Someone invented paint. Just as people suddenly decided that breadmaking machines were a grand idea, and that they should all be purchased one of them as a gift. The timing of this was fortuitous to say the least. The manufacturers of bread machines had only just completed their four year research, development, production, marketing and distribution cycle in time to get them on the shelves so that we could buy them as gifts.
Someone must have done the same with paint, many decades ago. “Why don’t we have green walls instead of plaster? Instead of brick, instead of wattle and daub?” And now generations of dumbstruck unoriginal fools gladly lap up five litres of Dulux’s finest and smear it all over their houses. For god’s sake people, we used to do this with piss and trees, now we have to do it with brushes and walls. Where will it all end?
Too much paint fumes.