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[–] 47 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange. Since many of their prey animals have bad colour vision the orange that stands out to us actually looks the same as the foliage to them.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange.

    tigers are orange?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Yes! While colour names are admittedly arbitrary cultural artifacts, tigers are famously considered to be orange and black striped. The Wikipedia article where you appear to have gotten that image of a tiger from even describes them as such in the first paragraph.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Fascinating. Though quite a few of the tiles don't look orange to me at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    same here 🀷

    look at just the burnt umber and papaya whip(?)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Ya, I wouldn't personally call all those orange myself to be honest. All colour names are arbitrary but orange especially so since its a more recent invention (on a historical time scale) and our brains do some funky post processing stuff to differentiate it from brown (which is the mostly the same hue as orange, just dull as opposed to vibrant). So what exactly counts as orange is a bit of a mess even compared to other colours.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    i know that some cultures used the same word for blue and green. They didn't perceive 2 different colours but hues of, for example, glaz.

    orange is linked to the fruit in many languages. that's why i posted those 2 photographs together.

    Orangutans too are orange and i'm sorry for writing this sentence :) At least they're not striped.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    In the dark years of persistent autumn, the soulless redhead tribe dominated the wild forests.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Ahh yes, Ginger Island on the Grandline.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Personally I think redheads are cuter, it's an aesthetic driving evolution, like the pretty male birds. They also seem to be crazier, but evolution doesn't care as long as reproduction happens. Happier in a world with redheads, nevertheless.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I love redheads and I didn't really understand the "ginger" hate in the US -- just thought it was dumb exaggerated stuff. I moved (back) to the UK and so many people were like "gingers are disgusting" "hey lobut, ask Sam what colour his pubes are" .. I'm like wtf is going on here, I don't understand it?

    Some of my UK friends said it comes from the hatred of the Irish? Not sure why it'd be like that in the US though, it all seems weird to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I've personally noticed that I am not attracted to red hair in itself but that I sometimes happened to be attracted to women with red hair, who had a slight correlation to certain physical characteristics (eye shape, face shape, and yeah, body type) that I found attractive. So it always seemed to me like being attracted to women despite their red hair, rather than because of their red hair.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Naw, it's just for being fancy.

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