Why do we universally accept people having “red hair” when it’s clearly orange.

And why do we call black hair brown hair?

Is your skin actually white?

Would imagine it’s because Orange was not even used as the name for the color until recently in human history.

The fruit got the name before the color did.

And I’ll see my lame-arse out of this thread now

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Is your skin actually white?

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yes

I just learned way more about the color orange than I ever intended.

Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”

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Only when the sweet oranges began to arrive in Europe and became visible on market stalls and kitchen tables did the name of the fruit provide the name for the color. No more “yellow-red.” Now there was orange. And, remarkably, within a few hundred years it was possible to forget in which direction the naming went. People could imagine that the fruit was called an orange simply because it was.

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They called it yellow-red for like a thousand years.

Satanic.

What do you call auburn, which is the shade my wife has? B/c it sure as hell ain't orange.

Strange melt.

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WPBTiger
Red on the head like the dick on a dog

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Red on the noodle like the dick of a poodle.

When I first started dating my now wife, I had come home from a date and my dad (God Rest his Soul) was sitting in his chair on our back deck, he looks at me and in perfect deadpan w/that trademark shite-eating grin asks me, "so, does she have a red bush?" My stepmom looks at him and says, "you're a fricking pig!",and storms back inside.

I miss that man every day.