# Questions...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954 "2010-12-21T14:36:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KevinShi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@KevinShi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KevinShi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/1 "2010-12-21T14:36:34Z")
okie dokey these are the top 3 questions i have in my life so far if anyone would be kind enough to answer them… thanks xD 1. ok so my moms brothers daughter had a kid which means im an uncle? (according to my mum) 2. Why am i/other people intellectual whores?([laddertheory.com](http://laddertheory.com) if you dont understand what i mean) 3. Hulk + Entire U.S army + U.S Citizens with guns vs Blade + Chinese Fire Breathing Dragons x10 + Entire Chinese army (who wins?) What are your top 3? (on an unrelated note, im getting my username changed to KevinShi WOOOT!) ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/2 "2010-12-21T14:47:21Z")
> [@T1r3d@fTh1sCr@p](#): > > okie dokey these are the top 3 questions i have in my life so far if anyone would be kind enough to answer them.. thanks xD > > 1. ok so my moms brothers daughter had a kid which means im an uncle? (according to my mum) Is it possible your mother’s brother is in fact your mother’s son? Cos that would make you an uncle. ---
**Author:** ![KevinShi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@KevinShi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KevinShi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/3 "2010-12-21T14:51:42Z")
no im chinese. i call family friends/absolute strangers i dont know aunty and uncle or brother or sister etc etc. thats just how things work. its like the polite form. but yeah i was just wondering the western equivalency ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/4 "2010-12-21T14:52:23Z")
Assuming no incestuous relations, your mother’s brother’s daughter is your [first] cousin. Your cousin’s child is your “[first cousin once removed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin)” but in common usage would still be called “cousin”. ---
**Author:** ![KevinShi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@KevinShi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KevinShi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/5 "2010-12-21T14:55:31Z")
ahh. sweet. thanks gyrate. anyone willing to tackle q2 or the more fun question q3? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/6 "2010-12-21T15:47:04Z")
I think you’re going to have to give us a lot more context for Q2. Q3 - are we talking about everyone just running straight at each other screaming on a big empty plain or what? What weaponry is allowed? How much damage can a dragon take? Too many variables… ---
**Author:** ![KevinShi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@KevinShi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KevinShi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/7 "2010-12-21T15:50:44Z")
Yeah i didn’t have high hopes for q2 and i ceebs explaining. I’ll get back to you on q3 though. im thinking chinese army take us, 10 dragons take hulk and blade takes the citizens. and no for the people who play COD:black ops just a huuuuuuuuuuuuge expansion of nuketown. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/8 "2010-12-21T15:51:58Z")
No there’s not (too many variables). Unless the dragon can go immaterial, the side with the Hulk wins. The armies are cannon fodder. Blade, too. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/9 "2010-12-21T15:55:08Z")
Q3 – I need clarification. Which side gets the Fellowship of the Ring and which one gets the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/10 "2010-12-21T16:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > (on an unrelated note, im getting my username changed to KevinShi WOOOT!) Since it already has changed, what was it? And the ladder theory guy may be an intellectual whore, but it gets him attention. I’m pretty sure there have been threads on the topic before. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/11 "2010-12-21T16:15:16Z")
Cousin’s kids (I think that’s what you’re saying) are always niece/nephew in Asian cultures. Just the way it works. Thank god, or I as an only child would have no nieces or nephews. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/12 "2010-12-21T21:49:23Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Since (the OP’s user name) already has changed, what was it? **T1r3d@fTh1sCr@p**. It’s preserved in the quote to which **sandra\_nz** responds in Post #2. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions/564954/13 "2010-12-21T22:36:29Z")
The ladder theory guy needs to learn English. His use of the words “intellectual whore” is meaningless, as it does not appear to actually encompass the meanings of the words “intellect” and “whore.” AFAICT, it’s his phrase for people who subscribe to his theory and use it to get sex, people who subscribe to his theory and believe it’s why they don’t get sex, people who don’t subscribe to his theory but get sex through the mechanism it describes, and people who don’t subscribe to his theory and aren’t getting sex but are trying very hard to get sex through methods whose failure is predicted by his theory. in other words, everyone. As for the question “why are people intellectual whores?” – with that definition, it’s impossible not to be.