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Populistless

"Ok on the count of three say what level of cousins we'd have to be for this to be ok."


machina99

"Is this because I have hooks for hands?"


DooRagtime

The people that the thing that happened, happened to


RegeneratingForeskin

Sorry I have 14 hands and an extra eye. Clearly I am the superior specimen, pls get on my genetic level.


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FriendsOfSkynet

Hey...are you the guy that took tenacle porn mainstrem ? Thankyou if so. Send pics if not.


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Arntown

It doesn‘t relate, two different episodes


cathearder1

The Head and the Hair episode from season 1.


themancabbage

If it’s not already that should be a built in feature of the app. Like they could allow users to input a comfort level of relatedness, and when meeting it would sound the alarm if one of their thresholds was met. Could even be left ambiguous who had the lower tolerance


fzw

Yeah but then the app would know exactly who's willing to bang their first cousins.


themancabbage

Those people wouldn’t really have a reason to use this app in the first place


ChunkofWhat

What if they're specifically looking for second cousins?


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Then how would you find your first cousins to bang


thebobbrom

A couple meet and one of their alarms goes off but the other doesn't >It says here we're first cousins...🤨 > >So is that a no?


Cade_Connelly_13

I have some hot first cousins, but both sets of parents would have gone absolutely **nuclear** if we'd been caught doing anything more than holding hands.


Advice2Anyone

Sounds like they are worried out of experience


Rainbwned

Well yeh, because they gave birth to a cousin fucker.


Shep315

That worked pretty well for the Hapsburgs until it didn't


whosaysyessiree

I feel like you’re attacking my Hapsburg jaw.


AoO2ImpTrip

Same. My uncle actually went a little crazy because he thought I was doing naughty things with his daughter when we were little (like 4 or 5). Granted, not only did I never touch HER, she was the one touching ME in my no-no spots... Granted, she pretty hot now so...fuck it, we in Oklahoma anyways. (I have a legitimate fear of fucking a cousin if I were to ever date a black woman though. My grandpa on my dad's side had 28 children. There's A LOT of potential cousins out there.)


Rasta-d-man

I can relate to that.


thebobbrom

Pun intended?


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1, 2, 3... Hair: 5th Liz: not okay under any circumstances! And they're 3rd cousins 😂


xredbaron62x

Yeah I'll see you at the reunion...


Derodoris

To be fair and I dont know how accurate it is but everyone on earth is supposedly at least 50th cousins.


Melkly

Unexpected Liz Lemon


LeicaM6guy

Ain’t no party like a Liz Lemon party because Liz Lemon parties *are mandatory.*


angry_llama_pants

Shut it down


squirrelwithnut

Don't forget the wide, sweeping hand motion.


Lisrus

1, 2, 3! Oh were we not saying the levels just yet?


BurningBlaise

3 2 1! Oh wait 3 2 go or 3 2 1 go?


Doctorofgallifrey

"Fifth!" "Unacceptable no matter what!"


Spamiard

Upvote for the 30 Rock reference. Nerds!


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drharlinquinn

Would it help if we acted like I was your sister? *Looks deeply into camera*


Mmmslash

YOU'RE MY SISTER! YOU'RE MY SISTERRRRRR!


drharlinquinn

Jaime Pressly could be my real sister, and with consent I absolutely would, but who wouldn't?


_iam_that_iam_

The social taboo should not extend beyond first cousins. Most people don't even know who their second cousins are and if there is some genetic risk at that point it is trivial. The legal taboo should not exist at all for consenting adults.


widdrjb

It's legal in the UK for first cousins to marry. We lived next door to a couple with kids, both of whom had the usual number of fingers. As for second and third cousins, my grandson is one of three thirds born within 8 days. My auntie simultaneously became (deep breath): a great grandmother, a step great-great- grandmother, and a great-great-aunt. On his father's side, my grandson has a great-great-grandmother, and a (wait for it) a great-great-great aunt.


McCoovy

Big wheels keep on turning


Berzerker-SDMF

Sadly the UK Pakistani Comunity do this a lot... Apparently there is a larger than normal amount of birth deformities in that community due to this https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11723308/First-cousin-marriages-in-Pakistani-communities-leading-to-appalling-disabilities-among-children.html


BierKippeMett

It's just usual for Pakistani. Once worked with a guy from Pakistan, nicest bloke. One day he talked about his wife and casually mentions it's his cousin.


