Whos throws a shoe, i mean honestly!

[jmo21]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7782422.stm

[Liability]

it was all good till he missed!! but of course he is good at ducking and diving

[NickFitz]

Kruschev used to bang his shoe on the table to reinforce his point

[OwlHoot]

In the forces they talk about giving someone a good shoeing, but I don't think the idea is to throw a shoe unless your foot is inside it!

[Purple Dalek]

This shoe thing has to be seen in cultural context. It is actually a really serious insult. In an English context equivalent to deliberately spitting or peeing on someone.

[Mich the Tester]

If he visits NL, I might just speek to my mate who won the Dutch national discus championship and see if he might be persuaded to throw something altogether more lethal with more speed and accuracy.

[NotAllThere]

This shoe thing has to be seen in cultural context. It is actually a really serious insult. In an English context equivalent to deliberately spitting or peeing on someone.

So why do they take their shoes off to enter mosques?

[EternalOptimist]

so lets get this straight.
The Iraqis throw a shoe at the leader of the west and say, take that, what an insult.

In the west , we take the leader of the Iraqis and hang him till his head comes off.



I know which side I would rather be on

[Purple Dalek]

So why do they take their shoes off to enter mosques?

Maybe I didn't make it clear. Showing someone the sole of the shoe is pretty bad, hitting them in the face with it is worse. You take your shoes off 'cause you don't want to be taking the street dirt in with you.

[moorfield]

Please don't clog the forum up with this kind of trivia. It's sole destroying.