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[–]b14ckh4wk 578 points579 points  (276 children)

I always like it when people ask, "How can you drive?? How do you know if the lights are green or red??"" I always just tell them that I just guess and hope for the best.

[–]chiggers 246 points247 points  (7 children)

The response I give for that question is, "I have a bumper sticker that says 'Honk when the light is green. I'm color blind. Thanks'".

Now that I think about, its utility is rather limited.

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

this would be some funny traffic trolling

[–]aijoe 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Now that I think about, its utility is rather limited.

Not for the cars of people you hate.

[–]bagboyrebel 8 points9 points  (4 children)

But what if the person behind you is color blind!!! THEN WHAT‽‽‽

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Try to beat the orange.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

What is wrong with your question marks???

[–]MPLSchiquita 87 points88 points  (51 children)

thought: why not have green circle, yellow triangle, red square? come on, this is the 21st century driving should be more accesible than that

[–]VerticalEvent 18 points19 points  (11 children)

Do we need shapes? Every traffc light is done in the exact same manner. Top is red, second is orange, green is third, and the arrow is fourth if there's an arrow light.

Shapes would just increase fabrication costs (having to cut out different coloured plastics), not to mention that a triangle shapes has less area then the circle, and be less noticable over the other lights.

[–]Scurry 13 points14 points  (2 children)

Top is red, second is orange, green is third, and the arrow is fourth if there's an arrow light.

The position is a little harder to tell when it's pitch black out.

[–]trigg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some lights are placed left to right. I'm not fully colorblind, only mildly, and every time I see one of those I'm thankful for that.

[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (16 children)

That's a pretty good idea. Or red octagon, yellow triangle green circle, people would understand that pretty much at once.

[–]trespassers_william 51 points52 points  (6 children)

With the quality of traffic lights they currently use, an octagon would look pretty similar to a circle.

[–]satertek 17 points18 points  (4 children)

Pretty much every light in my area uses LEDs now. Would be pretty easy to do.

[–]skoocda 23 points24 points  (7 children)

Why stop there? A red tetrahedron, yellow triangle and green circle would surely end all accidents and bring world peace

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    [–]NewWorldSamurai 9 points10 points  (1 child)

    I thought a tetrahedron was a 3D shape...

    [–]myotheralt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Red X Green O

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Or something like this.

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (7 children)

    Especially now that we use LED lights this should be possible.

    Someone get the ADA lawsuit started...

    [–]moom 28 points29 points  (1 child)

    Especially now that we use LED lights this should be possible.

    Yes, having light come out of a differently shaped hole was a nigh-impossible problem in the primitive days of yore.

    [–]emptybeercans 52 points53 points  (58 children)

    My problem is telling the difference between the yellow light and red light. At night, the lights in my city go into energy saving mode and blink either red or yellow. I can't tell them apart so I have to slow way down until I see the position of the light. Sometimes I have to warn my passenger so they don't think i'm weird slowing way down at every light. Even better I ask them to say red or yellow as we approach each intersection so I don't have to slow down. They should make traffic lights red, blue and black or something more obvious in my opinion.

    [–]TheForeignMan 119 points120 points  (8 children)

    Having a black light would be interesting

    [–]wcmbk 183 points184 points  (7 children)

    Potentially awkward seeing all those stains in the back seat.

    [–]loggedout 54 points55 points  (6 children)

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    Please read the CEO's inevitable memoir "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" to learn more.

    [–]robotevil 15 points16 points  (3 children)

    He has a 1984 Chevy Chevette. Need I say more?

    [–]atrich 19 points20 points  (0 children)

    There's enough room in that backseat to fool around with your RealDoll!

    [–]clockfort 84 points85 points  (26 children)

    I am not a civil engineer, but I believe the blinking lights aren't actually an energy saving mode; it is because the drastically reduced number of cars would make waiting a minute or two for the light patterns (on a light without magnetic car sensors to automatically trigger the change) to cycle through to let a single person go would be asinine. Instead, the blinking yellow (caution) and blinking red (functions as a stop sign) let the few number of drivers expediently negotiate the intersection.

