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>Yes, I don't know whicj idiot decided that green and red were the right colours to use for safe and danger (a
>railway person, I assume) but they really messed it up!  Nature's "danger" signal is yellow (ask any bee or
>wasp!) and it would have made a lot more sense to use green and yellow as the two signal colours.  Too late to
>change it now, though  :-(

It probably came from stoplights, but I'm not sure where they got it from.


>Some friends and I were discussing what might be the worst job for someone who is colour-blind, and we reckoned it was bomb-disposal.  "I'm about to cut the sort-of greeny-reddy-browny wire..."   :-)

I always thought it would be fun to have a bomb wired with red and blue striped wire. (It's always the red wire or the blue wire, in the movies..)

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