I feel the same way whenever I buy an orange
The colour is actually named after the fruit. Orange is the colour that an orange is. It’s fascinating that people speaking so many different languages around the world saw an orange and were like “bruh. You know the colour between red and yellow in a rainbow? I’ve found the perfect word for it”
What’s next, colors named after flowers?
I don’t get it. Your name isn’t MrOrangeBuyer?
Somewhat related, as a kid the first joke I remember that made my cheeks & ribs hurt with streaming tears was
What do you call a fly without wings?
A walk.
Why didn’t we can birds “fly”. I mean when I think of flying the first thing I think about are birds. Not fucking flies.
Flies just have evolved into birds, it’s the only explanation
That’s because birds don’t fly - they’re up there birding around.
We should’ve called airplanes flyors.
We say “flyver” in Danish which basically would be flyor in English. “At flyve” means “to fly”.
The ‘proper’ word - so to speak - “flyvemaskine” directly translates to “flymachine”, compounding “(to) fly” and “machine”. Though if you’re really busy you can just call it a “fly”.
Butterflies are a scam
A fly flies, and flies fly.
If a bird can fly then why can’t a fly bird?
Called a fascinus
Fascinates
Fascinating
Fly, fly flys flying Fly flies flying. Flying flies Flying fly flies fly
