Are you colourblind?

[freakinacage]

 

[Sithious]

Staying on topic here for a sec. When i was working as a color match tech in screen printing I had to learn a great deal about light and color (yep the american color). Learned that 1 in 10 males is colorblind a little (a little being up to 2 degrees on the color spec.) where like colors can blend together. and women have only a 1 in 250 chance of some colorblindness. Women just have better color vision. its a fact.
Another thing you may want to know, a color gets burned into color memory within 15 seconds yet takes up to 15 minutes to revert. an example of this is staring at a red dot for a minute then looking at a piece of white paper and seeing the dot as green in your vision still. this is color memory. how it affects you is that if you are working with a shade of blue for a few minutes and then go to mix more, you can be off by a few degrees of the shade and not notice the diference cause your eye has blended the blue shade to memory and so like colors are not picked out as well. just an FYI.
Wow I feel boring.....

 

[Dragonsreach]

We weren't raised on British cooking, and thus don't have devestated taste buds.

This from the country of MacDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Krispy Kreme and Dunkin donuts.:rotfl:
Anyhow our taste buds aren't devastated; after all we have proper foods like Cumberland Sausage, Haggis, Lava Bread, Ham and Egg Pie and of course Tandoori Chicken Masala.
We also have Real Ales with flavour and a proper alcoholic content, not watered down Rat P*ss.:rotfl:

 

[falela]

Don't get me started on this Bud Light!

That is a truly awful beer!! :stop:

 

[Chrome]

This from the country of MacDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Krispy Kreme and Dunkin donuts.:rotfl:
Anyhow our taste buds aren't devastated; after all we have proper foods like Cumberland Sausage, Haggis, Lava Bread, Ham and Egg Pie and of course Tandoori Chicken Masala.
We also have Real Ales with flavour and a proper alcoholic content, not watered down Rat P*ss.:rotfl:

Reminds me of a quote from Mass effect 2...

Engineer Donnely: "That cook can't cook a good haggis to save his life."
The Other One: "Yeah, but all haggis tastes like ass anyway."
Donnely: "Aye, but in the right hands it can taste like mighty fine ass."

 

[cassar]

We get it. We're barbarians with a desire to bastardize a language that has already been bastardized. I speak on behalf of all Americans (well, a small percentage of them) when I say: "Sod off ye git!"

been busy but now im back at least you got some o the english language right lol

"rite bac atcha dufus" (think thats correct american?)

 

[freakinacage]

We also have Real Ales with flavour and a proper alcoholic content, not watered down Rat P*ss.:rotfl:

agreed!

Reminds me of a quote from Mass effect 2...

Engineer Donnely: "That cook can't cook a good haggis to save his life."
The Other One: "Yeah, but all haggis tastes like ass anyway."
Donnely: "Aye, but in the right hands it can taste like mighty fine ass."

lolz!

 

[Dedwrekka]

@Master of fact. You forgot the most important bit in aluminium, the 2nd i, that's the bit that they get wrong. It's only in the states that they miss it out. (I could be wrong on that count).

Oh, Idofidentity, at least we don't pretend that orange plasticy stuff is cheese. I've that to look forward to when I'm over there in a few weeks again.

Aluminum has one "I", I should know, I've had it in mine.
I hear "Aluminium" and reach for a piece of Aluminum to smack them with. The word is clunky enough without having to add an extra difficulty to it.

As to the cheese, unless it's still growing, it's only "cheese product" no matter how close to milk it is, in my opinion.

Staying on topic here for a sec. When i was working as a color match tech in screen printing I had to learn a great deal about light and color (yep the american color). Learned that 1 in 10 males is colorblind a little (a little being up to 2 degrees on the color spec.) where like colors can blend together. and women have only a 1 in 250 chance of some colorblindness. Women just have better color vision. its a fact.

As well as better taste buds and stronger sense of smell. I wont call the latter one "better", I've had to work with some stinky people and I wouldn't wish them on someone who smells it more strongly.

This from the country of MacDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Krispy Kreme and Dunkin donuts.:rotfl:

Nothing wrong with BK or Krispy Kreme (MCD is terrible though). Not healthy to eat everyday, but you'd have to be some kind of idiot looking to make a documentary to try it.

Anyhow our taste buds aren't devastated; after all we have proper foods like Cumberland Sausage, Haggis, Lava Bread, Ham and Egg Pie and of course Tandoori Chicken Masala.
We also have Real Ales with flavour and a proper alcoholic content, not watered down Rat P*ss.:rotfl:

The real stuff is home made.
It goes well you've got excellent stock for a while. It goes bad and you've got home made pennicillin.

