....giggity?

This might have been interesting hundreds of years ago, but I think human kind has progressed to a point where we're no longer trying to have as many children as possible in order to propagate the species. Most people who have 2 or 3 kids do that because they only want 2 or 3 kids, not because they are genetically incapable of having more.

/I guess it's still kind of interesting...
//Comes from a family stick

Marrying a distant relative could mean a larger family, according to Icelandic researchers who studied their nation's genetic record

Yeah, it could also have something to do with living in a place that's cold as fark with nothing to do but fark.

Hmm so gettin busy with a relative will lead to more kids.
/Cletus approves

Danger Avoid Death: Marrying a distant relative could mean a larger family, according to Icelandic researchers who studied their nation's genetic record

Yeah, it could also have something to do with living in a place that's cold as fark with nothing to do but fark.

You fail at Geography

Yeah, it has nothing to do with the fact that the kind of person who marries their farking cousin is probably the kind of person that doesn't use birth control when they already have 5 kids in soiled diapers running around their trailer.

How 'bout a kiss for your Cousin Dupree.

Approves!

Incest is teh funnay.

my chip bowls say cool-whip wait..

HEY KIDS! WE EATIN DINNER TONIGHT! CMON!
Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dillan, Dermit, Jordan, Tailor, Brittney, Wesley, Rumor, Skyle, Cassidy, Zoe, Cloe, Max, Hunter, Kendel, Katelyn, Noah, Sasha, Morgan, Kira, Ean, Lauren, Kubert, Phil!

Heist: it has nothing to do with the fact that the kind of person who marries their farking cousin is probably the kind of person that doesn't use birth control

FTFA:
Between 1800 and 1824, for example, third cousin couples - those who share great-great grandparents - had on average 4.04 children and 9.17 grandchildren, compared with 3.34 and 7.31 for couples composed of eighth or higher cousins.

A similar ratio for couples between 1924 and 1949 was spotted.

Back then the only birth control available was putting pebbles in the uterus or rapping the penis in waxed paper. How does that affect your theory?

Someone done stoled my wheels.

Now Cletus, why did ya haf to park next to my parents?
Now, Now, Hun, they're my parents too...

the moving to west virginia part is a deal breaker

Some folk'll never eat a skunk
But then again, some folk'll
Like Cle-tus the slack-jawed yokel

oukewldave: Danger Avoid Death: Marrying a distant relative could mean a larger family, according to Icelandic researchers who studied their nation's genetic record

Yeah, it could also have something to do with living in a place that's cold as fark with nothing to do but fark.

You fail at Geography

Damn. Did they move Iceland into the tropics when I wasn't looking? I hate it when that happens.

The Science journal study found third and fourth cousin couples had more children than those more distantly related.

Wait a sec. They're saying that in Iceland, there are people who are more distantly related than 4th cousins?

Why wouldn't the West Virginian marry a virgin?

Heck, if she warn't good enough for her kin...

Danger Avoid Death: oukewldave: Danger Avoid Death: Marrying a distant relative could mean a larger family, according to Icelandic researchers who studied their nation's genetic record

Yeah, it could also have something to do with living in a place that's cold as fark with nothing to do but fark.

You fail at Geography

Damn. Did they move Iceland into the tropics when I wasn't looking? I hate it when that happens.

Its an oxymoron, Iceland and Greenland are opposites of their names, Greenland is a frozen wasteland and Iceland resembles Scotland all green and grassy and stuff.

Havin' mo' kids 'cause der ain't no sex like cousin sex!

Like F.D.R. and Elanor ??!!!

/They were First cousins.

Listen up dumb-ass subby - Cousin marriage is illegal in WV. It is legal in Virginia - start picking on them.

I'm from West Virginia and this thread.........


Seriously, go f*ck yourself subby.

AtomicBurrito: Danger Avoid Death: oukewldave: Danger Avoid Death: Marrying a distant relative could mean a larger family, according to Icelandic researchers who studied their nation's genetic record

Yeah, it could also have something to do with living in a place that's cold as fark with nothing to do but fark.

You fail at Geography

Damn. Did they move Iceland into the tropics when I wasn't looking? I hate it when that happens.

Its an oxymoron, Iceland and Greenland are opposites of their names, Greenland is a frozen wasteland and Iceland resembles Scotland all green and grassy and stuff.

Are you trying to prove my point or make your own? Don't try and convince me a place is warm by comparing it to some other cold as fark place.

/I should note that I'm from LA and anything that gets below 50 degrees is cold as fark.
//laugh all you want, but how many of you eskimos can wear shorts almost all year long?

Subby is confusing Virginia with West Virginia.

My family is from Virgina and yes, they do marry distant relatives there; my aunt married our fourth cousin and had four kids (all but one has serious physical and/or mental problems). Take a look at this family tree and look up the Stinson name; it doesn't exactly..... branch.

jmr61: I'm from West Virginia and this thread.........


Seriously, go f*ck yourself subby.
This pic is my favorite girl Sara. She and I are close. And Homeschooled ya'll hey ma!

