What's your favorite color?

Poll closed.

I demand the next colour poll only have purple as a choice 20 times.

@Fen_Star

@SSteve I thought that white was all colors, black was absence of color.

@SSteve
Picky picky picky.

@daveinwarsh are you talking about light or print?

@thismyusername The crayon.

@f00l Ooh, so pretty.

@PlacidPenguin Barney does not smirk.
/giphy smirk

@Barney
She’s too old for that.

<ducks fast>

@Barney

Well that’s @ELUNO’s fault.

@f00l I do have a VERY good memory.

@Barney

I remember some things which @f00l once said about you, but…

@Barney
Sure I didn’t lie?

@f00l I’m not sure about anything you say.

@Barney

@f00l
/image purple we’re all mad here

@narfcake
You had to get all technical and statistical didn’t you.

@f00l

@jacatrow Defective poll. Did not beta test or field test. Likely written by a boy who does not have little girl children old enough to have an opinion about colors. I give it a D-.

@jacatrow I hate pink, but for the sake of fairness fully agree with you. Without pink the poll is defective.

@katbyter
Especially since it’s kinda near purple on a paint color wheel.

/image “pinkish purple”

@f00l
/image purple-red

@katbyter
Technically, pink is a light shade of red.

@DVDBZN
Unless you add just enough blue to make it a lighter shade of purplish-red.

@f00l
I guess you’re right, but, technically, that would be an unbalanced shade of purple.

@DVDBZN
Who will bring balance to the purple?

@Barney?

/giphy "purple lightsaber"

@f00l I find most lovers of purple to be highly unbalanced.

@Barney
@f00l loves purple.
@Barney loves purple.

I think that settles everything.

/image “purple galaxy”

@f00l Game, set, match. I proved my point.

@rhrgrt how dare you call us noisy???

@rhrgrt
@f00l loves purple.

@rhrgrt In my pottery class, at the top of the white board the teacher wrote, “Make it GOOD. I you can’t make it good, make it BIG. If you can’t make it big make it BLUE.” He says he can’t count the number of people at craft fairs that have asked after items in blue. Black’s my favorite color, but sea foam green and every shade of blue - green is right behind it, followed by electric greens and oranges.

@rhrgrt I wonder if the universal love for blue is tied to color-blindness at all. People not being able to see blue properly is one of the rarest types of color-blindness, so pretty much everyone can parse it.

@RiotDemon

Then your Mom loves you.

Royal Purple or
Imperial purple or
Tyrian purple

Was created as a due by a difficult and expensive process. In some areas the color, which tended to be very colorfast and fade-resistant, was legally reserved for royalty. They were usually the only persons who could afford to purchase the cloth.

Wikipedia

Tyrian purple (Greek, πορφύρα, porphyra, Latin: purpura), also known as Tyrian red, royal purple, imperial purple or imperial dye, is a bromine-containing reddish-purple natural dye. It is a secretion produced by several species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, rock snails originally known by the name Murex. In ancient times, extracting this dye involved tens of thousands of snails and substantial labor, making it highly valuable.

Tyrian purple may first have been used by the ancient Phoenicians as early as 1570 BC.[2] The dye was greatly prized in antiquity because the colour did not easily fade, but instead became brighter with weathering and sunlight. Its significance is such that the name Phoenicia means ‘land of purple.’[3][4] It came in various shades, the most prized being that of “blackish clotted blood”.[5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple

The color varied from dark reddish-purple to bluefish-purple,depending on the source and whether the cloth was double-dipped into another dye also.

Burial shroud if Charlemagne

Empress Theodora

I am particularly fond of Han purple and Han blue, from China

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_purple_and_Han_blue

@f00l my mom does love me.
She didn’t buy it because of the royalty stuff, she just knows I like those colors, and she saw I needed new towels. It’s an item I never really thought to spend money on since the older towels worked, they just weren’t really nice looking and maybe some of them were frayed. They still dried me off though.

I actually bought a royal purple renaissance type dress… But then I never wore it to the renaissance festival, since it is the color of royalty, and I didn’t want to offend the local queen of the festival. Which is probably pretty stupid, but whatever.

@f00l
Now I’m imagining a snail chasing down a fish like a cheetah.

@RiotDemon
At the renaissance festival, you could be exotic visiting royalty from far away, on a mission of friendship, trade, cultural exchange, and diplomacy - and possibly also on a mission of conspiracy and espionage. About the latter - who would know, save your most trusted assistants? For surely you are an adept at these arts.

Then you can wear all the royal purple you want.

