Its Pink YAY!!

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=343128

Look what I found and I needed a new one and all
I love it when that happens


/shamelessy orders.......:D


\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

Silverfish

Yes but, its 84 euro for 160gb, when you can get 500gb for 96 euro?


http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=343423


(Its not pink though, I'll concede that. METALLIC pink, too.)

More compact and it doesn't need a power supply
I have that in 300gb size and its full

The boyfriend just bought one in black

We'll be matching :cool:

azezil

azezil wrote: »

But the passport 2 is only a small fraction of the size of the my book, therefore clearly the better of the two

In this case size does matter:D

azezil

But the passport 2 is only a small fraction of the size of the my book, therefore clearly the better of the two

Dudess

Deleted User wrote: »

The boyfriend just bought one in black

We'll be matching :cool:

Indeed. "Manly" black together with cute, fluffy, adorable pink for the girl - how perfect is that?

azezil

Dudess wrote: »

Indeed. "Manly" black together with cute, fluffy, adorable pink for the girl - how perfect is that?

My sarcasm detector appears to be twitching wildly!!

Hehe, its cool
I'm aware my excitement on this is a bit paris hilton like


I swear i'm not that type of girl

jellie

its ok, youre allowed like pink things im not an overly girly girly, but i have weakness for pink things for some reason. my bag contains: pink wallet, pink phone, pink ipod.

Nevyn

Dudess wrote: »

Indeed. "Manly" black together with cute, fluffy, adorable pink for the girl - how perfect is that?

My pc case is black and sleek.
Seriously I hate pink tech.

What is the appeal ?

ztoical

Thaedydal wrote: »

My pc case is black and sleek.
Seriously I hate pink tech.

What is the appeal ?

don't know. When I got my DS the guy in best buy tired to push the pink one on me and I just looked at him and said "O i don't think so" The DS is white cus my ipod and psp are black. Both my iMac and powerbook are shinny, sexy sliver [yes I'm an apple whore] Pink is just wrong - the pink PSP is the most awful looking thing.

misslt

The PSP isnt nice in pink but the pink DS is pretty hot.

My phone is also pink, but everything else is black/silver/white.

Silverfish

Probably just down to personal preference, everything I own is black / silver.

My favourite colour is midnight blue, so if I could buy everything in that colour I would. Odds are that some people's favourite colour will be pink, or at least their favourite of colours available.

Oryx

I dont do pink. In socks or underwear* or electronic gadgets. I have a two year old who provides all the pink stuff my life needs.


*oh ok then, when I run out of knickers and have to wear the ones that got dyed in the wash.

Cheeky_gal

What the hells a western passport???

WindSock

The way I see it is, it's just a colour and everyone has their favourite colours.

Dudess

I beg to differ. Pink is definitely a colour we're conditioned to like/dislike - e.g. guys will be adamant they don't like pink, because they're guys.

Anyway, that's all I'll say...

ztoical

Dudess wrote: »

I beg to differ. Pink is definitely a colour we're conditioned to like/dislike - e.g. guys will be adamant they don't like pink, because they're guys.

Anyway, that's all I'll say...

+ saw alot of people buying the DS's leading up the xmas and the general view was the pink one was for girls and the black for boys even thou they are the same machine. Could you imagine giving the pink DS or the awful looking pink PSP to a boy?

WindSock

Dudess wrote: »

I beg to differ. Pink is definitely a colour we're conditioned to like/dislike - e.g. guys will be adamant they don't like pink, because they're guys.

Anyway, that's all I'll say...

Except for the pink shirt brigade?

Cheeky_gal

Dudess wrote: »

I beg to differ. Pink is definitely a colour we're conditioned to like/dislike - e.g. guys will be adamant they don't like pink, because they're guys.

Anyway, that's all I'll say...

Well Dudess I'm not impressed...what a generalisation!!! Daddy wears pink shirts, ties, scarves ALL the time and I think it really suits! PLus I like black...does that make me a man? noooo......

Oryx

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

Well Dudess I'm not impressed...what a generalisation!!! Daddy wears pink shirts, ties, scarves ALL the time and I think it really suits! PLus I like black...does that make me a man? noooo......

But it could make you a goth. Colour has a significance whether we like it or not. Pink screams girly (cgs dad excepted) why else would the tent city jail in america make its male inmates wear pink undies? Cos they hate it, thats why.

