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		"Dear Prudence: My wife and I came from the same sperm donor. What do we do?" (slate.com)		186
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GreenAdder		2013-02-20 11:54:03 PM

Do you mean after you've run around in circles screaming for an hour?

GAT_00		2013-02-20 11:59:35 PM

This did not farking happen. But thanks for another dose of manufactured tabloid bullshiat.

namatad		2013-02-21 12:02:39 AM

GAT_00: This did not farking happen. But thanks for another dose of manufactured tabloid bullshiat.

THIS

but in case this happens to you,
1) kill your children, QUICKLY - they are the spawn of the devil and will destroy the world
2) after they are dead, mail all you cash to me
3) kill your self and your spouse, given that you are both clearly too stupid to live

/if only god had made DNA tests you could use before having crotch spawn to confirm that you are not twins.

postnobills		2013-02-21 12:12:46 AM

Meh. My parents are related - not quite this closely but close enough to have the same last name. The extended family considered each of them unmarriageable so why not kill two birds with one stone and marry them off to each other? The only condition was they weren't supposed to have kids.

Oops.

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2013-02-21 12:14:22 AM

Start saving for little Goober's banjo lessons

Darth_Lukecash		2013-02-21 12:28:23 AM

postnobills: Meh. My parents are related - not quite this closely but close enough to have the same last name. The extended family considered each of them unmarriageable so why not kill two birds with one stone and marry them off to each other? The only condition was they weren't supposed to have kids.

Oops.

Roosevelt?

mraudacia		2013-02-21 12:47:29 AM

adopt... your not meant to breed, and keep it a secret so you dont lose any social status.

gweilo8888		2013-02-21 12:47:35 AM

Dear Editor: I couldn't get a real job as a real journalist. Will you give me a job as a pretend journalist who writes outrageous "reader letters" to themselves, and then "answers" them to fill column inches? Love, every "advice" columnist ever.

Uchiha_Cycliste		2013-02-21 12:47:53 AM

postnobills		2013-02-21 12:48:08 AM

Darth_Lukecash: postnobills: Meh. My parents are related - not quite this closely but close enough to have the same last name. The extended family considered each of them unmarriageable so why not kill two birds with one stone and marry them off to each other? The only condition was they weren't supposed to have kids.

Oops.

Roosevelt?

Nope.

If you do the research, this kind of thing is actually far more common than most of us would like to believe. In the west it simply isn't talked about, but in some cultures second or even first cousins are considered the best candidates for marriage. In my case, so far I've been pretty healthy but the genetic counselor did suggest that I shouldn't try to have kids myself.

mikaloyd		2013-02-21 12:48:23 AM

yeeeesh

great_tigers		2013-02-21 12:49:44 AM

Incest, the game the whole family can play.

Christian Bale		2013-02-21 12:50:08 AM

GAT_00: This did not farking happen. But thanks for another dose of manufactured tabloid bullshiat.

Oh come on it's as true as anything on Dear Prudie.

gweilo8888		2013-02-21 12:50:26 AM

postnobills: If you do the research, this kind of thing is actually far more common than most of us would like to believe. In the west it simply isn't talked about, but in some cultures second or even first cousins are considered the best candidates for marriage. In my case, so far I've been pretty healthy but the genetic counselor did suggest that I shouldn't try to have kids with my ~~first cousin~~ family-arranged partner myself.

FTFY?

AverageAmericanGuy		2013-02-21 12:50:26 AM

This is a seminal question about the nature of assisted reproduction

Uh-huh.

Sqrxz		2013-02-21 12:50:32 AM

"This is a seminal question..."

Best troll EVAR. Oh wait, it was her column? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Harry_Seldon		2013-02-21 12:51:34 AM

GAT_00: This did not farking happen. But thanks for another dose of manufactured tabloid bullshiat.

That was my initial impression, also.

