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 And since Firefox crashes every time I try to look at the GIF thread I'll ask here, does anyone have a backstory on 
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Jan 31, 2016 03:30
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Elohssa Gib posted:
it's a fabric made of scales that have a matte finish on one side and a glossy metallic finish on the other.
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Jan 31, 2016 03:33
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Melaneus posted:I seriously get to the violets are blue part and think "violets are blue? There's an entirely different color on the spectrum we've named after that flower, did some color-blind guy write this poem?" Violets can actually be a wide range of colours.  This picture isn't funny. I'm sorry.
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Jan 31, 2016 05:05
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Jan 31, 2016 05:45
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Oh gently caress you with a rake this is one of my least favorite earworms.
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Jan 31, 2016 06:26
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FreudianSlippers posted:It's from the 18th century or some poo poo. Maybe people didn't distinguish between blue and violet back then. I mean the Japanese seem to think green and blue are shades of the same colour and only have one word for both and the ancient Greeks thought the sky was bronze* so it's possible. There was an interesting segment on NPR that postulated that humans need to be taught colors, not how to see them but how to conceptualize and articulate them. For a very long time this was almost impossible and it wasn't until we could reliably replicate a color, through use of dyes or even metallurgy, that we named and categorized it. Although by the time of the 18th century we had definitely figured out purple, you are correct that there was a time when people wouldn't have recognized it.
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Jan 31, 2016 06:32
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mind the walrus posted:Oh gently caress you with a rake this is one of my least favorite earworms. I work at an arena, and they play it pre-game at the exact same time every game. "Oh, it's 5:50? It must be time for- Yup. There it is." They couldn't even shuffle the playlist or wait until enough people are there to drown it out.
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Jan 31, 2016 06:43
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Who What Now posted:There was an interesting segment on NPR that postulated that humans need to be taught colors, not how to see them but how to conceptualize and articulate them. For a very long time this was almost impossible and it wasn't until we could reliably replicate a color, through use of dyes or even metallurgy, that we named and categorized it. Orange didn't appear as a color until about the 17th century, as I recall. What we would call orange would be called red prior to that. "Robin red-breast" was a common name, but a robin's breast is orange. People have red hair, even though it's clearly orange, since the name preceded the identification of the color. It was when the fruit began arriving in England (called an orange as a corruption of various Asian names meaning roughly "Chinese apple"), the color began to be named based on the fruit. "The color of an orange" eventually became just orange as a separate color from red. Similarly "lemon" as a shade of light yellow was derived from the name of the fruit. The fruit was not named because it was the color "lemon" - it was the other way around.
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Jan 31, 2016 07:03
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There was a documentary about a study done with a remote tribe of people I remember but can't seem to find. The researchers showed them a bunch of colored circles where one of them was clearly green and the others blue and asked them to point to the one circle that was different, and they couldn't figure it out. Then they did the same thing with a different color, where one circle was just a slightly different shade of the same color as the rest of the circles (maybe brown? or red? can't remember). Every person immediately pointed to the different circle. The difference was that, in their language, they had words distinguishing the latter pair of colors, but not the former. So not only is our language about colors affected by our surroundings, but our actual perception of color is affected by our language, too. On the "orange-red" thing mentioned above, I ran into the same thing learning Japanese. "Green" is a relatively new concept, so in Japan they have "blue apples", "blue vegetables" (lettuce, etc), and the "blue" light on the traffic sign means "go". Apparently, the only major colors up until a hundred or so years ago were red, blue, white and black, maybe purple (if you're a language buff, the way to tell is that there are simple words for those five colors, where all other colors are described as "_____-color", like "tea-color" for "brown" or "orange-color" for "orange"). Mezzanine has a new favorite as of 08:04 on Jan 31, 2016 |
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Jan 31, 2016 07:59
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We've talked about it a bunch in the Ancient History thread too; Homer calls the sky "bronze", and the sea the color of wine. Color is very cultural.
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Jan 31, 2016 08:15
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:We've talked about it a bunch in the Ancient History thread too; Homer calls the sky "bronze", and the sea the color of wine. Color is very cultural. Do they specify time of day or weather conditions. We've probably all seen yellow skies and red moons. Green water and pink sunsets aren't exactly uncommon. Maybe they were trying to describe what they saw as the rare essence of the thing.
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Jan 31, 2016 08:41
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Homer was blind though, maybe not the best judge of colors.
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Jan 31, 2016 08:44
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PittTheElder posted:We've talked about it a bunch in the Ancient History thread too; Homer calls the sky "bronze", and the sea the color of wine. Color is very cultural. It's pretty much what happens at sunset?
