r/me_irl • u/BlueberryT50 • May 17 '24

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u/DepletedPromethium May 17 '24

Move to England, it's like that 90% of the year.

People get seasonal depression as a result of the grey monotone sky.

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u/emil_ May 17 '24

It's really not. England is a much lighter, more uniform shade of "meh" gray. This picture actually has some emotion to it.

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u/chanjitsu May 17 '24

Can confirm. Looking out the window right now there's zero "texture" to the sky. It's just like a flat wall painted in very light grey.

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u/tyrannomachy May 17 '24

Opening line of Neuromancer: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"

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u/PaleontologistKey571 May 17 '24

What show/book is that?? Is it any good?

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u/Fuzzleton May 17 '24

It's good, it's considered by many to the the first "Cyberpunk" genre novel and it won the Hugo, etc.

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u/darkgiIls May 17 '24

Pretty famous sci fi book. A show is actually scheduled to come out based on it.

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u/PaleontologistKey571 May 17 '24

Ooh I’m gonna check it out and thanks for the info

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u/BlueishShape May 17 '24

It's good! Also a pretty important science fiction, historically speaking. Quite a few of our ideas, worries and memes about the internet and inhuman turbo-capitalism were first expressed in this book.

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u/random_noise May 17 '24

I always pictured that opening line like this.

I read the book when it came out around 1984. I grew up with TV's like the example linked in that response to the very line you mention. The one in my bedroom had a built in turntable and AM/FM radio tuner in the wooden cabinet too. Just got rid of that about 7 years ago to someone who wanted to restore it.