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Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent, make you feel dizzy and give you headaches
(www.sciencefocus.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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Ties make no sense. It's literally a strip of cloth tied around your neck that serves no useful purpose at all. It's idiotic that they have managed to survive as a part of modern clothing.
Literal flyest thing ever this this fucking sucks actually.
What? It's a piece of fashion: it doesn't need a "purpose". You want to wear monocolor onesie jumpsuits everywhere?
I'd argue fashion is a waste of human effort IMO.
Make functional outfits and comfortable ones. Literally nothing else. "Formal" should not even be a word at all, much less a genre of clothing.
Designers making wearable art pieces is kinda silly, but it gets by with being art, but that's as far as I'll allow the line.
Saving a useless accessory that's been mandated for certain jobs/purposes is actually obscene to me. It being "fashion" is no help, and given that it's the only reason it exists, it should be fucking deleted from our awareness.
Flight me.
You can't debate what is worth human effort without defining a human's purpose.
And I don't trust anybody who tries to tell me what humanity's purpose is.
I will not fight you, I agree with what you said
If someone wants to wear one of their own choice, that's fine. It shouldn't be mandated. The issue I have is that wearing a strip of cloth around your neck somehow makes you a "professional" in the eyes of others, and not wearing one means you are being "unprofessional".
Look, if you are not wearing a giant arrow hung around you kneck that points at your dick, how are people going to know where you keep your dick?
I keep it in the same place everyone else in my country keeps it. In the White House.
That dick doesn't work and we all know it. The party is running the show, he's running on autodick, falling asleep at televised meetings, making even less sense than normal, he can barely work up a good nazi rally now, they leave him alone with an avowed enemy of the party, like Mamdami or Petro of Colombia for a half hour and he's best friends forever with them, while his handlers facepalm.
*Star Trek: The Motion Picture intensifies*
They designate you as a "loyal dog of the company". They symbolize a leash
Maybe it's to hide the line of buttons on the shirt.