Colour blindness - funny stories?

Will

Found out last year that I'm colour blind. Rarely affects me to be honest, except today. Was looking for a new pair of runners. Thought they were black, came home to show my family and they said 'nice green runners'. I just sighed. Nothing major and to be honest the only time it has effected me is when I get clothes.

How I found out is a funny sorta story. Was working as an intern and wore in a nice pin stripe black shirt. One of the other lads was wearing a shirt I thought was exactly the same. I walked up and said "ah we both have great taste in shirts huh?" He just looked at me and said what are you on about. Cue a lot of talking and me trying to explain that we were wearing the same colour and style of shirt. He laughed and said no, it's not black. At this point I thought it was a very elaborate joke cos the guy in question was very quirky.

Anywho this goes on for about another 5 mintues me arguing with the guy saying they're the same. Everyone laughing and me going back to my desk with my tail between my legs.

Anyone else colour blind or have funny stories to share?

jimmybob

Im colour blind and it has affected me many times. But when I was young my mother and father used to always argue about the colour of our VW Beetle. Mum said was green, dad said it was blue and neither would admit to being colour blind to this day they still argue about it.:o

Tallon

My mate shane worked on the luas for 2+ years as a CSO, he loved it.
He really enjoyed the blue shirt they had to wear. Then he applied for driver and after the medical found out he was colurblind and they wouldnt let him drive them. He argued that the signals are white and they counter argued that the traffic lights, pedestrians and cars were all different colours.
in the end he left for a better job, but after a few drinks one night we brought up that he doesnt have to wear his gay luas-purple shirt......

Shane wrote:

"Purple??? WTF"

Never laughed so hard in my life

Pherekydes

I know two guys who are colourblind, and they both had redheaded girlfriends, who they assumed were blonde! After a while it came out that the guys didn't like red hair, so the two bimbos dyed their hair blonde.

Captain Slow IRL

Atari jaguar

Our boss is colour blind - one of our new computers has a problem with the monitor, the screen has a red haze creeping in from the bottom up, getting worse since it's arrived.

One of the lads told him "We might wanna return that"
Boss "Why?!?!"
:rolleyes::D

dingding

WOrked in a factory in the 80's

The Manager had a bright green suit.

I think he thought he had a Blue suit.


Well done to the salesman in the suit shop.

SprostonGreen

Nope

I have a problem distinguishing some colours greens and yellows and blacks with dark blues and navys. If I think of a funny event, I'll post it.:eek:

Smart Bug

Nope

I'm red-green colourblind. I've stopped playin my mates in snooker 'cos they won't tell me which ball is brown (I can't see brown at all).

"That the brown?"

"No"

*hits ball

"Foul!"

b*stards.

the_syco

Atari jaguar

Will wrote: »

He laughed and said no, it's not black.

What colour are black people to you?

L31mr0d

Atari jaguar

Had a few people in college discover they where colour blind as, if you've ever built electronics (probably not ), resistors are colour coded so you can work out their Ohm value. Anybody who was colour blind always got it wrong.

One of the lecturers actually came up to my friend and said "you probably won't be able to build electronics with this impairment"... he came in with a multimeter the next day :pac:

One of the other guys actually built a website for his friends band. He calls me over and goes "Hey check this out, I decided to go for a black and red theme for the site"

Had one look at it and burst out laughing. He had gotten the black right, but everything else was just a medley of various shades of orange to red.

Oh and one of the jokers in the class used to wear in this T-Shirt What made it all the more funny was all the colour blind people saying "what's so funny?"

colorblind t-shirt

hblock21

Will wrote: »

Found out last year that I'm colour blind. Rarely affects me to be honest, except today. Was looking for a new pair of runners. Thought they were black, came home to show my family and they said 'nice green runners'. I just sighed. Nothing major and to be honest the only time it has effected me is when I get clothes.

How I found out is a funny sorta story. Was working as an intern and wore in a nice pin stripe black shirt. One of the other lads was wearing a shirt I thought was exactly the same. I walked up and said "ah we both have great taste in shirts huh?" He just looked at me and said what are you on about. Cue a lot of talking and me trying to explain that we were wearing the same colour and style of shirt. He laughed and said no, it's not black. At this point I thought it was a very elaborate joke cos the guy in question was very quirky.

Anywho this goes on for about another 5 mintues me arguing with the guy saying they're the same. Everyone laughing and me going back to my desk with my tail between my legs.

Anyone else colour blind or have funny stories to share?

Is grass black for you to?!!?

Kalashnikov_Kid

I remember desperately convincing one of my best mates at the time to buy a nice white shirt in Next one day. Of course the shirt was a fetching shade of salmon, not that he noticed. So I obviously started laughing a bit initially. But then when me and my other mate copped on to what was actually going on, we tried desperately not to break our sh1tes laughing, but alas.

So close, so close...