Um.
Helen Mary writes:
I’m not obsessed with this, really I’m not, but given all of the colours available, why did they choose orange for Northern Ireland?
COBR?
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Um.
Helen Mary writes:
I’m not obsessed with this, really I’m not, but given all of the colours available, why did they choose orange for Northern Ireland?
COBR?
Time for a new computer monitor, Mary.
That was a screenshot from my phone so the colour is off, it was a bright orange on the TV.
Your username made me think of…
https://youtu.be/ilNUh4L0OhA
Maybe I’ll change my name to Mrs H :-)
I see orange, H. Don’t mind them.
Oh crap, its that bleedin’ dress all over again isn’t it
I think you need to check out the setting on your TV. Heres the original slides – https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/884682/2020-05-12_COVID-19_Press_Conference_Slides__7_.pdf
Because they probably have absolutely no idea that orange has any significance at all in Northern Ireland.
I’m quite impressed that they knew that NI was part of the UK (and the ROI isn’t).
Looks brown to me
Because it’s the only part of Ireland where the orange in the tricolour national fleg is represented. They should have left it at gold .
It’s not orange. It’s a putrid phlegm colour. More fitting TBH.