Today’s comic comes from B. C. earlier this week, September 12, 2013. It’s really rather offensive, and relies on incorrect stereotypes and myth.
But I guess that’s nothing new.
Here’s the comic.
B. C., September 12, 2013
It suppose one could be charitable and say that only B.C. (that’s the name of the orange-haired guy) has particularly unsanitary feet. But I doubt it.
This is really playing on the stereotype that bare feet are unsanitary and particularly prone to fungal infections. The “humor” here is that he doesn’t just get athlete’s foot, but full-born toadstools.
Typical shoddie thinking. Because we all know (but I guess the writer doesn’t) that athlete’s foot is a shod disease. I’ve said it a million times, but the fungi (and bacteria, too) need the warm, dark, moist environment inside of a shoe to thrive.
I guess you could call it literary license.
Or maybe he should get a literary traffic ticket for reckless writing.
Ahcuah 
But if he got the literary traffic ticket, he could play the “freedom of speech” card. π
They still publish that comic???? It’s prehistoric in more ways than one.
They used to do something similar in the Bash Street Kids and the Beano, dunno if they still do. When they did it it was always based around the shoes being full of toadstools, not bare feet (of which there were few).
If you want a really offensive one, the IT Crowd has one where a Japanese guy gets big Doc Martains, is told to stomp, and then a girl who is barefoot has her toes mangled when she somehow walks right under his stomping foot – which makes it her feet’s fault both for being ‘weak’ and for walking right under a stamping boot that was ‘minding its own business’. Yup. Just like when your wife walks into your fist when your just randomly punching the air…..
Well, from my experience, you can get fungus by going barefoot all the time in wet conditions π¦
Sergey, you probably mean red spots (ΡΡΠΏΠΊΠΈ), not actual fungus?
Red spots are indeed a condition known to people whose feet (and hands) are subjected to cold and wet conditions. I have read books mentioning this phenomenon in children who went barefoot early in the spring, probably in cold puddles, and then in the wind. They would get cured in warmer weather, or with the application of some oil or fat.
You can also get them if you wash your hands often and don’t dry them properly. Or if you ignore gloves in wet and windy weather.
Bob, am I correct in translating ΡΡΠΏΠΊΠΈ as red spots? http://yourhealthinfo.ru/stati/krasota/tsypki-na-rukakh
No, it’s definitely not ΡΡΠΏΠΊΠΈ. In my case it’s skin peeling off between my toes, sometimes accompanied with a disgusting smell, so I’m pretty sure this is fungus. (Although I got it checked and the test didn’t reveal any fungus but I must have killed most of it with an ointment and I’d heard the test is not very accurate…)
When I ran it through Googe translator, it called them “pimples”. But that’s not right, either. From the picture and description, I suspect we would call it “frostbite” or “frostnip”.
Sergey, what you are talking about sounds like Trench Foot.
Bob, it cannot be frostbite or frostnip because it is not related to frost per se. It’s mostly moisture and wind related.
Why, my son has them all the time on his hands because he shuns the towel after washing. Perhaps it’s some form of dermatitis when skin becomes dry and cracks.