Help settle an argument- Men and colors...

Okay, this should be fun, but I need help settling an argument. Do men (and I mean traditional, manly, eat beef, shoot guns, MEN) recognize all these mamby pamby shades of colors? I mean seriously, is "Salmon" a freaking color? I say it's pink. You can try and gussy it up and call it salmon, or coral, or whatever, but when you get down to the brass tacks, it's goddamn pink, crayola boy! WTF is periwinkle? That is blue. So is sky blue, ocean blue, and girly ass baby blue. I consider variations to be "light blue", "dark blue", maybe Navy blue, or "gay/girlie blue." The boss man is wearing a pink shirt today, but he says coral, brother says salmon, I say bullshit, it's pink. What say ye men of Sherwood Forest? [LOL]

I'm so damn color blind, I can only see about 50% of the numbers in those color blindness plates, but I agree, there are only different lightness of the color, as you explain. Light blue dark blue dark red etc. etc etc.

There is no argument from me. If a dude needs to call pink "coral" or "salmon", which are THINGS, not colors, then he needs to go back to grade school or rent a backbone. Coffee is a drink, not a color. I have no idea what periwinkle is, but it sounds like a urinary problem and I only assume you spelled it right because I copied it from you.

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Originally Posted by MarkCO

There is no argument from me. If a dude needs to call pink "coral" or "salmon", which are THINGS, not colors, then he needs to go back to grade school or rent a backbone. Coffee is a drink, not a color. I have no idea what periwinkle is, but it sounds like a urinary problem and I only assume you spelled it right because I copied it from you.

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I heard it in a movie once I think, or was it from a girl? Either way, yes! I love the way you worded that. The brother saw the picture I texted him and he said "No, dad's wear a salmon colored shirt." I said, "that's a fish, not a color. It's pink." [Shake]

Why don't we just call a spade a spade and call the color "vagina" and go from there [Beer]

Well, while I normally wouldn't use terms like salmon etc, I can understand different hues can need different names. For instance, to me, pink tends to be the color between red and purple, whereas salmon would be...I dunno, a bit more orangey. Periwinkle...perhaps a whiter light-blue, that one I don't really know.

My expanded color palette is forced my by career choice........


When you do lights you see a lot more color.. it's the job.

IF this makes me less manly.. lets grab the bottles of whiskey and see who falls down first LOL

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Originally Posted by Kraven251

Why don't we just call a spade a spade and call the color "vagina" and go from there [Beer]

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Once you go beyond the three primary colors and the three secondary colors, you have entered the http://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/drague/gay/trgay.gif zone.
And, no it's not violet, it's PURPLE.

^^^^THIS^^^^
He probably got his red banana hamick mixed into his whites on wash day and won't admit it......

The majority of us men have color blindness to some degree. It isn't a bad thing, it gives us an excuse for our color choices, when the wives come fussin

Is the OP whose Name and a nick nameis in a fuscia blend, asking about "colors"? Bitch ain't gonna fly nohow.

Nah, no pink (clothes!) for me ... but I kinda like JCPenney's famous 'Manatee Grey'

I tend to just not give a damn about what someone else wants to call a color. Isn't that what a red meat eating man should do? Not give a shit about the intricacies of someone else's color pallet?

My color vocabulary is very limited. At the same time I don't call all of my handguns 'glocks'. To each his own I suppose.

Earth to Ronin. This isn't fvcking Facebook. Lets get to the shit we care about, how's the gf/secretary?

If it doesn't appear on a crayon in a box of 8 crayolas, I don't know it, although I can add "light" and "dark" to the basic colors to expand my color palette.

It's a biological fact that women see finer shades of colors. Brain Games on Discovery(?) showed a linear progression of 9 shades of pink/red. Most men see 3-5 of the shades, but women typically all nine.

Nothing is more homo than chest pounding to prove your manliness. Just like that whole equation about how many stalls away from the next dude in the restroom you need to be. You can't wear Brown shoes with black pants, but you can rock oxblood shoes and belt with black pants.

I have to use different names for colors all the time with my job to describe building materials. Two floor tiles might both be blue but next to each other they are not the same blue so they need a different name.

"Good color..."

"It's BONE...."

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Originally Posted by clublights

My expanded color palette is forced my by career choice........


When you do lights you see a lot more color.. it's the job.

IF this makes me less manly.. lets grab the bottles of whiskey and see who falls down first LOL

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I totally understand this... I did some work in stage lighting back in HS and learned maybe 1/1000th of what you know (seriously, complicated work there that does require a lot of know-how and skill). I'll drink with ya, but I don't drink to get drunk, at least not anymore! So no, I say you lose no "man points" on that one.

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Originally Posted by jim

Is the OP whose Name and a nick nameis in a fuscia blend, asking about "colors"? Bitch ain't gonna fly nohow.

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I have no choice in that matter and you know it! Now stop you, you're gonna hurt my feelers... [ROFL1]

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Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh

Earth to Ronin. This isn't fvcking Facebook. Lets get to the shit we care about, how's the gf/secretary?

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No it is not, I'm pretty sure I'd get a lot of really retarded, liberal inspired, "sensitive" remarks to a question of "Do men get all specific and finite with what we call different colors?" [Flower]

Fun fact: the average human can distinguish over 4000 shades of green, more than any other color. Which is why it drives me batshit crazy when the wife decides she's going to touch up the paint in the dining room, but uses the paint for the bedroom, which is close, but not the same. She can't see it, I can. Comes from being a darkroom photographer in another life.

As a printer, I see more color names than I care to.
I would like to slap the [pileoshit]outta the people that name some of them !!!

