Jail ≠ Prison
They are very different institutions with different purposes and people end up in them for quite different reasons.
But they are a traditional set of primary colors, although one with not as wide a color gamut as CMY. The questions sucks as written for many reasons, but in the context of a pub quiz, if you’re clever enough to know the difference between additive and subtractive primaries, you’re probably clever enough to guess they’re fishing for the primaries all of us were taught in kindergarten.
I’ve never heard of the “primary colors” NOT being: red, blue, yellow. Please explain how those answers would be correct, or even KNOWN at your typical trivia night.
What other countries call Canadian bacon is not what Canadians call bacon. The so-called Canadian bacon is back bacon or peameal bacon; what Canadians eat as bacon is what Americans eat as bacon. Back bacon is available, but it is far from a commonly-eaten food, whereas regular bacon is.
That money from the government is somehow “free” money - that’s OUR money. The government doesn’t create money*; it taxes us and uses the money it gets from us for its programs.
That a low-maintenance yard means that you don’t have to do anything in it, ever again. Low-maintenance is not NO maintenance. No maintenance is just paving that sucker over.
*Yeah, I know, it kind of does, but for this argument, it doesn’t, okay?
Well, you know how you have an RGB monitor? Do you know why it’s RGB? Because those three are the additive primary colors. With those three colors of light, you can generate the vast majority of colors.
With printing, which is a subtractive process, the primaries are cyan, magenta, and yellow. Those will produce the widest gamut, as far as I know, of any three color primary color system. In actual practice, though, black is also needed, because creating black from cyan, magenta, and yellow, ends up muddy. Look closely at a color newspaper or magazine photograph. It’s made up of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black dots.
Why would these be known? Because those two sets of color primaries are standard. I doubt a majority of people know that, being more familiar with the traditional grade-school taught subtractive primaries of red, blue, and yellow, but it’s not exactly obscure, especially if you’ve ever worked in Photoshop or any image editing program. Or taken a physics class.
Now, at a pub, as I said above, I would have guessed they were going for the traditional set of red, blue, and yellow, but it depends on the pub. The fact that they did not specify additive or subtractive primaries would lead me to conclude that they’re going for the common answer.
Various historical ones:
-Germans were naturally Anti-Semitic and desired the Holocaust to happen
-The Puritans were a bunch of humourless folk who were afraid that anyone anywhere might be happy
I just want to remind people about the “and your corrections” part of the thread title. Not to be a jerkish junior mod but just because that is the part of this thread that is the most interesting and informative for me.
This don’t seem like common misconceptions. The German anti-semitism seems very debatable, depending precisely what you meant. Perhaps I am misunderstanding.
And I’ve never heard anyone, let along anyone I would consider “reasonably intelligent,” hold that view about Puritans.
I AGREED with what I bolded. BTW, never took Physics, but DO know how a TV picture is created.
The allusion is to a fairly famous quote by H.L. Mencken:
There’s also the common meaning of “Puritanical” as morally strict, stern, and forbidding, especially as regards sex and/or pleasure.
The historical Puritans’ reputation for such strictness is partially deserved, but only partially. Here’s Wikipedia’s take (with the caveat that Wikipedia is not an infallible source) explaining that the Puritans were not averse to drinking in moderation nor to sexual pleasure within marriage.
I’m aware of the term, but just haven’t heard it used to seriously mean that Puritans were “afraid that anyone anywhere might be happy.”
As a librarian, I thank you for your work.
I don’t think all Germans were naturally anti-Semitic but I do feel that most of Europe was, if not hostile to the Jews, certainly not favorable to them, and that’s enough to make the potential for a Holocaust possible if the right leader came along who was able to make it happen.
A Holocaust could have happened anywhere. Actually, it did happen in other countries. Half of Europe collaborated with Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews, and collaborated enthusiastically. And it also could have easily happened in Russia, too, if any of the communist leaders wanted to do it.
Can I just say thank you? I took an astronomy class a couple years ago, and there would be little sections about common misconceptions. Things like the dark side of the moon and such. But there was one that basically said “Many people think the moon can only be up at night and think there’s something wrong if they see it during the day.” Which I immediately thought “Who the hell wouldn’t know something that happens every single month? Do they never look at the sky during the day? Hell, I knew the moon showed up during the day a lot of times when I was 3!”
But now I know there is at least one major idiot who doesn’t know that. So thank you.
This isn’t as confusing as it first appears. Cyan is a shade of blue, magenta, while not red, is certainly in the reddy/pinky spectrum, and yellow is yellow. Blue, red, and yellow is a serviceable approximation of cyan, magenta, and yellow. What probably confuses people is that they think red, green, blue is instead of red, yellow, blue, but those are different types of colour creation, additive vs subtractive.
^ Isn’t the only ‘other country’ that calls it ‘Canadian bacon’ the USA?
pdts, American bacon hater
Actually, until that night, I was totally unaware of the idea that blue, red, and yellow were the primary colors.
I never took an elementary school art class, so I guess I was not exposed to it. That was why it so shocked me when they declared my answer wrong.
I think it’s one of those things you have to actively look for. If you don’t spend a lot of time looking up at the sky, a glimpse of the moon here or there won’t register because it’s fairly faint.
Me, I’ve taken much more of an interest now, since my son (3) is enamored with the Moon. When we’re outside, it’s fun to point it out and let him run around the yard looking for it from different vantage points. I’ve gotten a better idea of when the moon is up, and where to look for it, than I’ve ever had before.
It doesn’t help that 99% of the depictions of the moon you’re likely to see in media are nighttime shots.
The first time I realized this and was explaining it to people, I said that the odds of us having a moon the same apparent size of the sun is astronomical.