Anyway, the original point was that red/blue marks
on taps stand for "hot"/"cold", not for "dangerous"/
"safe" (AFAICT, blue isn't routinely used to mean
"safe"). When suggested to devise a colour code for
"hot"/"cold" taps, LSD proposed a yellow/green code
meaning "dangerous"/"safe" instead. Then I pointed
out that the hot-water tap is not a danger if you
just heat tap-water to _usable_ levels and not to
crazy dangerous levels, so the dangerous/safe code
is only meaningful to those who apparently like to
live a risky life and routinely heat their tap-water
to dangerous levels.

No. What I am trying to point out (if you listen for a while), is that
it doesn't matter about OUR water temperature. Somewhere, sometime, when
someone was color-coding early faucets, he had hot water of some
temperature. *His* opinion on whether *his* hot water was dangerous is
the only opinion that matters in this discussion. Intuitive to you is
irrelevant. Intuitive to me is irrelevant. Intuitive to him is relevant.
Do you have any data on what a typical hot water temperature was when
the first red/blue faucet was made? I bet that the hot water was coming
straight out of a poorly regulated boiler, and was pretty dangerous at
that time. What has happened since, in the absence of time travel, is
irrelevant.

Things themselves do not have colour. They only
reflect light.

Interesting. So when I see the sun, what is the source of the light it
is reflecting?

I'm disappointed in Javier, he had that perfectly good straight line
and only managed an eff-off in reply.

How about,
"I'm not sure, why don't you take a nice long look one
sunny day and get back to us with your conclusions?

$BNI$$;R$O??;w$7$J$$$G$/$@$5$$!#(B"

Sorry, I had missed the last part of your message.

How about,
"I'm not sure, why don't you take a nice long look one
sunny day and get back to us with your conclusions?

Yes, that would have been a nice reply, but I wasn't
in the mood to think up a nice reply for that troll.

$BNI$$;R$O??;w$7$J$$$G$/$@$5$$!#(B"

I'm at sci.lang and my Japanese is so far very basic.
The sentence is "Yoi ko wa maneshinaide kudasai",
correct?

But what does it mean? "Yoi ko" means 'good
boy', "kudasai" means 'please', "mane"/"maneshi" means
'mimicry'/'copycat' and if I remember correctly 'nai'
is a verbal negative; but I can't make sense out of
the whole.

The sentence is "Yoi ko wa maneshinaide kudasai",
[...]
But what does it mean? "Yoi ko" means 'good
boy', "kudasai" means 'please', "mane"/"maneshi" means
'mimicry'/'copycat' and if I remember correctly 'nai'
is a verbal negative; but I can't make sense out of
the whole.

"Good kids - don't try this at home."

It's a phrase often used in kids shows / anime when the
characters do something stupid / dangerous.

You had all the right bits in there.

"Nathan" == Nathan Sanders <nathansanders@verizon.net> writes:

When you look in the other direction -- from an aeroplane down
to ground, you see green, brown, grey, etc. Should you also
consider these colours instead of light blue, then?

"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes:

Dunno about Munich. In Freiburg and on German TV, I see the
fire trucks painted bright orange. I would say it's
"fluorescent orange" -- a calque from a Cantonese colour term.

"Nathan" == Nathan Sanders <nathansanders@verizon.net> writes:

"Javier" == Javier BF <uaxuctum@hotmail.com> writes:

It depends on the source of hot water your tap is drawing
from.

So, you only use hot water for a shower?

"GEO" == GEO <Me@home.here> writes:

May I know _which_ corner it is? :)

GEO> Alberta, Canada

"Javier" == Javier BF <uaxuctum@hotmail.com> writes:

"Javier" == Javier BF <uaxuctum@hotmail.com> writes:

"Javier" == Javier BF <uaxuctum@hotmail.com> writes:

"Kevin" == Kevin Wayne Williams <nihongo@paxonet.kom> writes:

"Javier" == Javier BF <uaxuctum@hotmail.com> writes:

This is an even worse example. The top parts of the iceberg
shows a shade of orange-red, possibly due to sun shining from a
small angle with the horizon. The parts immersed in water
looks green to me. And the rest parts do look snow-white.

I've already mentioned that I don't have a fireplace.

Have you prepared the water in a bath tub? I mean tuning the
temperature to make it comfortable.