Black is a colour girls sometimes wear to look sexy, or mysterious, or smaller. White stands for purity etc etc. A colour is not just a colour, when used to extremes, its a statement.

Cheeky_gal

KtK wrote: »

But it could make you a goth. Colour has a significance whether we like it or not. Pink screams girly (cgs dad excepted) why else would the tent city jail in america make its male inmates wear pink undies? Cos they hate it, thats why.

Black is a colour girls sometimes wear to look sexy, or mysterious, or smaller. White stands for purity etc etc. A colour is not just a colour, when used to extremes, its a statement.

haha! Thats the gayest thing i've read all day but you have a point and for the record, i'm certainly not a goth [shivers]

Dizzyblonde

Deleted User wrote: »

Hehe, its cool
I'm aware my excitement on this is a bit paris hilton like


I swear i'm not that type of girl

I believe you, lol. It looks fab - enjoy it!!

Doctor DooM

Ah... pink tech...

SDooM in work: "This V3 phone is 2 years old, over priced, and will probably break in under 6 weeks. "

Girl in shop: " It's pink!"

SDooM "You will regret buying it and I wont be able to swap it. Im the one who will make commision off it and I am still telling you you will regret it!"

Girl: "It's pink!"

I had that conversation about a million bloody times.

... I'm not bitter though

ztoical

funnily enough pink has only been a girls colour since the 1940s up until then blue was considered a girls colour and pink for boys.

Its also associated with gay men as it was used to mark them in the camps by Nazis during the war and now most gay newspapers are printed on pink paper and we use phrases like "pink pound" to refer to gay peoples spending power. Another reason for big manly straight men would avoid the colour.

Dudess

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

Well Dudess I'm not impressed...what a generalisation!!! Daddy wears pink shirts, ties, scarves ALL the time and I think it really suits!

Only because it's apparently become "ok" in recent years for men to wear certain pink items of clothing. Would your dad wear a pink hat? Or pink shoes?

PLus I like black...does that make me a man? noooo......

I think you'll find it does!

Cheeky_gal

Dudess wrote: »

Only because it's apparently become "ok" in recent years for men to wear certain pink items of clothing. Would your dad wear a pink hat? Or pink shoes?

I think you'll find it does!

How exactly?

Dudess

Oh cheeky_gal, surely you don't think I'm being serious?! I couldn't give a fukk what colour any male or female wears, nor do I think the colours they wear are an indication of how manly/girly or otherwise they are. However, culturally, pink is associated with femininity, black is associated with masculinity (to a point - black, as someone said earlier, can also be associated with female sexuality). Marketers package "female" products in pastel/bright colours, "male" products in "manly" colours like black, grey, navy, and it's very powerful. It has come to the point where girls truly believe they desire only pink, pretty things. Hell, I'm the epitome of non-girly (I don't make a point of it, I'm just not girly) yet I find myself passing the "girls" stationery in Easons with the pretty colours and sparkles and feathers and going back to have another look at them...

WindSock

Apparently evolution has had it's hand in making girls attracted to bright colours with picking berries and stuff.

ztoical

WindSock wrote: »

Apparently evolution has had it's hand in making girls attracted to bright colours with picking berries and stuff.

well its only really in western culture that pink is considered a "girl" colour. In japan for example it's associated with soft porn [the way we have blue movies, in japan they have pink movies pink is the same colour as a womans vagina] so can't really claim evolution. As mentioned earlier its really only a recent thing that pink has become a girls colour.

WindSock

I meant bright colours in general, not just pink.

ztoical

WindSock wrote: »

I meant bright colours in general, not just pink.

in that case it should be the males dressing all in bright colours to attract a female like you have with birds and other animals? Cept we've the op, females are expect to dress brightly to attract men - wear high heels as they make the back of your legs more attractive to men, wear lipstick as it makes your lips look like a vagina thus reminding men about sex....ugh going to stop makes me depressed when you think alot of the things associated with women really only have one goal.

Dudess

... not helped by the fact that so many females are quite happy to comply.

Jackz

ztoical wrote: »

in that case it should be the males dressing all in bright colours to attract a female like you have with birds and other animals? Cept we've the op, females are expect to dress brightly to attract men - wear high heels as they make the back of your legs more attractive to men, wear lipstick as it makes your lips look like a vagina thus reminding men about sex....ugh going to stop makes me depressed when you think alot of the things associated with women really only have one goal.

