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**rodia77** · Jan 26, 2021, 09:46 PM

It says 'F THE COLOR BLIND'.

**skywatch** · Jan 27, 2021, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by rodia77

It says 'F THE COLOR BLIND'.

It might as well. I used to flunk these tests in elementary school. That's when I learned I was slightly red-green colorblind, but only in the pastels. All the pinks and pale greens turn to gray. So... I can't even figure out if you're joking or not!

**geoffbot** · Jan 27, 2021, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by hayday

Naturally, the top word is the only one I can make out. I usually get these 3-D images, but I can't get this one.

It's not 3d dude - it's a colour blindness test. Which you failed!

**rodia77** · Jan 27, 2021, 01:24 AM

I've been flunking them since school as well. With this one, I probably can only read it because I knew what to expect -- I can see where the letters are, but I'm not sure if I could read it out just so otherwise.

**hayday** · Jan 27, 2021, 04:07 PM

Funny story: For the entirety of my life, my family has picked on me for getting colors wrong. A couple of years ago, the wife had me take an online color blind test. She was PISSED I hadn't told her about my colorblindness. I'm like, "You saw the results before I did. I didn't even know!" I see in color but I have difficulty distinguishing between various shades of green and red. For example, something that looks black to everyone else often dark green to me, and don't get me started on all the "it's orange vs. red" debates I've had. When in doubt, I run outfits by her to make sure I'm not putting clashing colors together.

**rodia77** · Jan 27, 2021, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by hayday

"it's orange vs. red"

Or orange vs green, because it's this one for me? Most of the time, I'm lost between those two without context.

One of my friends once told me: colour blindness in the only disability you can make fun of.

Edit -- fun fact: I still got issued a driving licence valid for 10 years (the maximum period in IE). That's with the colour-blindness, serious shortsightedness and astigmatism. Scary to think about how poor a vision those drivers with restricted licences have to have.

**hayday** · Jan 27, 2021, 04:32 PM

I knew a girl in college who was color blind. We worked together in a restaurant. We used cloth napkins, blue for the banquets and green for the main dining room. She constantly merged the two when we were folding them and making rollups; silveware wrapped in a napkin. We often gave her the napkins to use so she wouldn't put the banquet rollups in the dining room and vice versa. She also colored her own hair, which she nailed. Platinum blonde is pretty easy I imagine. She was both pretty and pretty ditzy. One of the cooks once told her the seafood special was one-eyed trouser trout with a cream sauce, and she wrote it on the board at the hostess stand. Apologies for the sophmoric humor. Delete if necessary.