Interesting cultural difference of the day: British rainbows are more colourful than American ones. It seems there are only 6 colors in the new world rainbows, where good traditional British ones have 7 – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. There’s even a rhyme that British children use to help remember them – Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. Richard in this case being Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England. When I mentioned this to my American friends the general response was “What the hell is this Indigo bullshit?” Despite moving here 15 years ago I only just discovered how shabbily Indigo is treated here. That discovery is another thing to thank pride week for.
I mention all this random nonsense because of this colorful new chastity toy, which clearly follows the American convention for colors. The British one would obviously be just that bit longer. It’s nice to see a BDSM toy that isn’t in the usual shades of black, red and chrome. Kink is often fun and why not use a cheerful toy that can put a smile on your face?
The device worn below is in the more traditional design. It still seems to be putting a smile on his face however.
I’m afraid I don’t know where this photograph is from.
Very interesting – I used to live in the U.S. but never knew that! It gets even crazier with other languages – apparently some cultures think green and blue are the same colour. This video also makes me think that if you use blue/indigo rather than light blue/dark blue you’re thinking like the Russians.
http://youtu.be/2TtnD4jmCDQ
That video was really interesting. Thanks for the link. Hadn’t realized that about colours, but it makes sense. Although I’m actually slightly colour blind, so that makes it even more confusing. š
I now feel the urge to watch a whole bunch of those videos on linguistics.
-paltego