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What is the oddest argument you have ever overheard...

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 13/12/2018 18:46

My neighbours have been arguing VERY loudly for the past 20 minutes. It's a very cross angry shouting back and forward slamming doors type argument. The source of this row is that he is using the spring tea towels not the winter ones. Shock.

I genuinely didn't know firstly that seasonal tea towels were a thing and secondly that it could cause such a lot of fuss!

Please tell me, the neighbours I considered normal, are not having the oddest argument in the history of the world and that you have heard stranger quarrels than this!

OP posts:
Heatherjayne1972 · 13/12/2018 21:17

Well sorry to burst your bubble op but Tuesday is and will always be orange
( it’s a synthasete thing)

Heatherjayne1972 · 13/12/2018 21:18

Not op. Pp

Skippii · 13/12/2018 21:18

Tuesday is yellow, obviously. Wednesday is red, Thursday dark blue, Friday light blue, weekend (and holidays) green, Monday orange

ScreamingValenta · 13/12/2018 21:19

Tuesday is a sort of dark bronze colour. Similar to Thursday but without the bluish tints.

RNBrie · 13/12/2018 21:20

Years ago i overheard a couple having a stand up row in John Lewis about whether or not to put a soup tureen on their wedding list. She wanted it because it matched the other crockery and he didn't want it because they would never use it. He kept saying that they never ate soup and she was saying that they'd be more likely to if they had a tureen and that soup was really good for you. It was ace

Inniu · 13/12/2018 21:20

When my twin daughters were 4 they argued over one taking the others imaginary pony.

fadehead · 13/12/2018 21:21

The one and only argument I’ve ever had with my best friend was over whether the things on the rocks were anemones or amenomes. We were 11 Grin

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 13/12/2018 21:22

DW and I had a row about whether childbirth was easier than rock climbing, or rather what technical grade it should be. I reckoned it looked like HVS5a, say FB Direct Stanage at a minimum, but she thought it was about VS 4a, like one of the big slabs in the Carnedds.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 13/12/2018 21:23

It didn't half confuse the midwives I can tell you.

SoMuchToBits · 13/12/2018 21:32

No, no, Tuesday is a pinky-red!

Witchend · 13/12/2018 21:33

Not an argument but the oddest one liner.
"She's so inconsiderate. She's only gone and died"
Confused
Delivered in an unemotional voice, while she ate chips. No reaction from the people with her.

MsMightyTitanAndHerTroubadours · 13/12/2018 21:36

ds and dd once had a vicious argument about God/Nuns/Religion vs Science /Space/Plants

she'd have been about 6 and he'd have been about 9.

Their references were StarWars and the Sound of Music. Maria, the Nazis and the MotherSuperior vs Yoda and Darth and Obi Wan.

That was the day I banned ALL conversation at the breakfast table. FOREVER.

Shirleyphallus · 13/12/2018 21:37

I overheard a row once about whether you’d be more disappointed if a present came in a big or small box

MsMightyTitanAndHerTroubadours · 13/12/2018 21:37

**Plants, should obviously be PLANETS, no one wants David Bellamy at the breakfast table.

Pidgeot · 13/12/2018 21:54

In my old workplace years ago, the ex wife of the boss stormed in, went into his office we could hear murmured shouting, then suddenly.

I DON'T WANT THE FUCKING SPATULAS YOU FUCKING ARSEHOLE.

She then ran out, ran back in with a box of a ridiculous amount of plastic cooking spatulas, spilt thrm onto the floor and left Confused

He went after her yelling about how she had to keep them and she was being disrespectful to him and them.

Most bizarre argument I've ever witnessed!

SneakyGremlinsBrokeTheSleigh · 13/12/2018 22:01

Oh, I have different colour socks - one is Tuesday, (red) one Wednesday (blue) I thought it was something like that once.

I overheard a great argument the other night - well, what I heard loudest was "IT WASN'T EVEN MY AIR FRESHENER" Grin

weebarra · 13/12/2018 22:05

Tuesday - yellow

NoIsACompleteAnswerSometimes · 13/12/2018 22:08

My neighbours across the road (years ago) were having a blazing row outside once. I was reversing onto my driveway ( slowly and with the window open so I could listen!) and reversed into the garage door!

SlipperyLizard · 13/12/2018 22:08

I once overheard colleagues (I was working at directory enquires at the time) debating whether a bookmaker was someone who made books or someone who took bets.

I didn’t have the energy to intervene, even at age 20!

MrsChopper · 13/12/2018 22:20

DP and I caught the last bus home a few years ago. An older couple was sitting near the front. They had both clearly enjoyed a few bevvies that night. They had a sort of muffled argument. After a few seconds of silence the woman said, loudly 'You're a c*. Just like your mother!' Grin

Unfortunately I never did find out what they argued about.

SpamChaudFroid · 13/12/2018 22:34

Tuesday's yellow.

DustyMaiden · 13/12/2018 22:41

Green, Tuesday is green. Wednesday is orange.

BabySharkAteMyHamster · 13/12/2018 22:47

It's not a mushroom. It's a penis.

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Willyoubuymeahouseofgold · 13/12/2018 22:52

Tuesday=orange
Wednesday=purple
Thursday= navy blue
Friday = yellow
Saturday = red
Sunday = grey
Monday= light brown

Ahardmanisgoodtofind · 13/12/2018 23:09

Monday ; blue/grey
Tuesday; orange
Wednesday: swampy green
Thursday: deep purple
Friday; turquoise
Saturday; yellow
Sunday:red

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