It isn't the tie...it is the collar and we are too cheap to buy a new shirt

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Sep 3, 2015
8:10:49am

Fdnman

It isn't the tie...it is the collar and we are too cheap to buy a new shirt

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Fdnman

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Why do we wear ties

OU Cougar

9/3/15 7:25am

Ties are almost completely extinct in the business world.

workindev

9/3/15 7:27am

Not in the Banking and Financial Market world

coot20

9/3/15 7:32am

Yeah but they're skinny ties now so they're almost non-existent

WDaddy

9/3/15 7:33am

Or missionaries and lawyers

OU Cougar

9/3/15 7:35am

Attorneys are still required to wear suit and tie

JOPE

9/3/15 7:41am

I wish they were

Biyamiti

9/3/15 7:59am

The tie's vertical lines make you look slimmer.

Bernard

9/3/15 7:27am

And by "you" I mean you.

Bernard

9/3/15 7:29am

mods??!?!? personal attack

TN_Coug

9/3/15 7:30am

And by "slimmer" I meant "less fat."

Bernard

9/3/15 7:38am

Good to see Bernard back and in full force! Go Berny!

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

9/3/15 7:33am

Yet it does nothing for you.

cougfanblue

9/3/15 7:48am

So it also discourages people from being healthier.

9/3/15 7:31am

The LDS Church will be the last institution to drop the use of ties

9/3/15 7:38am

im going to organize a group, "BAT" (brethren against ties) and start protesting

IndependentGeorge

9/3/15 8:05am

You just want to be a BAT man.

9/3/15 9:20am

What do you mean there's no functional use for ties?

dilbert

9/3/15 8:25am

And you can clean you glasses or sunglasses with them

Tricky

9/3/15 12:35pm

To keep the stink in.

idacoug

9/3/15 7:40am

For exactly the reasons you list.

9/3/15 7:43am

If your tie is restricting blood/oxygen flow you're wearing it wrong

SpiffCoug

9/3/15 7:43am

It isn't the tie...it is the collar and we are too cheap to buy a new shirt

Fdnman

9/3/15 8:10am

BM David Carridine

BlueFrog

9/3/15 8:18am

Because women stole our high heals, makeup, wigs and nylons. Needed something.

Fdnman

9/3/15 7:45am

People are sheep

9/3/15 7:53am

your tie cuts of oxygen to your brain? then you tie it way to tight.

bald man

9/3/15 8:22am

i only wear them in court and church...never during the week

nashty

9/3/15 8:26am

"The Creation of Man" in The Scarlet Pimpernel explains it well

CrackerJack

9/3/15 8:28am

Because:

db59840

9/3/15 8:30am

You sit in church, sweating like a fat pig on a hot day in Lincoln, wearing a

QBarrister

9/3/15 8:36am

Give the lady your jacket, then

Squeegee

9/3/15 8:41am

Happened last week. She became the undersized deacon wearing Dad's jacket

QBarrister

9/3/15 8:48am

It's to cover up the buttons on your shirt.

scottfunkel

9/3/15 8:54am

I rarely wear them - court only; not church or weekday office - but I admit

jayriggity

9/3/15 9:08am

Do you flush the toilet with your teeth, or just have REALLY short arms?

cougaman

9/3/15 9:40am

A tourniquet, hiding a wire if undercover, hog tying a criminal or terrorist

Y2k

9/3/15 10:48am

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