When I started a job the woman from the party committee asked what my favorite color was. I had never given it much thought but looked at my blue pants, blue shirt, blue tie, and blue car and said, “I guess I like blue.”
“What’s your other favorite color?”
I was perplexed and repeated, “I guess I like blue, but I like other colors, too.”
Unless I don’t like them (f’rinstance, some colors nauseate me in a synesthesiac manner) I just don’t give this sort of thing any thought. Last night I tried to log into my Comcast account and it asked what was my favorite thing to drink. I don’t have a favorite thing to drink, at least since I quit vodka, and can’t imagine having ever used that as a security question. dropmom’s maiden name? I’ve decided on a particular spelling that I’m pretty sure is right. My favorite pet? He’s dead now, and I only gave him a proper name because the vet thought that “Puppy” was not distinctive enough, and I’ve had other pets I’ve liked, too, but I standardized on him back when he was alive. And the other pets all had multiple names, too. But never my favorite thing to drink.
Yeah you can absolutely have different names, although it’s more likely with vastly different colors. Doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with your or your husband’s eyes (or brains). Color naming differences can happen, especially between genders. See the xkcd one, where females can differentiate between “lilac” and “lavender,” while males will call both “some fruity shit, you’re not painting the walls that color!”
Yeah I figured they had that color listed. I did a GIS and I do agree that many of them are on the blue side, like this one. Someone’s not playing by the rules maybe? I would only give so much credence to stuff on an LCD or even CRT if not calibrated right, but some of those seem very blue.
I have just come to understand that the OP’s intent in starting this thread was to parody threads that ask questions like “What do you like about nightclubs?” or “What do you like about football?” or “What’s so great about Buffy the Vampire Slayer?” or whatever.
I don’t consider this a valid satire, though. If I were to start a thread asking “What do you like about nightclubs?” I might on the one hand be stating my distaste for nightclubs, but I would probably also be sincerely seeking information about what people actually do like about them.
It’s a conversation, a seeking of information, a … dare I say it … effort to fight my ignorance. Yes, it might take the form of a “blech, I hate it; what could possibly be attractive about it?” but that’s how a lot of human interaction takes place. You engage people, sometimes in a mock-confrontational manner.
I don’t know about you, but a lot of interactions with friends and acquaintances take the form of “How could you possibly like that crap?” And then the dialogue starts. It’s a type of social interaction and it’s not very uncommon.
It seems to me that stepping into that kind of a conversation and saying “Why bother asking? If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. There’s nothing to discuss.” is a kind of threadshitting. Disagree with the OP or other participants in the thread. That’s legitimate. What seems shitty to me is implying that one should never try to engage in this kind of interaction.
Sometimes questions like that are perfectly valid, the person asking is interested in other viewpoints.
But sometimes the person asking just thinks their one world view is the only world view and everyone else should like the same things they do.
The thread was attempting to mock the 2nd type not the first type.
Note: MOL, I spit some cereal down into the quarry when I read your post.
