Originally Posted by Beat Trash
I tried to resist the temptation to post this, truly I did. I'm so weak.
I tried to resist the temptation to post this, truly I did. I'm so weak.
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“It doesn’t matter what the problem is, the solution is always for us to give the government more money and power, while we eat less meat.”
Glenn Reynolds
None of you who own taupe Glocks should be throwing any stones.
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I have to say that I have spent a lifetime determined to never learn what color "taupe" is.
It's like flat dark earth, but just as gay.
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We prefer the Faceshooter Dead Eye acronym.
--Josh
“Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.” - Tacitus.
A girlfriend was explaining it one day, but I automatically switched into tune out mode. All that registered was "blah, blah, blah . . ."
So, sorry - can't help one bit
It's a term without any one specific meaning. Basically synonymous with "brown-ish."
"Customer is very particular" -- SIG Sauer
https://www.sherwin-williams.com/hom...ngColors&p=PS0
Are these the same color? They look different but I'm bad at this game. Though I can tell you that the KAC "taupe" SR-15 doesn't look anything at all like that:
"Customer is very particular" -- SIG Sauer
http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone...aspx?c_id=4330
There's a dark earth Pantone too. Pantone is /sort/ of a color authority -- I wouldn't call it absolute, but it's not bad as a reference.
On my monitor the KAC looks kind of mustardy. In real life the FDE glocks I've seen look pretty taupe.
I'm just poking fun at our hobby's infatuation with shit.mil and TLAs.
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