Love, Anger and Communism

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423593840360177626.post-76897189802810426852008-03-18T20:16:00.008Z2008-03-26T18:12:48.053ZLove, Anger and Communism<div class="asktheguru">Dear Guru<br /><br />We use colour to show ones emotions - then please explain why the colour red is used for two opposite emotions - anger and love?<br /><br />** Just Wondering **</div><br /><p class="openparagraph">Colours are overrated. You've seen one sunset you've seen them all, especially when viewed from an elevation of 15 foot. But humans are obsessed with colours, attaching them to everything from 'Blue Mondays' to 'Orange Wednesdays', and now, due to colour overuse, we've run out.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GVsVdk__XXc/R-AlpdqReaI/AAAAAAAAAcw/ldKSss85x2U/s1600-h/Untitled-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GVsVdk__XXc/R-AlpdqReaI/AAAAAAAAAcw/ldKSss85x2U/s200/Untitled-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179180965742868898" border="0" /></a>There are more colours in existence than the non-enlightened mind can imagine, but most of them don’t have names yet. The average pilgrim can’t even name the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors/">120 colours of crayola</a>, yet alone the 4x10<sup>9</sup> colours available on the average monitor. As such, as soon as we get beyond 'pale peach' and 'Midnight blue', we have to resort to ‘A little bit lighter than “Fuzzy-Wuzzy Brown”’ and the whole thing becomes ridiculous. The only other option is to use Hexadecimal, but, somehow, telling your sweetheart ‘their eyes are of the deepest #DEA681’ isn't quite the same.<br /><br />To solve this, we assigned colours ‘themes’. For example, Black came to signify death, green, nature, and Yellow, vomit.<br /><br /><a href="http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorselection/p/red.htm">Red</a>, being a hot colour, is used for things that make us passionately hot under the collar, such as love, anger or <a href="http://miss-britt.com/2008/03/burn-baby-burn/">third-degree sunburn</a>. It reminds us both of danger (such as my wife’s angry face) and of romance (such as the petite lingerie of next-door-but-one), and easily encompasses both Love and Anger as varying expressions of passion.<br /><br />It may interest you to know that red stands for far more than just kisses and slaps. It is the colour of power, war, warnings, fire, sin, guilt, sex, dwarfs, communism, and of course, the wiggly line under spelling mistakes in Microsoft word. For the latter reason, if nothing else, the colour red has made the world a much better place: I dread to think where the blogosphere would be without it.<br /><br />Hope this helps.</p><br /><div class="sign">Marcus</div><div class="coda"><a href="http://freelanceguru.co.uk">The Guru has the answer</a>. Do you have the question?<br />NEW - <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1722045&loc=en_US">Get the Guru by E-mail</a>!<br /><ul><li><a href="http://freelanceguru.co.uk/2008/03/why-are-my-greetings-so-stupid.html">Why do we ask Alright?</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freelanceguru.co.uk/2008/03/can-we-find-ultimate-happiness.html">Can we Find Ultimate Happiness</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freelanceguru.co.uk/2008/03/why-dont-germans-speak-proper-english.html">Why Don't the German's speak proper English<br /></a></li></ul></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><div align='center'><div style='font-weight: bold; border:solid 3px #804000; margin:20px;Padding:5px;'> If you like this post, use the links below to tell your friends.<br/> Help enlighten the world!</div> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2423593840360177626-7689718980281042685?l=freelanceguru.co.uk'/></div>The Freelance Guruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185521334184060191noreply@blogger.com13