So people over there don't have family trees so much as family tumble weeds?

FTFA: those who share great-great grandparents had on average 4.04 children.

That .04 was the extra foot sticking out of Buster's head.

Dick_Hertz: Like F.D.R. and Elanor ??!!!

/They were First cousins.

...on March 17, 1905, Roosevelt married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, his fifth cousin, once removed...

If you get to 5th cousin, once removed, it's reset to first again?

Meepazoid, I now appreciate my granny's obsession with genealogy. If someone was related to anyone else in any manner, she threw a big fit and called incest shenanigans.

Said it was the modern way.

Danger Avoid Death: (6:22:15) oukewldave: Danger Avoid Death: Marrying a distant relative could mean a larger family, according to Icelandic researchers who studied their nation's genetic record

Yeah, it could also have something to do with living in a place that's cold as fark with nothing to do but fark.

You fail at Geography

Damn. Did they move Iceland into the tropics when I wasn't looking? I hate it when that happens.

I can't stand it. Let me help with these inbreds. According to Britannica Online, Iceland only started to be settled in 874 AD, and the current population is around 302,000. So,yeah, everybody's cousins to some degree. For a retard-friendly map, here ya go. Happy geography!

I recently discovered that a guy I dated in high school is my fourth cousin. No kids, but there's at least one point in the last 200 years where I have the same grandparents on both sides. Stuff like that's been happening in my family tree since Jamestown.

SquirrelHill: A similar ratio for couples between 1924 and 1949 was spotted.

Back then the only birth control available was putting pebbles in the uterus or rapping the penis in waxed paper. How does that affect your theory?

First, it was mostly a joke. Second, latex condoms have been available since the early 1900s.

Sorry, here's a better picture of the family I mentioned:

Click here (no pop) and take a look at the parents, then click on the dad's name for a gander at his parents, too.

My grandpa on moms side was rather attractive(picture a taller version of James Dean) and rather fertile. He had at LEAST 10 kids, that we know of, with other women before he married grandma and after he divorced her(after his kids with her where grown), and yes his marriage to grandma was literally a shotgun one.....

Anyways I once accidentally boned my mom's younger half sister not knowing... Well I was traveling in Arkansas at the time so at least its not considered weird there, right?

If you're dumb enough to marry your cousin, then you're dumb enough to squeeze out too many kids. There's the correlation. No biology involved.

onomatopoeon:
dare you start a farkism?? well do ya.Heck I double dog-dare ya
jmr61

onomatopoeon: Danger Avoid Death: (6:22:15) oukewldave: Danger Avoid Death: Marrying a distant relative could mean a larger family, according to Icelandic researchers who studied their nation's genetic record

Yeah, it could also have something to do with living in a place that's cold as fark with nothing to do but fark.

You fail at Geography

Damn. Did they move Iceland into the tropics when I wasn't looking? I hate it when that happens.

I can't stand it. Let me help with these inbreds. According to Britannica Online, Iceland only started to be settled in 874 AD, and the current population is around 302,000. So,yeah, everybody's cousins to some degree. For a retard-friendly map, here ya go. Happy geography!

Sarcasm is lost on some people.

/must be the cold weather.

Oldiron_79:
Anyways I once accidentally boned my mom's younger half sister not knowing... Well I was traveling in Arkansas at the time so at least its not considered weird there, right?

You too? Damn she gets around. Does she still do that nasty thing with her peg leg.....

Basically, if you aint bi-racial, you're probably an incest product on some level.

RustyBulletHole:

You too? Damn she gets around. Does she still do that nasty thing with her peg leg.....

Well played.

Subtle_Canary: Basically, if you aint bi-racial, you're probably an incest product on some level.

Uh, no.

"You wanna go back to thinking I'm your sister?"

Subtle_Canary: Basically, if you aint bi-racial, you're probably an incest product on some level.

I don't know about all that, but if you are like whole, 1/2, or 1/4ths of what ever countries' ancestory your folks where, and not like 1/8ths, 1/16ths, ect. you probably are.

CarcinogenCrunchies: I recently discovered that a guy I dated in high school is my fourth cousin. No kids, but there's at least one point in the last 200 years where I have the same grandparents on both sides. Stuff like that's been happening in my family tree since Jamestown.

Yep, on one branch of mine, too. Cuz they forgot to bring any women on the first boat, IIRC. And then brought only 2 on the second one (the one my ancestor was on - he did not luck out). One of those died. I need to read more about it.

Actually, inbreeding can cause an efflorescence of horrible traits that are then selected against.

I found RTFA interesting, though - it does appear that that the inbreds had less sense, to have so many kids, right up to the line of possibility.

Smarter is correlated with fewer children everywhere in the world (hence the decline in population in certain places like France and Russia and Germany and...Iowa?)

Hey Subby, is WV north or south of London... ya ignant!?

Not one mention of Rudy Giuliani yet?

Everyone knows that there aren't rednecks in West Virginia. Them's hillbillies over yonder - not rednecks.