# "What's your favorite color" is nonsensical to me **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523 "2014-08-14T16:59:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523/61 "2014-08-20T01:23:49Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > But your post demonstrates why it’s such a nonsensical question. Why on earh is it relevant what my favorite color for a “completely neutral context in which there’s no natural color?” When does that ever happen? I mentioned one real world example in a previous post. You’re playing a board game and you’re picking a color to play. The pieces are all identical and will have no impact on how the game is played. So it’s purely a matter of what color you like. And don’t answer that you’ll just let everyone else pick and you’ll take whatever’s left. They’ve already picked their colors. So now it’s your turn to pick a color. What color do you pick? Life’s about choices. How do people who can’t handle making even a trivial decision get through the day? ---
**Author:** ![Krouget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b38774/32.png) [@Krouget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krouget)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523/62 "2014-08-20T12:57:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > My favorite color is green. > > Now stop overthinking things and just get on with your life. Agreed. Mine is blue. And I also don’t see what’s so nonsensical about it. If the person questioning added context, such as _“favorite car color”_, then I’d give my answer accordingly. I wouldn’t paint the outside of my house blue, but as it stands in the most general sense, it’s my favorite. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523/63 "2014-08-20T12:57:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I mentioned one real world example in a previous post. You’re playing a board game and you’re picking a color to play. The pieces are all identical and will have no impact on how the game is played. So it’s purely a matter of what color you like. > > And don’t answer that you’ll just let everyone else pick and you’ll take whatever’s left. They’ve already picked their colors. So now it’s your turn to pick a color. What color do you pick? If I were to make a conscious decision in that case, it would be to choose the color that the other player likes the least. Not to be nice, but for gamesmanship. They WILL have to look at their least favorite color for the entire game. Otherwise, I will probably pick the one closest to me. Ice cream? I pick whatever I’m in the mood for at the time. It’s seldom the same. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523/64 "2014-08-22T12:58:23Z")
You may also have the favourite colour that you wish to SAY is your favourite colour. That might even be different to the colour that you like to TYPE to tell people that it is your favourite colour… LOL Speak vs type… lol ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523/65 "2014-08-22T14:54:50Z")
I would like to say “Kelly green” and if I could afford it I would have my car, now a dark blue, repainted that color. Is Kelly green a pure green, or is it yellowish? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523/66 "2014-08-22T17:05:39Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I would like to say “Kelly green” and if I could afford it I would have my car, now a dark blue, repainted that color. > Is Kelly green a pure green, or is it yellowish? I think of it as this one, pretty darn green: [http://www.titansupport.com/magento/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/k/e/kelly\_green\_.jpg](http://www.titansupport.com/magento/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/k/e/kelly_green_.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-color-is-nonsensical-to-me/695523.md?page=3)