Re: Rainbow
Colours of; Red Orange Yellow, Green Blue and Violet - equating to the three primary colours and the three overlaps. Newton invented a 7th colour because of his mystical belief in the significance of the prime number 7
Few could argue with what the Raspberry Pi has achieved. As well as inspiring countless youngsters into computing, the tiny affordable gadget is beloved by amateur and professional techies alike. Yet a completely batshit crazy petition, even by change.org standards, begs to differ. One "NoRottenPi" is calling for a boycott of …
Well, according to Wikipedia there were eight colors originally.
Newton "picked" seven colours (most people only clearly distinguish 6) because of Greek philosophy, music (seven notes, then next octave) and alchemy. He'd originally listed six! There are very many more colours than 7 in a rainbow if you have a good list of colour names, or a pantone chart. I think the limit is about 10,000 hues for humans viewing spectrum of sunlight on very narrow slit and prism.
Asimov thought Newton's choice odd
I believe the I stands for "intersex" where their physical bits swing both ways. But it's the Q for "Queer" that has me puzzled; isn't that covered by the LGBT options?
One version I saw included an A which I presume stood for "Asexual" who are people who don't have sex or sexual desire and are completely happy with that, so why do they need special representation?
I just think of it as LGBT-alphabet for simplicity.
Round where I live, it had recently rained and the rain had moved away, then the sun came out. All very nice, you might think, until I looked up into the Tory blue sky, and saw that the gays had been at it again, plastering their rainbow across the whole vista of nature. I am raising a petition to stop this constant hijacking of the skies by the LGBTQIADHKUY brigade. Who's with me?
I think you may well find that they don't allow themselves nice things. Because it might make Jehovah[sic] cross.
They need to forget the bad teachings of their youth and read their Bible. Get to know the God of the Bible, not this being of man's worst imaginations.
/me gets asbeatos overcoat
You'd only notice that it is a woman doing the hugging if you notice the earrings. I was amused to note that much fuss is being made of the LGBTQ elements while no one paid any attention to the adults being an inter-racial couple, so *some* progress has been made.
And, yes, the thread was--so far as I can tell--sent to /dev/null.
On the whole, the image (still up today...I expect it change relatively soon as it is no longer Gay Pride Month) is pretty subtle. I suspect a lot of people never noticed and would never notice if the petitioner hadn't made such a fuss. It's pretty much an own goal.
"I used to work with a bloke with a big shaggy beard who wore womens earings every day that I saw him. Earrings definitely aren't a good indicator to rely on."
I'm a bloke with a big shaggy beard that wears earrings, although literally just 'rings', like a pirate and I'm definitely not gay, so that's at least two of us.
What I would like to do is explore the possibilities of a bigger, shaggier, beard, but I'm having trouble getting planning permission for that from the missus.
"I used to work with a bloke with a big shaggy beard who wore womens earings every day that I saw him. Earrings definitely aren't a good indicator to rely on."
I bet if you asked him how long he'd been wearing them, he'd have said "Ever since my Missus found them on the back seat of our car"
>>>You'd only notice that it is a woman doing the hugging if you notice the earrings.<<<
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Considering the many earring-wearing males around, that buttons on her jacket are on the left would probably be a better indicator.
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Anyhu, I'd forgotten I wanted to get my hands on that deliciously cheap Zero W for some LG^H^HBLE-tomfoolery.
Now, where's that credit card at?
"From the time when Gay meant happy."
Still does mean that. If you are referring to a time when it exclusively meant that ... it's unlikely that was ever the case.