Commuting Advice (Suit Care)

Colonel Tupperware wrote

De regrrrr amongst 'computer' engineers of the late 60s and early 70's.

 

When a fighting drunk punter has got you by the tie and is trying to
choke you with it or is using it as a method to propel your head into the
side of the brake van a clip on doesn't seem so absurd.

 

sweller says...

The last ASLEF barbecue?

 

First rule of Fight Club....

 

I occasionally wear a tie at work. What winds people up is the fact that
it's tied with a hangman's knot...

 

Heh. "ASLEF, or 'Fight Club' as it is known."

 

My father claims he wasn't allowed to wear a "proper" tie when working on
old mchines and the like due to the safety implications of a tie
being caught in the belts and pulleys of early computers.


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He should have worn a proper tie - a bow tie.

 

That's why I started wearing a bow-tie, and making jokes about how to spot
the gynaecologists in hospitals.

 

Heh... You card.

 

Would that be a; simple noose, strangle snare, gallows knot, hangmans
knot or a reverse eight noose?

http://www.realknots.com/knots/noose.htm

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The Hangman's Knot.

Although I don't use the full thirteen turns when tieing it.

 

Of course its absurd.
The whole tie thing is absurd.
It has no purpose other than an adornment. If you were not wearing a
tie the drunken punter couldn't grab you by it.

If you are in a work position whereby a tie is a danger to you either
by mechanical means or by people using it as a weapon against you then
surely it is not right to wear one.

Grumpy Old Man mode

A clip on tie is just another item in the line of both modern and
ancient absurdities that blight us today.
Caffiene free coffee.
Alcohol free beer and wine.
Meat free sausages.
Cocaine free Coca Cola.
Mass passenger transport vehicles that cannot be steered safely around
any obsticle in its path.
Low fat bacon.
Continental Pilsner Lager from Northampton or Warrington or anywhere
else not in the Czech Republic for that matter.

Abominations the lot of 'em.

FX:
wanders off mumbling into beard

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Which reminds me, there were (amongst other "stuff") two ties in the
Jag. They await your next foray back to civilisation.

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If you weren't wearing the clip-on, they'd grab you by the shirt-front.
With a clip-on, they're left looking stupid and trying to figure out what
happened for a few seconds, giving you ample opportunity to drop-kick their
spuds into the middle of next week. Allegedly.

 

The best I've found are from BHS, although I don't wear a shirt and tie
much these days.

 

Some people get complaints. :-(

 

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:09:46 +0000, steve auvache wrote:

They don't seem to care about this anymore. At least: a friend of mine
works for them and has what might be called a beard, and they've even
asked him to reconsider handing in his notice.

Of course, there are plenty of other reasons not to work for EDS.

 

You can even have it forwarded to your POP account.

 

There is, of course, that.