What color tie should you wear with a Salmon shirt?

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Originally Posted by kawiracer14

What color tie should you wear with a Salmon shirt?

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Shame colored

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Originally Posted by tmleadr03

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me 2

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Originally Posted by davsel

Shame colored

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[ROFL1] Good thing the old man never wears a tie to work- business casual.

I recognize all 64 colors in a Crayola box!

Some of what you're asking is a traditional male disgust with being caught up with names of colors when we can describe it quickly as "dark", "medium" or "light" shades of a particular primary or secondary color. I used to have fun with it insisting on calling a coworker's "rust" or "copper" dresses just plain "orange" and the "lime" or whatever ones "green". It's not that I couldn't tell the difference between the shades, it's that I wouldn't take the time or bother to differentiate them.

Any red-blooded American male I know can tell the difference between Cardinal red and Redskin burgundy, Raven purple and Viking purple, Cowboy navy blue and Lion light blue.

Call that shirt pink, salmon, coral or whatever the hell you want if it makes you feel more manly. I'm more concerned by what a guy does than what he wears anyway.

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Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter

I recognize all 64 colors in a Crayola box!

Some of what you're asking is a traditional male disgust with being caught up with names of colors when we can describe it quickly as "dark", "medium" or "light" shades of a particular primary or secondary color. I used to have fun with it insisting on calling a coworker's "rust" or "copper" dresses just plain "orange" and the "lime" or whatever ones "green". It's not that I couldn't tell the difference between the shades, it's that I wouldn't take the time or bother to differentiate them.

Any red-blooded American male I know can tell the difference between Cardinal red and Redskin burgundy, Raven purple and Viking purple, Cowboy navy blue and Lion light blue.

Call that shirt pink, salmon, coral or whatever the hell you want if it makes you feel more manly. I'm more concerned by what a guy does than what he wears anyway.

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This was mostly done in jest- ala Carlin or Leary style humor... Congrats Aloha, you just killed it. [LOL]

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Originally Posted by kawiracer14

What color tie should you wear with a Salmon shirt?

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Depends on the pants and shoes.

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Originally Posted by WillysWagon

As a printer, I see more color names than I care to.
I would like to slap the [pileoshit]outta the people that name some of them !!!

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Just like tattoos. One client said. OK here's how i would like this done. The clouds a cerulean blue fading out to a powder blue with some wisp of gray in the mix. Ok so you want to go from Dark Blue to Light correct? This is a tattoo studio not Kwal paint.

I got a BFA in college. We were not allowed to use fancy color names i.e.

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Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter

Raven purple and Viking purple

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Vikings purple is a red-purple. On a side note red-purple does not exist in nature so film (even B&W film) was not calibrated to pick up that color, because of this you would get a huge color shift from it being really blue or really red in different light. Next time you see old footage of them playing watch their shirts or pants change color.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Depends on the pants and shoes.

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When it becomes an outfit you're done... mancard revoked.

Picking up the ladies wearing an outfit is a lot easier than with jeans and a sports jersey.

Full disclosure: I don't own anything that is "salmon" unless I screwed up the laundry. Well, I did acquire a "pink" tie at some point, but I don't think I've worn it.

You should check out the colors that they paint motorcycles these days!

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Originally Posted by Ronin13

Okay, this should be fun, but I need help settling an argument. Do men (and I mean traditional, manly, eat beef, shoot guns, MEN) recognize all these mamby pamby shades of colors? I mean seriously, is "Salmon" a freaking color? I say it's pink. You can try and gussy it up and call it salmon, or coral, or whatever, but when you get down to the brass tacks, it's goddamn pink, crayola boy! WTF is periwinkle? That is blue. So is sky blue, ocean blue, and girly ass baby blue. I consider variations to be "light blue", "dark blue", maybe Navy blue, or "gay/girlie blue." The boss man is wearing a pink shirt today, but he says coral, brother says salmon, I say bullshit, it's pink. What say ye men of Sherwood Forest? [LOL]

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I'll happily throw down with the manly-men. :)

It is a scientific fact that women see more color shades than men. It is also an interesting fact that when a specific shade is given a name, it is able to be better discerned from other shades.

Periwinkle is a shade of light blue with a light violet cast. There is much more to the shades, hues and color tones than "light," "medium," and "Dark."

There is also a trend in fashion to name colors for seasons, so this year's "salmon," which is a blend of peach and deep pink, was actually last decade's "shrimp." Recycling color names notwithstanding, designers (be it clothing, paint or artists) have an endless supply to draw on, as long as they have the income to do so.

Can you honestly tell me that you cannot discern the difference between what Glock calls "OD" and the reality of their color being merconium-drab?

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Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter

I recognize all 64 colors in a Crayola box!

Some of what you're asking is a traditional male disgust with being caught up with names of colors when we can describe it quickly as "dark", "medium" or "light" shades of a particular primary or secondary color. I used to have fun with it insisting on calling a coworker's "rust" or "copper" dresses just plain "orange" and the "lime" or whatever ones "green". It's not that I couldn't tell the difference between the shades, it's that I wouldn't take the time or bother to differentiate them.

Any red-blooded American male I know can tell the difference between Cardinal red and Redskin burgundy, Raven purple and Viking purple, Cowboy navy blue and Lion light blue.

Call that shirt pink, salmon, coral or whatever the hell you want if it makes you feel more manly. I'm more concerned by what a guy does than what he wears anyway.

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I'm pretty sure there's no difference between baby blue and Infantry blue.

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Originally Posted by Rucker61

I'm pretty sure there's no difference between baby blue and Infantry blue.

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Is there a difference between Baby and UN blue?