Would you like to waste some time today?

[pensnest]

I am a champion procrastinator, and today have two time-wasting opportunities to offer you.

Via MetaFilter, I discovered Colors.lol.

Its primary attraction may be the, hmm, inventive colour names, eg snail-paced soft pink, isotopic light periwinkle, multicoloured sepia (???), and merciful seafoam green. These are undoubtedly more fun than the standard paint descriptors.

They are set out in colour palettes of three at a time. Some of the three-colour combos are lovely, others hideous.

If you have nothing better to do, how about selecting a colour palette for:

a) your dream kitchen

b) your dream bedroom

c) your dream sitting room

d) your outfit to go to a Royal Garden Party

e) something else?

There are handy links supplied for each palette. I wonder what the choices say about us? Are the links you find for your 'ideal' close to what you actually have?

I'm going to put my answers in comments.

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If you are looking for even more mindless entertainment, how about taking this personality quiz? It gives you your closest match to literary/fictional characters. I got Luna Lovegood which… yeah, actually, not bad. At least, in my present mood/state of mind, that seems reasonable. In another state of mind my answers would differ. Nextmost are Jake Sisko and Georgiana Darcy. I've forgotten most of DS9, but Georgiana does seem a reasonable match. Happy to see that Bill Rawls (The Wire) and Ervin Burrell (also The Wire) are in the bottom ten, along with a bunch of characters I don't recognise.

You get the option of answering some extra questions - they'll ask you which media you're familiar with, and then do some personality questions for some of the characters.

Any more dreamy, slightly dopey witches out there?

Oh, and when you answer, how appropriate can you make your userpic?

Comments

[pensnest]

My colour palettes:

a) dream kitchen In actual fact, my kitchen is more like, um, unvirginal white, snotty sage green and muscular silver, but this would be the nicest kitchen of those offered.

b) bedroom although this one is the closest to what it currently is

c) sitting room it has to be a combination of these two. Hard to choose… my sitting room is indeed in shades of red, brown, orange, beige and cream. It's very Me.

d) Garden Party A dash of bright colour with classy green, an outfit fit to meet the Queen.

e) for the Extra option, an outfit for performing at a barbershop convention The more, er, neon expressions are not unknown on the stage, but no. Please.

[turlough]

I love the colours for your garden party outfit!

[turps]

What fun colour descriptions. I don't know about dreams but this was very close to the colours of my bedroom and kitchen for a very long time. I really love the combo of blue/yellow. Though my bedroom is a more boring neutral now.

I got Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley) for my character. I've never watched the show so have no idea if it's close.

[pensnest]

The magnificently random adjectives are great fun, and I am sure I would be attracted to such colours if I were roaming B&Q and found them there. I mean, 'ungentlemanly light grey', and 'supplictory yellowish tan' and 'endothermic neon blue'. Awesome!

That's one of the nicest combos. I like blue and yellow, too. In fact, I think my son's bedroom was done in cheerful yellow, with dark blue curtains and bedspread. So many fabulous colour combinations! We're a bit restrained here at the moment, as most of the house is painted white... but, hmm, thinking about it, the kitchen/dining room is white and sage, our bedroom is pink and green (to go with the duvet cover and existing curtains), the main guest bedroom is white and light blue, and the other bedrooms have sparkly orange walls. So maybe reasonably colourful after all!

I've no idea who Nelson Bighetti is either. :-(

[gwenhwyfar1984]

I got Simon Tam from Firefly. I'm really confused now, lol.

[pensnest]

Well, for Simon Tam, that seems about right! gd&r

[frausorge]

I don't even know if I can pick, but those color names are something else. "snail-paced soft pink" is amazing! And "unauspicious lilac", and "unprompted charcoal grey"... Fantastic!

[pensnest]

I love them - I can't help feeling that if I were out choosing paint, I would be so drawn to colours with names like 'amalgamative grape purple' and 'diplomatic tea green'. Someone should get onto that.

[vae]

I'll let you infer from the icon what my closest match was.

[pensnest]

Yeah... I can see that!

[brandywine28]

I'm...Salvatore Romano? A minor character from Mad Men who I literally never think about?? I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that!

But my top ten also includes Luna Lovegood, Timon from The Lion King and Hurley from Lost, so I guess I'm...a gay meerkat who wears radish earrings? And suffers from depression? I'm so confused!

[pensnest]

That does seem a rather, hmm, eclectic group, doesn't it! But we can be sisters in Luna-ness, can't we!

[vae]

The one time I've had a house with a large kitchen, it was definitely compulsive dark slate blue, oversimplified brownish orange and intimidatory dull red. At least, the tiles were! I miss that kitchen.

[pensnest]

With the red bullying the other colours dreadfully, I expect!

[vae]

Only in name! I'll have to see if I can dig out a photo, I still have a copy of the estate agents details from when I was selling it.

[turlough]

I think most of the combos are pretty hideous. Or at least quite strange :-) I might possibly want a bedroom in this if the yellow was more orange. And maybe a kitchen like this. My outfit for a Royal Garden Party would definitely be this however. Also, I completely agree with you, it would be so much more fun to look at colour samples if they'd names like these!

[pensnest]

The Queen would notice you! I agree, most of the palettes are pretty hideous. There are a few that appeal very much, but few are practical.

I really do think someone should glom on to the naming convention, though.