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Not really a hep question but..
Why are red shoes considered good luck?
I know when we played darts and pool that we would put "noonans" on people when we wanted them to miss, and I believe that is from the movie Caddyshack. We also said "red shoes" for good luck (I still use these when watching football), but I have no idea where it comes from.
I notice a lot of red shoes around here, so I'm hoping someone can enlighten me :)
I know when we played darts and pool that we would put "noonans" on people when we wanted them to miss, and I believe that is from the movie Caddyshack. We also said "red shoes" for good luck (I still use these when watching football), but I have no idea where it comes from.
I notice a lot of red shoes around here, so I'm hoping someone can enlighten me :)
Particularly if she's using the urinal next to you at the restaurant you took her for dinner at.
Gawd I love this place.
"Desmond Morris says painting the lips red represents a woman ready for sex because it signals her vagina lips are reddish and swollen! "
Goofy says when she shaves her mustache, you know you're in for a special night.
"Desmond Morris says painting the lips red represents a woman ready for sex because it signals her vagina lips are reddish and swollen! "
Goofy says when she shaves her mustache, you know you're in for a special night.
"We (on the hepC forum particularly) wear red shoes to say happy celebration of your SVR and it came from that specific thread listed above.
Now if someone wants to say that their reasoning is different than that particular thread then they certainly can feel free to copy the idea and make up stuff about Valentines day but it's not correct. "
Oh man ... this is getting *painful*.
I don't know what you have in your bonnet yet again but you and I were answering different questions and that's all I was pointing out. That Jelise was not misunderstanding the answer you went to great lengths and research to deliver. That she was asking something else that you didn't quite catch, maybe because you were so focused on your particular angle.
Jelise asked why people in GENERAL wear red shoes for good luck and gave as an example her and her friends playing darts and wearing red shoes for good luck when watching football games and wondered if the people on this forum might have gotten their red shoe SVR choice from the same influence.
I'm not trying to change history or engaging in silly disputes over who started the red shoes trend on this forum. In the big scheme of things, really not that high on my list, Deb.
She asked where people in general OUTSIDE of this forum may have gotten the notion that red shoes were good luck. I was intrigued by that question. Very interesting question. "Why DO people in general outside of this forum (there IS life outside of this forum) wear red shoes for good luck?" I asked myself. So I went looking into that. And lo and behold, I came across the fact that Chinese brides wear red shoes for good luck!! "Very interesting!" I said to myself. "Maybe that spread and that's where it comes from!" I said to myself yet again. So I decided to share that with Jelise.
I wasn't responding to YOU or who originated the red shoes for SVR trend on this forum. I never said a bloody thing about that until joking about Can-do's influence on it. I was responding to Jelise's question about why people wear red shoes for good luck OUTSIDE of this forum and if it's the same reason people here wear red shoes. No "psychobabble gobbledeegook" about that, no hidden agenda, no sinister intentions or any other nasty motive you want to ascribe to that.
Now...you may think that JD started that global trend and that the power of suggestion on this forum is why people half way across the world wear red shoes for good luck when they watch football, play darts and pool and you're entitled to think that. However I tend to think the Chinese potentially had a little more to do with that that than this l'il ole Hep C forum and why that has to be a contentious issue because I think people outside this forum might wear red shoes cause the Chinese influenced that is beyond me.
Trish
Now if someone wants to say that their reasoning is different than that particular thread then they certainly can feel free to copy the idea and make up stuff about Valentines day but it's not correct. "
Oh man ... this is getting *painful*.
I don't know what you have in your bonnet yet again but you and I were answering different questions and that's all I was pointing out. That Jelise was not misunderstanding the answer you went to great lengths and research to deliver. That she was asking something else that you didn't quite catch, maybe because you were so focused on your particular angle.
Jelise asked why people in GENERAL wear red shoes for good luck and gave as an example her and her friends playing darts and wearing red shoes for good luck when watching football games and wondered if the people on this forum might have gotten their red shoe SVR choice from the same influence.
I'm not trying to change history or engaging in silly disputes over who started the red shoes trend on this forum. In the big scheme of things, really not that high on my list, Deb.
She asked where people in general OUTSIDE of this forum may have gotten the notion that red shoes were good luck. I was intrigued by that question. Very interesting question. "Why DO people in general outside of this forum (there IS life outside of this forum) wear red shoes for good luck?" I asked myself. So I went looking into that. And lo and behold, I came across the fact that Chinese brides wear red shoes for good luck!! "Very interesting!" I said to myself. "Maybe that spread and that's where it comes from!" I said to myself yet again. So I decided to share that with Jelise.
I wasn't responding to YOU or who originated the red shoes for SVR trend on this forum. I never said a bloody thing about that until joking about Can-do's influence on it. I was responding to Jelise's question about why people wear red shoes for good luck OUTSIDE of this forum and if it's the same reason people here wear red shoes. No "psychobabble gobbledeegook" about that, no hidden agenda, no sinister intentions or any other nasty motive you want to ascribe to that.
Now...you may think that JD started that global trend and that the power of suggestion on this forum is why people half way across the world wear red shoes for good luck when they watch football, play darts and pool and you're entitled to think that. However I tend to think the Chinese potentially had a little more to do with that that than this l'il ole Hep C forum and why that has to be a contentious issue because I think people outside this forum might wear red shoes cause the Chinese influenced that is beyond me.
Trish
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I have to admit that when I wore my red shoes in bed that night of my last injection, I wasn't exactly thinking SVR, or going out on the town, or anything much other than whew, tx is done and I made it to the end, hallelujah.
And I put on the shoes as a symbol of something important (didn't know exactly what) and then went to sleep.
If anything was on my mind when I admired my feet in those shoes, it was that I could start feeling human again, maybe even sexy again, and all with a bit of help from little red stilettos.
I can tell you it was really fun and channeled my mixed emotions into something tangible.
Some sources say red has a physiological effect shown to stimulate the adrenal glands, which helps increase our stamina. I had so little energy that night but I swear the red shoes give me a lift despite hemoglobin in the nines.
Different colors have such different associations, depending on the culture.
In Chinese tradition, red is considered a symbol of integrity and that it can drive away misfortune. So yes, generally, good fortune and luck.
In North America, red is culturally associated with sexuality and love. Valentines are red because hearts are red; red dresses and shoes likewise are romantic and/or sexy.
There's an explanation of color psychology in several books, often in disagreement.
Anyone with an anthropology background remembers Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape. I don't think I'll repeat his lips, etc. thesis here because the guys might go nuts. (To the gals only, Desmond Morris says painting the lips red represents a woman ready for sex because it signals her vagina lips are reddish and swollen! Hot dog!)
Anyway, women colored their nails red in ancient Egypt, and red has probably been part of cultural symbolism, one way or the other forever.
In South Africa, red is a sign of mourning, so go figure.
Anyway, if you try them, please let me know if you get that exciting feeling!
Susan
P.S. Not to complicate things but the Pope traditionally wears red slippers!