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Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28777

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I never really thought about the meaning of this band name (a german boater's band btw) until I remembered an incident I had a couple of years ago: I had been skiing all day. bright sunshine, no sunglasses. In the evening we were invited for some drinks and I asked the lady what it was. She looked at me as if I was retarded and answered: that's orange juice! Then why is it green, I asked. Now she started looking at with with even more suspicion. Anyway, I asked my friends, and the assured me that the drink was definitely orange. To me it looked bright green, even a couple of hours later.

Strange thing was that everything else in the room looked normal.

Have others had this as well? Is that a normal phenomenon after too much sunshine?

And does that explain the band name?
www.orangebutgreen.de/
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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28778

Quite interesting. I've never had that.

But I tell you what, next time just order a beer!!!! :P

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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28780

I had something similar happen after being on the snow all day, but everything looked blue. Don't remember looking at something orange specifically. Weird. :dry:

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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28783

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Quite interesting. I've never had that.

But I tell you what, next time just order a beer!!!! :P


Haha, thats quite funny from the man who posted on facebook that he is giving up drinking for new year? :laugh: ;)

but seriously Jeroen, i hope ur sight is ok now.

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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28786

This is quite funny from the man who said he stopped smoking and yet I see him on New Years eve photos, smoking... :laugh: And for the record (check), I never said I'd give up drinking, just 90% less... :P Ok, enough off topic :ohmy:

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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28793

1st:

Jeroen

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Red-green_color_blindness

I asked a friend who is a ken snowboarder and he said he has experienced it aswell. Did some looking and further down this link under "causes" it does mention exposure to UV rays.

Hope it helps

2nd:

Adrian: busted :blush: im weak! what can i say lol haha



Ive never worn glasses on the river before but i may do in the summer now as i didnt realise you can do permanent damage from a couple of hrs exposure.

Nah! who am i kidding, this is the UK. Its never sunny just rainy!

Hope it helps

Cheers

Matt

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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28795

Good link, nice one! I guess we don't get near enough snow in SA for this to happen to me. haha. Interesting though.

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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28796

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thanks for the link. i am indeed red/green color blind, but that's inherited and only 2nd degree, so orange normally looks like orange, red like red, and green like green (it's just difficult to distinguish them once they are mixed). the next morning orange juice looked like orange juice again - it's was a very temporary thing...

so, does anybody know if the band name has anything to do with this?
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Re:Orange but Green? 15 years 11 months ago #28800

cant help with the band name im afraid.

My German is absolutely atrocious and there is no English translation.

sorry. lol

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