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Jan 31, 2016 09:03
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lol I just can't get enough of these funny pictures
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Jan 31, 2016 09:10
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NotAnArtist posted:In a thread made for pictures I appreciate this a lot. Thank you.
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Jan 31, 2016 09:14
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:It's pretty much what happens at sunset? As if goons could conceptualize what a sunset is.
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Jan 31, 2016 09:15
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Dungeon Ecology posted:lol I just can't get enough of these funny pictures Yeah like that one you posted, that was tops. 
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Jan 31, 2016 10:29
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They simply won't let it go, will they?
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Jan 31, 2016 10:31
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That's a pretty specific subgenre.
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Jan 31, 2016 11:01
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Screaming Idiot posted:They simply won't let it go, will they? Xand_Man posted:That's a pretty specific subgenre.  From the weird fan art thread, this was posted like 20 times in the first hundred pages but I couldn't find it when I needed it. Gave up and just googled it first result here you go.
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Jan 31, 2016 11:33
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I've seen people absolutely lose their poo poo over that song because, obviously, it's about a lesbian coming out to her family. 
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Jan 31, 2016 11:40
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Innuendo is a von Neumann machine let loose to consume all communication.
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Jan 31, 2016 12:38
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In.. my endo?
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Jan 31, 2016 13:06
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Duckling means chicken means cock means penis means that that witch singing about witching now means penis. That's some mean penis. Karate Bastard has a new favorite as of 14:14 on Jan 31, 2016 |
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Jan 31, 2016 13:51
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Krinkle posted:
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NotAnArtist posted:In a thread made for pictures Burma Shave
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Mezzanine posted:On the "orange-red" thing mentioned above, I ran into the same thing learning Japanese. "Green" is a relatively new concept, so in Japan they have "blue apples", "blue vegetables" (lettuce, etc), and the "blue" light on the traffic sign means "go". Apparently, the only major colors up until a hundred or so years ago were red, blue, white and black, maybe purple (if you're a language buff, the way to tell is that there are simple words for those five colors, where all other colors are described as "_____-color", like "tea-color" for "brown" or "orange-color" for "orange"). A side effect I've noticed is that Japanese people learning colours in English tend to be really specific about defining something as "light blue" vs "blue". poptart_fairy posted:I've seen people absolutely lose their poo poo over that song because, obviously, it's about a lesbian coming out to her family. It may not specifically be meant to be about that, but it's a pretty obvious interpretation.
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Feb 1, 2016 05:01
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I've never seen this movie, never even heard any songs from it; but I did see the short attached to Cinderella and yeah the fans have this one right, they are obviously loving.
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Feb 1, 2016 05:08
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Mezzanine posted:There was a documentary about a study done with a remote tribe of people I remember but can't seem to find. The researchers showed them a bunch of colored circles where one of them was clearly green and the others blue and asked them to point to the one circle that was different, and they couldn't figure it out. Then they did the same thing with a different color, where one circle was just a slightly different shade of the same color as the rest of the circles (maybe brown? or red? can't remember). Every person immediately pointed to the different circle. The difference was that, in their language, they had words distinguishing the latter pair of colors, but not the former. So not only is our language about colors affected by our surroundings, but our actual perception of color is affected by our language, too. There's a article I read recently that has a similar subject, I'm betting that this article is drawing from the same source as the documentary you're talking about. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2
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Feb 1, 2016 05:17
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Mulva posted:I've never seen this movie, never even heard any songs from it; but I did see the short attached to Cinderella and yeah the fans have this one right, they are obviously loving. Nah! 
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Feb 1, 2016 05:28
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Please don't ship underage CGI sisters in this, the "funny pictures" thread, or elsewhere, ever
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Feb 1, 2016 06:53
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Where the hell would you get purple eyeshadow in the middle of a frozen medieval tundra?
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Feb 1, 2016 06:57
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arctic plums.
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Feb 1, 2016 07:02
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Say Nothing posted:Nah! They're doin' that eyebrow thing. Why does every CG character gotta do that eyebrow thing? WarpedNaba posted:Where the hell would you get blue eyeshadow in the middle of a frozen medieval tundra? Early onset of frostbite?
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Feb 1, 2016 07:18
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Melaneus posted:Early onset of frostbite? wait, you edited the post you quoted, in a way that doesn't match the image, to make this joke? if you're gonna do that the joke has to be a loving banger, this is...
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:wait, you edited the post you quoted, in a way that doesn't match the image, to make this joke? The optimist in me wants to believe it's a throwback to the earlier color discussion
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Viscous Soda posted:There's a article I read recently that has a similar subject, I'm betting that this article is drawing from the same source as the documentary you're talking about. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2 Awesome, that's it! Weird, I remembered it as being circles, not squares. Huh.
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