Tjack Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 2 hours ago, archer said: My uncle when he was a young man had his wedding ring catch on a ladder as he was slipping and falling off of it. Nearly jerked the digit out from the middle of his hand. It permanently increased the length of that finger close to half an inch, plus gave him a loss of function and dexterity with it. Maybe they could have done a better job fixing it these days but it looked freaky as hell. And looked painful even decades later. So....Let’s see. The last digression about this is....Neckties are alright if your careful, and high heels and wedding rings are bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 5 hours ago, Tjack said: So....Let’s see. The last digression about this is....Neckties are alright if your careful, and high heels and wedding rings are bad. They're all bad, but they can all be managed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 13 hours ago, Bazza said: People wear neckties? Weird. Last time I had to wear a neck tie was when I was working as an usher at the theatre in college (yeah, women had to wear the ties too for our uniform). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 My mom had to wear a tie while driving cab. It was a company policy thing. I know for a long time (at least through the 1960s) male teachers in the USDESEA schools overseas were required to wear ties while in front of students. The shop teacher wore standard ties in his standard classes (and he had several such classes, since there were a total of 15 faculty in our 7-12 school), and had a single ugly clip-on he changed into for his shop classes. He made sure to point out to all of us why he wore the clip-on in the shop. I assume the women teachers had similar restrictions on what they had to wear, but I don't know that from having it explained to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, Cancer said: I know for a long time (at least through the 1960s) male teachers in the USDESEA schools overseas were required to wear ties while in front of students. The shop teacher wore standard ties in his standard classes (and he had several such classes, since there were a total of 15 faculty in our 7-12 school), and had a single ugly clip-on he changed into for his shop classes. He made sure to point out to all of us why he wore the clip-on in the shop. Nothing is worse than having your tie drag your face into the table saw CES Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 Last time I had to wear a tie was when I worked in a chain restaurant as a host. That was years ago, and I don't miss it. Fortunately, we were allowed a bit of leeway with our ties. This was my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 I've never been required to wear a tie, but I've worn them a number of times to shmooze-with-potential-donors sort of events. On that basis, they don't bother me much. And I have carefully preserved the tie I wore at my PhD defense. I'm out of practice so it takes me several tries to get the knot right, but that still takes less time than ironing the shirt (and yes, I do that myself) I wear with the tie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 I've worn neckties on numerous occasions. Wore one pretty much every day for 2 years at one point. I don't have a problem with them. What I have a problem with is finding dress shirts where the neck is big enough. Christougher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 10 hours ago, Tjack said: In 1978 Apollo astronaut, Neil Armstrong lost the tip of his finger from having his wedding ring catch on something. He packed it in ice and it was reattached. 9 hours ago, archer said: My uncle when he was a young man had his wedding ring catch on a ladder as he was slipping and falling off of it. Nearly jerked the digit out from the middle of his hand. It permanently increased the length of that finger close to half an inch, plus gave him a loss of function and dexterity with it. Maybe they could have done a better job fixing it these days but it looked freaky as hell. And looked painful even decades later. Google "Jimmy Fallon wedding ring deglove". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 I made an attempt at getting a MSc in space engineering in the middle of the Nineties. Our professor (Swedish professors are not lecturers but hold university chairs) loved this particular tie -- a dark blue one with a star-gazing Winnie the pooh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 25 minutes ago, Old Man said: Google "Jimmy Fallon wedding ring deglove". As both a former nurse and a former medical student, let me heartily encourage you to _never_ google any variant of "deglove." you have been warned. This whole recent arc has made me ridiculously proud of a life in the trades where my dress code is "clean with no holes; eye protection, and steel toed footwear." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Logan.1179 said: With all the crows around here ... I wonder if he shouldn't throw in a prrt or a tok in there for pacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 Clearly that guy has never driven around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Duke Bushido Posted February 1, 2022 Report Share Posted February 1, 2022 20 hours ago, Logan.1179 said: Thanks. Now I have to go watch Ice Pirates again..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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