h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I bludding HATE ties. Many of my colleagues wear ties. They have no apparant function so far as I can see.

So WHO says that you need to wear a tie? Join my campaign for the abolishmentisation of ties.

PP

I think the World Health Organisation has really overstepped its bounds this time...

B

I say so.

It marks you out as having a professional approach to your work.

Sadly, I'm a dying breed...

Sadly, you can't judge a book by its cover that way. Some of the most incompetent colleagues I have wear ties. Others don't, yet do a much more conscientious (and competent) job.

It's the only bit of colour in my work clothes (I'm a lawyer). So I say yes as well.

sprout

I managed to avoid wearing ties at work for nearly four decades. I don't like the tightness around my throat.

Designer Geoffrey Beene said that men can get enough color in their apparel by choosing more colorful shirts.

I do have to wear bow ties when I wear a tuxedo, though. Happily, I don't need to do that very often.

Sadly, I'd like to introduce you to Happily. I'm sure you'll get along well once you really how complementary you are.

But, without a tie, where would you put your tie pin?

There's an answer to that, but I'm not going to give it.

no .. need... I think I know... what you'd have said...

They do help keep your neck warm... when its cold.. Well they probably help keep your neck warm when its hot too, but that isn't really a Positive thing

Ties are the first line of defence against ... medallion man.

No they aren't. Good taste is!

Good taste can't protect us from Medallian man! Even shrouding ourselves in a protective layer of good taste, its just not enough... Just when you think its safe, you get out of your car, walk across the carpark, wondering why there is no pedestrian paths provided, and then, turning left, onto the street, walking past an intimidating block of offices, he attacks, coming from nowhere, appearing as if through some mysical method of magically suddenly appearing as if from nowhere, and he's there. Just there. so menacing, so there, and no cloak of good taste can prevent the inevitable, the fatal and the fatalistic. You walk. Medallian man walks. the grass area to the side, no escape, pounding traffic, pounding by on the road, like a constant stream of pounding traffic pounding by on the road, no escape in that direct, and you can't turn, can't runa nd scream, in bleak office-land, no one can hear you scream. He looms, like a medallian man, looming, and you fear, for good reason, and then it is there, no escape, no flee from the terror, as medallian man draws near, the giant, oversized, shiney, incandescent, sparkly giant shiney medallian, right there, with nothing, nothing at all, not even a thin blue with silver stripes silk tie, to protect your vision from the terror and inevitable consequences of the vision, a vision so powerful as to be, really rather powerful

The scary thought is 21st Century Medallion Man may differ from his ancestors in that he may also have evolved nipple rings

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I will join the campaign. If people want to wear ties, that's fine. But if they don't want to, I don't see why they should be judged on that.

My husband sometimes wears a shirt and tie just so I can have the pleasure of removing them

Mol

Ooooo! ... like that*is it..

I've got no objection to a tie, it's just the social pressure to wear one that's wrong; we shouldn't have to wrap an uncomfortable piece of cloth around our necks for the sake of convention. Of course, the same could be said of suits. Why is it important for certain professionals to wear items of clothing made from the exactly same material?

The men in suits all wear the same clothes so that we cannot recognise them individually. This lets them get away with corporate murder, award themselves massive pay increases in Times of Austerity (when we are told that we all have to feel the pain together by the rich boys club) and generally take the piss!

t

PS at least Aviva shareholders have spoken.

Architects. Architects say people have to wear ties, because it is the mark of the architect not to wear one. He cannot be different if everyone else is, too.

If I could, I'd go into work every day in jeans and a hoodie. At least our office is "smart casual", so I can go without a tie, and with my top button undone.