funny that, I read this morning that scientists had accidentally discovered the first new blue pigment in 200 years
Crayola are now making it into crayons
( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:37, archived)

the ancient Greeks had no word for blue,
In fact the only ancient culture to develop a word for blue was the Egyptians.

How about THAT?
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:44, archived)

fancy that

( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:48, archived)

the reason the egyptians had a specific work for blue was because they had blue dye
everyone else described blue things as variants of green
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:58, archived)

like those South American tribes who count "one, two, many..."

( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:05, archived)

yes I do

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:30, archived)

What about the abos? They had words for everything

(Nicki Minaj, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:51, archived)

impossible to say as they never wrote anything down

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 8:59, archived)

Lazy fuckers

(Nicki Minaj, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:09, archived)

too busy getting pissed

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:24, archived)

Vietnamese still uses the same word for both blue and green - xanh
Although they do distinguish by saying 'xanh like the sky' or 'xanh like the trees'.
( Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:06, archived)

Most things are turquoise-ish, then

(dribble, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 10:26, archived)

Weirdly the word for turquoise in Vietnamese, ngọc lam, traslates as "dark blue gemstone"
So they clearly have no fucking idea
( Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 11:49, archived)

Will probably turn out to give kids cancer in 20 years time

(dribble, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:20, archived)

Turing's Artificial Hand, you mean

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:24, archived)

I'm like Dr Claw, just a hand in a chair with a plan to take over the world

( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 9:25, archived)

the smithszz

(dribble, Mon 18 Jan 2021, 11:19, archived)