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• Dalewyn 2y ago
  It never occured to me until I'd read parent comment, but in hindsight it's Glorious(tm): * A tie is a long, big(ish), pointy thing that hangs and flaps around in front of you. * A wedding ring is something you stick a long, pointy appendage through. Now I wonder if parent commenter just pulled this out of his ass or if this was always intentional...
  • amenhotep 2y ago
    It's hard to find any phallic symbolism in the cravat, so sartorial genealogy seems a point against the idea. But one might wonder what impulse led it to grow so much longer and floppier.
  • 082349872349872 2y ago
    I had the impression the casual suit tie evolved out of the stock tie*; if so it was even changed over time from a practical, stubby, thing to a decorative, much longer, thing. * https://www.smartpakequine.com/learn-products/how-to-tie-a-stock-tie https://www.smartpakequine.com/learn-products/how-to-tie-a-s... Lagniappe: Is it just coincidence that the proper sentences are « Je vais au Canada. » and « Je vais en France. » ? Do francophones habitually go onto grammatically masculine countries and into grammatically feminine ones?
  • eimrine 2y ago
    > A wedding ring is something you stick a long, pointy appendage through. No you have not got it yet. The long pointy thing in a wedding ring is the finger.