Gordon Brown's ties..

[princeperch]

..He only seems to have one of late, a purple one.

What do we think the chances are that some smart arse lefty psychologist has told him this is a subliminal device which soothes/ instills trust etc?

Edited by princeperch on Thursday 16th October 12:57

[wadgebeast]

Probably! There's a lot of power / leadership / authority associated with the colour purple. Roman senators had a purple edge on their togas too...

[10 Pence Short]

Any time I put anything purple near our lass I get told she's not doing that again.

[Timmy35]

wadgebeast said:

Probably! There's a lot of power / leadership / authority associated with the colour purple. Roman senators had a purple edge on their togas too...

It was a very rare/expensive colour to produce, I think the only source was from a certain type of sea shell ( conch I think ).

That's why purple became associated with power and wealth.

[speedy_thrills]

Timmy35 said:

wadgebeast said:

Probably! There's a lot of power / leadership / authority associated with the colour purple. Roman senators had a purple edge on their togas too...

It was a very rare/expensive colour to produce, I think the only source was from a certain type of sea shell ( conch I think ).

That's why purple became associated with power and wealth.

Interesting.

I can think of a few chemicals that could dye something purple but I'm not sure is any of them had been discovered at that point.

[Einion Yrth]

speedy_thrills said:

Timmy35 said:

wadgebeast said:

Probably! There's a lot of power / leadership / authority associated with the colour purple. Roman senators had a purple edge on their togas too...

It was a very rare/expensive colour to produce, I think the only source was from a certain type of sea shell ( conch I think ).

That's why purple became associated with power and wealth.

Interesting.

I can think of a few chemicals that could dye something purple but I'm not sure is any of them had been discovered at that point.

Extracted from Murex by means of a very smelly process.

[fatboy b]

He also cannot tie them judging by the one I saw him wearing on the news last night. Scruffy .

[Simpo Two]

Einion Yrth said:

Extracted from Murex by means of a very smelly process.

Yes but Brown's ties are dipped in Ribena.

[bishbash]

Timmy35 said:

wadgebeast said:

Probably! There's a lot of power / leadership / authority associated with the colour purple. Roman senators had a purple edge on their togas too...

It was a very rare/expensive colour to produce, I think the only source was from a certain type of sea shell ( conch I think ).

That's why purple became associated with power and wealth.

Not sure I believe that, surely beetroot would dye stuff purple.

[JMGS4]

I've a purple edged 1" manila tie for that onanist.... I'd deliver the 6' drop for nothing...

for the lily livered hand wringing apologist socialist twunts, this is not a threat, just a joke, but you can't understand it can you?

[Snoggledog]

He's trying to convince us that he's neither old fashioned Labour nor old fashioned Tory hence why he's gone for a colour inbetween the two. hth

[Mc Lovin]

I find it really odd, that Tony and Gordon have been pictured wearing blue ties, even at party events.

I know this is different but its the same concept: Celtic FC will not allow anything Blue in their publications, Rangers FC will not allow anything green in their publications, for the obvious reasons.

[rhinochopig]

Timmy35 said:

wadgebeast said:

Probably! There's a lot of power / leadership / authority associated with the colour purple. Roman senators had a purple edge on their togas too...

It was a very rare/expensive colour to produce, I think the only source was from a certain type of sea shell ( conch I think ).

That's why purple became associated with power and wealth.

Think you're confusing Cochineal - Red Insect used for dies - with Tyrian Purple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple - sea snails

Edited by rhinochopig on Thursday 16th October 13:45

[selnic]

Nothing wrong with any of Gordons ties, apart from their angle - Would be nice to see him hanging from the fker!

[Simpo Two]

bishbash said:

That's why purple became associated with power and wealth.

Not sure I believe that, surely beetroot would dye stuff purple.

Nope, the Roman toga angle is (holds up card) 'TRUE'.

http://saintbedestudio.blogspot.com/2007/11/liturg...

'Although the earliest archaeological evidence for the origins of purple dyes points to the Minoan civilization in Crete, about 1900 B.C., the ancient land of Canaan (its corresponding Greek name was Phoenicia, which means “land of the purple”) was the centre of the ancient purple dye industry. The city of Tyr in Phoenicia was especially famous for producing the dye; thus the name “Tyrian”. “Tyrian Purple” was produced from the mucus of the hypobranchial gland of various species of marine mollusks, notably the Murex. It is believed that it took some 12,000 shellfish to extract 1.5 grams of the pure dye! It can readily be seen why this labour-intensive process was so expensive.'

[MK4 Slowride]

None of out politicians have any dress sense & thus no street cred.

[Simpo Two]

MK4 Slowride said:

None of out politicians have any dress sense & thus no street cred.

Saint Bob Geldof seemed to get street cred yet look like a tramp... thank god he's not into politics (well not much)

[Red Firecracker]

Darling seems to favour a purple tie as well. Why the hell he feels the need to associate himself with power and wealth is beyond me.

[MK4 Slowride]

Simpo Two said:

MK4 Slowride said:

None of out politicians have any dress sense & thus no street cred.

Saint Bob Geldof seemed to get street cred yet look like a tramp... thank god he's not into politics (well not much)

What did Geldof do before all that charity ste anyway?

[wildoliver]

I used to own a purple velour shirt (well still do but banned from wearing it). What does that say?