If you don't cinch it up too tightly, it's no more constricting than buttoning the top button on the shirt. Not that wearing one makes any sense, but it's not trying to kill you, either.

Don't tie it so tight 🤷‍♂️

HOW TIGHT ARE THEIR TIES

How tight are they tying them?!

Fuck the Man, ditch the tie!

This makes the business world and politicians make sense.

Just keep the last top button unbuttoned, and hide it with the knot.

I never want to wear a tie, but it's not hard to keep it just loose enough where it's not outright uncomfortable.

Makes sense. Can't have blood flowing to the brain. That might result in independent thought, maybe even questioning management.

Hevent worn a tie for any reason other than a funeral in the last 20 years. I refuse. If I show up to work in a T-shirt with no holes I'm dressed up.

Its funny being the only one at the senior staff meeting in an Iron Maiden T while everyone else is suit and tie. Good thing I'm good at what I do

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"

Do people not know how to buy a proper fitting shirt and not cinch a tie too tight?

Having grown up Mormon; this was obvious. I could always feel my brain being choked off but would get in trouble if the tie looked loose.

Remember all those bankers, lawyers, and managers wearing ties each and every day? Now you know why they act like they do.

BTW, the tie not only reduces the oxygen supply to the brain, it also increases the risk of strokes by about 10%.

Ties make no sense. It's literally a strip of cloth tied around your neck that serves no useful purpose at all. It's idiotic that they have managed to survive as a part of modern clothing.

Every boy dressed in their Sunday best can verify that.

Growing up in the Mormon Church, I remember a time some asshole just unilaterally decided to redo my tie in a harsh knot that was too tight. Didn't ask if it was okay, just went right ahead and decided my own safe, loose knot wasn't good enough or something.

Just having a complete flashback to that because of this article. Obsession over minute details is just laughably silly when it leads to health problems.

Neckties belong in business, but not all business. I threw a big stink when I worked at Kohls. Women could wear polos, slacks, etc. Men had to wear dress shirts and ties, slacks or dress pants. It's retail, ties can get caught on a lot of shit (registers, conveyors, doors, etc). Took a year but the Regional manager finally saw the light and later it became corporate policy. Women also couldn't wear necklaces for the same reason.

And now let's take a look at everyone at Wallstreet, it's all ties and red faces. Probably way more than 7,5% lol

What an idiotic article (and website in general, looks Buzzfeed-tier). From its linked source:

Negative cerebrovascular effects can be expected by compressing jugular veins and carotids

No shit.

by a necktie.

Nobody is wearing a tie that tightly, and even if it is deliberately made that tight when you put it on, it's not like a noose, it'll loosen on its own almost immediately as you start moving around. There are no springs in a tie maintaining the tension.

Highly doubt this for some reason.

1 tentie is 75%

Mkay.

If you tie it that tight you'll feel the blood pounding in your head and feel like you are suffocating. I can't imagine someone making it that tight and not immediately loosening it.

puts on tie and pulls the knot so tight it cuts off air to my lungs

"tImE tO Go tO wOrK"

Is the merging of words in multiple places in that article due to how my browser is rendering it, or are the spaces actually missing? A copy+paste suggests the latter. It's almost as bad as leaving out the Oxford comma.

cantransmit whenpeoplehave

It is supposed to be a tie, not a hangman's noose.

red ties agree

Plus it makes you look like a fucking douchebag tool. Fuck a tie.

Neck ties are over. They used to be central to mens' fashion. Now if you wear one it's because you have to, which denotes low status. Like, the worst is chinos, a cheap shirt and tie, with a windbreaker instead of a blazer. Also: black sneakers. For some crazy reason, it's actually higher status to wear designer sweats around.

The look for business is slacks, a good pressed shirt, a fitted blazer with no shoulder pads, and NO TIE. Top neck button undone. It's also more comfortable. Even top execs are dressing like this. Ties are only necessary in the most formal occasions.