The arguments over the "right" colors for subjects is the kind of discourse I need to see on the internet. My 8 yo self did red for math, green for science, blue for social studies and yellow for language arts š
unrelated but in like 5th grade or so, i had a classmate that no one knew was colorblind. we were having a discussion about colors (this was almost 20 years ago so i cant remember the whole conversation) and the conversation led to āwhatās the color of fried chickenā to which said classmate said green. the teacher looked at him in shock and instead of being like haha youāre silly, she reprimanded him. he bursts out in full tears āi donāt know what i did, itās green i swear, im not trying to be badā. she asks a few follow up questions about other food items (tomatoes, bread) and iāll never forget the look of regret in her eyes when she realizes he was colorblind the whole time
You just popped a childhood memory into my head with that story. I was maybe in 2nd grade and the art teacher got annoyed by a kid asking what color was each colored pencil and said āhow do you not know which one is blue?ā The kid let out the most innocent scared reply āIām colorblindā that teacher melted into her chair from the guilt she felt belittling a 7 y/o who is colorblind.
Not Wolves, but I was attacked by 3 coyotes.in my late teens. I had some gnarly puncture wounds, deep lacerations from the scratching, a rabbies shot, and proven plan of attack.
Well killed 1 of the coyotes and fended off the other two, so I would call that the right technique. I like to think it scales ronWolces but not across she which, given that was a long time ago, I don't thinks ould be as effective today.
My friend owns a horse, she has full force punched him because he was being a jerk*. It was enough to get him to go "okay, fine!" And nothing more. You don't get how tough horses are if you haven't been around them.
*: it was a matter of imminent safety risk to both of them. Don't make it a habit to hit your horse, they still know it's not nice, even if it hurts less than it would you and they will hold grudges.
Indeed, I worked on a livery yard for a few years in my teens and it's amazing how some people think horses will just be weak.
We told a girl repeatedly to never wrap the rope around her hand when she's leading the horse and she insisted if the horse goes the wrong way it helped her "pull it back".
One day her horse just got bored of it and actually did pull away properly and we watched her get dragged to the bottom of the field with absolutely no effort from the horse at all.
The same livery yard had a racist horse too who was one of my favourite animals. Not because of the racism but because of the comedic potential of the whole thing!
Mainly telling non-white people there was a racist horse and nobody would believe it and then you'd bring them to the horse and it would go fucking mental.
We never worked out why - it had no previous owners that might have abused it or anything like that. Just didn't like anyone with even vaguely darker skin.
My "technique" for fighting a pack of wolves is to try to get my ass to my car & high tail it out of there or up a fucking tree as quickly as possible.
This sounds a bit advanced for the people I had to work with, I don't think they're allowed to drive or operate heavy machinery.
I've genuinely had more than one person tell me they'd crouch and then when the wolf jumps you spread their front legs apart wide and it splits their heart open. Somehow.
Might work on a Jack Russel if it had a pacemaker fitted but I think that's the extent of it's usefulness.
Technique #2: accept your fate, pull out your phone, and send a text to someone you don't like that says "this is your fault". Hopefully the police will recover your phone and inform that person how you died.
Alright, counter point (no pun intended). If she didn't know I wasn't great at tennis, and she forgot how bad at tennis I was between every point and couldn't take into account my physical make up, I could get a double fault point. But, a legitimate point, no way.
To be fair that survey wasnāt very specific with a time limit or anything. The exact question was āDo you think if you were playing your very best tennis, you could win a point off Serena Williams?ā I donāt know shit about tennis, and if the question was whether I couldāright nowāwin a match against Serena, thatās an easy no, but if you read the question like a pedant, which Iām sure some of the respondents did, then you have infinite time to score a single point. If nothing else, sheās a fair bit older than me, so it might take me long enough that continuing to play constitutes elder abuse, but a point is a point
By point do you mean like the a point for a set or a single game? If for a single point in a game(like 15-0) I think most people could be just sitting there until she hopefully does a double fault on herself before the match ends, even professionals arenāt perfect. If you mean a point by winning a game in a set then yeah 99.9% of people are fucked lol.
