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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>On Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Anders Sandberg<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Colours<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 04/05/2013 04:15, spike wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>We had a guy at work, out of the closet but quietly gay, nobody ever gave him any bother over it as far as I know. He was giving a pitch once and pointed to the cells in green, the cells in yellow, the cells in magenta. So we all started going on, Hey Carl, what is that color you say? Magennnnnta? What’s the heck is magennnta, haaarrrharharrr etc. Fortunately he has a sense of humor too.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>When I came out, I noticed that people started to ask for clothes advice - but then it mostly stopped, since I do have a pretty boring style (a yellow tie is wild by my standards). In fact, even my boyfriend (who is in *law*) thinks I need more colour. But it was hilarious while it lasted.<br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Anders Sandberg<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Note the original meaning of the term gay is colorful and cheerful. Regarding why gay men should be able to distinguish more colors, I will be absolutely damned, which I suppose would be symbolized as spike = |damned|, if I can figure out any explanation for why those two things should be correlated. Gay men still have the short Y chromosome, same as I do, which I have long suspected as being the root of my non-hiptitude.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Or perhaps it is just an illusion. There was a hilarious show on TV called “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” Of the (I think) five gay male consultants, only one was a fashion guru. One was a hairdresser, one was an interior decorator, only one was really queeny acting. So I don’t know, perhaps if you took a bunch of straight guys, you might get 20%-ish who grok the incomprehensible subtleties of fashion, I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In fashion as in qualia, if I can’t write a system of equations to model it, I don’t understand it.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>