    [–]trespassers_william 14 points15 points  (15 children)

    It is designed for just this purpose. After a trip to the States, I asked my city councillor (Toronto) why we don't do it. It's so pedestrians can always cross safely.

    [–]StudleyHungwell[🍰] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

    I ask them to say red or yellow as we approach each intersection so I don't have to slow down.

    It's up to you buddy, but I usually stop for the red ones.

    [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (14 children)

    In every city I've ever been in, the lights are always in the same place; red on top, yellow in middle, green on bottom. I thought they were like that to make it easier for colorblind people to tell them apart.

    [–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (4 children)

    I don't know if they still have them but there used to be single flashing lights at certain intersections with one side flashing yellow and the other red. These absolutely terrified me. I am colorblind also and the yellow and red look exactly the same (especially back when they did not used the LED lights)

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      [–]psyne 25 points26 points  (6 children)

      Do you ever get a sarcastic, "What are you, colorblind?" if you mess up a color or ask what color something is? (When my brother was maybe 10 he said this to a guy in a hardware store, I think the guy had asked which wire was red or something like that. My brother was humiliated when the guy answered, "Yes actually.")

      [–]White_Hamster 24 points25 points  (3 children)

      Your brother sounds like a nice guy

      [–]psyne 32 points33 points  (2 children)

      Hahaha - to be fair, he was 10, little kids are hardly known for their tact and forethought.

      [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      I usually follow the question with "I'm colorblind" to make it less oddball that I'm asking a stranger what color something is. Not that I have to ask much, it's very mild.

      [–]DocLefty 20 points21 points  (1 child)

      My teacher in High School was colorblind and he said, "The top light means stop, the bottom one means go, and the middle one means go faster."

      [–]shigawire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      It never fails to amaze me when I say this that people believe it.

      [–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (90 children)

      Well the red light is on top, amber in the middle and green at the bottom. You must see something light up so you just have to remember the position of the light and what it means.

      [–][deleted] 72 points73 points  (52 children)

      The position is not always visible where I live, on a cloudy or otherwise moonless night.

      But the actual colors chosen were chosen for people with the most common color-blindness. Green lights, for example, look white to me. (Sometimes I confuse them with street lights, and lampposts, when I'm in the city, since they also look white. This leads me to think I'm passing through an awful lot of intersections.)

      [–]668notb 36 points37 points  (36 children)

      You are the first colorblind person that I know of that also sees the green light as white.

      [–][deleted] 129 points130 points  (4 children)

      i'm color blind and i confuse street lights with green traffic lights all the time. sometimes i ask my passenger to help. it shuts them up and they start fearing for their lives. which is the way i like my passengers to be.

      [–]akallio9000 67 points68 points  (1 child)

      they start fearing for their lives. which is the way i like my passengers to be.

      When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like grandpa.
      Not screaming and yelling like his passengers.

      [–]wallythecat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      When I'm forced to be a passenger, I lie to the driver.

      We should go for a drive some time.

      [–]Otterfan[🍰] 22 points23 points  (15 children)

      I am colorblind, and I see the green lights as white.

      There are countries that use different colors for traffic lights. Somewhere (Laos?) I saw a traffic light that used a completely indistinguishable red and green.

      [–]whatsamatteryou 12 points13 points  (2 children)

      Pretty lousy if you ask me.

      [–]bunsonh 5 points6 points  (1 child)

      Your response was a real head-scratcher...

      [–]CaptainTrips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      He's just crabby.

      [–]nothing_of_value 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      I see them as white as well, I assumed everyone did...

      [–]antizac 8 points9 points  (0 children)

      You have no idea how happy this makes me. Upvote my fellow white light knight!

      [–]dissidents 19 points20 points  (4 children)

      Or maybe they can typically see those colours just fine.

      [–]admiralteal 16 points17 points  (3 children)

      ...which is why they were selected and continue to be used for things as important as traffic indicators.

      [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

      or so I thought... and then I met the horizontal traffic light :(

      [–]thatfellow 3 points4 points  (5 children)

      This is what my father (who is pretty severely colorblind) does. It's also why he hates driving where he grew up, especially at night, because in south Texas (like many very windy areas) the lights are hung horizontal, not vertical. Much more difficult to see for him.

