The youth don't wear ties anymore Grandad.
In fact the vast majority of people who come to meetings in our office don't wear them.
The flipside is we had two Yankee in last week, they had arrived in Dublin but by all accounts their luggage was en route to their end destination in the Netherlands. They looked like two tourists who had wandered in off the street.
We live in an age without standards, without dignity, decorum, manners or decency.
I don't expect you to wear a tie, sw, for you are a drunken Irish peasant and such a garment could easily become entangled in the mechanism of your tractor, but these days I note that supposedly decent, honourable people are dressing for work as if they are prepared for bed; it is deeply distressing for those of us who retain some standards.
Indeed. Plus, one invariably ends up dripping food or drink on the damn thing and, while with a shirt one can simply wash it, a tie has to be expensively dry-cleaned So one ends up paying a large-ish sum of money to own and maintain an item of clothing one hates wearing. Madness!