[ SECRET POST #2149 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2149 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Fate/Zero; Game of Thrones]


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[One Direction]


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[The Walking Dead/Watership Down]


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[DC Universe Online]


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[Kamisama Hajimemashita]


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[The Dark Knight Rises]


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[Vattu by Evan Dahm]


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[Touhou Project]


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[Swamp Brothers]


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[Kuroko no Basket, Saki]


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[The Monkees]


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[Homestuck/John Dies at the End]


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[Homestuck]


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[Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel/Tim Roth]


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[J.R.R. Tolkien]


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[Mindless Self Indulgence]


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[Scrubs]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is really weird, but ever since that comment on 'places you've been' about the different greens in the world...

I've noticed that, when various friends come over to the UK one of the things most of them say is "It's so GREEN!"

...what?

Of course grass is green. It's GRASS.

What.

I don't live in the countryside. And England doesn't have alot of natural forests (I think we cut a massive percentage of them down). So...what are they talking about? One of the girls, from Gibraltar, when we were talking about parks and fields (it was about sex in them, lol) was all "Oh, we don't have those". I think she was joking but.

What.

Can someone just explain?

[masu_trout]

Hm. I'm woefully ignorant about climate in the UK so I'm unsure if this is what they meant, but it's entirely possible for some places to much greener than others, even if they're not super foresty.

I split my time between a midwest US state and a deep south US state, and the former is so much greener than the latter it's ridiculous. It's not even that the southern state doesn't have grass or anything- it does. But it's fundamentally dryer, and it doesn't have the undergrowth or close trees that my other state does. There's not so many trees and the ones that are there are widely spaced. Even the grass is less green- it's a hardy sort that was made to survive in heat and dry, and it hugs the ground rather than growing up like grass meant for wet climates. (And I'm in one of the greenest parts of the state; in some places it's basically brown.) In my wetter state, it's not one big national park or anything, but little trees grow in between the big trees and you actually get a forest-like climate, there's many more bushes and weeds and other things that catch your eye, and the grass is brighter and springier. One's more plains while the other's more woods.

...I'm probably explaining this really poorly, haha, but there's definitely a lot of things that go into a perception of 'green'. I never noticed it until I started living in two places, though, so it's rather hard to explain!

[(Anonymous)]

Of course grass is green. It's GRASS.

They're just commenting on the fact that, probably thanks to your climate, your grass has that fresh, lush emerald color most of the time. Whereas, where I come from, a good part of the time, the native grass looks like this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PrcYArxgGfU/TaKko5tM8cI/AAAAAAAADzg/VmuukDrtv_A/s1600/Tallgrass+Prairie+NP+trail.jpg

In fact, sometimes it's purple or red.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear this a lot as well in British Columbia, Canada. It rains a lot in the UK, no? It does here, and it keeps these places looking 'green' - I notice when I go to places like California and other parts of Canada (mainly the prairies) where it doesn't rain much, it's just really.... brown. Even in spring, the 'green' doesn't compare to here (and I imagine the northwestern states). It doesn't have to mean forests, it could just be grass and whatever other plant life you DO have there.

[ariakas]

As a fellow British Columbian, especially if you like on the Island or Lower Mainland like 80% of British Columbians, you live in one of two temperate rainforests in the world. Everything is green.

I travel a lot, and it makes most other places in the world (that aren't also rainforests) look pretttttty drab.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the PNW and used to live in the deep south. The PNW is SO green and lush and moist that even during a monsoon down south there's no way it's ever as green, or that deep a green, etc. Every time I visit home and fly back to the PNW, when I can see the landscape from the plane window, it feels like I'm landing in Middle Earth.

Britain and the PNW & BC are on similar latitude with Britain & Ireland & have similar climates. I'm sure the moisture has a lot to do with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Not all grass is green. And there are several different varieties of green, some brighter and more vibrant than others.

[oroburos69]

I was going to show you a picture, but it's not uploading well. Anyway, just trust me on this. There are various qualities of green, and I happen to live in one of the parts of the world that shifts between grey-green and gold-green to grey and white. It's never bright green, except for, like, two weeks in late May, early June. New England was fucking unnatural looking. Like the world of Avatar. Alien. Who the hell need trees that big?

Yay for the prairies!

[(Anonymous)]

Probably the UK is just more moist and maybe has a milder winter than wherever they are from. There's plenty of grass and forests where I live, but they're looking pretty brown right now.

[(Anonymous)]

Basically what you're saying is "omg people live places different and I can't comprehend that! Explain to me what they mean because they couldn't possibly be simple literal statements! Everybody in the world must have green grass and fields and parks where they live!"

[(Anonymous)]

I...kind of expect the UK to be green? I mean, I've never been there but ever picture and what not I've seen of it has been green...

But maybe it's because people expect swamps/marshes? IDK. I have kind of the same thing with where I live. Everyone expects it to be a desert when most of the state is really plains and swamp. They also act really shocked [and, in some cases, even mildly offended] when they find out I've never even seen a tumble weed.

I guess people just get a mental image of a place, and they have a hard time reconciling it with what's actually there when it turns out to be different.

[(Anonymous)]

For some reason, your confusion reminds me of something I learned in Art History, where settlers would come to Australia and for some reason, just could not comprehend the dry, brown/grey/yellow-tinged nature that they saw, and proceeded to do landscape paintings using the same colour palettes they would have used for an European landscape.

[elialshadowpine]

So! I haven't been to the UK however we get this a lot when people visit us in Washington State. A lot of people get shocked at the amount of green we have, but especially so in winter, because lots of places have seasonal trees and foliage and we have evergreens.

It rains all the freaking time here. Not downpours like people commonly think but we have a lot of drizzle and mist. I understand England is fairly similar there? Everything tends to stay greener because there is more moisture, vs the grass drying out and turning brown.