Agreed. Ties are also excellent in that they allow men in drab (black / grey / dark blue) suits a little splash of colour in their attire, to liven things up. Nothing wrong with that.
Notice how in shows like Star Trek, all truly advanced civilizations have evolved beyond the use of the tie. Only harsh, totalitarian regimes make people wear ties.
No. Not this. If you think your tie is uncomfortable it’s because you’re wearing a shirt that’s too tight around the neck. Here’s a tip: If you can’t easily slip two fingers between your collar and neck the shirt doesn’t fit. If the shirt fits, it will be nearly impossible to pull the tie too tight. If it doesn’t, it’s going to strangle you whether you wear a tie or not.
The tech industry, however, is not exactly the bastion of high fashion.
Ties for men are no different than stockings and heels for women in a work environment – it just adds a level of sophistication and polish to how you look. I wouldn’t say it’s antiquated.
I think men who really passionately hate ties actually hate to button the top button of their shirts. My husband is like this. He also has a lot of trouble tying a tie, because he’s left-handed, and no one taught him how to tie one when he was a kid. When he needs to wear a tie, I usually tie it for him. I was a Brownie long enough ago that the uniform still included a tie, and so when I was seven, my father taught me to tie a necktie.
Also, I’ve noticed that men who wear suits every day have very personal tie collections. They have holiday ties, joke ties, flashy ties, subdued ties, and choose the right amount of self-expression according to what they have to do that day. Bank tellers can wear goofy ties on April first, but not public defenders, unless the PD isn’t going to be in court that day. Public school principals should wear goofy ties, on every possible occasion.
Apparently it is. It’s also going to be the thread for “I don’t like this thing, therefore it’s objectively stupid”
I think the biggest entrenched custom in much of the world is driving on the right.
Most people are right-handed, and if they drove on the left, they’d be able to keep their dominant hand on the wheel at all times. Comparing like for like, countries that drive on the left have far fewer accidents.
People started drviing on the right when it was shown to make whipping easier for horse teamsters. Though this is no longer necessary, the huge costs and inevitable accidents would make switching back to the left irrational.
If you have to tie yourself into knots like this, isn’t it time to reconsider the premise of your OP?
That link states that Sumerian used a hybrid base 12/base 60 system. Several other sources, like this one imply that it used a hybrid base 10/base 60 (though other subbases, e.g. 6, were sometimes substituted for the 10).
Any corroborating cite for the base 12?
Exactly why can’t you keep your dominant hand on the wheel? I suspect you’re adjusting the radio too much.
The world is very much divided on this subject:
http://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/list-of-left-driving-countries/
Fair enough. A good rule is on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t think of it.
What I am trying to gather is customs which don’t serve their straight-forward purpose. I want to keep out things like driving on the right of the road. Yes, we only do it because it is custom. Driving on the left is equally as good. But I want to exclude that because to accommodate two way vehicle traffic, one must keep to one side or the other. The same theory goes for a 60 minute hour or standing for the national anthem.
As a previous poster points out, the same objection could be made for ties, which are at #1 on the list. The argument goes that we need a way of dress to show that we respect the event at hand and that it is important. A man wearing a tie fits that role. Now, in keeping consistent with my previous bitch, it could be substituted by wearing gloves, or a certain necklace or anything else to show respect, but wearing ties are just as good.
I think the distinction could be drawn because it is not just as good. As people in the thread have pointed out, it is uncomfortable to millions of people who wear them just because, yet we continue to do it.
I dunno, can I get some help reformulating the OP?
The phrase “antiquated custom” in the thread title suggests to me something that people used to have a reason for doing, but it has outlived its reason: people still do it even though the reason why it would make sense to do so no longer applies.
One example would be the custom of the bride being “given away” by her father at weddings. We no longer consider it an actual transfer of custody or responsibility over a woman from one man to another, yet the custom persists.
Shifting gear.
Ah, stick-shift. Now there’s an antiquated custom! :: d&r ::
I do. I was raised to call everyone by an honorific as it shows respect. I call every male or female that looks old enough to drive with Sir, Ma’am. Also being younger than 100 I remember being young myself and having an older person calling me a “Sir”* and it made me feel more grown up and that I should act like a grown up instead of a damn fool child.
*First one was my 7th grade woodshop teacher Mr. Jackson. He called all the kids Sir or Ma’am or Mr./Ms. Lastname and treated us like adults and expected us to act like adults. That may have just been a practical measure so that we didn’t chase each other around with jigsaws.
Because if I get mail that just says, “M. Smurf” and I open it and it was for my wife I have now commited mail theft and could face jail time. No thank you.
Just stop. I did, 9 years ago. I’ve gotten several jobs with the beard. To me it seems employers just don’t like the scruffy period between clean shaven and sporting a beard because it looks messy and it gives people the impression that you are a lazy no good son of a bitch and that could be bad for business.
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It’s interesting to me that the people who most often wear ties are the same ones we most often mistrust.
As for “sir,” a Western lady have never really been to Thailand until a local shopkeeper calls her “sir.”
I don’t think your link shows what you think it does. To me, “pretty much divided” means like 50-50 each way. The reality is, most of the world drive the “proper” way. It’s just current and former UK peoples, plus a few outliers, that drive on the right. Even China drives on the left. But not Hong Kong.