• DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz
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        5 months ago

        On a second, more careful review of that wikipedia page:

        I thank you for being the only person to actually address and correct my mistake. While the color I was brought up to understand as magenta and the color of the flower I got when I googled “magenta” and the color of the relevant dog (if you squint, maybe) do not look like any bruise or blood, the color can be fairly said to take up more space in the color wheel than that, and potentially includes many “bruised” colors.

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      5 months ago

      “hands would be magenta” my guy you probably shoulda googled that word before committing to it.

      Magenta is a purple-ish red color which on it’s own doesn’t really work as a reference to blood, but the author chose that specific color because it’s the name of Blue’s friend next door, a dog named Magenta.

      https://bluesclues.fandom.com/wiki/Magenta

      Perhaps you should’ve googled that before committing to your comment?

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        5 months ago

        Magenta is a purple-ish red color which on it’s own doesn’t really work as a reference to blood

        That’s something an honour-less p’takh would say.

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        5 months ago

        It also works as the color of bruises, which your hands would be after viciously beating someone.

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        5 months ago

        I literally did, and came up with pictures of pink flowers. Did you?

        It works, I guess, as a reference to blues clues, which I clearly missed having never seen it, but it emphatically does not work as a reference to blood.

        edit: No, actually, I googled “magenta blues clues” and came up with a picture of a dog a completely different color than blood. If the point of the children’s show is to teach children colors, then it failed completely in the author’s case.

        Also, you didn’t use facetious correctly when you pettily blocked that other user for pointing out you weren’t using facetious correctly.

        • Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.world
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          Holy shit HOW do you not know magenta is a color like pink or purple lmao, the dog is named Magenta because it is the color magenta, kinda like how the only other fuckin dog in the show is named BLUE cuz it’s FUCKIN BLUE.

          A magenta colored flower isn’t out of the cards when you Google the word of a pinkish color.

          Your fists don’t go instantly blood red when you punch someone, unless you’re doing something very wrong, there are various shades of pink (e.g.s hot pink and MAGENTA)

          Either smoke a joint and calm the fuck down and try to come to terms with the fact that you’re ignorant instead of getting angry, or go back to first grade and learn colors again.

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          5 months ago

          The article and joke was rather mid. But holy crap is watching you turn into a corncob because you didn’t get a joke hilarious

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            I insist, I get what the joke was supposed to be, and the joke did not get there. It was a bad joke, bad wordplay, poorly crafted. I won’t be cowed by a crowd of stoners(?) into believing that magenta is somehow like the color of bruises or blood to support, in your words, an “article and joke [that] was rather mid.”