Reply to: Where is my Inuit yellow post box?

[vetran]

Only four?

Seems a bit tokenistic.

And I'd have much rather seen one dedicated to Derek Griffiths than Lenny Henry.

I saw him at the theatre 30 years ago and he was brilliant.

[The Bona Fide]

Only four?

Seems a bit tokenistic.

And I'd have much rather seen one dedicated to Derek Griffiths than Lenny Henry.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Nah.

Red is dark pink.

[Paddy]

Why is pink in the list? Surely it's a shade of red or does it have its own place on the spectrum?

I am writing from memory. I believe that in quantum mechanics, colour have specific bands of wave length depending on the electron orbit (its not really an orbit). The electrons need to make quantum leap in order to change colour (be it the duality of light being wave & photon). The result is there are definite colours and any other "colour" is a shade or mix of the same.

I am sure that another poster knows better....

[ladymuck]

Why is pink in the list? Surely it's a shade of red or does it have its own place on the spectrum?

Are we still talking about the light spectrum?

[d000hg]

Why is pink in the list? Surely it's a shade of red or does it have its own place on the spectrum?

[Paralytic]

But there are 6 different colours, with about a million different shades detectable with the human eye.

Who decides this? The colour police?

[NotAllThere]

I'm sorry to be the one that breaks it to you, but there are infinite (or at least uncountable) colours in the rainbow. So I want indigo and violet separate.

Newton wanted there to be seven because it fit in with his esoteric theories. But there are 6 different colours, with about a million different shades detectable with the human eye.

Would help if they weren't such a tulip employer.

They get staff walking out due to racist bosses plus stuff like this -Asian postman gets GBP30k Royal Mail race discrimination payout | Daily Mail Online
Funny thing is the people who tell me how tulip they are to work for are white.

Or consider this egregious denial of justice:
Horizon (IT system) - Wikipedia
Bankruptcy, prosecution and disrupted livelihoods - Postmasters tell their story
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictur...n-the-post.pdf

They have their own justice system and courts. People went to prison because it was impossible (said Fujitsu and the Post Office) for the computer system to be wrong.

[d000hg]

But it would be lovely seeing all those smart blue post boxes in the North

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[vetran]

The black ones look pretty smart although they are supposed to be easy to spot functionally. I thought painting them gold to honour olympic champions was great.

Maybe we should paint them to reflect constituency MP, a nice array of reds and blues and a few yellow. Reflect our democratic harmony.

don't bring politics into it. The use of the postbox colour has been vey effective without politics.

[d000hg]

The black ones look pretty smart although they are supposed to be easy to spot functionally. I thought painting them gold to honour olympic champions was great.

Maybe we should paint them to reflect constituency MP, a nice array of reds and blues and a few yellow. Reflect our democratic harmony.

[Zigenare]

ssh it doesn't have to make sense we just shout loudest.

Ah, got it!

Free the Gay Whales!!!!

[vetran]

That would piss the Vikings off!

ssh it doesn't have to make sense we just shout loudest.

[Zigenare]

I wish I had enough hair :cry:

Can I put corn rows in my beard?

That would piss the Vikings off!

[vetran]

Would help if they weren't such a tulip employer.

They get staff walking out due to racist bosses plus stuff like this -Asian postman gets GBP30k Royal Mail race discrimination payout | Daily Mail Online
Funny thing is the people who tell me how tulip they are to work for are white.

You like othering people don't you.

Actually I thought it was a nice way to spread a message and a good way to show solidarity with an equality agenda, a cause I agree with. The reply from BLM was its not enough, most people would consider that rude and counterproductive.

On a separate issue "whataboutery" I think they call it, I agree that the Royal mail don't have a great record as an employer but many other organisations in the same area suffer similarly. In fact anyone in home delivery tend to treat their staff poorly. luckily there are laws for that!

othering - view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself.

"a critique of the ways in which the elderly are othered by society"

- yep I had to look it up.

No I expect others to behave to the same standards I aspire to i.e. lawful behaviour, equality, truth and proof. BLM don't, evidence available if you haven't followed their lies, that is hardly my fault or a prejudice.