Do You Have Blue Eyes? Heres Why!

Everyone in my family is blonde with blue eyes. It just happened that way. The man I fell in love with - sometimes we were asked if we were brother and sister...(we aren't).....others that know my parents, grandparents - all blond/blue eyed....look at us as some sort of social suspects....we homeschool, must be white separatists....nothing could be further than the truth...just...happened.

We all have extremely pale eyes, like an ice blue-white almost, like a wolf's. People comment on them....but I've heard a lot of times they look "cold"...been told "I thought you were some sort of ice queen" more than once. Maybe that's why we all marry other blue eyed folks. My son's been told the same basic thing by girls.

So this means we are all kin, lol, ...keepin' it in the family. Oh my!

Originally posted by factbeforefiction
Blue eyed people are smarter too, and better looking, and the men are amazingly well endowed.

They're also reputed to be liars as well

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Total blue eyed family, eh?
And you homeschool? Interesting.

If you have standardized tests to judge by, would you say you, your husband and your children are above average intelligence?

Is your family taller, more muscular, better healthwise? Any unusual abilities?

I'm wondering what is up with this purported blue eye super race.

Lol... I am loving the characteristics being thrown about...

Also just wanted to say hi to my new found extended family!!!

Nice find op! I wonder if they've done any studies to equate different traits with eye color?

I must be a hybrid then, as my eyes are blue with a hint of green. Something like the sea. And my starsign is aquarius. Spooky.

Hmm... this is very interesting! I wonder why or how the mutation happened... it makes sense that it was a mutation though, I have always heard that blue eyes are more sensitive to wind and cold air and such...mine water all the time over nothing...and also people with blue eyes are more prone to vision problems. Hmm..

Their deduction on the science in this article is hardly a fact.

They simply say because all blue eyes have close to the same color, that was all must have had a single relative.

That's bogus. They give no real justification. There could be other reasons like it is like that.. Like the mutation could only work within narrow parameters, or something.

Besides, because blue eyes are a recessive trait, it would take more than one person with the mutation to pass it to their kids.

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Blue eyed people are smarter too, and better looking, and the men are amazingly well endowed.

Damn, I resemble that remark!

Oh, it seems blues have an excellent sense of humor also!

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As far the genetics of it go:

The reason or causation of the first "supposed" blue eyed humans is up to interpretation and or guess work.

Under current knowledge, you can have blue eyes if one of your parents has blue eyes, one with brown eyes, but the brown eyed parent must have some trace amounts of blue eyed genetic material.

For example, my mother has gray-blue eyes, my father has brown eyes. Both of his parents have brown eyes, and their parents had one blue eyed relative on each side.

I wound up with gray-blue eyes with yellow rings around the pupils and a rather large brown dot in my right eye. Its right up against the pupil and actually makes my pupil look kind of like a goat eye in certain light.

Under those studies, they posited that blue-blue eyes were original, and that gray-blue eyes are "newer". They also say that green eyes came around some time between brown and blue.

For my own personal enjoyment, one of the articles said that they tested 800 patients with blue eyes. All had very similar genetics, except one, the one with a brown dot in the eye.

Seeing as how my Dad's side of the family went back 3 generations of "dominant" brown eyes, id cautiously suggest this may be "blue-eyed" genetics saying F-U to brown eyes and becoming dominant, or at least equal, by incorporating a wee bit of the dominator.

I am blue eyed as well. We are all a product of incest apparently. /salute

Originally posted by OzWeatherman
reply to post by Mr_skepticc

 

Excellent

Im a mutant

This is not news to those of us who know and love you, Oz...

But I guess this means that we are related... You blue eyed devil you!

Originally posted by EyeOnYou
both my parents and my brother have brown eyes and dark brown hair, whereas i have blond hair and blue eyes.
i swear my mom must have cheated on my dad with the milk man or something lol.

Same here,I have blue eyes but I am the only one in my entire family.There is Irish and welsh on my mothers side and English on my fathers. Both my children a boy and a girl have blue eyes my wife has brown. My dad has mentioned that my mum was seeing a French ski instructor before they married

If you have blue, green or whatever eyes, it's because somebody in your family has them. It reaches back to 7 generations. So no mutation.

Yer blue eyes are one of the seven signs of evil

Remember that this probably isn't the only time in history that this mutation has come forth.. So you don't have to be related...

Otherwise you are related to blue eyed bunnies, and that would be quite funny if the specific mutation mentioned in the article is only 10.000 years old...


And I have to agree that blue eyed people are devil spawn - Green eyed people on the other hand; The most beautiful and intelligent beings on the planet!

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1 brown eyed parent
1 blue eyed parent
25% chance the child will have blue eyes

yew! score for us mutant blue eyes! gotta love being different. Both my sister and myself are blue eyed but my mum's got brown eyes & dad's got green eyes.

I will agree with the blue eyed women are beautiful comment ;p.

Originally posted by factbeforefiction
Blue eyed people are smarter too, and better looking, and the men are amazingly well endowed.


[edit on 2-2-2010 by factbeforefiction]

With a comment like that, maybe we should change your username to
'fictionbeforefact'. I think it would fit better.

Originally posted by factbeforefiction
Blue eyed people are smarter too, and better looking, and the men are amazingly well endowed.


[edit on 2-2-2010 by factbeforefiction]

Amen.

This is a second line.

Originally posted by factbeforefiction
Blue eyed people are smarter too, and better looking, and the men are amazingly well endowed.


[edit on 2-2-2010 by factbeforefiction]

And they are pure and clean aswell. Famous blue eyes - Paul Newman, i bet he got laid a lot.