Colours: Purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red
Ah, Soho, home of the rainbow flag, so there are really no excuses for this monstrosity. Just after I took this picture, children were playing on it, their young minds being inexorably corrupted. Ban this sick filth (the colours being in the wrong order)!
Score: 0/7
Colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red
Just when I thought I’d seen every way conceivable you could fuck up a rainbow… I thought my plea to put red on the outside and violet on the inside was foolproof, but then they come up with a new type of fool. I know it’s for a good cause, but for fuck’s sake, Amanda, have you ever even seen a rainbow? That’s… that’s just not how they work.
Score: 0/7
Colours: pink, yellow, green
What’s my favourite
number? SEVEN! THE NUMBER OF COLOURS IN THE FUCKING
RAINBOW!
Goodbye Kitty.
Score: 0/7
Colours: blue, green, yellow, red
Because nothing says ‘edgy teenage rebellion’ like putting the colours of the rainbow round the wrong way. I don’t care if all the cool kids are doing it, RED GOES ON THE OUTSIDE!
Score: 0/7
Colours: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red
Rainbow Acres – Natural Foods, Genetically Modified Rainbows.
Score: 1/7
Colours: orange, red,
lilac, blue, green, yellow
Postman Pat
Postman Pat
Postman Pat and his
orange, red, lilac, blue, green and yellow rainbow
Hey, here’s a special delivery for you, Pat. Take this monstrosity, put a first class stamp on it, and post it where the sun doesn’t shine. That’d make me a really happy man.
Score: 0/7
Colours: yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green
‘No’ indeed.
Oh sure, you’re going to go on about how this was your symbol of resistance to murderous dictator General Pinochet, and how each colour represented an opposition political party, but how much more trouble would it have been to put them in the RIGHT FUCKING ORDER? If you want to know what torture really is, take a look at this abomination.
Score: 2/7
Colours: white, green, yellow, orange, pink.
Hey, Nick Jr., you say that every day’s an adventure? I’ll bet it is if that’s your idea of colour perception. Traffic lights, electrical wiring – the fun never ends! And how can white be a colour of the rainbow?! A RAINBOW’S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU SEPARATE WHITE LIGHT INTO DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS, YOU IDIOTS!
Score: 1/7
Colours: pink, red, violet, grey, turquoise.
Pinkstinks is a campaign that targets the products, media and marketing that prescribe heavily stereotyped and limiting roles to young girls. They believe that all children – girls and boys – are affected by the ‘pinkification’ of girlhood.
Well, Toughskins, here’s another reason why pink stinks: IT’S NOT A COLOUR OF THE RAINBOW! How will my pretty princess grow up to become a scientist if she thinks that these are the colours of the visible spectrum?!
Score: 0/7
Colours: red, orange, yellow, green.
Richard of York gained … fuck all apparently.
OK, Egmont World, here’s a fun use for your stencil from the covers of I Can Learn First Alphabet (With Stencil Fun!): stencil yourselves a full list of the colours of the rainbow!
You can’t even claim that your printer ran out of cyan ink – the sky is blue, the pond is blue, the umbrella is blue, Little Queen’s coat and shoes are blue. And it’s not even that Little Queen’s favourite animal is the blue whale and that used it all up. SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER 42.9% OF THE RAINBOW?! Are you trying to promote some kind of anti-Tory coalition?
OK, here’s the deal: in a children’s picture book I’m not going to insist on indigo. I’m not a monster. A rainbow is a continuous spectrum of colours and Newton possibly only slipped indigo in there to correlate with seven days of the week, musical notes, known objects in the solar system etc. What’s that? You want to do just four colours in a book for very young children? Fine: red, yellow, green, blue (provided red is on the outside of course).
But this? It’s enough to give anyone the blues. So why don’t you put them in your rainbow you idiots?!
Score: 4/7
