Leather dye

[kennedia_nigricans]

I bought green leather dye. The shopkeeper told me that it was old but I didn't mind cos it's GREEN!

I got a brush and brushed it merrily onto my shoes until I wondered about the incredible stink so I read the label more closely.

The next 30 minutes I was thinking "What the hell?!?!?!?"

I am still not over it and I thought I share this one with you cos that is just another reminder why "the good old times" were only good when you were a white male. My dad uses the term "the bad old times" for that reason.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel · Accepted solution]

the bottle says bloom

w t f is bloom

apparently  if you put the letters wt and f together you get bleeped

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@kennedia_nigricans wrote:

I showed it to hubby, wondering if there is another meaning of that word which I don't know, after all it's in foreign and I don't know every word of the english language but he said that there is no other meaning.

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OK.....I cant even post a link here to the relevant information because the word in the url gets bleeped out and it takes you to a page that does not exists.

Google that word, go to wiki and scroll down to Translations

[kennedia_nigricans · Accepted solution]

i see, but there is already "dark brown" on the bottle as a colour.

bloom i guess is the excess dye sitting on top? it doesn't dye very well, it's all patchy almost like a pattern.

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@freakiness wrote:

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@punch*drunk wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

At least with green you are safe in the knowledge no people were included in the making of it.

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lol "Soylent green is people"

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Yeah, old people (or not so old) people.

Did you ever wonder how they got the people to turn green?

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Green dye?

[the*scarlet*pimpernel · Accepted solution]

oh, silly me, i didn't read the other shades.

hmmmm I might just walk away now, any further comments from me shall get me slapped in to next week

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@kennedia_nigricans wrote:

i see, but there is already "dark brown" on the bottle as a colour.

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yeah......well, as Pimpy said, a rather delicate topic to be discussing here.

google will have to be your friend on this one.  there is other info.

[nevillesdaughter · Accepted solution]

When I was a kid, there was a brand of shoe polish that went by that name, and N-brown was a valid description used for everything from from fabric to dogs. Just within the last 10 years or so there was a public kerfuffle about a football (I think) spectator stand, in Toowoomba. It was nammed the N... Surname stand after a famous local Aboriginal player long dead).

In the interest of propriety, and the 21st century, they wanted to rename it with his given name rather than the n-word. A very vocal oppostion grouped claimed long and loud that this was "political correctness gone mad". Their argument ran along the lines that because that was what he was really known as, it wasn't racism - just a friendly nickname. They lost.

Marina.

[punch*drunk · Accepted solution]

I wonder how old it is? it would be a long time since a color would have been called that word. There was a couple of interesting things on wiki re outdated chinese translating software though.

If I was a shopkeeper I'd have thrown that out or at least crossed out that word with permanent marker, assuming he knew it was there.

[kennedia_nigricans · Accepted solution]

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

When I was a kid, there was a brand of shoe polish that went by that name, and N-brown was a valid description used for everything from from fabric to dogs. Just within the last 10 years or so there was a public kerfuffle about a football (I think) spectator stand, in Toowoomba. It was nammed the N... Surname stand after a famous local Aboriginal player long dead).

In the interest of propriety, and the 21st century, they wanted to rename it with his given name rather than the n-word. A very vocal oppostion grouped claimed long and loud that this was "political correctness gone mad". Their argument ran along the lines that because that was what he was really known as, it wasn't racism - just a friendly nickname. They lost.

Marina.

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gawd there are so many bleeps around. "friendly nickname" harhar.

[kennedia_nigricans · Accepted solution]

I don't know if she knew. There were no bottles with that n-colour. I looked through them all cos I was initially looking for blue and most colours there were boring colours.