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37 Cousins. What's your record?

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I've only got 2 on my Ma's side. My Da's side, not so sure, there's quite a lot and quite a few of'em I've never really met.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Rocket19


    Jeeeeeez, you people have a lot of cousins!!! Christmas must be a free for all. :P

    I only have 9 in total; 3 on my Dad's side, 6 on my Mum's.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    13 1st cousins, and age-wise I'd be close to the middle. So it's not too bad :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Itwasntme. wrote: »
    I can't tell if you're joking. Say it isn't so :eek:. I kid. Culturally, I am allowed to marry anyone who is not my dad's brother's child or my mom's sister's child.

    In other news, I dreamt about you last night.

    1) That was a joke
    2) You dreamt of Ryu from Street Fighter?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    30 on my Mam's side and 22 on my Dad's. My mother has 52 cousins just from her mother's side and none from her Dad's. The majority on my Mam's family live close by including her cousins and their children


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    2) You dreamt of Ryu from Street Fighter?

    :pac::pac: Yes, exactly. The resemblance is uncanny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 843 ✭✭✭Whatsernamex33


    17 first cousins.


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In or around 80. Between aunts, uncles and first cousins I think the number comes in at about 120. My mum had 9 in her family, my dad had 11.

    Though most of the time I genuinely have no idea. My father's side has more cousins than my mother's, but I'm closer to the latter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Reiketsu


    I have 5 cousins on my Ma's side and 15 on my dads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Something like 50 on my mothers side. 10 on my dad's side.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    0.

    No aunts, no uncles, no cousins. Do I win?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    I don't have clown car vagina relatives.

    5 for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    I think it's 82, somewhere around there. I know a good few second cousins too but I've never counted them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Penny Dreadful


    31 first cousins (7 on my Dad's side 24 on my Mam's). I don't see them that often so I may have left one or two out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    I haven't met any of my cousins in at least 10 years.

    I intend keeping it that way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    8 cousins.

    3 biological and 3 adopted on my mum's side, and then 2 adopted on my dad's side.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    127 first cousins.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    M


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭seenitall


    1 first cousin. That's it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,178 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    26 on my mothers side. 1 on my fathers. Guess which side is Catholic.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Too many to know their names.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    19 first cousins. my grandfather (dads father) married twice after his first wife died so not counting any of those related to his first wife

    people can't be serious with numbers like 80+ first cousins though surely


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭poundapunnet


    Thirty-odd first cousins, close to same again in second cousins and I think they're starting on the third generation now. My parents are both the youngest in their families so some of their older sibling would have teenage/grown up kids by the time we were born.

    My mother's side of the family are reasonable enough, but every time I venture near my dad's side they've multiplied. And they all look alike and there's a few family names used so honestly, all joking aside I've no idea how many of them there are. Bit awkward to ask at this point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,828 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    34 on my da's side and 4 on my ma's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    About 20/25 on my mother's side, probably 50-60 on my father's side. I've never met most of the ones on my father's side.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    Six on my Dad's side, thirteen on my Mum's. Had always thought it was a lot more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭peekachoo


    43 on my mams side. 56 on my dads. :eek:


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    127 first cousins.

    If you're single you're going to need this app:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24304415

    [...] Icelandic people are using technology to make sure genetic similarities do not get too close by using an app called Bump and literally bumping their smartphones together


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    I have zero (that's right 0) first cousins.

    Both my parents were only children. Of course it also means no aunts and uncles. Also as the eldest, I had a very lonely existence in school..with no brothers/sisters (cama a good few years later) or cousins....:(

    Being academically gifted, on all the football teams and popular with the ladies was tough without ever having any 'back up'

    I have 3 second cousins (all 10 -20 years older: 1 lives in Aus-never met, 1 is a pervert and with the conviction to prove it and the other is relatively normal although recently separated but only met him may be twice...not much to say to each other)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Oink wrote: »
    If you're single you're going to need this app:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24304415

    [...] Icelandic people are using technology to make sure genetic similarities do not get too close by using an app called Bump and literally bumping their smartphones together


    I can think of a few parishes that would be very handy in.


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