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  Geoff

  12 months ago

  Nooses should not be joked about at all, at least in the U.S. where we have a grave history of lynching that still effects us today.
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  skeptic

  12 months ago

  Doesn't affect me.
  And if someone voluntarily wears one of these ties, what is the problem? It is when these are worn involuntarily that there is a problem.
  People need to stop trying to be offended.
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  woot

  12 months ago

  Geoff: we also have this wonderful tradition of free speech.
  
  That means we'll continue to joke about whatever we want, and that includes gallows humor. If you have a problem with it, go eat your watermelon.
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  Ram-Rod

  8 months ago

  You're just being an idiot.
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  E. Michael Martin

  12 months ago

  Actually, Neck ties devolved from elaborate neck scarves worn my men in the French Revolutionary period. They were a way to cover up the neck, a body part that had been severed frequently. Clothes became much simpler in order to distance people from aristocracy, and the scarves simplified themselves over time as well.
  
  It was this movement that started the modern suit, as well, since wealth was shown now by tailoring, and not ornate-ness of the clothing.
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  David

  12 months ago

  This is an interesting thread, not the least of which because it seems to revolve around Geoff's somewhat amusing assumption that the Internet ends within the borders of the USA...
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  John

  12 months ago

  Wearing this will get you beaten half to death, weeks later, by African-Americans who will then go on to be supported by Senator Obama in their actions.
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