The Australian Department of Health initially referred to the color as “olive green,” but the name was changed after concerns were expressed by the Australian Olive Association.
And after it was revealed that olive green is, like, a totally different color?
Now the question is: “is my monitor calibrated correctly or has my monitor been calibrated correctly”? Maybe also “where to calibrate my eyes?”.
You win the Internet today, sir! 
Then it’s the hot color for the next fashion season.
I was wondering why the fascists were using it in their war on smokers in Canada.
I think it looks really pretty, and makes me want to buy tobacco products.
Huh. I like it.
This is the shade Kennedy makes almost all of its machinist toolchests in, except they manage to make it even uglier by making it wrinkle finish.
Shit brown wrinkle paint. And they did this for decades and decades. I have no idea how the hell they ever kept any business because they charged obscene amounts of money for tool chests that weren’t even that well made on top of the hideously ugly color.
Can we stop color shaming? 
(I originally meant that as just a quick joke, but somewhere out there Pantone 448 C could be someone’s skin tone, so maybe it really is a bad thing to call it the ugliest color…)
That would probably be RAL 5008 bleu gris.
Ural or Dnepr?
Dnepr MT-11. I love this motorcycle, but wish that spare parts would be of better quality…
Good excuse to buy a lathe?
I was pretty close to buying an Ural with a sidecar once…
One of the cons was the question of being able to get spare parts.
I have a weakness for boxer engines, my first car was an Alfasud.
Ended up with a 1996 Africa Twin which rarely needs spare parts anyway. Except maybe for crash bars. The fairing just gets taped and retaped with black duct tape. A mate christened it “the carbon look”.
I got one for free when they were scrapping machine tools at my former job. They also let me take a drill press, small milling machine and ridiculously heavy shaper that weights about 1.5 tons.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t374QJE_ndZ1TmpUEZDtzfCLmAyHyIiX
I also have a CNC milling machine that can make light cuts in aluminum alloys and steel, so frequently it’s better idea to make a new part than buy defective spare. Last year I’ve machined adapters to connect a Kawasaki ZZR1100 carburator to Dnepr engine, and I’ll test them this summer.
I hear that quality of Ural parts has recently improved and new engines are really reliable. I really like that despite adding electric starter, the have kept the kickstart. Having said that, Afirca Twin is a way more practical choice, especially due to the top speed 
Wth, with this finish, after a few days in the shop, you’d have a permanently slag-colored tool chest:
In case the others don’t get it, ‘merde d’oie’ is what it is called in France. Sometimes it gets translated…
I don’t think much of the colours in this image, but I searched on ‘merde d’oie’ and got that Pantone patch.
I don’t think any color is beautiful or ugly in and of itself. It depends on the context.