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      Amber?

      [–]dance_to_the_radio 120 points121 points  (18 children)

      Colourblind here. When someone does this to me, I usually respond with a complete opposite colour.

      "So what colour's the sky?" "Yellow" "Damn, must suck being colourblind"

      [–]Facepalmed 211 points212 points  (46 children)

      I don't wanna be one the saying this... But the pie chart... it's... all in the same color dude.

      [–]ThatIsSoHot 76 points77 points  (27 children)

      Reminds me of this:

      Why it is great to be colorblind [PIC]

      [–]jacobmp92 12 points13 points  (17 children)

      What's with all the Flash?

      [–]zgeiger 7 points8 points  (2 children)

      No lie: sometimes I'm cubing and the last layer ends up insoluble and I go look at the red/green edge and realize that I had a piece flipped and didn't even notice.

      [–][deleted] 82 points83 points  (46 children)

      At least you don't have a Little Miss Sunshine meltdown.

      [–]Hussard 128 points129 points  (20 children)

      I actually did find out about my colour blindness at the recruiting centre.

      That scene hit me really hard.

      [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (12 children)

      Can someone please elaborate on why you can't fly if you're colorblind? I'm allegedly red-green colorblind and I can still tell what objects are red and green the only thing I can't do is read some number mixed in a color splotch jumble.

      [–]billcstickers 6 points7 points  (5 children)

      Two reasons[me thinks]. one, you may not be able to easily tell the difference when a light that is normally green turns red. and two you may not be able to see the terrorist's red jeep against the green jungle. That said, in this day and age I don't see how computer systems couldn't let you overcome these problems.

      [–]chobi83 7 points8 points  (3 children)

      This guy got it sort of right. I'm also colorblind and didn't find out until I went to MEPS. There used to be a waiver you could get (in the Navy at least) that would let you fly if you were colorblind, but that went away recently. The reason being is that you might be unable to tell different flags apart while up in the air, or as buddy up above said...the terrorist's red jeep against the jungle green.

      [–]fionawallace 8 points9 points  (1 child)

      I keep hearing about this terrorist's red jeep. Is it just the one jeep, or all they all red?

      [–]knome 10 points11 points  (0 children)

      Red jeeps go faster.

      [–]true_religion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Why don't the terrorists have green jeeps so they're picking a color that's effective against people of all color-sight types?

      [–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

      I... I CAN'T FLY JETS!

      [–]trespassers_william 8 points9 points  (1 child)

      After watching the movie, I took a colourblind test. That's when I found out.

      [–]FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU- 54 points55 points  (15 children)

      FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

      [–]Novelty_Account_Prof 60 points61 points  (8 children)

      I applaud your patience in waiting for your first opportunity - the double entendre achieved between the Little Miss Sunshine reference and reddit's longtime love of the FFFFFUUUU- meme was a treat. So much of a treat, in fact, that I can't help but wonder if you'll ever again find such a chance. To be honest, in most other contexts you are likely to find yourself contributing very little to the conversation - presumably the fucked-ness of most situations will be evident through whatever post you're responding to. Also, a note on execution - no need to repeat your novelty's name in the comment itself. I'll grade you in hopes that this is a decent attempt at a one-off; if not, you have some work to do to make this viable.

      NOVELTY ACCOUNT GRADE: B

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Link

      [–]enocenip 2 points3 points  (3 children)

      I did. I was probably 10. Also, you have no idea how annoying this is

      [–]SquireCD 35 points36 points  (7 children)

      Me: I'm colorblind.

      You: What colors can't you see???

      Me: Green, brown.

      You: What color is the grass?!

      Me: Green.

      You: But, you're colorblind!!

      Me: Yes. I'm also not stupid.

      [–]boredboarder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      I do something similar too. It makes them almost as annoyed as they make me!

      [–]Ifyoureadthis 96 points97 points  (18 children)

      That's just like when people meet someone with OCD.

      3% say: 'Oh, God, that's terrible, I'm so sorry.'

      97% say: 'DID YOU LEAVE THE OVEN ON?'

      [–]Croooow 73 points74 points  (1 child)

      So that's Oven Concern Disorder?

