In a raging argument thread about first cousins fucking - yes, we're talking about Lorraine Newman's favourite beautiful couple - a new village idiot has emerged from the bowels of Digital Spy forums.
Daisy Duke,
This person, along with assorted adolescents sitting with one hand down their crotches, blindly defends the pure and beautiful love shared between Joey and Lauren Branning.
Ne'mind that people have rightly reminded her that first cousins share the same genetic make-up as half-siblings, ne'mind that it's legal. She and her cohorts cite "the Royal Family" as examples of marrying first cousins being acceptable.
Daisy Duke goes onto say she married "a stranger" (really, Daisy? You married a man you didn't know?) and she has one child with asthma, one with eczema and two dead.
Big whoopee. Asthma and eczema are medical conditions which are easily controlled these days, and anyone can suffer, unfortunately, a miscarriage or a stillbirth.
As someone on the forum suggested, Google the Hapsburgs - especially Carlos V, the last Spanish Hapsburg king. He was the child of a man who married his niece, and both of them were products of generations of cousins marrying other cousins. The Hapsburg trademark lantern jaw became terribly distorted. Carlos V was mentally deficient. He couldn't talk, he drooled uncontrollably, he couldn't walk or feed himself and was in nappies until the day he died.
Yet he was King of Spain.
Now, let's look at Queen Victoria.
Oh, she only had one sickly child, scoffs Daisy Duke.
Bitch, learn some history. Google "hemophilia." That's a congenital defect where blood doesn't clot. The defect only affects men, but women are carriers of the disease. Victoria was a carrier. She married her first cousin, whose mother was also a carrier of the disease. Yes, she only had one child who was a hemophiliac, but several of her daughters carried the gene, and as a result, nearly every royal family in Europe had at least one member who was a hemophiliac, the most famous being the Russian prince, Alexis. Two boys in the Spanish Royal family suffered from the disease, as well as several members of the Greek and German Royal families. In fact, so many European royals were infected by Victoria's daughters and granddaughters marrying cousins whose own families had the infection in their genetic make-up, that hemophilia became known as the "Royal disease."
That's only the tip of the iceberg. First cousins who marry are 80% more likely to produce a deformed child or a child with some sort of birth defect than people who marry someone who is no relation at all to them. But, of course, EastEnders doesn't want to promote that idea, not especially when the two "actors" playing such white trash are just so damned "fit."
Really, if you insist on being so ignorant, at least have the decency not to flaunt it.
Daisy Duke,
This person, along with assorted adolescents sitting with one hand down their crotches, blindly defends the pure and beautiful love shared between Joey and Lauren Branning.
Ne'mind that people have rightly reminded her that first cousins share the same genetic make-up as half-siblings, ne'mind that it's legal. She and her cohorts cite "the Royal Family" as examples of marrying first cousins being acceptable.
Daisy Duke goes onto say she married "a stranger" (really, Daisy? You married a man you didn't know?) and she has one child with asthma, one with eczema and two dead.
Big whoopee. Asthma and eczema are medical conditions which are easily controlled these days, and anyone can suffer, unfortunately, a miscarriage or a stillbirth.
As someone on the forum suggested, Google the Hapsburgs - especially Carlos V, the last Spanish Hapsburg king. He was the child of a man who married his niece, and both of them were products of generations of cousins marrying other cousins. The Hapsburg trademark lantern jaw became terribly distorted. Carlos V was mentally deficient. He couldn't talk, he drooled uncontrollably, he couldn't walk or feed himself and was in nappies until the day he died.
Yet he was King of Spain.
Now, let's look at Queen Victoria.
Oh, she only had one sickly child, scoffs Daisy Duke.
Bitch, learn some history. Google "hemophilia." That's a congenital defect where blood doesn't clot. The defect only affects men, but women are carriers of the disease. Victoria was a carrier. She married her first cousin, whose mother was also a carrier of the disease. Yes, she only had one child who was a hemophiliac, but several of her daughters carried the gene, and as a result, nearly every royal family in Europe had at least one member who was a hemophiliac, the most famous being the Russian prince, Alexis. Two boys in the Spanish Royal family suffered from the disease, as well as several members of the Greek and German Royal families. In fact, so many European royals were infected by Victoria's daughters and granddaughters marrying cousins whose own families had the infection in their genetic make-up, that hemophilia became known as the "Royal disease."
That's only the tip of the iceberg. First cousins who marry are 80% more likely to produce a deformed child or a child with some sort of birth defect than people who marry someone who is no relation at all to them. But, of course, EastEnders doesn't want to promote that idea, not especially when the two "actors" playing such white trash are just so damned "fit."
Really, if you insist on being so ignorant, at least have the decency not to flaunt it.
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