“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

September 3, 2010 perty

Have you thought about how much more attractive a cockroach would be if it came in colors like green or pink?
I’m pretty sure that we would be less inclined to run for the chemical death spray or run in disgust if the color of that insect was more appropriate. When you analyse it it’s not the color that’s exactly the problem more the combination of an ugly hard plastic looking body combined with the brown color. Personally I find a cup of coffee very attractive to look at and I have been known to seach for that exact coffee brown shade when painting my house. Also I love the look of soft brown leather aah… theres nothing like that!

Now what about eyes? I have brown eyes and nobody has ever said to me or about me ‘what beautiful brown eyes’ but I could be standing next to my cousin and people will say ‘I love blue eyes’. Then she will be feeling all kind of superior wearing her blue eyes and I’ll just stand there saying nothing wearing my brown. Now here’s the interesting thing blue eyes don’t really exist. Nope when your eyes look blue it means you have no pigment and the blue spectrum of light which travels the fastest is absorbed and reflected by surfaces at the back of your eye. So there you go colorless eye person!
Another thing to think about here is how some people like Paris Hilton for example wear blue contact lenses and have frequent hair dressing appointments with the bleach bottle so as to look like a icy blue eyed blonde. I wonder does she dye all body hair, like under the arms for example? or other places?
Believe it or not there is this gene called the agouti gene and scientists have tested how what a mouse eats can change the colour of its coat. What resulted is that the mice who ate lots of foods with b12. folic acid and betaine (methylators) had babies that were thin with dark coats and the mice who didn’t, had offspring who were bloated fat blobs with pale fur.
Anyway I’m not sure of the reason why cockroaches have brown coats but from what I’ve noticed it doesn’t seem to worry them.

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