We are just a smart animal.

Reku

WindSock wrote: »

Apparently evolution has had it's hand in making girls attracted to bright colours with picking berries and stuff.

I do remember recently hearing some research claiming that even as young babies females are more drawn to red, pink and violet colours, whereas males are more drawn to blue and darker colours.

Part of me suspects that part of the reason that men tend towards darker colours of clothing is so as to draw less attention, since in male society to draw attention is to draw ridicule, but then that may just be my own motives and reasoning with nothing in common with the majority of men. As how others will react to our choice of colour in clothing will affect the decision the colour of clothing usually chosen to wear is not necessarily the favourite colour.

Article on the topic: http://people.howstuffworks.com/gender-color.htm

WindSock

ztoical wrote: »

in that case it should be the males dressing all in bright colours to attract a female like you have with birds and other animals? Cept we've the op, females are expect to dress brightly to attract men

Only in Western culture. Here are some Men from Papua New Guinea





And Some Women...

Bottle_of_Smoke

Apparently male juvenile chimps are more likely to play with blue toys & females pink

Nevyn

It used to be pre ww2 that pink was a boys colour as ti was bright and active and blue was the colour for girls it being more passive.

This changed in the 50s when the boys came home from war and women were refeminised and told to go back to the kitchen be model wifes, mothers and to keep young and beautiful if they want to be loved.

Pink being more flattering to a person's complexion women started wearing more and it was all over the French and itailain fashion houses and so pink became femininised.

To stop boys wearing pink they were told it made them a sissy.

Pink was used to control women, to get them to conform after they had handed back thier rivets, to get them to be pretty for the competition to get a husband when so many young men had died in the war and there were less available and eligible men.

If a person likes pink then fair enough, but I hate to see tech being marketed based on it's colour to women and find it as offensive as marketing cars to a woman based on thier colours.

Crumble Froo

while i agree a lot with what dudess has said here, im probably just as bad, as im not girly, and so tend to dislike pink, in the same way that girly girls tend to like pink. not to mention the fact that few things are less sexy than guys in pink. or yellow for that matter. actually, or any bright shade of orange.

where was i going with this? ah, im just attracted to darker colours anyway (with clothes). exceptions are made for the mirrorball suit, and graphics on black tshirts.

oh, and

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

haha! Thats the gayest thing i've read all day but you have a point and for the record, i'm certainly not a goth [shivers]

... you say goth like it's a bad thing?

doctor evil

What is DS and passport 2? *scratcheshead*

Crumble Froo

i think it said hard drive underneath somewhere later... so i assume it's a harddrive of sorts... but pink.

JIZZLORD

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sobriquet

Susan B Anthony did not die in battle so I could fix a shelf WITHOUT my pink and dainty screwdriver.

I'd IMG it, but it has swearwords, which might be too much for ladies eyes. I'll leave it to the Mods to IMG it if they want.

Hello Ladies Lounge.

(Oh, Thaedydal, good post, it's an interesting topic. Apparently, though pink used to be a boys colour, it wasn't the salmon-tone pink we know today, it was actually what we'd call red - the 'Pinks' that riders on a fox hunt wear, for example. That 'pink' was considered more fleshy and meaty, thus masculine. I'll see if I can dig up that link, don't think I saved it though.)

Nevyn

sobriquet wrote: »

Susan B Anthony did not die in battle so I could fix a shelf WITHOUT my pink and dainty screwdriver.

I'd IMG it, but it has swearwords, which might be too much for ladies eyes. I'll leave it to the Mods to IMG it if they want.

Hello Ladies Lounge.

(Oh, Thaedydal, good post, it's an interesting topic. Apparently, though pink used to be a boys colour, it wasn't the salmon-tone pink we know today, it was actually what we'd call red - the 'Pinks' that riders on a fox hunt wear, for example. That 'pink' was considered more fleshy and meaty, thus masculine. I'll see if I can dig up that link, don't think I saved it though.)

Please do.

sobriquet

Thaedydal wrote: »

Please do.