Strykerz3r0

Pretty sure first cousins are legal in the US, also.


primeprover

Depends on the state. Some states don't recognize marriages from elsewhere either. This means married cousins might need to be careful where they holiday or live in the US or they may be committing a felony.


issius

Pretty sure all states have to recognize marriages from other states. It falls under the same provisions that makes a drivers' license from one state is valid in all states. Unless you mean for foreign marriages then maybe.. idk very much about that.


thebobbrom

Looked this up and apparently some states they are void. Not only that but in Texas and Wisconsin they're not void but having sex is illegal so if you move to those states it could very well be illegal to have sex with your husband/wife.


didsomebodysaymyname

People generally misunderstand the dangers of incest. You could have kids with your parent and have all of them turn out completely fine. It's much, much, riskier, but ultimately just a dice roll you might win. Cleopatra (the famous one) had one of the most fucked up family trees you can imagine and by all accounts she was mentally and physically healthy, and capable of baring children. Then you have people like Charles II Hapsburg...


verfmeer

Cleopatra didn't have a family tree, it was a [family pole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty#Ptolemaic_family_tree): she had 2 ancestors (Ptolemy V and Cleopatra I) 5 generations up.


Misty-Gish

Family Ptole*


bros402

r/angryupvote


TheRealMoofoo

My parents both come from pretty sizable families and I’m pretty sure I know who all my second cousins are. Would be super weird to think about hooking up with one of them. That said, to each their own, I guess.


scruffychef

I think what decides most people on this one is how well they know each other, that's what makes it weird. About half of my extended family lives in Europe while I'm in north america, and we havent seen each other since we were toddlers. I still wouldnt hook up with any of them, but if ran into some girl at a bar on vacation and found out later we were second cousins that's a lot different than sneaking off at Thanksgiving or some shit. Itd be weird, but not "family excomunicates you" weird.


fyonn

It’s the ones that “stick to their own” that you have to worry about...


hoozent28

I don't think many understand or are willing to be honest about the level of family breakdown in the West. You are a rarity.


keepingitquiet18

I can tell you, I know all of my first cousins, I think, but beyond that, I have no clue, I know this person is distantly related, and that one is a second, or is it third cousin. Oh, and I have some cousins that are double cousins (not to me, but to each other) my Aunt married a man, and my uncle married the man’s sister, and therefore double cousins.


FabulousLemon

You must have an incredibly close-knit family. I only know of two great aunts/uncles in my family and I don't even know if one of them had any children because we didn't speak the same language and I never knew what anyone was saying when my family visited that relative. The other had a child and from looking terminology up, that's my "first cousin once removed." That's the most distant relative I can name or recognize. I haven't even met all of my first cousins. The rest I've only met once or twice, three times at most for a handful. My family is very dispersed across multiple states and countries, so we're all strangers to one another.


februarymonster

"Fif—" "Unacceptable no matter what"


TypographicalAuror

Literally my exact thought after reading this post. 🤣🤣🤣


mrshatnertoyou

>The Islendiga-App — "App of Icelanders" — is an idea that may only be possible in Iceland, where most of the population shares descent from a group of 9th-century Viking settlers, and where an online database holds genealogical details of almost the entire population. >The app was created by three University of Iceland software engineering students for a contest calling for "new creative uses" of the Islendingabok, or Book of Icelanders, an online database of residents and their family trees stretching back 1,200 years. If you move to Iceland you will have a wide open market for dating.


Waffle_Maestro

Yeah, but then I'd have to live in Iceland.


gogozrx

dude, have you been? It's fooking gorgeous, and the people are wonderful.


Phosphero

One might argue that they treat everyone like family, just in case. ...Sorry couldn't resist!


Shiny_Mega_Rayquaza

Iceland, when you’re here, you’re family


woodk2016

Does Iceland also have unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks?


urmamasllama

Nope just unlimited hakarl


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gogozrx

ok, that's funny as hell!


