Another serendipitous pairing of concepts occurred for me this evening. This time on a subjectivity tip.

First, while waiting for my mini box of chips at the chip shop (a mini treat at the start of my occasional trips to London), I stumbled upon ismy.blue via Bluesky.

I bet everyone has had a musing conversion about if we all see colours in the same way, well this site makes it interactive and a bit more measurable.

Green/blue is a particularly tricky definition too in my experience, and I’m not even colourblind. Very often though I’ll call something blue and someone else will exclaim ‘it’s green!’. This then is the tool to see how you actually align with friends. A way to share subject experience.

(Also, as I said on Bluesky, I love that people still make little sites and experiments like this. A bit of self initiated fun and creativity ❤️).

For the record, my result said…

Your boundary is at hue 171, greener than 67% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

Secondly, while my mini chips were being served, I was asked “salt and vinegar?” As is custom. “Salt and lots of vinegar please” I said. As is my custom.

The server paused, began to shake, paused again, went to speak, then just handed the box and shakers to me before saying…

Best do it yourself.

It’s always so subjective.

Isn’t it just. Such a common ask that kind of has a default that we (Brits) all know, if you just answer ‘yes please’, but to modify in any way is to open up a can of subjective worms.

For the record, I like a good couple of salt shakes, then two firm rounds of vinegar shaking across the entire surface of chips. The box or bag should end up a bit soggy. And if it’s chips in a cone, there should be a tiny shot of vinegar left in the bottom at the end (which we used to dare each other to shoot at school lunchtimes).

Everything’s a preference. Everything’s subjective. Everyone’s different. But we still use binaries to cover gamuts.