re: Cousin chart explained....for anyone that's confused or even cares.

This. I’ve nearly come to fisticuffs trying to explain this to people. Look at the common ancestor. If the common ancestors are grandparents, then you’re first cousins. If the common ancestor are great grandparents then you’re second cousins and so forth. If your grandparents are my great grandparents then we’re first cousins, once removed.

All i want to know, at what level of cousins can i bang one at the reunion after day drinking?

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What does that make me and my school friend?

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3rd

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AKA the Church Point Paradox

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Where does BawPaw fit in all of this? or the Bruncles?

Dude just stay away from your cousin you sicko

I have a first cousin I definitely WHH when she was a twentysomething. After she got married and popped out a few kids she became morbidly obese. So I for one an glad marrying cousins is socially frowned on.

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Or as they say in Alabama, pool of eligible women.

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Why go across town when you can go across the hall, am I right?

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I had a co-worker tell me yesterday that his first cousin's child would be his second cousin and in turn, would be his own child's third cousin. My own mother tried explaining to me when I was a kid that her first cousin was my second cousin and her first cousin's kids were my second, third and so on.

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But...they were both wrong.

This is a much easier way to explain it, shorthand:

"cousins" are intra-generation

"removed cousins" are inter-generation


So, you and your 1st cousin are...cousins.

You and your 1st cousin's child are...1st cousins, once removed.

Your child and your 1st cousin's child are...2nd cousins.

I didn’t read any of that.

I just came to say, no you can’t have sex with your cousin.