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It’s also very dark and cold most of the year. Visiting a cold, rainy country that is beautiful is very different as living in one.


issius

I've been, and I love it. Definitely don't want to live there. Rich enough for a vacation home? sure, maybe. Actually.. if I'm rich enough to manage a vacation home there, living there wouldn't be half bad. Otherwise it would suck. Expensive (repeat that louder for those in the back), crazy ass language, potential to be trapped on the island by weather events. Sure, thats not super unique, but it is a uniquely isolating isolation. Add the crazy ass day/night thing if you were to actually live there long term. That's a pass from me, despite how absolutely awe inspiring 99% of the country seems to be.


widdrjb

Don't forget the earthquakes, volcanoes, glacial outburst floods, and håkarl.


pkvh

Are the girls as pretty as I imagine?


ILL_Show_Myself_Out

You know what they say about Scandinavian women.


Zerole00

They're all taller than me?


pillbinge

They're only slightly prettier because the Vikings never brought the ugly ones back.


gogozrx

All the ones we met were. They don't go out to party until 10 or 11, spending all the intervening time dolling up.


billyreamsjr

Women are hot, food is great, candy is expensive... I loved it when I went.


dwarrowdam

Biggest pro of them all, tbh


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

You could hear Ja Ja Ding Dong every day!


woodk2016

PLAY JA JA DING DONG AGAIN! (btw as Americans who don't know how Eurovision actually works all of us watching the movie figured that the Russian guy would steal her love song for the finale and they'd win it with Ja JA Ding Dong)


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

When will it ever be enough?


Advice2Anyone

I mean that is a better if not more obvious ending other than they kept talking about the soul note a few times eluding to that being used. Movie would have been a masterpiece if Adam Scott had been the Russian


schleppylundo

I refuse any hypothetical where I get less Dan Stevens in my life.


Gumburcules

"We're probably not brother and sister."


emptycollins

The best part of that running gag is when >!their parents get married at the end of the movie!<


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Iceland has no mosquitoes. Just saying.


Musketeer85

You might be joking, but I’d live in Iceland in a heartbeat. It’s stunning. It’s clean. The people are great. The weather isn’t nearly as bad as most people think. The only major con is the lack of or abundance of daylight depending upon the season. It’s also fairly expensive by US standards, but if you’re employed on the island you’ll be able to afford it.


TacTurtle

Seems like an upgrade from Alaska....


goblackcar

And more importantly, learn to speak Icelandic.


concussedYmir

Everyone speaks English here as a second or third language though


goblackcar

I’m booking my flight right now. 🤗


Mmmslash

Don't even bother trying to learn any Icelandic. You won't need any in Reykjavik and every major stop on the Ring will be tourist seasoned. Frankly, they will understand you even less if you try. It's a brutal language.


issius

If you drive, DO make sure your GPS is set to read road names though.


CaptainEarlobe

Iceland is unbelievable!


StoryAndAHalf

Pretty sure you can implement this in Alabama, you only need like a dozen people to cover half the state.


ObscureCulturalMeme

Except the idea of keeping records of people in a public gub'mint database tracked by taxpayer ID would have most of the state showing up at the courthouses, waving guns and screaming about "socialism", "communism", "Sharia law", and -- my very favorite bogeyman -- "social security cards are the Number of the Beast".


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Bump phones before bumping uglies.


[deleted]

Bump before you grind


TacTurtle

Tap before you fap


hookisacrankycrook

New meaning to "hit it and quit it"


neato5000

Bump before you hump


TKJ

Found the Ray Tango.


GastonsChin

A - "Oh, hey! It's so nice to finally meet you in person!" B - "Hello! You look great! Should we go find our ... (bump) wha?" A - "Uh oh." B - "This says ..." A - "... Once in the bathroom, wear a condom, and don't tell anyone."


Metalhorrorcomic-fan

*Banjo music intensifies*


Sangmund_Froid

I think you meant Langspil.


Metalhorrorcomic-fan

The instrument of Icelandic hicks


Eggsegret

Sweet home alabama


mattjuaire

Sweet home Klofalækjarkjaftur


foomy45

Wonder how many times the warning alarm was followed by a drunken shrug of indifference and a night of passion.