"Search, don't save" my arse. Can't find the one where it says that the actual colour the word names has changed (and I'm pretty sure it's not just in my head), but these back up your statements:

http://www.badscience.net/?p=518
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=238733

Nevyn

Cheers!

At one point pink was considered more of a boy's color, (as a
watered-down red, which is a fierce color) and blue was more for
girls. The associate of pink with bold, dramatic red clearly affected
its use for boys. An American newspaper in 1914 advised mothers, "If
you like the color note on the little one's garments, use pink for the
boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention." [The
Sunday Sentinal, March 29, 1914.]

It would also seem that Nazi Germany had something to do with the
association of pink with femininity:

"Catholic traditions in Germany and neighboring countries reverse the
current color coding, because of the strong association of blue with
the Virgin Mary...the NAZIs in their concentration camps use a pink
triangle to identify homosexuals. (The yellow star of David is the
best known symbol, used of course to identify Jews. The German system
was quite complicated, using various symbols an colors to identify
criminals, political prisinors, an a whole range of other groups). The
NAZI's choice of pink suggests that it by the 1930s was a color that
in Germany had become associate with girls." - "Gender Specific
Colors"

Here is another site backing the same color history.

"The preferred color to dress young boys in was pink! Blue was
reserved for girls as it was considered the paler, more dainty of the
two colors, and pink was thought to be the stronger (akin to red). It
was not until WWII that the colors were reversed and pink was used for
girls and blue for boys..." - Quote from Dress Maker Magazine
http://www.dressmaker.com/ezine0200.shtml

To quote:
"Battleship gray, navy and military khaki ruled during World War II.
But once the war ended, so did the somber tones that reflected those
serious years of deprivation, and color made a comeback. Having
replaced men in wartime industries, Rosie the Riveter of the '40s
returned to being Susie Homemaker in the '50s. Reflecting the
"pink-is-for-girls-mom-in-the-kitchen-father-knows-best" mentality,
she was admonished to "think pink" – to wear pink lipstick, drive a
pink car, or buy pink household appliances – all of which was
reinforced by an all-pink sequence in the classic Audrey Hepburn
Technicolor film, Funny Face. The quintessential icon of femininity,
Barbie, was born and much of the time, she wore pink."
http://www.digitaloutput.net/back%20edit/edittopic7x.html - "Color
Symbolism and Trends"

Hagar

With reference to post number 36 above:

I am reminded of the Radharc program that used to be on RTE many years ago. It was a programme about the missions in Africa, it used to be on on Sunday evenings about 6:30pm

At the time any form of nakedness was totally taboo on TV, never mind any talk about a "watershed", and yet every Sunday they used to show documentaries of Africa in which black women were either naked or semi naked like the pictures above. It was as if black women weren't real women at all so their nakedness was ok. There was a distinct overtone that blacks weren't really people, that they were some sort of "almost human" animal and their nakedness was as acceptable as the nakedness of an animal. It was the worst type of institutionalized racism I ever saw in Ireland.

I accept un-reservedly that the post is in no way intentionally racist. The fact that the poster never even seems to have considered that she was breaking the site-wide "no nipple, no genitalia" rule makes me think that the poster is victim of a long standing subliminal racist culture that says black women/people are not due the respect that white women/people are due.

Could I post a picture of a bare breasted caucasian woman here without the post being correctly reported? No? I didn't think so.

Ladies you are letting your black sisters down, one of you should have commented.

Nevyn

You are so right hagar

I scanned over it post beers last night and didn't look tbh as I was responding to an early post and didn't read the thread to the end at the time and continued to post from my last post but I don't see someone being naturally naked as offensive or titillating personally but you are right it breaks the site rules.

Dudess

Very interesting point. Although context is taken into consideration too - i.e. the breasts in such images aren't sexualised.

But of course in general it's ok to bombard us with sexualised breasts, however a woman breastfeeding in public? Just sick! :rolleyes:

fits

I never would have thought of it like that Hagar. Mainly because the pictures are not sexualised. Maybe there needs to be more unsexualised photographs of women of all races and backgrounds (and men too) going around, rather than less like in post 36.

To go back on topic, I dont consider myself girly. I'm into clothes, I sometimes like to wear pink, but I would never buy electronics or cars because of their colour, and I do agree that it is somewhat offensive to market technology on that basis. However what sells, sells. They do it cos it works.

Peared

Re the pink thing.. sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.