# Things that are just the wrong color **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870 "2017-10-03T14:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/41 "2017-10-04T19:06:11Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Someone in my town owns and drives around in a beige Ferrari. I am not sure why anyone would make a high end sports car in such a bland color. Maybe it was aftermarket-painted. > [@Aspidistra](#): > > Grey is worse. Whoever decided “just the same colour as the road” was a great colour for a box moving at 60kph? Everyone who’s selling a second-hand-car in my neighborhood, that’s who :smack: The absolute worst colour for a car in Southern Ontario is a light slightly-reflective greyish-beige. Why? This is the exact colour of the dirty snowbanks along the road as winter wanes. Ford offered cars in that colour. My uncle bought one. It was next-to-impossible to see when driving down the late-winter streets. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The bathroom in my house used to be Pepto Bismol pink. You can see some bits of it where they didn’t do a good job painting around the medicine cabinet. The current color is a barely tolerable Band-Aid pink. > > The thing that really boggles my mind is imagining the former owners standing in that glaring Pepto hell and saying, “Perhaps just a different\* shade\*.” When I was a kid, we moved into a house where the kitchen floor was light grey, dark grey, green, and black. In the basement of the house was a room painted a strong solid magenta. We demolished it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/42 "2017-10-04T19:27:51Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > These are appropriate car colors. White is for washers, dryers and refrigerators. Of course, I’ve heard car enthusiasts refer to many cars as “appliances”… 😉 **Dung** - one time we looked at a house. One bathroom had walls that were SO bright pink, that we couldn’t tell whether the counter was light pink, or whether it was white and reflecting the wall colors. :eek: (And - that was FAR from the wildest design attribute of that house!) ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/43 "2017-10-04T19:46:56Z")
I don’t know what colour it was supposed to be, but the house I live in is a nasty Faded Barbie Doll flesh tone colour. For a while my wifi network was called Big Pink House, but we all agreed that Pink was too kind a colour to call it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/44 "2017-10-04T19:48:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 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. Paint chips are pointless, except to give you the vaguest idea what the color will look like. You need to buy a small sample and paint about half a wall to get a good idea. Many years ago my wife and I settled on a pastel yellow for the bedroom. We bought two gallons, started painting, and we both realized “This is way too bright.” So we decided to use the opened gallon to paint the bathroom, then mixed the other gallon with a gallon of white base, which turned out perfect for the bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/45 "2017-10-04T19:54:35Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The bathroom in my house used to be Pepto Bismol pink. You can see some bits of it where they didn’t do a good job painting around the medicine cabinet. The current color is a barely tolerable Band-Aid pink. > > The thing that really boggles my mind is imagining the former owners standing in that glaring Pepto hell and saying, “Perhaps just a different\* shade\*.” Hee!I painted my bathroom Pepto color ON PURPOSE!😛 I don’t have enough money to make it nice so I went for funky instead. Mint chip ice cream really needs to be green. Most of it is but then you get the fancy schmancy kind that doesn’t use food coloring. There’s nothing as shocking and disappointing as having a spoonful of what you thought was regular chocolate chip and getting mouthful of toothpaste flavored ice cream. Blecccccch. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/46 "2017-10-05T01:22:25Z")
IMHO [tomato soup made with milk](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TsvdELfdUMw/Uyek12xZAqI/AAAAAAAAI7Q/mLejVwOQO6s/s1600/February+2014+042.JPG) looks like raw intestines. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/47 "2017-10-05T12:50:16Z")
All of the above, but can we talk about the colors where I used to work? Medium blue and medium grey. I don’t know who picked those, but it was the most depressing combination ever. They could’ve gone with darker blue and light grey, or dark grey and light blue. Anything else, but these two tones were exactly the same level of color. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > White girls with the ugly, Donald Trumpish orange spray tan. It is not pretty, at all! Girls, really look in the mirror!! This, especially when combined with yellow-y-bleached strawlike hair. Stop that. Do not pass go. Get your hair color toned and a good exfoliation to return to a humanoid color. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The bathroom in my house used to be Pepto Bismol pink. You can see some bits of it where they didn’t do a good job painting around the medicine cabinet. The current color is a barely tolerable Band-Aid pink. > > The thing that really boggles my mind is imagining the former owners standing in that glaring Pepto hell and saying, “Perhaps just a different\* shade\*.” The bathroom and kitchen in my condo used to be Pepto-pink. WHO BUYS THAT? My landlord put a camel color over it, but only 1 coat, so it’s kind of the same color as those flesh-toned fabric band-aids! I saw a lot of insane room colors while buying a house. One had a bedroom of so bright a yellow that it looked like the walls were pulsating (and triggered a migraine). Another had the brightest pink I’ve ever seen; that color also seemed to vibrate. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/48 "2017-10-05T13:16:58Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Even more alarming is that they are $4.79 a pound. To be fair, a pound of circus peanuts is a lifetime supply. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/49 "2017-10-05T14:05:39Z")
A [pink Scion xB](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/210121138835207992/). That just ain’t right. ETA: There’s some darned ugly other colors in that link too. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/50 "2017-10-05T18:02:50Z")
The house across the street from us just painted itself pale gray with white trim. It’s so nondescript as to almost be invisible. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/51 "2017-10-05T20:23:33Z")
[When it comes to bobbit worms, all colors are the wrong color](https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/attachments/bobbithead-jpg.1060718/) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/52 "2017-10-05T20:39:45Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > [When it comes to bobbit worms, all colors are the wrong color](https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/attachments/bobbithead-jpg.1060718/) [Hijack]Good god, what is that thing? I’ve never heard of them before now. I Googled up a video of it, and it gave me the extreme heebie jeebies. One video shows one wiggling freely in an aquarium full of just water, and it looks like the world’s biggest centipede.[/Hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/53 "2017-10-05T20:40:40Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > All of the above, but can we talk about the colors where I used to work?. At my current employer the building interior was recently painted in the corporate colors - green, orange, white and blue. All in the brightest imaginable shade. One particular meeting room entry was painted as follows: - wall around door = green - door frame = orange - door = blue The VP in charge of this building and the head of HR were standing in the hall shortly after the area was painted, clearly admiring the work. As I walked by the VP asked “Hey, Doc, what does this paint make you think of?”. He got my immediate, unfiltered answer of “Dr. Suess?” They didn’t seem pleased by that… > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The house across the street from us just painted itself pale gray with white trim. It’s so nondescript as to almost be invisible. A self painting house?!?! I’d pay extra for that! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/54 "2017-10-05T20:56:05Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > A self painting house?!?! I’d pay extra for that! It seems to have happened without the visible presence of any painters. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/55 "2017-10-05T20:57:08Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > [Hijack]Good god, what is that thing? I’ve never heard of them before now. I Googled up a video of it, and it gave me the extreme heebie jeebies. One video shows one wiggling freely in an aquarium full of just water, and it looks like the world’s biggest centipede.[/Hijack] Fun fact: the bobbit worm is named after a [woman who amputated her husband’s penis.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt) Proving that biologists are tied with morticians in gallows humor. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-just-the-wrong-color/797870/56 "2017-10-07T20:05:07Z")
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