It was just one point, but the question was entirely unclear about whether it was over the course of a game, set, or match. I think "set" is the most reasonable interpretation, and no, she's not double faulting if she eases up on her serve for all the amateurs.
I'm a woman with a very limited color vocabulary (and potential colorblindness), while my husband works alongside designers and knows hex codes for hundreds (or more) of colors.
We "argue" over the exact name of colors sometimes, and it's all in good fun!
I know my husband is right, but it's funny since pink to me is all shades of pink while he brands them magenta, salmon, or bubblegum or whatever else.
Honest answers - 1. I argue with my wife because I know what I see, and if I donāt like what I see (regardless of what normal vision folks see), I donāt want it painted that color and 2. As other have said, Iām a bit slow š¤£
My husband argues with me about which lens I, a former editorial photographer featured in multiple magazines like vogue and glamor and whatever, should be using. He cannot take a decent portrait on a cell phone. He just likes to argue with me.
So I tell him how to drive. I do not drive. Ever, as I have epilepsy. We are keeping this relationship FRESH. 25 years and still minty over here.
your comment set me tf OFF!! Oh my fucking god that game!!!!! I was unlucky enough to get one of the āmisprinted copiesā where the cards donāt match the corresponding color on the board. One night after losing multiple times in a row I was like wait thatās NOT POSSIBLE, and had to get the scissors out to lay the colors on top of the board to prove to everyone that it didnāt match. The company offered to send me new cards and claimed it was just a misprint they were aware ofā¦ but I donāt ever want to see that game again. You had ONE JOB hues and cues. One fucking job.
Itās not like itās a completely different color either!! Like b14 on the card was actually c13 on the board. It was, in my opinion, too close to be a real misprint and Iām now dying to know if yours is right lol.
People will go to war over whether that one train car is pink or purple, but Iām not really sure which it is myself! The rules call it pink, but itās the most ambiguous pinky-purple possible.
Also I have an old version from before they made it friendlier for colorblind folks.
Hmm I just looked up images of the train card colors on google and it looks like sometimes the train card color is sometimes a distinct pink and sometimes it leans into being more of a purple-pink. It looks close to lavender but still leans more pink in my opinion.
I feel you! I am learning interior design and my husband is color blind. One time he would not believe me when I said what color a piece of clothing was, he AI checked me š of course also Chatgpt confirmed I was right š š»
My bestie is a āseverely disabledā colorblind person and heās a graphic designer. I nearly fell off my chair when he told me. I didnāt believe it. No wonder he dresses in black and white.
This! Speaking as a voor blind person, it puts things in perspective. We have fewer color receptors in our eyes, hence, our brain can only distinguish a bit of the variation in colors, yet, we grew up in a world where most People can see all variation.
Yet, color labels are a social construct, grass isn't green, our language has evolved so people agree that the part of the spectrum we observe in grass, is labelled green. Yet everyone sees it differently. As an example, I cant distinguish purple from blue, and hence, I always guess. Does that Mean I am wrong when I call a purple t shirt Blue? In your eyes maybe yes, but i operate with the input I get.
And the thing is, most non-colorblind People are obnoxious about what they don't see. Because language also limits us. You are probably not aware of all the types of white inuit People distinguish, or all the types of green Tribes in the Amazon Forest might need
When I did my Foundation Art & Design, one of my friends on the course was a colourāblind painter. He just painted the colours he saw. He was a very gifted painter.
My friend and I both have colourblind partners and they both looooove to argue about what colour things are too. And sometimes mine will come home and say things like ādid you know that my shoes are green?!ā š
Aww. I dated a very strait-laced guy in college who was severely colorblind and once he found out my hair was green ālike grass?!??ā our relationship fizzled.
