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CMV: "Shoey" is disgusting and idiotic

I'm kinda late to the party, it's been a month or two, but anyways... Country performer Kacey Musgraves was doing her first-ever Australian tour and during the gig in Sydney a girl from the crowd rose up her shoe and asked her to do a "shoey", which the rest of the crowd wholeheartedly supported.

Apparently, a "shoey" became a thing during the last decade in Australia, a custom where the host invites the guest to drink alcohol out of his shoe, as a sign of friendship or good fortune.

Kacey seemed surprised by the proposal, tried to laugh it off, but they kept nagging her so she said: "That’s disgusting, I’m not fucking drinking out of your shoe.”

Anyway, a couple of days later and huge media coverage of the "incident" and some people accusing her of "not respecting the custom", almost bullying her, she kind of did it on her last gig, but actually brought her own glass shoe (a cup in the shape of a shoe - SMART!) and drank from it.

I've been googling about this and I've seen many photos of people literally drinking from their Nike sneakers and it almost made me throw up. I've been to the metal concerts, I know some people don't mind drinking so much that they shit themselves in their pants and walk around in vomit-stained clothes, but, like, there's got to be a limit, there's got to be something that a dignified person doesn't do.

Am I crazy here? Is this some beautiful tradition I'm ignorant of?

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**EDIT**: *Since we are running in circles here as there is no real counter-argument in the comments (even those who challenge my view don't question the premise but the way it's phrased) and some people even accuse me of "refusing" to accept that I'm wrong because, well, "it IS disgusting and it IS idiotic, but people do even weirder stuff, haha", I will not be answering any further. If the mods deem the topic interesting and wish to let people debate in the comments, I'll have no objections, I enjoy reading those. Otherwise, just take it off.*
gpt
To answer your last question, yes it is a tradition that you were not aware of. However, being sort of silly and gross is sort of a defining characteristic of the tradition.

The people doing shoeys aren’t doing it because it’s cleaner or smarter than using a mug. 

Think of it like frat kids doing keg stands/beer bongs. I’ve seen so many people immediately throw up after those and i’ve seen beer bongs that have god knows what in them. Just sort of a novelty, young and reckless party trick of sorts.