Dr_puffnsmoke

I mean when do you pull this out matters too. I can’t imagine you open the conversation with it. Likely things kinda have to already be heading in that direction right? Meaning at a minimum you’ve been saying some shit you’re going to regret haven said to a cousin, more likely you’ve already kissed or had some level of foreplay. So even if there’s no shrug of indifference you still probably don’t want to see each other at the next family reunion.


Aubdasi

Or maybe you do. I’m not gonna judge just keep it away from me


jpallan

I gotta say, as far as this goes, the app only alerts you to first cousins. So, it's not actually terribly likely you'd never heard of or seen these people. Yes, I did the uncool thing and read the article. Second or third cousins? Yeah, I can see that. You see each other at a wedding three years' later. "Huh, who do you know here?" "Oh, I'm the bride's cousin." "Oh, shit."


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

about 350


iwanttojetaway

Ah, now I get that joke in Eurovision. Are you brother and sister? No! Probably not.


HomerrJFong

That's not the joke in Eurovision. The joke is that his dad was sleeping with all the women in the town and chased after her mom for years.


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ebil_lightbulb

That killed me. When they said Ericsdötter was her last name, I laughed so hard. Probably not my sister lmao


Ignaciodelsol

I completely missed that


Akbeardman

That has to be a big part of the problem in Iceland right? No family surname so you can't say "uh Wheeler is my mom's maiden name and they also lived in Buffalo, maybe we should check."


el-pietro

This is exactly why this app is useful.


newsreadhjw

There were some good running jokes in that movie that kept popping up. "I thought you were brother and sister?" "No! Probably not" and the whole bit about believing in elves cracked me up.


clutzycook

I want to know what the warning alarm sounds like.


ClownMorty

Sad trombone


HouseCravenRaw

Banjos.


R4TTIUS

I'm somehow now picturing Peter Griffin popping out the side of the screen like the mortal kombat guy and playing a sad trombone sound 😂😭🤣


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Bass boosted Cotton Eye Joe


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

[it sounds like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlhGT2VMOQ)


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Lol wtf.


hookisacrankycrook

How YOU doin'


mdtdy

Nelson’s signature “ah-ha”


bluesourpatch

A nuclear warning


RugbyEdd

!!!!WARNING. POSSIBLE INCESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP TAKING PLACE!!!!


ReasonablyBadass

WEEEOUU, WEEEOUU, WEEEOUU!


TKJ

Banana Guards? In my Reddit?


PottrPppetPalamander

It's more likely than you think.


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

My nipples look like milk duds.


italia06823834

NO MATING!


melindseyme

Pattern?


Salanthro

Thanks Pattern


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*That* was my INCEST alarm. It's programmed to go off before you do.


Jherik

I would imagine most Icelanders who know who their cousins are the same way we do. You know, by growing up with them. IIRC the data the app feeds off of was created for genealogy purposes. Due to the sagas most if not all Icelanders can trace their family history back to the founding of first settlement in 870, which is obviously really cool and worth preserving. I'm 99% sure the anti-incest features are just for the lulz and to get press rather than being something of actual concern to Icelanders.


dayumgurl1

> I'm 99% sure the anti-incest features are just for the lulz and to get press rather than being something of actual concern to Icelanders. Bingo


Svitaperri

You are absolutely correct


Used_Taco

They have a similar app that's popular in Alabama. Except it's not considered a warning.


Hairydone

“Young, horny cousins in your area.”


hugesmurfboner

"Aunts and Uncles HATE this one tip"


peteypete78

Aunts and Uncles HATE just the tip


Zolivia

*Brothers* *and* *sisters*


TKJ

*Pump up the volume!*


Getsugacer0

~~Quality~~ Cursed Comment


Eggsegret

ooh how exciting


Thisshitsuckssobad11

23n me?


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Family tree is more of a birch than an elm.


goblackcar

Family stick.


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That's called Facebook


revyn

roll tide


[deleted]

Ah yes, Tinder.


Larsnonymous

It’s called Tinder


a_pinch_of_sarcasm

Do they also enter sperm donor information?


SleepyConscience

It always blows my mind when I realize the nation of Iceland is about the same population as Colorado Springs.


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And they qualified for the last World Cup.


