A "Well, bugger me!" thread

[Kuciwalker]

Moreover, you ignore that fact that there are fundamental biological reasons to preferentially label certain points in color space as more important than others.

[Dinner]

Maybe they used euphemisms like instead of brown they said it was the color of poop or something. Hopefully not irradiated poop.

[Kuciwalker]

That's what I was getting at.

[Elok]

You're a swell fellow, Laz, but that's not enough for me to bugger you. Sorry.

Different cultures can have different recognized colors. I believe ancient China thought of some shade between blue and green as one of the "primary" colors. And it's possible that they didn't have words that meant "blue" or "green," but referred to "the blue-green of grass" or "the blue-green of the sky" as circumstances required. Of course, we have cyan, teal and probably a lot of other words for shades between blue and green that I just can't think of at the moment, but we're talking in the beautiful, bloated monstrosity known as English.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp



You're struggling with this, aren't you? Why do you need a specific word for "blue" or brown"? What's no important about those particular points on the colour spectrum?

But I do not think they needed a SPECIFIC name for this, I think they needed a name for this: if it wasn't a specific colour, it must have been part of some other colour, so I'm asking: which one. It's not like brown stuff was invisible for them.

[Thoth]

Re: Re: Re: A "Well, bugger me!" thread

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


Why was the sky bronze in the writings of Homer?

Homer? You mean that blind poet fellow?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Take it up with the Welsh.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Re: Re: Re: Re: A "Well, bugger me!" thread

Originally posted by Thoth


Homer? You mean that blind poet fellow?

An assumption based purely on one possible interpretation of his name. In fact, we know almost nothing about Homer. He may not even have existed, and his works may have been the work of several writers.

[Elok]

Perhaps having sex with sheep causes degradation of the cone cells in one's retina?

[Ecthy]

Elok, you've been switching between lectures on automatic rifles and random sodomy remarks. Earlier you were drinking to I forgot what - having a good afternoon over there I see?

[Elok]

I said cheers, sarcastically, to the Electoral College. And no, I'm stone cold sober. And be fair, he's got "bugger me" in the title and he's referencing the Welsh. The sex jokes just write themselves here.

In closing, I defy you to find anyone who could write that firearms lecture with perfect spelling in such a short period of time while hammered.

[Ecthy]

I wasn't implying hammered, rather having a good afternoon there, which could imply a beer or two, which allows perfect spelling even in the craziest mood - look at Laz.

[onodera]

Well, having no word for 'blue' is not very strange. It could be a shade of green for the Welsh. Just like it is for the Japanese.
They could also think that brown is a shade of I don't know, black.
Ridiculous? Yes. But it's also ridiculous to me that azure is a shade of blue for the English and not a separate colour.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Elok
Perhaps having sex with sheep causes degradation of the cone cells in one's retina?

Then the kiwis would have a higher population % of color blindness.

[Alinestra Covelia]

It is apparently possible to restore vision by implanting a tooth in the eye socket instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis

Also:

http://www.independent.ie/health/latest-news/sons-tooth-helps-save-dads-sight-1301197.html