The agony of the feet
March 18, 2008 10:09 AM   Subscribe

Reading celebrity toes.
posted by Rumple (29 comments total)
 
Yeah, and then there's science.
posted by grubi at 10:17 AM on March 18, 2008


I just stubbed my DESTINY toe.
posted by monospace at 10:20 AM on March 18, 2008


Apparently I have some cheese in my future.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:20 AM on March 18, 2008 [2 favorites]


For those times when palm reading just isn't stupid enough...
posted by solipsophistocracy at 10:20 AM on March 18, 2008 [1 favorite]


/me weeps for humanity
posted by DU at 10:23 AM on March 18, 2008


Superstition and celebrities: two things the world would be better with a lot less of.
posted by tula at 10:26 AM on March 18, 2008


(...Looking at own toes and suddenly realizing why shoes were invented...)
posted by VicNebulous at 10:27 AM on March 18, 2008


Best of the webbed.
posted by Poolio at 10:27 AM on March 18, 2008 [4 favorites]


I thought phrenology dealt with the other end.
posted by Dave Faris at 10:37 AM on March 18, 2008


Well, that thing definitely made me want to kick something.
posted by OmieWise at 10:39 AM on March 18, 2008 [1 favorite]


And here I was bumming about the declining quality of MeFi posts...
posted by sfts2 at 10:40 AM on March 18, 2008


Somewhere, Stallone's Mom is crying over being forgotten so, so quickly. You bastards!
posted by maudlin at 10:40 AM on March 18, 2008


You know what's great about this?
posted by Mister_A at 10:42 AM on March 18, 2008


Quacks: give them an inch and they'll take a foot.
posted by CheeseburgerBrown at 10:47 AM on March 18, 2008


I've got this TINGLING sensation in my BULLSHIT toe....
posted by nebulawindphone at 10:53 AM on March 18, 2008


quin - metafilter.com - March 2008

We can see on the left side that... OH DEAR GOD HE HAS CLOVEN HOOVES!
posted by quin at 10:56 AM on March 18, 2008


Stupid people, ruining foot fetishism for everyone...
posted by StrikeTheViol at 11:00 AM on March 18, 2008


What you silly people don't realize is that your whole body ends at your feet.
posted by Floydd at 11:33 AM on March 18, 2008


rule 34.

now go find me a 'reading celebrity boobs' site!
posted by spish at 11:57 AM on March 18, 2008


Oh for the love of... bring on the fucking cataclysm already before we slip any further into decadent lunacy.
posted by DecemberBoy at 12:36 PM on March 18, 2008


Ugh, this is such a train wreck. I think feet are grotesque because they ARE LIKE HANDS ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR LEGS AND THAT JUST SHOULD NOT BE...and yet I could not stop myself from...*click...and...*click enlarge. SO VILE.
posted by rokabiri at 1:56 PM on March 18, 2008


Dude. Am I the only person who looked at that site and thought, "I SO need to get my toes read. I wonder where I can find a toe reader!"???

'Cos now I want a thorough toe-reading, like a good palm reading wherein the fortune teller draws lines on your hand and little marks to show you the formula she has plugged in to get the material for her great story.
posted by brina at 2:15 PM on March 18, 2008


When reading toes, we look for straight, flat, well balanced toes that looks as if they are walking their destined path...

Honestly, I would prefer straight, flat, well balanced prose to toes ... and a little verb agreement would help.
posted by ubiquity at 4:14 PM on March 18, 2008




My best college friend Lee used to be able to snap his fingers--- with his toes.
Truly. Amazing. And. Disgusting.
posted by Dizzy at 5:17 PM on March 18, 2008


My father-in-law, who was Japanese, was a palm reader (although he made his *real* money creating "o-mamori", or magiic charms/amulets)..

He was pretty famous, and had clients all over Japan. Most of his palm reading was based on real "science" or numerology. He had stacks of books containing Chinese star charts and tables.

I never really believed the palm-reading stuff (but happily drove the hand-me-down luxury car purchased with the proceeds of my father-in-law's palm reading). But I respected that belief system.

Palm-reading, numerology and geomancy (they're all related) are incredibly old practices, older than science and logic. And I suspect when science fails us (what's going to happen when the Fed cuts its rate below 2 or even 1 percent? Or when oil runs out? Or sea levels rise?) this stuff (don't know about toe reading, though) will stick with us.
posted by KokuRyu at 5:07 AM on March 19, 2008


My father-in-law, who was Japanese, was a palm reader (although he made his *real* money creating "o-mamori", or magiic charms/amulets)..

He was pretty famous, and had clients all over Japan. Most of his palm reading was based on real "science" or numerology. He had stacks of books containing Chinese star charts and tables.

I never really believed the palm-reading stuff (but happily drove the hand-me-down luxury car purchased with the proceeds of my father-in-law's palm reading). But I respected that belief system.

Palm-reading, numerology and geomancy (they're all related) are incredibly old practices, older than science and logic. And I suspect when science fails us (what's going to happen when the Fed cuts its rate below 2 or even 1 percent? Or when oil runs out? Or sea levels rise?) this stuff (don't know about toe reading, though) will stick with us.
posted by KokuRyu at 5:08 AM on March 19, 2008


My father-in-law, who was Japanese, was a palm reader (although he made his *real* money creating "o-mamori", or magiic charms/amulets)..

He was pretty famous, and had clients all over Japan. Most of his palm reading was based on real "science" or numerology. He had stacks of books containing Chinese star charts and tables.

I never really believed the palm-reading stuff (but happily drove the hand-me-down luxury car purchased with the proceeds of my father-in-law's palm reading). But I respected that belief system.

Palm-reading, numerology and geomancy (they're all related) are incredibly old practices, older than science and logic. And I suspect when science fails us (what's going to happen when the Fed cuts its rate below 2 or even 1 percent? Or when oil runs out? Or sea levels rise?) this stuff (don't know about toe reading, though) will stick with us.
posted by KokuRyu at 5:09 AM on March 19, 2008


So your dad had triplets?
posted by Dizzy at 6:15 AM on March 19, 2008


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