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White is not a colour?
no its a shade, gcse art =)
Try again- http://www.colormatters.com/vis_bk_white.html
Actually is the mix of all colors… or their absense. You choose the theory…
I think it’s black that is the mixture of all the colors
No actually white light contains all the visible colors at once. Black is the absence of light.
Indeed.
And fail is the absence of success, or is success the absence of fail?
Why is the sky blue?
Sunlight is white and contains all spectrums. Once it hits the Earth’s atmosphere and all the molecules that make up the atmosphere (oxygen and the such), the blue wavelengths are the ones that get dispersed most easily. So the blue parts of the white light diffuses and comes from everywhere, which makes the sky visible (in blue). The moon for example, which has no atmosphere (to speak of), therefore has no visible sky with nice ambient light, only the harsh glaring sun.
From the Earth’s surface, the sun itself looks yellow instead of white, since its light lacks the blue parts (because they got diffused in the atmosphere).
The setting or rising sun appears red or orange, because the light needs to travel through a longer distance of atmosphere, and therefore other colors are filtered out (diffused) more effectively, leaving only red tones. In bad weather conditions or smog (more particles in the air, be it water vapor or dirt), different parts of the light are filtered out, therefore the sky looks whitish on a dizzy day and yellow-brownish in smog conditions.
TL;DR
So, you limit yourself to understanding only those things that can be explained in a single paragraph or a few sentences? Your decision.
you’re both right and wrong at the same time
White LIGHT has all the colors, and darkness (black) is the absence of light.
What happens is that for example a White plate, REFLECTS ALL colors so it’s white, a black plate would, on the other hand, absorb all colors, so its black; that’s why darker clothing heat faster.
Yes, light is additive colour. However there are some cases, such as mixing coloured liquids, where mixing all colours produces black (subtractive colour).
xavi is the mix of all colors
this is BOGUS man
It all depends on you definition of “colour”. Yes; there is more than one definition.
Colour*
Try again.
Colour *is* the correct spelling of the Queen’s English. Damn Americans can never spell it right. But then, they don’t have a Queen as the titular head of state either.
My nickname is Andy and my middle initial starts with a J too. o.O
What does it end with?
string
Only if you aren’t american. Americans spell it color
Maybe the name is directions: “Color (the) bags. Crayons not included.”
yes, a massive spelling FAIL! Should be ‘Colour’
*sigh* Not if it’s in the US.
Languages change and evolve. Get over it.
If you dont believe Heidi type Color in US language and Colour in UK language in word.
Dropping a letter I’d say devolve. The u adds a certain class to it.
I coumpletely augree.
Because “English accents sound smarter”. That’s a purely aesthetic thing, nothing else.
Using “flavour” and “colour” in the US because “it looks pretty” doesn’t make you smarter, it makes you another fashion victim.
It’s not really evolution, I’d suggest laziness. Innit?
Right. We’re SO lazy that we can’t be bothered to spell with the letter “U.” That makes sense.
I think it was more of a “let’s separate ourselves culturally from the brits by making arbitrary changes to the English language” sort of thing.
Bastardise a language by simplifying it?
Yeah, i know. I mean, WTF is up with that, LOL?
Bastardize*
You may be shocked to know that there are many different variations of languages. I bet there’s even stuff about it on the internet if you cared to research it. Start by googling “linguistics” and go from there.
I did a lot of studying, including how spies use it. Now I’m a cunning linguist
its just done differently in the US.. plain and simple.. no “devolve” or “evolve” its just different.. there is no right or wrong..
name of fail FAIL
This song really sucks…
Racist Bastards… White is a great color
we say COLOR in the USA.. Colour and Color and both used the same way depending on where you’re from.. There is no spelling mistake moron
This is not a spelling error. In the U.S., it is spelled “Color”, not “Colour”.
Still, not a very funny fail at all. 2/5
Which is a fail, since you claim to speak ENGLISH…
You guys spell it wrong, you can change your dictionaries, but you are still doing it wrong…
No one is spelling it wrong.. Take your head out of your ass and just realize that DIFFERENT countries do things in DIFFERENT ways.. Just like how brits call a BATHROOM the LOO… Same damn thing just different flavor.. or shall i say flavour..
@AmericanMoronAbove:
Yes, I am sure that adding unnecessary letters to words makes our language so much easier to understand to those who are learning it. (Hispanics).
