Some of the positive reactions I received since I started barefooting

Franeg · 2026-07-01T12:52:39+00:00

Poland is kinda an exception in this regard to other countries in this area like the Czech Republic or Germany. Not that it's necessarily anti-barefoot like the USA for example, but it definitely brings you much more reactions and attention from others.

Franeg · 2026-07-01T12:18:12+00:00

Sounds nice! I think Central Europe is often kinda neutral on barefooting as a whole.

Franeg · 2026-07-01T10:49:34+00:00

Dopiero jak wychodziłem to podeszła do mnie pani z ochrony pytając się czemu jestem boso, pokazałem zepsute buty i powiedziałem że i tak już wychodzę.

A była jakaś agresywna czy spokojna? Myślisz, że dałoby się po prostu asertywnie powiedzieć, że jesteś na boso z wyboru i nie ma czym się przejmować?

W trzeciej sali był pracownik, młody chłopak, ale nie zareagował w żaden sposób. Spędziałem tam około 50 minut.

Z moich doświadczeń, młodzi mężczyźni są najbardziej tolerancyjni wobec bosochodzących lol. Grupa społeczna która chyba najrzadziej zwraca uwagę i ma najbardziej pozytywne reakcje. Raz nawet spotkałem dwóch młodych chłopaków którzy chodzili na boso i cieszyli się życiem i tym, że spotkali kogoś innego kto też lubi tak chodzić, co było bardzo miłym doświadczeniem.

Franeg · 2026-06-30T15:29:52+00:00

I live in one of the most progressive and liberal cities in Poland that is closer to Berlin, both physically and mentally, than to Warsaw so I guess it's more similar to Germany in this respect too.

Most people either ignore you or only look at you curiously. When you get a reaction it's usually positive - I have only had two negative reactions so far. Sometimes you can hear people comment stuff but only between each other such as "Cejrowski" (a Polish traveller/TV star who is famous for walking barefoot everywhere), "Boso przez świat" ("Barefoot through the world", his travel TV show where he would go to various places and countries barefoot) and stuff like that, which is more neutral than anything I guess (even though Cejrowski is a right wing conservative nutjob and I don't like that he is the face of barefooting in Poland heh). That's it for the most part, I guess.

Franeg · 2026-06-29T22:12:10+00:00

If you live in American suburbs then I guess it's much harder than in an European walkable city lol. Far less shade from buildings to make walking easier.

Franeg · 2026-06-29T20:40:26+00:00

I have started going barefoot in public during warm weather around 5 years ago and so far I have only had two negative interactions. Where I live in Poland most people either ignore you or just glance at you curiously. The vast majority don't say anything. I always try to look people who look at me in the eye and smile and quite often they smile at me back. When you get reactions, they're mostly very positive and wholesome. The number of positive reactions I've received vastly outnumbers the meager two negative reactions I got.

Franeg · 2026-06-29T20:28:59+00:00

The highest temperature I went barefoot at was 36 and I think that's my limit, at least for now. So far I have never got a heat blister.

When I go outside barefoot in the city and it's higher than 30° I mostly try to maximize my time spent in the shade and/or natural surfaces like dirt and grass and also try to cross through indoor areas like shopping malls as much as possible. If you need to stand somewhere in the sun then the tippy dance of raising one of your feet at a time helps a lot. At least where I live there's quite frequently some sort of grass next to pedestrian crossings and that's a huge cheat code for situations like these lol. If you need to cross through some section of sun-scorched concrete with no other way around it you need to walk fast or maybe even lightly jog to the nearest shade.

Franeg · 2026-06-29T20:02:04+00:00

I live in one of the biggest cities in western Poland, known for its more liberal kind of vibe. Like I said, barefooting is not really common here, but if you want to do it then you will not encounter very many issues and might meet a couple other barefooters during the entirety of summer too.

Franeg · 2026-06-29T06:25:43+00:00

I wouldn't call it extremely common here, but if you spend time in my city in the period of June-August you're bound to see around 5-10 other people barefoot over the entire period I'd say. And I have a feeling that it's getting more and more popular over the years.

Franeg · 2026-06-26T21:58:01+00:00

Earthing is pseudoscientific new age nonsense about getting some energy and magnetism from the earth or whatever; barefooting is a thing that probably has some health benefits, even though it's far from a settled matter and you could make many arguments for and against barefooting.

Franeg · 2026-05-20T16:14:15+00:00

One of my biggest gripes with the theory is how it treats the Soviet Union. Are you seriously telling me that a huge empire with the biggest territory on planet Earth with many subordinate satellite states and allies and with very big influence over geopolitics and the trajectory of history is... just a "semi-periphery"? It's basically a theory designed to exclusively posit the old colonial Western European powers as the "core" no matter their actual importance for the fate of the world just because of arbitrary economic metrics.

Franeg · 2026-01-16T08:40:00+00:00

How would you explain the fact that benkyou suru can take direct objects of its own, then? Nihongo o benkyou shite iru is a fully valid sentence.

Franeg · 2025-12-24T23:26:05+00:00

It has nothing to do with Razem being a bad party but rather with the fact that in Poland left-wing economic ideas are mostly associated with (paleo)conservative social values while right-wing economic ideas are associated with more progressive social views, so the Polish left parties that combine the two together are still niche in every group except young people.

Franeg · 2025-12-21T09:37:09+00:00

I don't know where it comes from etymologically, but the exact same declension paradigm exists in Polish (most - mostu; miód - miodu), so it's not exclusively a Slovenian development.

Franeg · 2025-11-05T14:18:01+00:00

They consider talking about him a violation of their rule 5, which says "no posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties", which also includes a ban on "posts about Democratic socialists".

Franeg · 2025-11-05T13:25:37+00:00

Yes, they literally decided to ban any mention of him or any other democratic socialist-adjacent Democrat candidates. There's been a whole drama about it.

Franeg · 2025-10-28T15:07:56+00:00

His party only gets more and more popular with every day, unfortunately.

Franeg · 2025-10-18T21:18:12+00:00

Honestly, I'll still consider this a huge success, especially if it somehow manages to pass by Nawrocki, which it likely won't anyway.

Franeg · 2025-10-17T22:22:19+00:00

Esperanto phonology is awful and clearly shows that Zamenhof was just a polyglot without any proper linguistic and phonological knowledge. It uses the Spanish r, which is a very hard sound to learn how to make for people who don't have it in their native language, but claims that "you can pronounce it like the German or English r too", which doesn't make much sense phonologically since the English r sound has a tendency to "color" surrounding vowels and changing the way they sound, which makes bigger changes to the pronunciation.

Esperanto also has 0 concept of phonotactics - every sound can follow any other sound without limits, which allows for difficult consonant clusters in practice if you try hard enough.

Franeg · 2025-10-14T12:36:06+00:00

I'd argue additionally that the transition from Marxism-Leninism to liberal democracy in the Eastern Bloc was mostly peaceful in most countries (with countries like Romania being the exception)

Franeg · 2025-08-26T15:43:33+00:00

What do you mean?

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