Harry_Seldon		2013-02-21 12:52:30 AM

postnobills		2013-02-21 12:56:27 AM

gweilo8888: postnobills: If you do the research, this kind of thing is actually far more common than most of us would like to believe. In the west it simply isn't talked about, but in some cultures second or even first cousins are considered the best candidates for marriage. In my case, so far I've been pretty healthy but the genetic counselor did suggest that I shouldn't try to have kids with my first cousin family-arranged partner myself.

FTFY?

Um, no.

On the other hand, whenever I start to get the "why won't you settle down with a nice girl?" lecture from my mother, I pretty much always win the argument.

postnobills		2013-02-21 12:57:31 AM

Harry_Seldon: postnobills: Meh. My parents are related - not quite this closely but close enough to have the same last name. The extended family considered each of them unmarriageable so why not kill two birds with one stone and marry them off to each other? The only condition was they weren't supposed to have kids.

Oops.

Do you have any extra nipples?

Not nipples, no.

tinfoil-hat maggie		2013-02-21 12:57:54 AM

If stuff like this didn't happen where would new advice columnist come from?

zez		2013-02-21 12:58:13 AM

I'm pretty sure that she made up the article, but why couldn't it happen? More and more females are cutting out the middleman and going straight to the source and that source has vials all over the area.

UsikFark		2013-02-21 12:58:13 AM

That's one hell of a way to describe a 'successful' three way.

Omnivorous		2013-02-21 12:58:19 AM

Maximum Prudence trolling.

Let's figure the odds on this happening (1: 1,000,000)
And the odds on a pair of morans writing to Prudy (1: 1,000,000)

/Being kind with the statistical correlation

jsf4646		2013-02-21 12:58:29 AM

Move to Arkansas?

AverageAmericanGuy		2013-02-21 12:58:53 AM

Can get you a nipple.

mjjt		2013-02-21 12:59:00 AM

He just doesn't understand how it works

Link (second clip)

lordargent		2013-02-21 12:59:06 AM

Was the doner a Beatle?

Here come old flat top.
He come grooving up slowly.
He got joo joo eyeball.
He one holy roller.
He got hair down to his knee.
Got to be a joker he just do what you please.

He wear no shoe shine.
He got toe jam football.
He got monkey finger.
He shoot Coca-Cola.
He say I know you, you know me.
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.
Come together right now over me.

Jument		2013-02-21 12:59:14 AM

1) Ew!
2) Sell the rights to your story to the Lifetime Network.
3) Profit!

Candygram for Mongo		2013-02-21 12:59:32 AM

Either move to West Virginia or do anal.

Maggie_Luna		2013-02-21 12:59:46 AM

Family tree?

Do the needful		2013-02-21 12:59:59 AM

FNG		2013-02-21 01:00:29 AM

Good Lord. Aren't we done with this "Dear Prudence" crap yet? It's like wrestling meets Dear Penthouse. Give it up, and please just stop.

MacEnvy		2013-02-21 01:01:30 AM

postnobills		2013-02-21 01:02:34 AM

Maggie_Luna: postnobills: Meh. My parents are related - not quite this closely but close enough to have the same last name. The extended family considered each of them unmarriageable so why not kill two birds with one stone and marry them off to each other? The only condition was they weren't supposed to have kids.

Oops.

[www.genealogyintime.com image 500x385]

Family tree?

Not even close. My point is there are plenty of people out there with trees like that who aren't even royalty.

UsikFark		2013-02-21 01:03:13 AM

FNG: Good Lord. Aren't we done with this "Dear Prudence" crap yet? It's like wrestling meets Dear Penthouse. Give it up, and please just stop.

They should go on Jerry Springer, he's like... both.

James F. Campbell		2013-02-21 01:03:13 AM

It's not terribly surprising that people are intensely sexually attracted to others who share similar genes.