 

[Wren]

In the event that anyone cares, colourblindness is more common in men than women because it's on the X chromosome. A guy has only one of those, so if he got a faulty recessive gene from the mother, it determines his colour vision capabilites. With two X chromosomes, a woman would have to get a recessive gene from each parent for it to express. As long as she gets one standard one, she's good. Or at least that's what I remember from genetics class, the research might have progressed in the past 20 years. ;->

I will absolutely agree that having a keener sense of smell is not necessarily a blessing. Public spaces full of over-perfumed or under-bathed people can become pretty punishing!

 

[freakinacage]

In the event that anyone cares, colourblindness is more common in men than women because it's on the X chromosome. A guy has only one of those, so if he got a faulty recessive gene from the mother, it determines his colour vision capabilites. With two X chromosomes, a woman would have to get a recessive gene from each parent for it to express. As long as she gets one standard one, she's good. Or at least that's what I remember from genetics class, the research might have progressed in the past 20 years. ;->

aye thats how i remember it too

 

[J squared]

You spelt colour wrong

American version.

 

[Mourner]

while not (noticably) colorblind myself, me sort-of ex-father-in-law (we broke up after 8 years) was.
(well, that is a complicated sentence)

he used to paint a beautifull landshape, and then proceed to paint the grass a shade of neon-green :rotfl:

 

[IdofEntity]

My brother doesn't register reds. Blue and Purple look pretty much the same to him, and brown is always a trip. He used to come home from 1st grade (age six) with notes from his teacher saying "won't follow instructions, please come in for a conference". The daft woman wouldn't believe he was colourblind until she saw a note from a doctor. -_-

When he started painting dark elves at the age of 12, I went ahead and grouped all of his paints for him. Light to dark in each family of colours. His painting schemes improved dramatically once my mother explained normal colo(u)r theory to him.

 

[daddyo]

difficult enough to paint with some accuracy and being colorblind, but i have an electrician on my crew that is colorblind. at least he can read.
trying to get my redneck in-laws to drink a beer with some kind of flavor but tinted (tainted?) water is a real chore.
(kind of tough to find a decent ale around here, all we can get is branch water- we can get sam adams. sometimes...)
and plastic cheese has it's uses: shims for the stereo rack, to make the record player level.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

I have that reds problem, myself. I can tell individual shades of red if they're all alone, but if you put several reds together, they all look the same to me.
My ex used to patiently work with me, doing reds on minis, telling me if I'd gone too light as I highlighted or not, and thanks to her, I'm able to do it myself, now.
Though, honestly, I can't tell how good a job I've done until someone else looks at it.
I find it a bit amusing, since it's also my favourite colour to work with on minis. Scar red (VGC).

 

[IdofEntity]

I have that reds problem, myself. I can tell individual shades of red if they're all alone, but if you put several reds together, they all look the same to me.
My ex used to patiently work with me, doing reds on minis, telling me if I'd gone too light as I highlighted or not, and thanks to her, I'm able to do it myself, now.
Though, honestly, I can't tell how good a job I've done until someone else looks at it.
I find it a bit amusing, since it's also my favourite colour to work with on minis. Scar red (VGC).

Do you have problems with purples as well? Liche purple was always an issue for my brother as he assumed it was simply a darker version of blue. He had a horrible time identifying liche purple vs. midnight blue if he didn't have the containers with labels. On a model it's nigh indistinguishable for him.

 

[Aliengod3]

I am red green color blind, the most common among men. It is strange though because I can see red and green it is just that certain shades of brown all look similar...

 

[phreak0]

Actually Dragonsreach they have at least one brewery producing good stuff: http://www.stonebrew.com/home.asp# their Arrogant bastard is recomended

 

[Einion]

Another thing you may want to know, a color gets burned into color memory within 15 seconds yet takes up to 15 minutes to revert. an example of this is staring at a red dot for a minute then looking at a piece of white paper and seeing the dot as green in your vision still. this is color memory.

FYI, the proper name for that is retinal fatigue. Colour memory means exactly that, the memory for colour (notorious for being poor incidentally).

Fatigue is yet another thing that gets worse the older we get, so resting your eyes periodically when painting becomes more and more advisable once you're past your mid-30s.

Einion

 

[Torn blue sky]

Ahhh Processed cheese/ Cheese possesed!

I love how this went from a topic of colour blindness to an international slagging match lol! Brilliant work there.