Cousins do that...

I think we don't need to know more about that, Pip...

Pip's "cousins do that" face is adorable!

Cousin?....Cousin!?....Cousin!!!? That dude is a freaking wolf, man! How in the hell does that even work!?

And Pip needs to stop watching Jerry Springer.

If they can make a movie about the subject that stars Elvis, I'mma go ahead and say it aint that big a deal.

Also:

Pip is being weird again.

Love Kat's expression - I know that eyes don't work this way, but it's so amusing.

Today, Kat learnt something about Pip that she could have happily spent a lifetime not knowing.

Oh, Pip's still in the denial stage.
Don't worry though, he's (supposedly) Scottish; he'll snap into an unquenchable, bloodthirsty anger, obliterating all that stands before him in a raging river of fury.

Now would be a good time for Kat to walk away from all this.

Really really fast.

I wonder if those "good time gloria" pics are still around. Now's a good time to make them viral. And if pip's so fucking deep in denial, let him burn with hilary.

vevans0009 wrote:Cousin?....Cousin!?....Cousin!!!? That dude is a freaking wolf, man! How in the hell does that even work!?

He was adopted?

Moonman wrote:Also:

Typical Pip, but if I may be so bold as to suggest an alternate version.

extraintelligence wrote:Don't worry though, he's (supposedly) Scottish....

Actually, I think he's Egyptian. As you and several others have noted, he's in de Nile.

not being funny, but cousins do do that. cousins can marry and have kids and everything fine. it's siblings that shouldn't and have legal restrictions on it. inter-marriage between cousins is actually a good thing for the genepool because of something called the Founder's Effect. It helps beneficial mutations gets established.

Kat is such a prude!

*looks up 'denial' and 'ignorance' in the dictionary*

*finds a picture of Pip beneath both*

Where the hell did you grow up, Pip?

My Kat is rather 'prominent' in this weeks strip.

I almost didn't notice Pip being a tool.

PennyR wrote:not being funny, but cousins do do that. cousins can marry and have kids and everything fine. it's siblings that shouldn't and have legal restrictions on it. inter-marriage between cousins is actually a good thing for the genepool because of something called the Founder's Effect. It helps beneficial mutations gets established.

Kat is such a prude!

Legality and cultural acceptance vary massively from country to country and region to region. And those regions where it is not the norm tend to look at those where it is with extreme suspicion and distaste.

The Founder's Effect may benefit the species as a whole if the species has plenty of alternate non-cousin breeding members, but for the majority of the offspring of such unions it's a lot less pleasant. That which establishes/magnifies/protects beneficial mutations also (by exactly the same mechanisms) enhances the odds of active negative mutations in a somewhat lesser, but still significant, manner to the "six-toed one-eyed hillbilly" sibling offspring effect.

TheGreatHibiki wrote:My Kat is rather 'prominent' in this weeks strip.

Is there a reason kats cans are so prominent here? Not that I really mind ,it just seems...out of place here or like its being forced.

Probably because she arched her back.

I miss Kat's norks...

CyberCorn Entropic wrote:
Typical Pip, but if I may be so bold as to suggest an alternate version.

I chose that particular pose because it so clearly was in reference to the meme that inspired it:



I actually was considering taking Kat out of the picture entirely for that reason. Kept it cause...dat expression!

not_cenaris wrote:Probably because she arched her back.

I miss Kat's norks...

She obviously stopped stuffing tissue in her bra...

Moonman wrote:I chose that particular pose because it so clearly was in reference to the meme that inspired it:



I actually was considering taking Kat out of the picture entirely for that reason. Kept it cause...dat expression!

Ah. Sorry, my mistake then. I'm ignorant of most memes anyway.

EmfinnFZ wrote:

PennyR wrote:not being funny, but cousins do do that. cousins can marry and have kids and everything fine. it's siblings that shouldn't and have legal restrictions on it. inter-marriage between cousins is actually a good thing for the genepool because of something called the Founder's Effect. It helps beneficial mutations gets established.

Kat is such a prude!

Legality and cultural acceptance vary massively from country to country and region to region. And those regions where it is not the norm tend to look at those where it is with extreme suspicion and distaste.

The Founder's Effect may benefit the species as a whole if the species has plenty of alternate non-cousin breeding members, but for the majority of the offspring of such unions it's a lot less pleasant. That which establishes/magnifies/protects beneficial mutations also (by exactly the same mechanisms) enhances the odds of active negative mutations in a somewhat lesser, but still significant, manner to the "six-toed one-eyed hillbilly" sibling offspring effect.

Marrying between parents in the long term (time span of generation) reduces variety between genes. Nobles in the past were all related in some ways, for example, and some genetical illnesses were typical of nobles due to this.

By the way, having a relationship with your cousin can be seen as good or bad independently. Is only a problem of morale.