Editing Talk:1615: Red Car

Penises:  They're about ''this'' red.  Now can we <u>please</u>, as a culture, move on? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.206|108.162.210.206]] 08:40, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

I would also like to point out that if your penis is any kind of blue color, you are probably having a medical emergency, in which case you should be taking much more serious steps than purchasing a particular kind of car to compensate. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.236.151|108.162.236.151]] 21:55, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Is this the first time, color is used in the comics? --[[User:Widescape|Robert]] ([[User talk:Widescape|talk]]) 09:43, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
:No, there are a lot more [[:Category:Comics with color|comics with color]]  {{User:17jiangz1/signature|09:56, 11 December 2015}}

I think the joke is that red has a longer wavelength than cyan (nanometers of difference). Not anything to do with colour theory. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.133.96|162.158.133.96]] 10:06, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
:I'll have you know that a few nanometres make ''all'' the difference, for some people.  <u>Click here</u> for the miracle pill you must have!
:(Seriously, as stated elsewhere, it's opposites.  Big car, small equipment; RGB(100%,0%,0%) car, RGB(0%,100%,100%) equipment; pH>7 car, pH<7 equipment.  Perhaps an annotated colour-wheel picture in the explanation, as a visual guide?) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.152.227|162.158.152.227]] 12:10, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
:It seems to me it could also be a reference Anaglyph 3D red-cyan glasses.  Bigger color difference makes things look closer to the viewer and thus larger.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D#Interference_filter_systems Wikipedia] {{unsigned ip|108.162.218.47}}
:sorry, I am calling this for 162.158.133.96. Big wavelength vs small wavelength. Big ph number (alkali) vs small ph number(acid). Its consistent. This is fundamentally a big vs small penis joke. In fact, think i am gonna make an edit ... [[User:Plm-qaz snr|Plm-qaz snr]] ([[User talk:Plm-qaz snr|talk]]) 12:53, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
:Although a low pH indicates a high concentration of H+ ions. In that sense, acidic is high and alkaline is low. [[User:MGK|MGK]] ([[User talk:MGK|talk]]) 23:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

The mouse over text makes it fairly clear that it's a joke about opposites. If anything could be added to the explanation as it stands, I might clarify that red and cyan are specifically colors of light. When shone on a single area (and therefor mixed) these two colors will create white light. When these colors of light are represented on a color wheel, they are placed opposite each other. So cyan and red in this sense fit as opposites,  like big and small,  alkaline and acidic. {{unsigned ip|108.162.227.125}}



For some reason, this made me laugh extremely hard. I've been up all night and maybe it's sleep deprivation, as it makes me do weird things, like bingewatch on several ISS videos simultaneously. [[User:International Space Station|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station|talk]]) 10:56, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

There is also a common stereotype that a car's color reveals something about its owner's psychology (e.g. [https://www.thecaretrust.ie/colour-of-car-personality here]). So, I think Megan is not only generalizing one stereotype but rather mixing two stereotypes, as in other comics. Zetfr 11:41, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Is this the shortest complete explanation on this site? {{unsigned|B0xertw1n}}
:[[3: Island (sketch)]] and [[28: Elefino]] are shorter. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.17|108.162.221.17]] 12:53, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

[[Wikipedia:Litmus|Litmus]] anyone? --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.233|141.101.106.233]] 13:40, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Alternative interpretation of the alt-text: the alkaline car could additionally refer to an electric car powered by an alkaline battery [[Special:Contributions/141.101.91.163|141.101.91.163]] 22:55, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
:Yeah I also felt that there had to be some more to the alt-text than just another random opposite. Maybe that's it. Or some wordplay that I don't see? -- [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.192|162.158.91.192]] 01:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
::I agree, electric makes more sense.  No one would be proud of a "basic" car, but people do take pride in their electric "eco-friendly" rides.  Also, Randall likes to use technology in his jokes, which makes the electric explanation fit better.  Lastly, people talk about having electric cars; when was the last time someone talked about having a "basic" car?[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.58|173.245.54.58]] 21:58, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
A hydrogen powered car would then have a low pH due to high amounts of hydrogen... and thus be highly acidic? {{unsigned ip|Swordsmith}}　

I think that the contributor two items up has the right idea about the title text. Litmus is an indicator of an acidic or alkaline solution. An acidic solution turns litmus paper red, an alkaline solution turns it blue. 
The current explanation of the title text " An alkaline solutions is a basic solution. Thus, men that drive basic cars are compensating for their acidic penises." Does not make any sense to me. ([[User:Paw 42|Paw 42]] ([[User talk:Paw 42|talk]]) 18:48, 12 December 2015 (UTC))
:Litmus doesn't makes sense as an explanation because the red/blue difference isn't the emphasis of the comic. Randall is making a point about the idea of people interpreting cars to be symbols of pride for their owner to compensate for their supposedly-unimpressive junk.  A litmus explanation pays too much attention to the details of the first joke and misses the forest for the trees.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.58|173.245.54.58]] 22:02, 14 December 2015 (UTC)


I vote to delete the alternate big/small interpretation, as I do not see it makes any sense or even make the joke funny. See both mine and others comments above as to why this is so. I will though not delete it my self yet. But have changed to indicate in the explanation why the alternate explanation has many flaws. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:41, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

I want to visit the current description in the article that "Cyan is a greenish-blue"... It is ''literally'' green-blue.  No '-ish' about it. #0FF in an #RGB triple-nibble hex format. If talking about it by visual impression, rather than by components, cyan doesn't ''look'' green at all.  It just looks like light-blue.  At least to your current author.  Whilst I'm not diagnosed as colour-blind, I know that (for example) even normal male and female perceptions of colour can have different resolutions and impressions of various hues.

And now some even more confusing datam-points, of an otherwise unrelated nature: in the default pallette my copy of OpenOffice uses (the handiest thing to check, outside of direct HTML encoding) the colour I could enumerate as #0FF (by sight alone... not having bothered to 'pipette' sample a screen grab of it in a graphics editor, to get exact values) is called "light cyan".  I can't find non-light "cyan", but it'd probably be around #088 (that might be the value the one labelled "turqoise" has, which ''does'' seem to have a green-ish component, so might be more like #097ish), as #00F (pure blue, by my own assessment) is called "light blue" and the colour labelled "blue" (but that I'd call ''dark blue'') looks roughly #008-ish. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.152.227|162.158.152.227]] 00:24, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm tempted to edit out all mention of 'base' or 'basic.'  The comic and title text both only mention 'alkaline,' and what began as an unnecessary mention of that ~synonym now goes on to 'basic cars' v. special ones, none of which is in the comic nor needed to fully explain it.  [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 01:35, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Isn't the joke just because adding the red to the cyan gives you white, the default colour for the comic? {{unsigned ip|162.158.91.193}}
:I don't think that's the reasoning behind it.  Red+Cyan=White because Red is the bits of white that aren't Cyan, i.e. the opposite, which ''is'' the joke, SFAICT... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.152.227|162.158.152.227]] 23:35, 21 December 2015 (UTC) (PS, sign your post by adding <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> to the end.  Or nearly the end, as in this case.) {{unsigned ip|162.158.152.227}}

I'm not sure why the comment about acidity only being applicable about liquids is in there, but it's neither true (see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201000252), nor relevant to the explanation of the comment.  I'm going to edit it out. {{unsigned ip|162.158.62.123}}

"Common true stereotype"? What qualifies that a stereotype is true? Citation needed? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.44.143|172.69.44.143]] 17:40, 26 January 2022 (UTC)