In whatever case, I do not see a “right” way or a “wrong” way to spell words, given it is correct in the given culture. :/
@What
well said.. but @AmericanMoronAbove is arrogant and ignorant and thinks that their way is the only way.. Just shows the intelligence level..
Just in case you don’t remember : American are just descendants of English colons.
Im Asian.. American doesnt necessarily mean you are of European decent..
I disagree, I didn’t come from ANY colon.
I would say AmericanMoronAbove is probably a troll, if you look at the comments of the British Chilli flavoured crisps article
http://failblog.org/2010/10/22/epic-fail-photos-geography-fail-5-3/#comments
you will find many American comments honestly believing that chilli is spelt wrong.
I find in most cases (Not all I realise), the American commenters are more ignorant while the British comments are more often trolling this American website.
i agree Rose.. Different cultures and Countries spell and say things differently.. Not understanding that is just nonsense.. There is no universal right way..
It’s called AMERICAN English dip-shit. It’s like the difference between Spanish (Spain) and Mexican Spanish. It’s essentially the same language just with minor discrepancies. If you have a problem with America maybe you should stay off of our servers and take your misguided comments somewhere else.
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The company probably sells packs of different colors, including white. No fail here.
After all, white is a color.
no it’s not!!!
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/05/color-vs-colour-the-great-spelling-battle/
*colour *honour *paedophile *aeroplane *trousers *jam *Lego (as a plural, not ‘Leggos’) *favourite *memorise *analogue *centre *theatre *analyse *criticise *enrolment *fulfil *skilful *catalogue *dialogue *encyclopaedia *manoeuvre *mediaeval *cheque *ageing *judgement *defence *licence *jewellery *draught *pyjamas *mum *plough *programme *aluminium
It’s not your fault, your just descended from the crazy religious people we didn’t want
It’s not your fault that the US had to bail your country out of a war either…Just sayin’
I loathe America more than any Brit could, because *I actually live here*, and I know more about this country than many others who live here. Your country isn’t much better, so get over it.
You want to live in a country worth being proud of? Move to Finland.
=D
seems my comment got “moderated” LOL.. BTW.. your last sentence should look like this “It’s not your fault, YOUR’E just descended from the crazy religious people we didn’t want”
-sigh-
you’re*
lol.. gimme a break, ive been transcribing letters all day
Actually I was right, check your grammar
An YOUR’E wouldn’t be right anyway
*And
Oh I thought you meant the other ‘your’, granted you were right. I bow down before your infinite grammar naziness
Non-Sequitur win.
Why Finland??
It’s not that I hate the US, or I don’t hate the UK, the English language is the only thing I’m vaguely patriotic about
Personally I agree with you, Finland is 1000x better than here
Good god people. It’s not a spelling fail. It’s the fact that the “colo(u)r lunch bags” only appear to come in a single colo(u)r.
tell that to the crazy brits who seem to think that americans are wrong because we spell it differently..
I don’t understand why the Brits have such a problem understanding regional differences. It isn’t just spelling. The Brits I work with constantly complain about the way food is different here, or how our Football is different from theirs. It’s like they’re always looking for something to complain about.
The Brits? Complaining about food? Oh my, you’re in deep shit…
It’s called “colors” because you are supposed to let the kids color their own lunch bags before using them.
they have all the colors printed on them- wait in printing that would
make black…. so yes this is indeed a fail!
BTW people- Only when dealing with LIGHT does combining all colors yield white and no colored light (no light) is black (darkness duh no light)….. in PRINTING – it is the opposite – combining all colors yields black- the absence of any color is white!
Actually, if you combine a 1:1:1 of red, yellow and blue you get an icky sort of grayish brown.
Just sayin.
That’s easy to explain: The color an object seems to have, say, a green leaf, is actually not the one youre eye sees. A leaf appears green because all other colors of the full spectrum of sunlight get absorbed by the leaf (and used for photosynthesis), and only the green parts get reflected into your eye.
So, the closer a surface’s color is to white, the more light gets reflected. The closer it is to black, the more light gets absorbed. Therefore, dark objects heat up stronger in the sun than bright ones. The ideal theoretical black color would reflect no light at all, any object of that color would appear as infinetely black to the human eye, no surface structures could be visible. The object would look as dark as as a completely dark room at night but would get pretty hot pretty soon, because the sun pours out a lot of energy. That’s also the reason why pupils are of the deepest black: The light that falls into them gets very well resorbed by the cells that make you see things. The theoretical ideal white color would reflect everything, and would be of a glaring quality. Also, it would be rather cold. A mirror comes close to that.