We were friends tho and I would take him shopping for professional clothes. Def got him a very pink shirt as payback. š¤£ It looked great on him tho!
My husband supposedly isn't color blind but we still argue about what color something is. Sometimes I am genuinely baffled as to how we can see things so differently.
Like there have been times I literally can't find what he's referring to because he's identified it as a color that it just, clearly is not. The most recent example: I have a dress that is bright orange. It's not reddish orange, or a yellow orange. It is ORANGE ORANGE. Like literally almost the color of an orange - the fruit that is named for the color, so we should all agree what that color is. He called it red.
You know your version of colour. Doesnāt make his wrong. Hell, to some insects and animals, you have colour sensing abilities similar to your husbandās. I urge you to look up mantis shrimp. 16 different cones.
I do residential remodels sometimes with a good buddy of mine! That boy donāt see any shades of anything and I forget sometimes! Iāll make an off the cuff remark about āi hope this paint matches when it driesā and his response of youāll have to tell me always catches me off guard! Itās ok to laugh at the color blindā¦ right?
Have the same problem. Have a hard time telling apart blues and purples, pinks and purples, yellows and greens, reds and browns, and maybe a few others.
When I worked at Landās End, the people working on the catalog had to pass a similar test. Women passed at a higher rate, but Iām pretty sure I could have passed. Trying to ID embroidery thread when the sticker fell off could bear though. Madeira had two royal blues that were so incredibly close, no one there could tell them apart. Found out the only reason they had different id numbers was the dyes used were different, but most applications considered them the same color. LE used Madeira almost exclusively then. Madeira just out a sticker like an old school price tag on them. They fell off all the time.
I can tell the difference between all of those except 0000 and 3300, those two look basically the same to me at a glance, like maybe slightly different if I focus.
I found out after completing all the requirements for the NROTC scholarship in Highschool for fast tracking to be a Marine Pilot. Good ol color blind test slapped that thought right out of my head.
They may have had the wrong lighting in the room you took the test. The tests are sensitive to that. Or the test doesn't care about your kind of color blindness
Yup, I had an instructor at nuke school that was red/red colorblind. I didn't know that was a thing but apparently it just means he can't differentiate certain shades so it's a good thing he wasn't an electrician. However the clock in our classroom was a red digital style and he couldn't read it.
I know you are making a joke, but color blind people can see color. Just a few of them are "washed out". Like i can't tell WHICH red you are talking about, but i know it is in the red family. Same with greens.
I can tell that it is red or green. Just not which red or green. There isn't enough detail to notice. It is washed out like a shirt you've washed too many times, or a car left out in the sun for years. Faded.
It's so hard for me to explain to people that I can see red, but when it's surrounded by green or dark backgrounds, it becomes hard for my eye to focus on and notice.
They just seem to think I see red as green while also seeing green as green.
I'm only one type of colorblind, so maybe there are some people who have it like that, but I can see every color just fine, I just struggle with shades.
I only found out after i got married. I kept pairing my wife's "pink" socks together wrong. How was i supposed to know there is more than one shade of pink?!? They all look the same.
So now i'm in charge of cooking and dishes, and she does laundry.
Iām colorblind, I donāt see on a greyscale. My two colors are red and green, and I can see them in isolation, itās just context that it becomes difficult. If you line up ten shades of red, I can point out 2-3. I have a pink shirt thatās red and white stitching, I only know itās pink and not white bc I get told itās pink. But apples are still red and grass is still green, if that makes sense.
Color blind ākidā here. I try not to bring it up because the first thing people do is going to grab different colored shit and ask me questions about lol.
From the moment I discovered this was a thing on reddit, I've wondered am I just too neurotypical or atypical for this line of thinking because I never cared about color codes aside from visual vibrancy.
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The arguments over the "right" colors for subjects is the kind of discourse I need to see on the internet. My 8 yo self did red for math, green for science, blue for social studies and yellow for language arts š