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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)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Decorative nooses have always been a weird thing IMO. Like "gee, id like a dangling piece of fabric that, if it gets caught on something, chokes me and may pull me face first into heavy machinery"

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I never understood why anyone would want to wear a tie. It’s a capitalist noose and at the same time also so unnecessarily dangerous.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    Back in the day, people generally had fewer shirts and they were typically the same color, usually white. A tie was developed as a way to have a bit of varying color for a suit without needing as much fabric.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Because I never truly need to wear one and I like the patterns and style of the ties I own? What kind of question is this?

    People just like to accessorize. Not everything is that deep lol

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    I get your point, I use pocket squares to accessorize but to each their own. My mental association of ties revolves around IBM staff (and similar) being forced to wear ties for no reason other than “management decision”. For me the only thing I can think of when I see a tie is the leash of the wealthy class.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    Feels like you could say the same about any clothing/jewellery other than the bare essentials, but maybe Lemmy is the wrong audience for fashion (fuck being forced to wear ties, obviously)

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