marrying your cousin?!

NicktheNorse · 24 Apr 2006 at 00:49

Zip said:
So shes a southerner. That explains it then

oi, watch it! She's still Norwegian

Aod · 24 Apr 2006 at 00:50

Zip said:
So shes a southerner. That explains it then

best. post. ever.

Sleepy · 24 Apr 2006 at 00:50

Only a couple of generations ago marrying your cousin was a lot more common. There is a very small increase in the risk of genetic abnormality in offspring. As to hemophillia that mutation arises in elderly fathers and is then passed on via the female line till it dies out. Its got nothing to do with consanguinity.

fatiain · 24 Apr 2006 at 07:25

Sleepy said:
Only a couple of generations ago marrying your cousin was a lot more common. There is a very small increase in the risk of genetic abnormality in offspring. As to hemophillia that mutation arises in elderly fathers and is then passed on via the female line till it dies out. Its got nothing to do with consanguinity.

Consanguinity is good for the gene pool, it removes bad genes.

Dublove · 24 Apr 2006 at 07:41

liam72uk said:
TBH

Deliverance lol...

Minstadave · 24 Apr 2006 at 07:55

1st counsin marriages aren't uncommon in Pakistan, quite a few of the guys at uni have parents that are first cousins, and they're trying to set them up with their own cousins to marry them off. It doubles your risk of congenitive birth defects though, and the effect must be cumulative, kind of scary.

big_white_dog84 · 24 Apr 2006 at 08:44

What about having relations with your gf's cousin? I have been thinking about that a lot! Is that allowed?

DB_SamX · 24 Apr 2006 at 08:47

big_white_dog84 said:
What about having relations with your gf's cousin? I have been thinking about that a lot! Is that allowed?

That's more like being greedy. And depends if the gf will allow you.

fatiain · 24 Apr 2006 at 08:47

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx said:
My mother and father were both cousins, that's why I'm so much alike

big_white_dog84 · 24 Apr 2006 at 08:59

Sameer said:
That's more like being greedy. And depends if the gf will allow you.

Hmmmm. I've just asked her and she says she won't allow it. I don't see why not if it's not illegal!

laissez-faire · 10 Sep 2006 at 23:37

Arcade Fire said:
It's legal to marry anyone with whom your genetic relatedness, as calculated from your family tree, is less than or equal to one eighth.

Surely 1st cousin is 1/4 thus - ?

benjo plz. · 10 Sep 2006 at 23:40

I'll marry all your cousins*

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*If They're fit and female

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_PD_ · 10 Sep 2006 at 23:42

It may be illegal to marry your sister, but can you legally get them pregnant?

Not that I ever would.

I don't even have a sister, for a start.

Aod · 10 Sep 2006 at 23:49

laissez-faire said:
Surely 1st cousin is 1/4 thus - ?

why did you ressurrect this thread?

36:) · 10 Sep 2006 at 23:52

This issue has been fully explored in sitcoms such as Arrested Development and cartoons such as The Simpsons.

locutus12 · 11 Sep 2006 at 00:00

Aod said:
why did you ressurrect this thread?

because he had something to add.

Aod · 12 Sep 2006 at 00:17

i suppose...

PardonTheWait · 12 Sep 2006 at 00:18

Aod said:
why did you ressurrect this thread?

Because his Father is the Seventh Baronet of Gallen and he'll do what he bloody well likes, soundrel

asim · 12 Sep 2006 at 00:53

Common occurence in pakiland.

Some of my cousins are married to each other :rolleyes:

I'd never go that route, and my dad would never encourage it either. He once told me if anyone asked to get married to me he'd chuck that family out the house

Kol · 12 Sep 2006 at 01:05

I'd sleep with my cousin like a shot if I could.

/she's not my actual cousin, her family married into it.