Its actually higher, all humans share 99.9% of their DNA and first cousins share 99.95%. This girl and I share 99.903125%
This all would skeeve me just a touch more, if not for the fact that I have some really hot cousins too. Would never touch any of them, as they’re first cousins, but they sure are nice to look at.
Not necessarily. My cousin Laura is the daughter of my mother’s brother. However, Laura’s cousin David is the son of Michelle, who’s Laura’s mother’s sister. Since David and I have no known ancestors in common, he and I are not cousins.
Like almost everyone, I have charming cousins, but…eww…
About 10 years ago I was hanging out late one drunken night with three close friends, and it transpired that I was the only one in the room who had *not *slept with a first cousin. :eek:
We need an :I’d hit it: smiley. 
My first cousin is very attractive. I’d never date her, not only because she’s my cousin but because she’s an extremely girly ditz who constantly peppers her speech with the word “like” and screeches loudly at pretty much any prompting. I hate all girls like that, even if they are hot.
Just for the record, I would like to point out that nobody in the state of West Virginia has participated in this thread!!!
How do you know that?
Lute Skywatcher - In a tavern far, far away
Anaamika - City that always sleeps
Sarah Woodruff -
duffer - the gloaming
mr bus guy - living high on the hog
Lord Ashtar - Blackwater Park
Ghanima - Earth
Harimad-sol - Under a blanket
emekthian -
You might be a redneck if:
Your favorite place to score chicks is the annual family reunion.
:Looks longingly at June 11th date that’s circled on wall calendar:
Hey, Facebook! My least-favorite online addiction. Is there a Straight Dope Facebook group? Hmm…
Seriously, do you really think it’s gross to go out with a 4th cousin? Would it be socially unacceptable to most Americans? Just curious…
I don’t see anything wrong with it. Plus, who is going to know if you don’t tell them?
I don’t think its gross. The only thing that would throw me is the fact that we have the same last name. Either way, i’m not going out with her she lives 120 miles away.
Nah, she’s just so used to hooking people up she had just forgotten momentarily that they were first cousins. She went on autopilot, so to speak.
Practically every human culture has an incest taboo – but in many, marrying a first cousin is not considered incestuous. In Iraq it’s common, sometimes practically obligatory. Reinforces family ties, which they consider very important.
If she’s as much fun IRL as she looks in that picture, 120 miles shouldn’t be a deal-breaker, IMO. Same last name? Meh. Less time spent changing licenses and such, and monogrammed towels are a guaranteed match! 
Eh, virtually every girl I ask out says no, and I don’t want to ask out a woman that I met by emailing about how we are related.
beergeek279, I’m a West Virginia native weighing in, but just to correct someone’s math.
Malacandra, we all have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great grandparents, and 32 great-great-great grandparents, not 60 as you state.
She/he probably meant we have 2 seperate parents, 4 seperate grandparents, 8 seperate great grandparents, 16 seperate great great grandparents and 30 seperate great great great grandparents who are not the same which adds up to 60 relatives.
Yeah, 120 miles is nothing. If she were my cousin, I’d ask her out.
That is the wrongest sentence I think I’ve ever typed.