Maggie_Luna		2013-02-21 01:03:31 AM

FNG: Good Lord. Aren't we done with this "Dear Prudence" crap yet? It's like wrestling meets Dear Penthouse. Give it up, and please just stop.

It liket to read the agony columns. It makes me feel better about myself or like a soap opera, watch the train wreck presented but it doesn't take forever! More importantly you can read other people's comments and deride humanity/agree/feel superior.

Tellurium		2013-02-21 01:03:40 AM

Come out to play?

GreatGlavinsGhost		2013-02-21 01:04:52 AM

Best part of the "article" was the video of her appearance on Colbert.

blottoman		2013-02-21 01:05:24 AM

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Start saving for little Goober's banjo lessons

www.vanrozeboom.com

KopiLuwaked		2013-02-21 01:06:44 AM

jsf4646: Move to Arkansas?

Sorry but here in Arkansas, they are still considered normies. Now if both parents are the same and they have a couple leashed waterheads with webbed feet, then you have a "Wal-Mart sled team" which is pretty common around these parts.

karmaceutical		2013-02-21 01:07:22 AM

trolled in the prudies...

Tiberius Gracchus		2013-02-21 01:08:50 AM

Maggie_Luna: postnobills: Meh. My parents are related - not quite this closely but close enough to have the same last name. The extended family considered each of them unmarriageable so why not kill two birds with one stone and marry them off to each other? The only condition was they weren't supposed to have kids.

Oops.

[www.genealogyintime.com image 500x385]

Family tree?

... Are you one of my students? I just lectured my class about poor Charles II of Spain's family tree.

Bronzemom		2013-02-21 01:08:56 AM

meh--I have a set of great grandparents who were first cousins.
yeah, from Kentucky, why do you ask?

LordOfThePings		2013-02-21 01:09:15 AM

ng2810		2013-02-21 01:09:46 AM

Why are there so many people calling this fake? It may be extremely bizarre and disturbing, yes, but it could happen!

I just discovered I have a brother who is around my age. Dad farked a hooker when he came to the US, and she became pregnant. Mom and Dad nearly broke up because of it, but they instead paid her to keep her trap shut and tried to keep him a secret. Once I became an adult and had access to our family financial records, I found out.

He is a sailor in the US Navy and frequents the same areas as me when in San Diego. My dad is a Navy veteran and I am at the Naval base all the time. We could have easily met up sometime before I found out he was my brother.

I also know of people who found long-lost siblings by meeting them at parties. It really isn't unusual for siblings raised apart and who have no knowledge of each other to become attracted to one another.

Maggie_Luna		2013-02-21 01:10:37 AM

postnobills: Maggie_Luna: postnobills: Meh. My parents are related - not quite this closely but close enough to have the same last name. The extended family considered each of them unmarriageable so why not kill two birds with one stone and marry them off to each other? The only condition was they weren't supposed to have kids.

Oops.

[www.genealogyintime.com image 500x385]

Family tree?

Not even close. My point is there are plenty of people out there with trees like that who aren't even royalty.

Most people ain't marrying their siblings any more thought. Although a prime example for pro-siblinghood is Cleopatra, she was smart, well spoken, and seduced two of the most powerful men in the world while having her kingdom (just ignore the whole suicide, cowardice, and defeat thing). Cousin marriage is common still in several parts of the world, problems become more susceptible after several generations.
One of my grandparents were cousins and it's a family shame that my uncle is married to his (first) cousin *(because he um seems to like family which is grody).

My brother is genetically my 'half'-brother; is we *shudder* procreated I sincerely doubt there would issues but it's more likely to happen to due to similar genes that are problematic.

Rising_Zan_Samurai_Gunman		2013-02-21 01:11:26 AM

So they're half-siblings. As long as their mother's weren't related their kids would likely be fine (and they are - they have three). The main concern would be if the father had some genetic disease or was a carrier of one as they would have an increased risk of having kids with the disease.

It may seem gross, but they should just continue as they are if they're happy.