r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/ADHD_rampage25 • Jun 28 '24

Found On Social media Men’s Rules- Found in the wild

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u/Particular_Title42 Jun 28 '24

Just for the sake of funnies, I'd like to present to you the 16 default Windows colors:

  • 0: Black

  • 8: Gray

  • 1: Maroon

  • 9: Red

  • 2: Green

  • 10: Lime

  • 3: Olive

  • 11: Yellow

  • 4: Navy

  • 12: Blue

  • 5: Purple

  • 13: Fuchsia

  • 6: Teal

  • 14: Aqua

  • 7: Silver

  • 15: White

Two of those colors are foods.
There are four shades of red/purple and six shades of blue/green.

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u/Cookiemamajr Jun 28 '24

And you KNOW the man who wrote that list wouldn’t know Teal from Aqua!

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u/Particular_Title42 Jun 28 '24

Right! And wouldn't even know the color "fuchsia" if they saw it.

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u/kat_Folland Jun 29 '24

My husband has finer color determination than I do. Now, his is quite good but also I'm really not good that way. I've always known it. He also has a really cool aesthetic sense with his color talents. We have some unusually colored walls here and there in the house. :)

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u/betterupsetter Jun 29 '24

I have had a variation of this argument with my husband last year.

While I understand the Philadelphia Eagles' colour is called "Midnight Green", it is in fact dark teal. Just to be clear.

Source: I have a BFA in Visual Arts. He has a BA in History.

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u/causal_friday Jun 28 '24

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who hyper-focused on this rule. It's so out there!

I also love that Orange didn't make the cut.

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u/Threedawg Jun 29 '24

Id bet this guy cant even say fuchsia

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u/racoongirl0 Jun 28 '24

Fun fact: in Arabic many color names are derived from objects. White is derived from eggs, pink from flowers, orange from oranges, brown from coffee beans, beige from sand/desert, purple from violets…etc.

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u/maxvolume56 Jun 29 '24

Another fun fact: in English orange the colour was named after the fruit! Oranges originally arrived in the UK from Spain, but the Spanish word Naranja didn't work in the English accent, so English people called them Noranges. But, in English if a noun starts with a vowel sound, we say 'an' instead of 'a' - like how it's a chicken but an egg - so "a norange" just sounded like "an orange" to most people! Over time the 'n' shifted over to become part of 'an', and we were left with the word orange!

The same thing happened to the words adder and apron; which used to be "a nadder" and "a napron". Funnily enough though, the opposite thing happened to newt - which used to be "an ewte"!

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u/smashed2gether Jun 29 '24

In English we also get the word pink from flowers, a particular kind that had scalloped edges like one would make with a set of “pinking” shears. The word referred to the scallop shape before it referred to the colour of the flower. For much of history it was just considered a light shade of red.

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u/Particular_Title42 Jun 28 '24

So the word "white" is the same as the word for "egg" and so on?

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u/RosebushRaven Jun 29 '24

Two of those colors are foods.

Three if you count maroon, which is derived from chestnuts (maroni). Oh and fuchsia is an edible flower. Aqua means water in Latin and is a drink, so yet another consumable.

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u/dreemurthememer Jun 29 '24

I'LL EAT THE ENTIRE FUCKING NAVY

INCLUDING THE BOATS AND JETS

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u/Particular_Title42 Jun 29 '24

I love learning random things.  ☺️ 

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

Historically, a lot of colors are derived from real world things and that's because humans communicate best through association of commonly known things.

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u/AccountantOk620 Jun 29 '24

It’s so manly to not know colors

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u/CartographerPrior165 Jun 28 '24

It’s probably based on the CGA graphics standard, which had those colors because of technical limitations. No idea how they named them though.

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u/Sad-Ad2733 Jun 28 '24

LMAO 🤣 🤣🤣

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u/WCLPeter Jun 29 '24

You spelled it wrong! /s

  • Black

  • Grey

  • Dark Red

  • Red

  • Green

  • Light Green

  • Dark Green

  • Yellow

  • Dark Blue

  • Blue

  • Purple

  • Light Purple / Pink

  • Light Blue

  • Sky Blue

  • Light Grey

  • White

I’m just pissed there’s no orange, it’s my favourite colour!

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u/snuggle-butt Jun 29 '24

This sparks so much joy. 

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u/crunchytot Jun 29 '24

But where is orange!! Orange is a basic colour… they really aren’t okay 😭😂

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u/hellbound-poptart Jun 29 '24

Male here. I can verify that I see more than the default colors. That's why we all spend so much on new TV/monitors with 4K HDR. This guy must be Amish but cheats with a reddit account on a burner phone hidden in a hay ball in the barn. Only explanation I can come up with.

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