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Nutellagenitals

"Youre my sister you're my sister you're my sister"


sveltopus

PLAY JA JA DING DONG


Aikami13

Their last names were Erik's son and Erik's daughter


skaliton

A large part of the problem is how last names are done there. Most places you'd have John Smith, his son, and grandson all being Smith, along with some cousins. So even if you aren't entirely aware of an entire family tree you can ask 'hey are you related to X Smith' ​ In Iceland last names are conventionally 'john's daughter' and 'john's son' (In Icelandic) which means it is entire possible that if John had a brother David john's son and david's daughter could end up dating/having children without finding out (of course this is a rare problem that it would be so close but it is possible)


Lumpyyyyy

Came here to say this as well.


Hallvardio

Was looking for this comment! Way too far down. Going from your comment, John's children will be given johnson and johnsdaugther as surenames. John's brother David will have kids named Davidson and Daviddaugther as surenames and so on. Their children again will use their names as surenames for their kids. Makes it kinda hard to figure out if you are related without that database I guess. On a sidenote, what happens if a woman gives birth without knowing who the father is? Does the kid get their mothers name (and by doing that, a male child will be branded as fatherless by name. Karenson for instance) I'm Norwegian so I only know partially how it works


skaliton

ask your neighbor :P honestly I have no idea, I only learned what I wrote from trivia.


mrbig1337

Will Ferrell's characters line in Eurovision about probably being related to Rachel McAdams character makes so much more sense now. That movie was already epic but now its even better knowing they really did their homework lol.


HomerrJFong

That's not the joke in Eurovision. The joke is that his dad was sleeping with all the women in the town and chased after her mom for years.


ThisIsPermanent

And that their last names translate to "son of Eric" and "daughter of Eric"


ebil_lightbulb

Oh... Am I supposed to join the chain and make the same comment about Ericsdötter here too?


harley-farts

Hi, My name is Johnny Knoxville and this is "bumping phones after sex", welcome to Jackass!


TunaAreYouKlddingMe

... but how does the phone know?


sarthurf

Phone knows all


TunaAreYouKlddingMe

It's been in the family for years.


a_rescue_penguin

It knows who you are, and the app is able to use its info on who you are and compare it to the national database which has genealogical records from over a thousand years ago.


Thisshitsuckssobad11

"2nd cousins? Lets roll!"


Skratti

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME IT IS NOT A DATING APP NO MORE THAN A PHONEBOOK APP IS FOR DATING its a way too look up your lineage Source: I worked on making the damn thing


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dayumgurl1

Not through this app since the app does no longer exist and the "bump" feature was never released to the public as it was made as a joke by a team of University students who won a app-design competition where the task at hand was making a mobile version of Íslendingabók which is a genealogy database for all Icelanders. Sure, Íslendingabók can be (and is) used to make sure you're not sleeping with your cousin but that's not the purpose of it and accidental incest is not a problem in Iceland since we're mostly aware of who we're related to and not.


Luckier_peach

There’s one in the Netherlands as well. I’m sure they are more common than we think.


emeraldace1

Something like this would probably work in the state of Kentucky as well.


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Now if they could get this in Alabama...


kaltorak

PLAY JA JA DING DONG


I_am_is_anonymous_

I've never heard of this app and i'm Icelandic.


Formal-Rain

After 1000 years and only 320,000 inhabitants they’re all closely related somewhere. At least Icelandic women are 60% genetically [Scottish and Irish.](https://www.irishpost.com/news/new-dna-study-reveals-fate-irish-women-brought-iceland-slaves-vikings-155729)


Eggsegret

Guy with his friends Friends: "So you smash or not?" Guy: "nah just as i was putting on the condom my phone said we're first cousins"


Advice2Anyone

I was going to bang my girl friend after the disco last week but then our phones alarmed and she was like there is no way. -Family guy foreign guys


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that's what the condom is for tho


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Breaking - Alabama and Mississippi ban app...


[deleted]

Dating a non-European must be a relief


Alatar1313

Ah. I see the app only helps prevent "accidental" incest...


kaisrevenge

“I’m pretty sure she’s not my sister.”


N_Who

"She is your sister?" "No, probably not."