# I Pit Fisher-Price For Uglifying The World **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fisher-price-for-uglifying-the-world/317673 "2005-08-18T23:08:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fisher-price-for-uglifying-the-world/317673/41 "2005-08-20T08:16:10Z")
> [@Mr2001](#): > > The human vision system basically has four primary colors: red, green, blue, and yellow. > > Your eye only has three kinds of cones, to sense red, green, and blue light, but they’re combined and contrasted in such a way that you experience two dimensions of color: red\<-\>green and blue\<-\>yellow (yellow being equal parts red and green). That is, any color is experienced in terms of whether it’s closer to red or green and whether it’s closer to blue or yellow. > > Kids don’t know about color theory, or why we use the primary colors cyan+magenta+yellow with ink and red+green+blue with light, but they do know what their eyes are telling them. Finally an explanation! The art teacher in me still protests that green is included. I have to restrain myself from going up to the play sets and marking off points for including green in with the primary colors. You get the funniest looks from the neighbors when you put check marks on their teeter totter. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fisher-price-for-uglifying-the-world/317673/42 "2005-08-20T10:36:02Z")
Has anyone ever asked a _ **kid** _ what they’d prefer? And no, _your_ nostalgia for the deathtraps of your youth is not a cite, I feel the same way, and we still have those 20ft tall metal thingummies _set in asphalt_ round these parts. I just know that my little one _likes_ bright colours despite my attempts to engrain my finer Gothic sensibilities into her. Sigh ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fisher-price-for-uglifying-the-world/317673/43 "2005-08-20T12:22:27Z")
It still completely fails to explain why anyone thinks that all kids’ products need to be in primary colors. Are they invisible to the kids otherwise? No. Will it hurt little Junior’s self-esteem if he has to say, “I want to play on the swing that is like red but not quite”? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fisher-price-for-uglifying-the-world/317673/44 "2005-08-20T13:31:01Z")
I still think you took offense completely and utterly without rational provocation, **Sierra** , and I would honestly enjoy knowing _why_ you apparently see the world in those terms. If you want to end this hijack completely, however, that would be fine with me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fisher-price-for-uglifying-the-world/317673/45 "2005-08-20T16:48:41Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > [This article](http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii960619.html) argues that the new “safe” playgrounds aren’t even safer, because kids just find more extreme ways to use them. That assumes that the impetus behind the “safer” playgrounds is 100% concern for safety for kids, and not even a little bit fear of lawsuits, and the idea that the “safe” playgrounds will make it harder for trigger-happy parents to win lawsuits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-fisher-price-for-uglifying-the-world/317673.md?page=2)