I hate shopping and whilst waiting for my other half at the Westfield shopping centre some months ago, I noticed there was no-one in sight with blue eyes. I decided to time it to see how long before I saw someone with blue eyes. It took 40 minutes. Do you really think that in 1950 it would have taken so long to see someone with blue eyes in a crowded shopping street in London?
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So you walked around for 40 minutes just giving people the eye - and probably freaking them out in the process - looking for a specific eye colour?
I'm a little surprised nobody mistook you for a wandering mental patient.
And this matters how exactly? I go through life every day unconcerned with the eye color of people I come into contact with.
In other words, I wish everything in my life was so wonderful and carefree that the only thing I had to worry about is what color other people's eyes are.
"Do you really think that in 1950 it would have taken so long to see someone with blue eyes in a crowded shopping street in London?"
No. What was your point, again?
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Dude, don't show that picture again.
That color of eye...it's just creepy.
It'd be worse on a white face, but...gah.
I have beautiful, deep blue-green eyes. They're the color of the sea. But despite their wonderful color, I don't think it would be "alarming" to rarely see anyone else with blue eyes. And brown eyes can be beautiful as well.
More to the point, what kind of person times how long it takes to see someone with blue eyes? Who cares?
Blue eyes were actually quite rare in Southern England in 1950, although common in parts of Northern England that were settled by Danes. After the recent influx of Polish people, they are probably more common in London.
And I have a very beautiful Somali friend with striking blue eyes, but I suspect that's not where Petra is going.
My patrilateral grandfather's family came from the angle of the Unstrut and from upper Saxony (making them, sensu stricto, Angles and Saxons), but some were dark-eyed, and among the light-eyed ones, only a couple had eyes that were actually blue. In the other cases, eye color ranged from mid-European teal gray to grayzel.
Since most people have brown eyes anyway... not much?
Anyway, fuck blue, I prefer green.
"Do you really think that in 1950 it would have taken so long to see someone with blue eyes in a crowded shopping street in London?"
Yes. Blue eyes are one of the most rare eye colors on the planet. Most white people have naturally brown eyes or hazel-ish eyes.
Bitch, my father's family is full of generations of white Germans, of whom like 90% had brown eyes, like me. Eye colour doesn't mean shit.
People with blue eyes are mutants. Next time, ask to use Cerebro. Walking around and staring at people can be dangerous.
The Sentinels are always on guard for your kind, blue eyes.
Probably, because that eye colour is not very common among even the few people out there who are 100% descended from 'original' British people (depending on which in a long line of invaders you have decided to class as 'British')
Much more common up north though, you'd have better luck there. I read something recently that said a DNA study had found 50% of people in Liverpool have Nordic heritage
I'm feeling a little bit discriminated against, here... Me and my 100% pure (more so than Sainsbury's beef, anyway) British self has brown eyes... Because, you know, most common eye colour and all...
And, though I hate to invoke a Godwin here, but sure I don't have to point out who else was big on blond(e) hair and BLUE EYES.
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