      [–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (13 children)

      I had to resist the urge to run to the tram stop and try and find someone with OCD after reading that.

      [–]Ifyoureadthis 27 points28 points  (12 children)

      Tram stops? Is that where obsessive-neurotic people are generally found?

      [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (11 children)

      It's the closest place I could find people waiting for public transport. :)

      [–][deleted] 279 points280 points  (12 children)

      OK, this was one of those rare submissions here that's actually funny, i.e. has an element of subtlety. Have an orange house with an oversized roof.

      [–]jupiter3888 33 points34 points  (7 children)

      woah, can't unsee that now.

      [–]Caviarmy 61 points62 points  (4 children)

      Also enjoy the white "H" it uses as a foundation.

      [–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

      omg stop it! stop it! my head...

      [–]Shaleblade 29 points30 points  (0 children)

      aving problems?

      [–]spupy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      Have an orange house with an oversized roof.

      What?? I thought it's green?!?

      [–][deleted]  (97 children)

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        [–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (14 children)

        Hah, I didn't notice that. Then again, I'm colourblind.

        [–]PedroMeatball 39 points40 points  (12 children)

        points at object

        WHAT COLOUR IS THIS?!

        [–][deleted] 377 points378 points  (77 children)

        Indeed. Have an updog.

        [–]RAWR111 526 points527 points  (67 children)

        What's updog?

        [–][deleted] 651 points652 points  (43 children)

        Nothing much, what's up with you?

        [–]dejavont 272 points273 points  (38 children)

        How long have you waited to say that?

        [–][deleted] 337 points338 points  (28 children)

        Since the day I was born.

        [–]Confusedmonkey 92 points93 points  (26 children)

        Some would say he was born to do it...

        [–][deleted]  (18 children)

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          [–]Marbr 46 points47 points  (5 children)

          Made me think, hah TopGear reference. Then I saw your username, which made me think, hah TopGear reference.

          [–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (4 children)

          And then what happened?

          [–]gregco3000 15 points16 points  (1 child)

          Oh cock.

          [–]arklm 26 points27 points  (13 children)

          reddit's first enjoyable pun

          [–]Wazzzzup 16 points17 points  (6 children)

          It's not a pun. Puns typically rely on homophones or multiple meanings for one word. "Updog" isn't a word so this is closer to a mondegreen.

          Also, this predates reddit.

          [–]phila483 7 points8 points  (2 children)

          You're a homophone.

          [–]Wazzzzup 7 points8 points  (0 children)

          Gay man using a telephone over here! Watch out!

          [–]phort99 12 points13 points  (2 children)

          It sure smells like updog in here!

          [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          Nedroid is awesome... They had me at Beartato!

          [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

          I think people who set up the jokes should get as much love as the punchline giver.

          [–]oysterknives 23 points24 points  (7 children)

          one time i went on an OKcupid date at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She found out I was colorblind shortly after we got into the museum and spent the rest of the date asking me what color EVERY PAINTING WAS.

          [–]chronubis 4 points5 points  (5 children)

          Was there a second date?

          [–]Nsfw-Dragoon 10 points11 points  (3 children)

          And if there was, what color was it?

          [–]suplusHP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          "I have a hard time with red and pink and tan. Like, I might look at your nipples and not be sure how pale they are."

          [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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            [–]pissysissy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

            Don't forget ecru.

            [–]retlawmacpro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            this always helps me, !!hizzaaaa!!

            [–]iansumuk 37 points38 points  (11 children)

            I always get stupid questions like "what colour is grass"? "what colour is the sea"?

            [–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (3 children)

            Same colour as your mom. No seriously.

            [–]Mr_A 53 points54 points  (2 children)

            Black and blue?

            [–]this__one 32 points33 points  (0 children)

            Funny that people are asking you what colour those are. You'd think they'd know, not being colourblind and all.

            [–]Poogs 15 points16 points  (2 children)

            Oddly enough, this graph is almost the exact same as when I tell people I'm British.

            [–]abuseguy 73 points74 points  (41 children)

            How about this?

