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Wearing a Tie May Cause Blindness!
An anonymous reader noted that there finally is some science to justify not wearing a tie! Doctors have found that wearing a tie too tight causes pressure on the jugular vein, which leads to a build-up of pressure in the eyeballs. Such pressure rises have been linked to glaucoma, which causes blindness. Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!
I hear that marijuana can cure glaucoma ... maybe that's another solution :)
- "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"
... so providing you wear a looser necked shirt and tie... there's no reason to actually not wear a tie.
not quite the strength of argument for me to bash my boss with health and safety law!
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Maybe him coming to your office without pants might cause you to start wearing a tie to work instead?
I always thought they seemed kind of like nooses, now I guess I know I wasn't that far off.
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"Wearing your tie too tight could put you at increased risk of blindness, say doctors."
So buy some shirts with an extra half-inch in the collar, guys.
Y'know, current trends in fashion notwithstanding, I like neckties. They break up an otherwise monotonous dress shirt, and give us white-collar male workers an easy way to add some multi-colored style to our two-color uniform. They just plain look professional. And they're only uncomfortable if you're wearing them wrong, or if your collar is too small.
i think that the IT industry should come up with a dress code that actually lets you crawl around on the floor under a desk etc... that makes some stinkin sense.
a T-shirt, jeans, sneakers and some sort of smock or whatever its called. Like the ones that they wear in the hospitals etc... and they would have to be nice jeans and sneakers. not the shit you have left over from high school with your ass sticking out and sneakers that are no longer the original color that they were purchased as...
and im SERIOUS!!! i think that this should become a norm... i hate being in the data center and working on the UPS or racks or up in the ceiling with light colored polo shirt on that i spent 30 bucks for. when im done - its done. im sure this has happened to everyone. it pisses me off. the wife bitches that she cant get it clean etc...
and i dont care if its "professional" or not. im a "professional" no matter what im wearing - and wouldnt it be nice if you could be comfortable all the time???
duke
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I think in general, dress-code has relaxed everywhere. When I was a kid my dad worked for an airline, which meant we could fly basically free. The catch was that we could not wear jeans. We had to wear slacks. Boy has THAT rule been relaxed. I look at what people wear on a plane now and think all americans are slobs. I've seen bathing suits and flip-flops on international flights. I realize when we travel we want to be comfortable, but it would be nice to have a happy medium. We're not in our living room, after all... we're out in public.
J.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
This has been known for a long time. Consider the peacock's tail... a large decoration that attracts the female of the species not because of its brilliant colours, but simply by its size. The larger the tail, the stronger the peacock.
The same goes for the tails of the birds of paradise, the longer the tail the more danger the bird is in, and more attractive to fenales.
This is "dangerwear", and in its extreme human form, comes in the form of military uniforms.
Women like to look at men in suits because if you can survive a day of strangulation, you are by definition tough, and that's good, somehow.
(I'm not sure why the ability to bear suffering is attractive to women, but nature has its reasons, I guess.)
However, scientifically this can be measured. Half the geeks wear a tie and suit for a month, the other half wear comfortable shorts and sandals. At the end of the month, who got more sex?
Far-fetched, I know, but just maybe...
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I have to say that I'm more in favor of comfortable attire on an airplane than anywhere else. You're packed in close proximaty to a bunch of people, breathing recirculated air, and then (no disrespect to aerospace engineers) throw in the fact that you're miles above the ground in something that weights hundreds of thousands of pounds. I say anything that can help people relax is a good thing. I suppose though, bathing suits are a bit over the top. I recently discovered how much more relaxing a flight is with your shoes off--it's unbelievable how much difference it makes.
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Dress codes can actually hurt you, particularly if put in place by folks who are more concerned about form than function.
For instance, I never, ever wear a tie at work, because it's hazardous to my health, and that of others... let me explain. Working in emergency services puts me in contact with all sorts of antisocial, psychotic, and generally dangerous characters. Ever look at a tied necktie and say to yourself "hmmm... that looks kind of like a noose..." Well, you're right, it does. It also ACTS like a noose if a psychiatric patient is trying to strangle you. ER staff get assaulted all the time (a colleague of mine was tackled by a psychotic psych patient and got a detached retina for her trouble... not fun going blind in one eye), and you have to be careful not to give your attacker any ready weapons (kind of like in jail).
I have seen ERs that forbid scrubs, and instead require shirt and tie for their docs... I'm sorry, but I have a problem with that. Not only do I hate trying to get blood and vomit out of my good shirts, but I'm not going to wear a noose to work. Even if it's a clip-on, it can dangle into (and contaminate) a sterile field.
It's not all window dressing and appearances... function has to take precedence.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.