「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Jan 11

TIL that incest is legal in many countries. For example: Brazil, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Mainland China (but incest is illegal in Hong Kong SAR).

https://sh.itjust.works/post/53230066

TIL that incest is legal in many countries. For example: Brazil, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Mainland China (but incest is illegal in Hong Kong SAR). - sh.itjust.works

Also: probably the worse wikipedia page to accidentally send to the family group chat 👀

Show threadBarneyPiccolo

The population of Iceland is so small, they have a special app to consult when 2 people meet, so they can figure out if they are too closely related.

Must make single bars interesting:

“Are you from the South, because your the only Tennessee!”

“Yeah, okay, how do you spell your last name?”

Jan 11 at 5:24pmWeb
Show threadmsfrohJan 12

Doesn’t Iceland still follow the tradition of using the father’s first name followed by “son” or “dottir” for their “last names”?

So, when a Jonson meets a Jonsdottir at a singles bar, they just know that they both have fathers named Jon (hopefully not the same one).

Show threadAllNewTypeFaceJan 12
Also, almost no Icelanders have last names (in the sense of family names). Most have just a patronymic that translates as “son/daughter of (father’s name)” (i.e., Björk’s father was named Guðmundur), which is why references to Icelanders in the news refer to them by given name. As the Icelandic name pool is limited (there’s a naming committee which must approve all new names, and they’re somewhat conservative), the population register also includes people’s nicknames.
Show threadTonavaJan 12
That app thing is apparently not true. Someone did make an app like that but it was never a big thing, some trash news just found out about it and made great headlines out of it
Show threadBarneyPiccoloJan 12
My story is better.