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Color Names Are Horrible

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Color names are horrible SW 6422 Shagreen SW 9037 Baby Bok Choy SW 6799 Soar 177-C2 SW 6800 Something Blue SW 6170 Techno Gray SW 6171 Chatroom SW 9119 Dried? Mushroom SW 9120 Tumble? Tumbleweed 312 SW 2826 Colonial Revival Green Stone Classical Colonial SW 2828 Colonial Revival Tan Classical Colonial SW 2858 Harvest Gold Suburban Modern SW 2859 Beige Suburban Modern
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A vertical video flips through pages of a paint-color catalog while the speaker sarcastically reads out increasingly bizarre names such as “Baby Bok Choy,” “Something Blue,” “Chatroom,” and “Tumbleweed.” The joke is that ordinary paint colors are given needlessly strange, overly specific, or vaguely poetic names, and the punchline arrives when the catalog finally reaches the plain name “Beige.” The dry, incredulous commentary and background music make the escalating list feel like a comedic rant. EN: A vertical video flips through pages of a paint-color catalog while the speaker sarcastically reads out increasingly bizarre names such as “Baby Bok Choy,” “Something Blue,” “Chatroom,” and “Tumbleweed.” The joke is that ordinary paint colors are given needlessly strange, overly specific, or vaguely poetic names, and the punchline arrives when the catalog finally reaches the plain name “Beige.” The dry, incredulous commentary and background music make the escalating list feel like a comedic rant.

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Dude who is in charge of naming these colors? I'm just gonna take you through some of my favorites. What the heck is bungalow house blue? Are we being for real here? interactive cream Baby bok choy got a freaking color also what the heck is chagrin? Bro, what is it uber umber? caught the mustard Something blue Are we okay here? Are we okay here? This page is kick-ass skyline steel sticks and stones pussy willow Dyers wode they are making shit up Can't forget the one-two punch of a likable sand and interface tan Potentially purple it's like they're not even sure it's like they're not even sure saddle up What is a hop sack? chat room yeah this one's called chat room is soldier! tumble in tumbleweed they're trying to be cute you don't need to be cute tumbling tumble sorry tumble in tumble in tumbleweed knitting needles zircon gray shingle Chinese red that's that's crazy that's crazy this has to be the best one sorry for making you wait so long colonial revival stone And finally on page 315 of this thing we get beige we finally found beige

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video, 1:38
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576×1024 · 3.9 MiB
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sarcastic, absurd
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