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Doctors' Neckties Transmit Germs

Posted by timothy on from the ties-are-a-disease-in-themselves dept.

bzipitidoo writes "Real geeks don't wear neckties, and maybe the rest of the world wishes they didn't have to. Ties had a minor comeback with the recent bad job market, but hopefully that's behind us. Apart from the obvious that neckties are uncomfortable, useless, in-the-way, and therefore a waste of time and money, too-tight ties constrict blood vessels and raise eye fluid pressure which increases the risk of blindness. Now there's a new study showing that doctors' neckties transmit germs. One suggested remedy from the article is tie condoms."

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  1. A recent survey of IT shops ... by bigsteve@dstc · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... provides startling evidence that developers who wears a ties are 10 times more likely to spreads bugs from one program to another. A sample of ties from a large IT organisation tested positive to a number of potentially dangerous bugs including Bufferium Overflowiae, Memorensis Leakii and Pointeria Danglensis. PC developers were also infected by an insidious Redmondia meme which cause fatal code-bloat in many projects. In contrast, a survey of secretarial staff in the same organisation showed a complete absence of ties ...

    Yet another good reason not to wear a tie to the office :-)

  2. Re:how unfortunate by Bazzargh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I almost always wear a jewelled codpiece. Obviously the poster of this article is profoundly against the wearing of formal underclothing, and from the sound of it doesn't know how to strap one on without castrating himself. A codpeice should be exaggerating, not constricting.

    Here are some reasons to wear a jewelled codpiece:
    -You'll appear more medieval than your workmates who don't wear one
    -You'll appeal more to codpiece-wearing types
    -You gain the appearance of having status and importance
    -It's the only safe place in formal underwear for a man to express himself.
    -Codpieces are a "success indicator", which essentially means that you will be viewed more favourably by persons of either persuasion (unless your codpiece is extremely small).

    If any of those reasons has any bearing on the job you actually do, you're probably a codpiece salesman or Henry VIII. The people climbing upwards on the ladder of success will wonder why you pay more attention to what you wear than who you are, or how well you did your job.