They replaced the screens in the urinals at work the other day. Never really paid attention to the colors of those things before - assume they are generally blue, green, or white. These new ones are piss yellow - so every time I walk into the john, it looks like the urinals are full of piss. What an appetizing image! Can’t imagine why anyone made the choice to say - “Yeah, of all the possible colors of plastic, piss yellow is the perfect choice for this application!”
Lately I’ve been noticing several cars that I could only describe as “taupe” or the old (caucasian) “flesh”. Now, I guess a car can be painted just about any color, but I can’t imagine why anyone would think THAT was the color they wanted their car to be.
You ever encounter a product that just seems to be an unfortunate/inappropriate color?
The high school I attended was painted an ugly shade of green. Us students called it monkey puke green. The student body council circulated a petition asking the school board to paint the school a more pleasing color, after all, the other high school in the district was painted a nice shade of tan. Some students even got some paint and painted a wall just to show what a difference a different color would make. The petition was shot down, the school board said the issue of the color would be brought up when the school was due to be painted again. It took about 10 years and the school was painted a different color. Brown. Monkey crap brown.
This fast-food restaurant. Despite the convenient location I’ve never been there because the sight of that dark green building completely shuts off my appetite.
I wouldn’t be turned off by eating there simply by the color, but if I just drove past it I would have assumed it was a medical office or supply store or something rather than a restaurant.
My FIL has some property up in Michigan, and is always looking for a deal. Some years back he got a deal on an apparently endless supply of “Fairfax Brown” paint. EVERYTHING that doesn’t move fast enough to avoid it has been painted shit brown - buildings, furniture, a jeep, a backhoe, tools…
Any fire engine that isn’t fire-engine red is just wrong. I know some studies show that those with the ugly yellow-green, I-ate-a-whole-Key-lime-pie-and-then-puked color are less likely to be involved in accidents, but I don’t care. That color, and any other color that isn’t fire-engine red, is an affront to the sensibilities of all right-thinking people everywhere.
The Eiffel Tower. Most people assume that it is cool steel grey. The joke is on you (and me). It is actually painted in murky tan when you see it up close.
I’ve lived there for 29 years. It started out as a beige color, and then became a very pleasing soft yellow. But yesterday it was supposed to be painted blue. Blue! It’s just wrong. Fortunately the painters never showed, so I got a reprieve from living in a blue building. But the landlady is very upset, and sooner or later she will have her blue building. (that one really should be blue).
And anyone visiting Tokyo may be shocked (at a great distance) by the brilliant orange and glare white color scheme of its own rendition of that tower. Especially when lit up at night.
At first acquaintance, it definitely registers as “WRONG COLOR”. But it grows on you.
When I was in the Air Force, I was living in the barracks, and as a Staff Sergeant, I was the highest ranking person on the floor where I was living, so the Base Commander automatically made me responsible for choosing colors and patterns when the base decided to repaint and recarpet the barracks. There was a limited choice, so I chose, based on the paint chips provided, a pastel yellow for the walls. I then went on vacation. When I came back, the building had been painted, and our walls were painted an alarming School Bus yellow. Everybody asked me why I had chosen such an awful, almost fluorescent, color. They didn’t believe me when I told them it looked nothing like the chip I had been provided.
(that one really should be blue).