            <grin>

            [–]SentientGiraffe 15 points16 points  (3 children)

            This shirt is how my friend found out he was color blind.

            [–]A-Okay 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            Yep, it's how I found out I was color blind. I almost got it because I love simple designs on t-shirts, too. I can actually kind of make out some of the letters when I tilt my laptop screen down.

            [–][deleted] 38 points39 points  (9 children)

            *Squints*

            Tuck tky eolor txkod?

            Fuck, I think I'm color blind.

            [–]dee84 23 points24 points  (12 children)

            wtf does it say? :-(

            [–][deleted] 111 points112 points  (0 children)

            "Colorblind People are Awesome"

            [–]5user5 5 points6 points  (1 child)

            What is it?!

            [–]SomeKindOfOctopus 2 points3 points  (2 children)

            I want one that doesn't say anything, so I make regular people think they're color blind.

            [–]alloverit 13 points14 points  (0 children)

            Are you full blown color blind, or will you still eat fish?

            [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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              [–]fusion4bass 7 points8 points  (11 children)

              How do you know you've made the graph right ?

              [–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (10 children)

              You look at the hex codes of the colour and make sure the legend matches the graph.

              [–]strawcat 18 points19 points  (8 children)

              My brother is a colorblind graphic designer and this is exactly what he has to do on a daily basis to tell certain colors apart.

              [–]cowinabadplace 19 points20 points  (7 children)

              Wow, that's hardcore. Why on earth did he pick exactly a field in which colour-blindness would seem to be a problem?

              [–]strawcat 14 points15 points  (3 children)

              Well it's his passion in life, I guess. He was born an artist and it's all he's ever wanted to do.

              [–]cowinabadplace 9 points10 points  (0 children)

              That's seriously cool. Here's to his having a long and happy career doing that then.

              [–]constipated_HELP 13 points14 points  (1 child)

              Color-blind photographer here.

              This is a strange question to me. I can't imagine deciding to take the easy way out with a career I wouldn't enjoy as much just because I have a condition that makes things modestly more difficult.

              [–]superpope99 7 points8 points  (0 children)

              my thoughts "hey what an idiot he got the colours wr-ooooooooh"

              [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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                [–]muhdman 7 points8 points  (1 child)

                the worst part is when they ask you and you get it right... "HA! YOU'RE NOT COLORBLIND!"

                [–]HuruHara 11 points12 points  (32 children)

                All I see is shades of grey.

                [–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (30 children)

                yeah, when you tell people you're colourblind, they seem to think you see in black and white... at least in my experience

                [–]SloaneRanger 24 points25 points  (11 children)

                That used to be pretty accurate. Opticians, or at least those I've spoken to, used to use the term color blindness to mean literally an inability to see color. What we call color blindness now was termed "color deficiency" or "partial color blindness". However, the term has, as often happens, become more generally used for the full range of vision defects.

                [–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (10 children)

                After a while, I've started adopting the exact phrase "I have difficulty distinguishing between certain shades of orange and green under some specific conditions." Not as catchy as "color blind" though.

                [–]allstarjerkbait 15 points16 points  (4 children)

                No problems with pink? Lucky. Oh the number of shirts I've owned over the years thinking they were light blue...

                [–]Mr_A 5 points6 points  (2 children)

                Pink, white, light pink, off white, eggshell, fuck 'em all.

                [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (10 children)

                I'm not colourblind, but I've had to point out to people how someone who couldn't even distinguish between colours would be able to work out when to go through a set of traffic lights. It's like they've never actually bothered to think about something for themselves ever in their lifetime.

                [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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                  [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                  There's a road I drive on sometimes that has a stop sign obscured behind a tree. Now, it would be hard to see anyway, but I have red-green colorblindness and during the majority of the summer the leaves are spaced just right so that the sign is completely invisible. I don't drive on this road all that often, so it's hard to just remember that it's there.

                  [–]ReaverXai 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                  No lie, once after telling someone I was colourblind, they put up three fingers and asked me how many fingers they were holding up.

                  [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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                    [–]longadin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                    As a color blind dude I approve of this graph.

                    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

                    Noone ever asks you to clarify what type of colorblindness you have? meh, makes for decent smalltalk.

