Blue is so overrated (639 hits)
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Submitted by Cypher (View user info) at 2004-08-19 00:29:22 EDT
Yesterday, I decided that green was my favorite color. In itself, it would be no real problem. Nothing earth-shattering at all. All I did was observe a green pen that I had gotten the day before in a package of pens. It was such a pretty green, I had to make it my favorite color. However, I never realized it would be a such a life-changing experience. I apparently had gotten got some form of selective amnesia somewhere in there, because I didn't really remember what my former favorite color was. That was when I turned around in my swivel chair.
There are three ways to put this:
A: It was like looking through a blue fliter, or the blue side of those cheap blue-and-red 3d-glasses
B: Someone had taken a giant blue crayon that turned everything that it touched blue, and touched everything with it
C: I had suddenly gotten blue-vision, like the time I had stared at a pinkish-fuscia road flare for half an hour and then looked up ("Hey, look, that car's got those blue headlights. So does that one, and that one, and that one... what is this, Xenon-thingy headlight night? That's weird, those people have a blue yard light... and them, too... geez, even the moon is blue!")
In other words, I'd re-discovered my former favorite color. Everything was blue. The chair I was sitting in, all my sheets and blankets, the carpet, the wallpaper was a pastel pattern that gave the overall impression of blue. The majority of my possesions were blue, and it seemed that if it was available blue, I got it blue. An abudance of clothes, my sneakers, several pairs of flip flops, my 2 boomboxes (my real stereo was black and orange - ugly, but not available in blue), both my portable cd players, my lamp, my coat, my crummy digital camera, my stuffed alligator from Wisconsin Dells in 8th grade, and, well, almost everything - blue. To cap it off, most of the things that weren't blue were white, and it seemed like the blue bled into the white and also made it blue. About the only major thing that wasn't blue or white was the blinds, which were burgandy, probably to set off all the blue. Precious few things were green. My life-changing pen, for one, a Yaffa shelf that housed my tangle of electronic equipment (which was obviously chosen only because there was no other color available besides some month-old diarrhea color), the base of my dumb disco light, which was also green only because blue was sold out, some money on my dresser, a see-through calculator I won several years ago at a science fair... and besides little hints and glipses of green hidden in the blue rough among other lesser colors, nothing else.
In my house, I find little improvement. My parents' room is almost more blue-oriented, and my brother's room probably has more blue than any other color, thanks mostly to the carpet. The rest of the house has neutral-colored carpet and tile, but there's just a lack of green everywhere. The La-z-boy recliner is green, as are my mom's house plants. Other than that, no green. Of course, nobody has anything green in storage, from another era when green was popular, and not that crappy olive-puke-mixed-with-brown green, either. I make a mental note to look at green decor next time I go shopping. Hopefully green isn't so rare at Wal-Mart or wherever. Like that Target commercial that says "Do Your Room". I wish it worked that way - start to sit down on what appears to be the floor - BOOM! A bean bag chair appears. You leap onto your bed - BOOM! Your bed sports a cool new bedspread with matching pillows. Yeah. Anyway, I think I may know where the favorite color meter turned from blue to green. Last spring, there was a car I really wanted. A 97 Mitsubishi Eclipse that was the most beautiful green color. Not like a lime green, but a really nice kelly green. That's what's wrong with green, I think, there's so many different greens. You say green and mean one green and they picture some revolting form of green. I don't like that about green. But that's okay. As you probably guessed, I didn't get the car - my mom said it was "too sporty" and that I should get a beater for a first car, since that was what most people did. And besides, it needed a new engine. Later on my mom, who knows nothing about cars by the way, tried to be smart and told me that I couldn't get it because it was an import. True, but I can't see her having anything against me getting a Honda. I don't know what she had against that car... "sporty", I tell you... I ended up getting a Camaro. A crappy white one. I sure wish it was black. Unfortnately, that car would probably look hideous green.
I know that it's not the worst thing that could happen to someone, having 3/4 or more of my possessions blue when it's no longer my favorite color. But I didn't really figure it would be quite so devastating. Really, blue stuff is starting to bug me. I could live with it, I suppose, but I've never really had another favorite color besides blue. Of course I do recall liking orange in middle school, and besides liking pink when I was about four, I sort of liked purple once, too, but I didn't feel so strongly about it as I do about this. I suppose I might get over it, but then I have to wonder what I will do when I suddenly decide my favorite color is banana yellow and turn around to see everything is green. Damn, my life is so tough.
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Submitted by hotopic_rules (user info) at 2004-10-18 13:23:57 EDT (#)
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HI! I like rainbows, cupcakes and pretty unicorns. Let's be best friends! I love to
share! TEEHEEHEE!! anyway..um this whole blue thing was pretty cool. I spose!
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Submitted by Philst82 (user info) at 2004-08-19 07:57:54 EDT (#)
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Try working in an environment where all the blue is filtered out. Then leave an watch as your eyes become super sensitive to blue.
Many hours of fun.
Submitted by Fleadh (user info) at 2004-08-19 07:44:57 EDT (#)
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+2 I didnt read all of it cos my head started hurting but still To write that much ungodly bollox about blue is "special"
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2004-08-19 02:50:56 EDT (#)
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Because you give a shit about colors, and you're not a Sesame Street cast member.
Submitted by FetusesAreDelicious (user info) at 2004-08-19 01:29:03 EDT (#)
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So.... exactly how much pot do you have to smoke in order to make this detailed an analysis of your favorite color?
Submitted by Val (user info) at 2004-08-19 01:07:25 EDT (#)
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I liked it.
Submitted by Amy (user info) at 2004-08-19 00:55:54 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ofMontreal (user info) at 2004-08-19 00:49:53 EDT (#)
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Yesterday, I decided that green was my favorite color.
thats where i stopped. thats pointless. what the hell was this post about?
Submitted by SleeplessSoldier (user info) at 2004-08-19 00:42:02 EDT (#)
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forgot the -2 damn worthless dribble already started to rot my mind
Submitted by SleeplessSoldier (user info) at 2004-08-19 00:41:39 EDT (#)
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just read the first sentence and decided it was a waste of my time -2
your parents should have listened to god when he told then he didnt think it was a good idea to reproduce.