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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!
Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!
I'd just like to remind you, you're the one working with CowboyNeal, not us.
Mike
I work with lots of fat, pasty software devs, I'd rather not see them pantless.
If we could take pot-breaks to combat blindness, well, now you're talking.
for wearing pants: they're optional. you are also allowed to wear a skirt, kilt or dress.
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I rarely were pants(British) to the office. No one ever seems to notice here.
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said: "I drank what?" - Chris Knight (Val Kilmer)- Real Genius
It would be interesting to find out what portion of /. readers where ties regularly. I'd guess the figure would be very low, somewhere under 5%. When I got my first office job back in 1986, wearing ties every day was the norm. In my case, that changed around 1994 (thank goodness)...
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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!
Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!
Judging by the general clientele of slashdot, myself included, I'm hoping that this never comes to pass.
Think of the co-workers, I tell you.
Remember kids: Graphic, disturbing images can cause hysterical blindness.
"Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set! "
Researches funded by the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation are feverishly working on this one, don't worry.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Nobody here wants to see that.
> if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office
Using the British definition of the word "pants" (underwear/briefs) this proposition seems EVEN LESS sensible!
I guess this explains why most CEO's can't see past next quarter's earnings report. If only the corporate culture at Worldcom and Enron was a little bit more casual...
Bah! Pants in the office! Only in winter, dammit!
~Necromutant
"I hope he tells us to burn our pants, cause these things are really riding up on me."
and later on...
"Don't you hate pants?!"
pcow
The only surefire protection against Microsoft infections is abstinence. - The Onion
Hawaiian shirt Fridays is as far as I've gotten but it's just not the same.
=tkk
Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
*takes off his belt*
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Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!
I find that funny for CmdrTaco to say that, given his sig says "Pants are still optional, but recommended for you."
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Soo.. since I wear no tie, I have in practice "negated" the blinding effect of masturbation?!
Or was that... <checks palms>
Warning: Wearing a tie while masturbating will double your chances of going blind...
One on hand it's no big deal, but on the other I really, really would prefer to wear khakis and a short sleeve button-down or polo shirt. I hate having to dress up! At my last job I gradually downshifted my dress code but that took a couple of years of inculcating my bosses to the change. It's going to be a bummer to start over again.
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"The cup... the drop... it's a YES!"
"I would gauge my eyes out."
How does one do that? Is it like checking eyeball fluid pressure?
This is possibly one of the most useless bits of "research" for a while and i'm amazed it didn't come out of a UK university.
My old Uni announced to a great fanfare that they had provded that "the smell of food made people hungry". Another one was that "people look fatter on television than they really are".
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Casual friday all week long?
I could live with that...
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Women wearing shirts and bras will get breast cancer. Please consider removing them ASAP to help cure cancer!
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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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I recently purchased myself a suit, it is properly fitted for me. Consequently it is very comfortable to wear and I enjoy wearing it with a tie. Another advantage is that girls like men in suits. =]
One thing that I have found is that the combination of the shirt collar and tie encourage me to sit with correct posture, otherwise I can feel them cutting into my throat. This is a good thing.
Of course, you could always wear a 'clip-on' tie or bow-tie (how come I only see doctors wear them?) which also have certain personal safety benefits - like not having to worry about being killed/maimed if it gets caught in a shredder =]
Insert joke about choking your ___ leading to blindness.
what does cow orking entail, anyway? it sounds rather naughty.
No, it's like piercings. When you gauge out a piercing, you widen it. Perhaps he meant to say that his eyes would widen at the site of a pants-less CmdrTaco?
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it also helps prevent prostate cancer.
who to believe?
We can now 'fight the cancer' AND leave our ties at home, thanks to recent research. As for speculation on going blind in the process, no fear - simply take that tie off and there's balance in the world!
Brilliant. Love it when old prejudices are, ahum, beaten off.
ISO certified == THX certified
It's not ties that cause blindness ... it's people doing stupid stuff that causes blindness.
Welding without a welder's mask can cause blindness ... read that doesn't say WELDING causes blindness. The article may have been written by someone (or ispired) that was fired from a tie factory!
Don't wear a tie or a shirt that doesn't fit you ... don't worry about it.
Same analogy: is McDonald's making people fat or are obese eaters making themselves fat?
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
This is why I love being a programmer at a little company: my "corporate uniform" typically includes a hawaiian(sp?) shirt, shorts, and sandals (with or without socks). The more tacky the shirt the better; it screams "I sit in front of a computer all day and I love it!"...unfortunately it also screams "I'm single and have no burning desire to attract women". On occasion you'll be suprised and women won't run away screaming upon seeing your tacky polyester hawaiian shirt...
"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'd hate to see what would happen to your eyesight if you masturbated with a tie on!
Thank you, thank you. Drive safely and make sure to tip your waitress.
Mister taco, If you came to my office with no pants on I think I would gauge my eyes out.
...hmm, 38mm... hey! They're not bigger at all! Cartoons lie!"
"Woah, Taco's in my office with no pants!
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You are advocating thongs, then?
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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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Now here's a *perfect* explanation why management 'suits' are blind to real life ;-)
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Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!
