Sitting in the middle of a shopping precinct with your feet in a fishtank and have lots of little fish going nim nim nim at the flaky skin bits, Classic or Dud?

Apparently, it's all the rage.

So, would you? Or would you not?

it's being banned in a lot of places...spreads disease allegedly.

The very idea of this is disgusting.

Also, horrible thread title.

yeah. im not sure what it refers to but ew.

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i don't find it disgusting at all, how is it any worse than using any other scraping device or method?

for those who don't know, it refers to a beauty treatment where you put your feet in water with lots of this type of toothless fish that nibbles any dead skin off.

Kind of a shit life for the fish was my main thought when I saw one of these places.

In fairness 'Scraping hard skin off your feet classic or dud?' would be a pretty disgusting thread as well even without the 'being eaten by fish' angle.

the fuck is wrong with this country...

i don't find it disgusting at all, how is it any worse than using any other scraping device or method?

The thought of sticking your feet into a tank of someone else's exfoliated detritus is pretty gross. Skin porridge innit.

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/polopoly_fs/garafishspa3of4_siangear_oct29_1_724292!image/1811434276.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_225/1811434276.jpg

^ but hey, complimentary hand jobs at this joint.

The thought of sticking your feet into a tank of someone else's exfoliated detritus is pretty gross. Skin porridge innit

ah here...they obviously use a diff tank or clean it between people! jesus

how is it any worse than using any other scraping device or method?

because it involves fish eating your skin?

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5131/5493622977_55c4595e10_o.jpg

they obviously use a diff tank or clean it between people! jesus

Not as far as I could tell, it was just one saturday afternoon shopper after another at the place I saw.

goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes

because it involves fish eating your skin?

as opposed to what, a knife or an emery board or something? if it hurt less would it just be the concept of fish eating (dead) skin that would worry people?

personally i'm more curious as to how/why people need this. there isn't really much dead skin on my feet, the soles can go a bit hard or weather beaten if i'm somewhere hot or spending time on a beach, but not sure why i'd need to pay money to have the soles of my feet looking pristine.

Of course they don't clear the tank between people, the amount of time it would take to remove the fish every time would be prohibitive.

Doubt anyone who does this is that concerned with how disgusting it is, admittedly.

sort of feel this is one beauty treatment i can skip

there are only so many hours

conversely, i can't say flaky foot skin is a dealbreaker for me

not if they had more than one tank?

you'd have to scoop the fish out and put them in a holding tank every time

it's no grosser than being in a swimming pool/putting your feet in the river

or showering after your flatmate

In some places you share a tank with 3 other customers.

all of whom may have aids

and are no doubt illegal migrants

some illegal migrants are crammed 50 to a tank full of cheap japanese fish

Well, maybe not AIDS but it's entirely feasible that you're sharing a tank with someone who is going there for an alternative treatment for his verucas/athlete's foot/other fungal infection cos they were too embarrassed or whatever to go to the doctor.

i refer you to my above flatmate post

Customer Max Langton, from North London, said: ‘I had a pedicure from one of the new high street chains. I was put off when a man sitting opposite me said he had something wrong with his foot and hoped the fish were enjoying it.’

this is pretty popular in SE asia. i put my hand in one once. it felt very weird.

gross xp

Somewhere in the country there's at least one dude who's put his cock in the tank. Maybe not in a shopping centre admittedly.

Let's see, Japanese fad plus cock insertion.... nah, can't think of anyone in the field of that particular Venn - OH WAIT.

lol

haha

Puts a new spin on any potential cover of When The Boat Comes In.

Trad AAAAARGH!

How can it be unhygienic? The fish eat the skin, I've never noticed them barfing it back up again when I peer thru the window of our local piscine pedicurist.

there is a shop offering this service (which I don't fancy much) in Gateshead Metro Centre shopping mall. If it has made it this far into the provinces, then it is over. Last week, basically :(

There's a shop round the corner from our house doing it. Obv I give this craze another 3 months before the entire sewage infrastructure of the country is clogged with Cleaner Wrasse or whatever

Let's see, Japanese fad plus cock insertion.... nah, can't think of anyone in the field of that particular Venn - OH WAIT.

― anna sui generis (suzy), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:00 (12 minutes ago)

I laffed.

Yeah, Pash, the kids saw that one. And the one in Reading.

Will let you know...

right, the kids did this last night, and said it was well cool, to which I deadpanned "you think they'd warm the water up"

Must have been difficult to keep a straight face during that one, respect.

This can be done for free in the shallow water of any river or lake.

I am getting a pedicure this afternoon. Fish will not be involved in any way, shape, or form.

hahaha matt!

this sounds like great fun, would try

Skin porridge innit.

phrases it will be difficult to get out of your head

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Something on R4 this morning about this being regulated, didn't listen to hard as I am averse to Rhona Cameron's seemingly ceaseless mithering.

i had some of that show on, god Rhona Cameron sounded like she was in SWSS some time round about 1987. took me right back.

She really did, I thought she sounded a bit medicated tbh.

This has taken off in a big way, it seems.

how long before it becomes one of those staples of "lol, the 2010's"?

There's a dedicated salon in our town now. Amazing. The Mrs wants to go. I'm not so sure...

There was one, briefly, in Exeter's previously posh but now abandoned to the point of feeling post-apocalyptic shopping centre, Harlequinns. It didn't last long.

i'm a bit astonished that the economics add up, unless they're all pop-ups

I think the shop is called Eat Our Soles or something.

Eat Arseholes?

They're gonna need a deeper tank.

Is R Soles still a shoe shop in Brighton?

Well, that lasted a long time. That spot on "I remember 2011" is theirs..

There's one shop near here, but it's more a "nail bar and some fish" really.

Where have the fish gone? Are there rivers and estuaries where feet hungry fish roam for the chance to mildly nibble peds that have been coated in powdered Monster Munch?