Now, if you mix together colors on a painter’s palette (in reality, not in the computer), you’ll be mixing substances that each absorb most of the light except the one they each reflect. If you mix them thorougly, you’ll get a substance that has the quality to absorb pretty much everything, because those absorbing qualities of the molecules inside of course add up in the overall substance. Obviously, the whole thing goes into the direction of dark colors.
Next time you walk through a forest, remember: The trees really are anything but green and brown. They merely reflect green and brown.
Wow…. That was so cool!! I read that whole thing and I loved it!!!
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another moron.. just because americans spell and pronounce things differently doesnt make it wrong.. thats called culture.. crazy religious people?? whatever dude.. go suck your “queens” knob
Damn, I feel like a dog now, I cannot tell the colors
“For I am Lunchbag the Wise, Lunchbag Ring-maker, Lunchbag of Many Colours!’
I looked then and saw that his bags, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if they moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.
I liked white better,’ I said.
White!’ he sneered. ‘It serves as a beginning. White bags may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.’
In which case it is no longer white,’ said I. ‘And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.’
Spelling of colour fail.
J. R. R. Tolkien never knew “fail”, sir.
its at walmart… I recognize great value brand!!
Anyone else who says that it’s wrong, then you’re plain retarded…how many years have you lived under a rock?
F*ck the spelling, the fail in the fail is that the lunch bags plainly have coloured printing on, so are, from a printer’s perspective, coloured. If it was printed in B&W on a coloured bag, it would be B&W still, because it comes down to the kind of printing that’s needed.
Why is it that America has to change how words are spelt(spelled), yet every other English speaking nation in the world has little issue with English?
Lets face facts, American-English was built on the back of illiteracy. The semi-literate uber-religious settlers couldn’t speak English. That’s why your spelling is retarded.
If you’d like to “face facts”, I suggest finding them first. Languages are dynamic and ever-changing. If you think the British invented the words in the English language from whole cloth, you are entirely wrong. For instance, the word “color” comes from the Old French word “color”, which came from the Latin, “color.” Notice how none of these spellings add extraneous Us. Color wasn’t spelled with a U until after the Norman Conquest in the 15th century, to represent the French pronunciations.
American spellings were standardized long after the Puritans settled here, by a fellow by the name Noah Webster. Perhaps you’ve heard of his dictionary?
Meh, I am not your wikipedia. Read this if you want to stop being a moronic bigot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or
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“It is better to have said nothing at all and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and have it confirmed.”
America is NOT the only nation to use different English spelling. Also; English is NOT the only language that has multiple spellings in different regions. In fact; many languages have multiple spellings of words within their own region.
Utter useless excuse of a fail
you are all a bunch of morans.
“Morons” not “morans”. You moran.
Such a huge discussion, and nobody pointed out yet that the company that produces those bags, simply might have run out of packaging for the plain lunchbags…
I took an almost identical picture several months ago at my local Wally World. Been meaning to upload it here since. Good work!
okay peeps, here to clear to things out…
Black and white are both a combination of all colours…
white is produced when LIGHTS of the primary colours are mixed, while black is made when PAINTS of all colours are mixed…
I find it rather humors that people are arguing about the right way and wrong way to spell a word in a language, considering language is completely made up device. It’s like arguing the rules of Calvinball.
Something is spelled a certain way because we say it is and the only reason to do that is for clarity of thought transmission. The only thing more plentiful in the English language than the rules is the exceptions to all of them.
It’s just that different spelling can lead to different meaning. Like “there”, “their” and “they’re”. I’m sure there are fabulous examples for misunderstandings, but english is not my native languare, therefore I don’t know one right now. Oh, “miner” and “minor” for example.
You spelled “I am a massive arse” wrong.
Actually I’m American so it would be, “I am a massive ass.”
It doesn’t say color; it says colors, meaning more than one color. White is just one color. That means to me that is a fail.
I used to work at a store that sold these. They were always just white. It wasn’t like they came in an all red pack or something like that either.
Seems to me it’s another misleading brand name, like the “Ninja” pirate costume.
I took a picture of those about a year and a half ago, while i was working at walmart XD wonderhow long it took for this to come to light