As this time-travelling picture from the year 2006 shows, the pantsless office policy at Slashdot was not such a great idea.
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.
Geez, is there anything I can do that doesn't make me go blind!?!
I have to admit, I truly enjoyed "No Pants Funday" at the office. Oddly enough, the cops called it "Thursday".
Recently, we have heard that:
:D
1. Masturbating keeps your prostate healthy.
2. Eating pizza helps prevent cancer
3. Not wearing a tie can preserve your eyesight
Bout time we had a run of good news
Surely it is nothing more than an arrow directing your co-workers in the direction of your genitalia.
I'm not sure what this says about people who wear bowties...
--This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
Wait!
Did you just ask about fashion tips on Slashdot?
ARE YOU INSANE!?!?
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I remember starting a job and having my first all-hands meeting with that employer. The boss informed us that a couple VIPs were coming the next day and he wanted all the men to wear ties and all the women to wear dresses. After the boss left I mentioned to the woman sitting next to me that I wasn't going to wear a tie because I didn't wear ties and the company had no dress policy. She looked at me in disbelief and insisted that I was going to wear a tie. When I again stated that I didn't wear ties I saw a vein nearly pop in her forehead. Her blood pressure nearly doubled.
"We'll see about that" she said with an angry look on her face as she ran to the boss' office to tell him of my criminal behavior. I walked over to the office and popped my head in the door.
"The secretary says you won't be wearing a tie tomorrow" he stated with one eyebrow raised.
"Sorry, but I don't wear ties" I replied.
"Okay, I didn't hire you for your looks and thanks for letting me know" he smiled.
The secretary nearly passed out when I didn't get the death penalty for not wearing a tie. Till this day I have never seen conformist behavior quite like that.
Well then, I suppose when you get downsized, you'll put that on your resume, and shortly there after start learning your GNU tools, the GNU/fry basket. There's not that much wrong with ties if you like to look sharp and feel sharp, and really, you can have fun with them. I own 20 or 30 fine silk jobbies, myself. No problems. When it comes time to cut staff, the fat slob in the next office will be top on the list. Look like crap == feel like crap == work like crap.
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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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Now this is just silly; ties are only 'too tight' when you don't get the right size neck on the shirt!
I thought I wore a 16, but that was without the tie. Then I found that if I put on a size 18 neck (which sounds like I'm some kinda power-lifter or linebacker) the button is easy to fasten, the tie lies loosely around the neck, and all is well.
Women know this; this is why all nerd _should_ have women in their lives...sadly, they don't.
So buy the right sized shirt, and these problems go away! (Also, if your one of those stricken with bleeding-shirt disease, remember to pull out the PINS that help keep the shirt folded before wearing them. ) :)
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I have a roughly 15 3/4" neck. Most ready-made shirts only come in half sizes so it's a choice between too small and too big. Solution is to wear thick, heavy ties and tie a hefty knot that covers up the top button area so the slightly oversized collar isn't too obvious.
Next step is custom made shirts. Brook Bros custom shirts start around $90, which sounds bad compared to Today's Man, but isn't all that bad for something you wear every day. They also last a hell of a lot longer than Today's Man. However, anything from a well-respected shirtmaker, even if it's ready-made, will be more comfortable due to workmanship and materials.
for wearing pants: they're optional. you are also allowed to wear a skirt, kilt or dress.
I own two kilts, and I do wear them to work sometimes. For casual wear, great for summer weather, buy a Utilikilt. They're not very expensive. Check out these Top 10 Reasons for Wearing a Kilt.
Afraid you'll look silly in something that looks like a skirt? Don't be. Wearing a kilt shows a sense of security with yourself, and you will inspire much debate in others.
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Yeah, but were you told ahead of time that the interview would be casual, or did you just go balls out (so to speak) in what you were comfortable with?
Waaaay back for one of my first interviews out of college (1996), I had an interview with a certain software company where the interviewer showed up in dirty jeans and a t-shirt, with five piercings in his head and a chain going from his pants to the ring in his nose. I was decked out in my Sunday best. He told me he dressed for interviews the same way he dressed for work every day. I thought that was nice, but some notice that "casual" clothing was appropriate would have been nice.
And as a manager now, if someone were to show up for an interview with me without a tie, they've pretty much lost the job, even if the usual dress is casual, unless they've been told otherwise beforehand that dressing formally is unnecessary (if I have to wear a tie, so do you).
You drank my drink, you drunk!
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.
Western fashions leverage the target recognition/attraction in the instinctual 'lizard-brains' of members of the attracted sex.
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Women's fashions feature cleavage, which emulates what a male targets when approaching and mounting from behind. Neckware can add additional details, such as a tail or rosebud or
Mens suit-jacket fashions feature a dark V-shape in front of a light background shirt, which emulates what a female targets when approached and mounted from behind. Neckware + shirt collar can add additional details, such as a red phallus hanging between, with a triangular head. Jacket-collars add corners for knees or ankles.
Like any other market, fashion starts with features people are already attracted to (whether they know it consciously or not), and adds features and value to build a relationship from there.
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