - we didn't just change our shirts for dinner at grammama's house...we bathed.

 

[iheartmaytag]

Half Italian, Half German and Half Scot with 1/4 Irish.

Does this make you a 1 3/4 man? ;-)

I get the neat freak syndrome from my mother. She used to hand polish her hardwood floors with paste wax weekly.

As I have said before, cholorine is my friend. I bleach the hell out of everything.
Now I know why my daughter hates bath time. Let's not even talk about the white dog (she used to be brown).

 

[charbee]

I don't demand anything of people when they come over. Most of the time, "conditions" placed upon guests just make for uncomfortable guests. Guests who can't really relax and be themselves. When I was a kid, my mom took me to this lady's house for the afternoon, she had been invited for coffee. The woman had plastic coverings on all her furniture. She had plastic runner-mats in the specific places that she "allowed" people to walk. Certain rooms were completely off-limits. She watched everyone like a hawk. I was so uncomfortable I just sat cross-legged (and yes, shoeless) on one of her plastic mats and didn't move the whole time we were there, and I was NEVER so glad to get out of a place in my life. I was afraid to move, afraid I'd commit some sort of horrible "sin" just by breathing in that space. The overall message that sort of "enviroment" gave off was "It's NOT ok for you to be you in MY space." Yuck. Too much "control" for me.

And I won't go into a restaurant that requires a coat and tie. To heck with that...no food is worth that kind of misery!

 

[panthera]

Actually, iheartmaytag,

some days I am not really quite sure I'm even human.
My father was adopted in the 1930's from Germany by an Italian couple. So there you have, already, a dad who is 100% German and 100% Italian.
It is pretty certain his parents were Jewish, he is circumcised and that was limited to Jews in those days here. The catholic church smuggled many, many babies of Jewish and socialist parents out of the country in those days - something to remember the next time one hears that all Germans are Nazis. Of course, some primitive spiteful people are to be found in any group, so I guess you just have to take the good apples with the bad.
My mom's dad's family is from one of the colder outer Hebrides (means it rains, snows, snows and rains as the four seasons as opposed to the warmer islands where it rains rains snows and rains) and they are all cousins, all bouncing back and forth between Scotland and the US for hundreds of years. I understand completely.) Her mother is half Irish and half Bavarian.
Bavarians have German passports, but they are easy to tell apart from Germans. Germans live to work. Bavarians work to live...and yes, we take breaks from work often. Tomorrow, for instance is the first of May and a major holiday.
My union has free beer and Würstchen on tap to lure us all down for a rousing lecture on something or other.
If the weather is nice, I'll go let meself be lectured for a while.
The funny thing is, despite being gay, Italian and German, I have absolutely no passion for cleaning my house within an inch of its life. That sequence of the gay gene must have run into the Italian cleanliness is next to godliness gene during meiosis...and then took it out back of the bar for a brawl with the German neatnik. By the time they settled it, the Irish had won and anyone who has ever seen a Scottish croft knows that there is a big difference between tidy and operating theatre which is how most German and all Italian gays keep their places.
Which brings us to a new question:
Out of the bottle or milk carton or only from a proper glass?
Hands on your heart now ladies.
Me? Hell, I rip the cap off with me teeth and pour it down me gullet. But I extend my little pinkie when I do it, refined as I am. Same with the milk -

 

[mickeyd]

So the bully's at it again

Boy I sure put a bug up your ass. How do you like it. You insult so many members constantly, our religion, our country, our schools; but you can't take a well-deserved and so much needed slap. Ya big baby! Grow up. How powerful must I be, Adolph, that you can't get it out of your craw, that finally someone stood up to the jaw-breaking, throat slashing, murder-surrounded bully, and he's whining like a little baby over and over, even lying. I never said all Germans are Nazis. You're a fool. My former "husssssband" as you like to call him is 3/4 GERMAN!!!!!!

All Germans are not Nazis. That's like saying all American's are Klan, not true, nor is it true that Nazis are typical of Germany any more than Klansmen are typical of America'. And only a fool would get that wrong or suggest it. I use Nazi the way you use Christianist. You use christianst regularly, and no matter how you rhetoricize it, we have deacons, choir member, and all manner of believers in this club. I use Nazi once and you whine a thousand timnes. What a joke!

We are sick of being injected with your venom, sick of your hate speech which is so distressing and disheartening to friendly happy people. Sick of opening an innocent thread like "Shoes on or off" and finding "which brings us back to using both hands and I am sooo not going there, some of the goose-stepping-PC-queens are still having the vapors about that one." Who are you talking to and what are you talking about? In every thread you pull this nonsense, and long before i called you out as I bully.

Stop using our rare and wonderful and oh-so-tolerant club as a psychiatrist's couch
Stop bashing America
Stop bashing our schools--Good luck on getting hired, much less receiving a Green Card, especially if Customs gets a peak at your constant anti-America venom, screed, and diatribe. Hey maybe I'll give the Western New York Regional Homeland Security Czar your posts. He's one of my former and best students. JUST KIDDING. But what if you hurt someone so bad he or she did such a thing.

Hate speech which is your calling card is one of the most destructive forces in society. It begets more of the same. Do us a favor and stop it.

And why not try telling the truth. One week your family hates you, the next, your dad makes jokes about not getting your boyfriend pregnant. That's a great dad. How fortunate you are to have him. Now today, you say your brother is okay as neat as a gay; last time you cast him as momstrous. Why bash your own family in public, as you so often do. It's so depressing And why are you leaving Germany when you have a thriving business? One week you're American, the next you're German and now suddenly you're Jewish. See I do listen to you; in fact, that story you told last year about riding horseback through Europe was so evocative, I wish I could hear it over again. See, I really like you--HONEST!!--, and if you'd only stop with the free floating insults that land on anyone vulnerable, we could get along famously. We could teach together and have a blast.

 

[rp2813]

Like America doesn't deserve to be bashed after electing W not once but twice???? The shoes may not be off everywhere but the scariest parts of the rest of the world have the gloves off thanks to W.

 

[sdlee]

screw the shoes.....

....how many of you strip it all off when you get home?

At my house, depending on if its empty there is generally A path of clothes hitting the floor as I hit the bathroom and then my bed for the power nap that gets me through the nite.

 

[mattl]

New Thread???

Hey how about a new thread -- Clothes - On or Off???

 

[appnut]

rare when shoes are on.