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WCDT: 2387-2391 (18-22 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Akima on 21 Feb 2013, 05:17 ---I've never actually worn a tie (it was not part of my school uniforms), but I would imagine that tying one on someone else from in front could be a challenge? Claire might have been better to sit Marten in a chair and do it from behind.
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I had to wear ties. "Professional Image" and all that. Also since boarding school in the UK.
So now I don't (Hurray!) but do sometimes have to wear makeup *SIGH*.
And when I first attempted to tie a guy's tie.... I mean, I'd tied ties for ages, of course I could do it.... exactly the same thing happened to me as happened to Claire.
This one made me laugh out loud.
UPDATE - by the way - I interpret that blush not as embarassment, but as anger. She's got the traditional fiery redhead temper. She doesn't get angry at others though, just herself for not being able to ferschlugginer potrzebie tie a fararckling TIE grrrrrrr.
It's FINE, OK? Fine. (mutter mutter)
(married men will recognise that as a danger signal....)
Welu:
My secondary school had ties in the uniform. I think it was a half-windsor I tied and did it almost everyday for five years and don't remember how at all. Although if I relax and let muscle memory take over it works pretty well. I can only tie them on myself so if I've had to do one for someone else it didn't get American TV sitcom on the situation.
Barmymoo:
I also wore a tie every day for six years for school (at primary school my tie was on elastic) and I think I do the four in hand knot. I've worn a bow tie a few times but wouldn't remember how to wear it. I wear a necktie for choir which you tie by doing half the steps for a four in hand - round your neck, cross one end over the other, bring it behind, up and over the knot and tighten. So ties, yea, I can do those.
But tying one for someone else? I have to stand behind them and put my arms round to tie it like it was on myself.
The choir spends a lot of time readjusting each other's ties and surplices, so I'm fairly comfortable with that these days. I hate people touching my neck, but I don't find it at all intimate to straighten someone else's necktie or widen the knot or pull it up to cover more of their skin.
jwhouk:
Half-Windsor, I can do. Full Windsor, I suck.
I have no idea what that is that Claire did to Marten.
And I'm getting more and more of a vibe that Claire just did NOT like "dressing up" as a male.
Method of Madness:
I don't know, when I was in high school girls seemed to be more likely than guys to know how to tie a tie. I used YouTube for a while before finally being confident enough to tie one without it. But yeah, I don't see why Marten doesn't just pull out his phone, YouTube "how to tie a tie" and just do that.
Also I object to the "Four in Hand" being called "cheating", that's the only one I use.
I agree with Barmy, I don't think fixing someone's tie is inherently intimate, I think it'd mostly just be intimate if there was already something between the two people.
Ha, damn it, red text, then when adjusting my post to include Barmy's, our original poster pops in.
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