I despise purple!  

For heaven's sake, folks....
I was just goofing, it was a joke! I was doing a 'lunchbox' style attempt at being controversial. Tongue-in-cheek controversy that is. I was just being silly. I won't do it again, I promise.

You are one of the people who do this over and over again:
make a statement that is perhaps meant as a joke, but is often taken by some (me included) as a non-joke.
You might consider making certain that your dry jokes are written as such that they're more likely to be taken as a joke.
This happens frequently,and it's a bore to have to study a statement and determine if it was meant as a joke or an honest opinion.
I'm not alone here; other people react to what they think is a negative statement only to have the writer say "oh, that was a joke". Well if some of the people on this forum have problems making that determination, then the writer should jolly well realize this and word your joke's in such a way that most of us will immediately be able to tell that this is a joke.
Please do not think that I don't have sense of humor. Keep on with the jokes, but, please, make it a bit easier for us to KNOW if you meant a negative statement as a joke or not.
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I wasn't joking, though, when I said I do not like oak...there's too much oak furniture that's popular in the midwest and it all bores me, especially when you can get cherry, birch, mahogony or walnut instead.

Pretty obvious...
That it was intended as a joke.

As I said above...
I won't do it again. Humor apparently is too hard to translate to the written word unless one resorts to those asinine emoticons or spells it out as a joke, which, of course, ruins it all entirely.
Ah well, back to serious world of design.

Oh, don't stop!!
I'm pretty certain the majority of us can discern between and joke..
and well..
surely no-one thought it was a serious post ?

I've often been told that my sense of humor is very British
Dry and full of Monty Python-esque 'Nudge-nudge' stuff. I didn't mean to be obscure.
Posting something that was, as M-Anderson said, 'A waste of good thread', made me smile and I thought it might spark some additional amusing comments to brighten our collective days. There are some very funny and articulate people here and I enjoy their humorous posts.
I apologize to those that don't march to my off-beat drum.

I love purple
I love purple

Olive, don't be sorry. Roses...
Olive, don't be sorry. Roses are red and the Minnesota Vikings are purple, laughter's sweet, and so is maple syrple.

But Purple Loves Olive
...

Just came home from the market
with an absolutely gorgeous dark red-purple phalenopsis orchid. Purple is indeed welcome in my home, albeit in small accent doses. Glad to see us having more fun with this thread now.
PS: You are so right Robert1960, olive and eggplant are lovely together as are citron and lavender. I actually have a greyed lavender masterbath connected to my citron green master bedroom. The effect is very soothing

Amethyst & Chartreuse
..there's another 😉

Josef Albers and Color Theory
Red-Violet and Yellow-Green are direct complementary colors. So they would tend to play well together and create a vibrant mix. But...
I find that some of the very best color pairs are those that are one or two 'slices' off of the direct complement. For example Blue and Orange are true complements. But it's Blue and Yellow that is the most pleasing and much more popular pairing. Same goes with Red-Orange and Yellow-Green. These are great together and are also a bit off direct complement.
I've read Albers and other color theory books and I've never really seen an explanation as to why this off-complementary scheme is so visually satisfying. It's always the direct complement that is recommended. I'm curious, anyone ever read anything on this?

"Complementary" on the color wheel
But polar opposites in actuality.
It would make sense that colors that are closer to each other on the visual spectrum go well together since it follows the natural progression of light.