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Any takers up on the challenge to described just what Magnollia is? I'm colour blind, so I'm ruling myself out...

You are not! Why care so much about colours if you are blind to them!?

Milla

I am indeed colour-blind, both figuratively and literally. Metaphorically because of my lack of judgement on aesthetics of colours… and literally because there are certain part of the spectrum I just can’t identify or distinguish from another. Colour blindness doesn’t mean you see in black and white.

That was particularly insensitive, wasn't it...
But you seem to have judgement? You have a taste for colour - and taste is always personal - and it doesn't seem strange to me, so that is why I thought you had full colour vision.

Forgive?

Milla

Magollia, like 'peach' is a colour that only a particular type of female can see. To the rest of the human race the former is a plant while the latter is a fruit.

And I still don't know what Magnolia is, even though I am a female (suppose I am not that kind of girl...), and it was brought up by a male...

Milla

It's a tree. A goddamn tree, I tell you.

It's a flower, and it's a whiter off-white than peach!

It's a tree, I say!

I tend to think of magnolia blossoms as being this purplish sort of colour: http://www.megnut.com/photos/2002/golden_gate_park/index7.html. Though this thread indicates that usually, they're yellowish.

Did I bring this topic up? I am female!!!!

There are purple magnolias, there are white and there are the 'cream going pink at the edges' ones. I think Kamanchi himself said it first... but can' be bothered to look it up


Milla

Shut up, milla. lol.

Thanks Scan, for the explanation.
I will Phredde
Maybe!

Milla

http://www.dulux.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/DuluxColourDetailCmd?langId=-1&storeId=10752&colourNumber=3053

That's Dulux's magnolia...

Now if Magnolia were actually like the flowers and I had a big enough light and airy home it the 30's Art Deco style I wouldn't object to it all, but that isn't how things are and I'd call Magnolia tame, boring and depressing...

It looks beige to me.

Noooo... beige is darker!

I was looking at a sofa bed in a shop at the weekend, whilst scouting for good quality mattresses at affordable prices, and I asked if it came in any other colours than 'Tan/Dun'... And she said "No, it's the beige..." And that magnolia is pretty much the same colour as that sofa bed.

Would it be in bad taste to introduce the subject of ducks' penises to this thread?

Blimey, that killed the conversation!

I actually had a valid reason for mentioning them. It was actually related to the thread topic, sort of.

I don't quite get how...