@f00l you need to have a life outside of meh : )

@Kidsandliz
Huh? What’s that?

@f00l I thought about that, but I was filled with tons of anxiety about having to actually talk to people, especially since I can’t really talk the olde tyme English. Now I have no idea where the dress is anyway.

I’m almost tempted to dress in my grim reaper outfit this year. I’ve seen people dress as really strange things that don’t fit at all with the renaissance time. At least as the grim reaper, I’m not necessarily expected to speak.

@RiotDemon

If you happen to find the dress and wanna give it a day out:
Just remember that mysterious foreign royal visitors will speak the local dialect in unusual ways.

@AiliaBlue is it just me, or does vi-o-let look pink?
And the baloo looks, well, not that blue.

@RiotDemon The lighting is certainly weird, and we’re getting an audio recording of something meant for an unmiced stage (actually, technically meant for a marching band. At least, they used to me a drum corps, not sure when that song was written).

The poll just made me think of this as I read through the options.

@AiliaBlue I have no idea what this video is, but I suddenly find myself being a fan of Red when I never have been before.

@Nuurgle The whole show is based on this overture, the music for Red is Bolero, IIRC

@UncleVinny Larimar is for you. Plus of course aquamarine. Larimar has only recently started to be exported to the US. It’s found only in the Caribbean.

@moondrake It’s gorgeous! Thanks for the tip. Turns out to be abundantly available on eBay, too.

@moondrake
Wow.

@CaptAmehrican See larimar above.

@IWUJackson Nope, those should all be pink. Which, they still haven’t fixed and made an answer…

@rockblossom sounds like a fruit

@denboy Like an 8-dimensional nectarine? It’s actually the color of magic on the Discworld.

@rockblossom I’ve only ever seen Octarine visualized as a rainbow-y spectrum, never black. Perhaps you can find a new favorite in VantaBlack?

@Nuurgle On the Discworld, octarine can only be seen by wizards and cats. The wizards describe it as either a color darker than black or as an iridescent greenish-purple. The cats remain smugly uncommunicative on the subject.

@rockblossom yes, a multidimensional fruit. In particular, one that holds only one of it’s dimensions in this particular version.

@Nuurgle perhaps a black holographic color??

@denboy This makes me uncomfortable

@m33rkat Really super sorry about that. Let me help your plight with some new imagery.

@Fen_Star fun fact, the color orange was called red-yellow until someone named it orange after the fruit.

“The carrot is a long reddish yellow vegetable which has several thin leaves on a long stem.”

@Fen_Star Purple is just red blue. Green is just blue yellow. Pink is red white. Everything but blue, red, yellow and white are a combination of those. The most fun I ever had in an oil painting class was when the instructor had us all mix one another’s skin tones. Flesh is challenging, and capturing the skin tone of specific people, especially since we had a nice racially diverse group, was lots of fun. (And yes, I do know that in lighting the primaries are different.)

@Fen_Star How dare you challenge the modern orange standard. May you burn in red-yellow flames.

@walarney The orange strain of carrots was not developed until 17th century (or something). Before that they were purple(ish), pale yellow or white.

@moondrake
It’s all just elementary particles or waves or whatever, depending on source.

Except for Burnt Orange. That color is made of the combined team spirits of loyal diehard Texas Longhorns (who actually bleed that color).

/image “dark burnt orange”

@f00l ah man… You just reminded of this 66 Toronado that was parked locally for sale. It was a very similar color. I wanted it so bad.

When I win the lottery, or some rich person wants to give me a random gift, then I’ll be set, lol

@RiotDemon

Yeah, I get the want over that one.

@f00l I’ve wanted the 66 Toronado forever. It was in a Stephen King book, The Dark Half, driven by the villain. Plus, it looks pretty cool.
Photos of the car in the movie:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_21869-Oldsmobile-Toronado-1966.html
Of course the book is better, but I thought this was one of the better adaptations of a King book.

By the time I can afford a restored one, they might not exist anymore, haha

@RiotDemon
Restored cars can be gorgeous. But then you only wanna drive them for special occasions. And you don’t want them scratched. And they just sit there. And you gotta pay to restore, maintain, and garage them.

And unless you are your own mechanic you may not ever get your money out.

A lot of things turn out to be more fun to think about owning that to actually own.

@f00l that’s why I need to win the lotto or know someone very very generous.

@f00l That’s why I don’t own a vintage pickup truck.

@f00l Exactly the anticipation is always better than the having unless it’s toasted everything bagels and hummus.

@moondrake That and they usually ride like a wheel barrow.

@mfladd
/youtube type o negative black no. 1