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OK you guys:- a fun Christmas Sunday poll. What colour are your eyes?

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  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    edited 28 December 2015 at 11:55AM
    Yeah, maybe not the most common, but definetly a lot higher than 8%! You learn something new everyday!
  • heuchera wrote: »
    No I really haven't met anyone with 'amber' eyes. (Light brown?) My granny used to say her mum had violet eyes (also rare, but they do exist) :)

    Violet eyes? Nice. :)

    I think Liz Taylor was classed as having violet eyes, but I think I would have just called them blue. :)

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    However, as you said, you could class amber as light brown. :)

    But that eye colour on the pic I put does match the colour amber. :)
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  • Yeah, maybe not the most common, but definetly a lot higher than 8%! You learn something new everyday!

    Yes indeedy! :D

    I think we assume there would be a % of more more blue eyed folk worldwide, because we live in a high part of the Northern hemisphere, and tbh, the % of blue eyed folk would be higher up here. :)

    In my family alone of say 35 people (my siblings, their partners, their kids, my parents, my cousins, my aunts and uncles, and my grandparents) around three quarters have blue eyes! (About 75%!)

    Yet I bet in China, in an extended family of 35, it would be nigh on 100% brown eyes.

    I have a Japanese friend at work (been here 3 years,) who thinks blonde hair and blue eyes is the most beautiful look in the world. I guess coz it's rare where she comes from.

    I think South American people and middle east and Asia are stunning; especially Iranian and Jordanian and Venezuelan and Peruvian ladies. But that is because they are exotic to me. Beauty is subjective I guess. :)
    cooeeeeeeeee :j :wave:
  • olgadapolga
    olgadapolga Posts: 2,328 Forumite
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    I'm the only person in my family/extended family (of over 150 people, excluding my own children) with blue eyes. All of my siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles etc have brown, green, grey but I'm the only one with blue eyes.

    The genetics of eye colour is fascinating although I am pretty well unable to explain why I'm the only one with blue eyes. I think that my parents brought the wrong baby home from the hospital, myself :rotfl:

    I married a man with blue eyes and so all four of our children have blue eyes.
  • heuchera
    heuchera Posts: 1,825 Forumite
    I'm the only person in my family/extended family (of over 150 people, excluding my own children) with blue eyes. All of my siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles etc have brown, green, grey but I'm the only one with blue eyes.

    The genetics of eye colour is fascinating although I am pretty well unable to explain why I'm the only one with blue eyes. I think that my parents brought the wrong baby home from the hospital, myself :rotfl:

    Yup, you're the milkman's :D
    left the forum due to trolling/other nonsense
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  • DigForVictory
    DigForVictory Posts: 12,244 Forumite
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    Blue eyed, from a blue eyed family so I regard it as normal. We're rare?!
    Several are redheaded blue eyed souls (ah, Scottish blood) and we rate the redheads as rarer.
  • missprice
    missprice Posts: 3,738 Forumite
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    I am the "other" one brown one green. No idea how that happened.
    63 mortgage payments to go.

    Zero wins 2016 😥
  • alba7
    alba7 Posts: 230 Forumite
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    About three quarters of my family have blue eyes (including me), the rest have green eyes. My mum has green eyes with brown flecks in them. We're all Scottish and also have redheads in the family - very traditional!
  • missprice wrote: »
    I am the "other" one brown one green. No idea how that happened.

    Related to BOWIE perchance? :D

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    cooeeeeeeeee :j :wave:
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 36,286 Forumite
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    Have I wandered onto The Arms board by mistake..........?
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