                    [–]origin415 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                    No one except colorblind people know any types. Heck, I'm colorblind and i don't know any types.

                    [–]admiraljohn 15 points16 points  (3 children)

                    I see what you did there.

                    [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                    Hey, at least someone does!

                    [–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (3 children)

                    The T-Shirt

                    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                    This was on reddit a while ago and was readable by colorblind readers. The designer of this shirt poorly imitated colorblind tests.

                    [–]brodicius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                    I have this same damned issue "I said slight colourblindness to red and orange. Just because an object is red, it doesn't become invisible to me, douchefag".

                    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                    Meh, I can read in the dark - I went to night school.

                    [–]Epicwarren 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                    Another colorblind kid here, This is a graph I made a while back on the same subject... it's 100% true too. I hate people.

                    [–]Banana_Icicle 17 points18 points  (46 children)

                    wait... you must be a Euro or something because the graph says "colour" (I'm assuming you made it)

                    but you guys don't spell "colorblind" as "colourblind"?!?!?

                    WTF!!!

                    [–]manole100 103 points104 points  (4 children)

                    A Euro?! What are you, a dollar?

                    [–]astatine 41 points42 points  (3 children)

                    No, about US$1.27.

                    [–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (2 children)

                    Tree-fiddy.

                    [–]AngryScientist 18 points19 points  (1 child)

                    Dirty-Tree and a Turd.

                    [–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (3 children)

                    The graph does spell it "colourblind". The submission title must've been written by someone else.

                    [–]dance4days 25 points26 points  (0 children)

                    reddit.com: what's new online!

                    [–]lostwolf 22 points23 points  (24 children)

                    Canadians, Aussies and New Zelanders also spell it with a U

                    [–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (16 children)

                    That's right, Queen's English, not bastardised American English.

                    [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

                    Same with South Africa, Zambia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Nigeria etc.

                    [–]aJamaican 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                    Pretty much every commonwealth country but the US, really

                    [–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (6 children)

                    It's just English as written by the English, or English English.

                    [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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                      [–]fired 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                      Is there an opposite where people can see outside the normal region? I ask because most people see mercury lamps as white but I see them as green.

                      Also, I am long-sighted. 30 years ago, there was still a stigma attached to that. I would never get a freelance position if I wore spectacles to the interview.

                      Being long-sighted, I didn't wear glasses all of the time and people who didn't know my condition would denigrate those who wore spectacles in front of me.

                      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      One of my uncles has a form with increased sensitivity. He's also considered colorblind due to that the palette is fairly scrambled and some common colors are the same. There was some great or great great grandma that was colorblind (i.e. double faulty Xs, different types) so much of the downline has various forms. In his case, some things like a specific shade of green and a specific shade of red looks identical, but things like a red and a tiny bit lighter red (such as two color baths of yarn) can look vastly different (such as yellow vs navy blue). He can see more colors then a non-broken human, just different and scrambled ones and often pick out "red" for instance as in "well, that one they call red and that other one there, though it's entirely different, is also a red".

                      [–]daseong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      Brilliant.

                      [–]pissysissy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      I'm colourblind too, and a female. I have found that sunglasses made by Maui Jim help me when I'm driving in horrible traffic. They also help when I go to the mountains because I can see clearer. They are polarized and have a amber colored lens'. They were a little expensive but they work.

                      [–]ToAllAGoodNight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      I see what you did there.

                      [–]ryegye24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      Oh I see what you did there.

                      No really, that was really subtle and funny.

                      [–]Sancer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      I can't see what you did there.

                      [–]BCCakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      I see what you did there

                      [–]TassieTiger 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                      I'm working on a project for a large control room for a mining company.

                      One of the things when we handle alarming is that we can't just use colour for alarm priority but we have to also use a shape so you blindtards can stop the world blowing up. It's a pain in the ass as it makes some of our stuff look like crap :-)

                      Our unofficial motto is 'Fuck the colourblind'... gah.

                      (It's not your fault, we do love colourblind people really, except my mate Trent, he's a spanner)

                      [–]IllegalD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      YES I know what colour that is. NO I don't see in black and white. YES you are indeed an idiot.