What is the dumbest family argument you’ve had?

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Lighthearted thread, but I was wondering what stupid arguments have you ever had with your family?

For me, it’s over a riddle. My parents thought the answer was one thing, I thought another. Both sets were adamant we were correct. It started off lighthearted then descended into full on arguments, diagrams and a bit of shouting! My parents (who are really lovely and supportive and we’re very close) started mocking my intellect somewhat and I got quite affronted and stormed out. It carried on to the next day. Even now, about 20 years later, we do not talk about The Riddle. I still bristle about it! I am absolutely not saying what the riddle is because I Am Not getting into that shit again, but I did just Google it and I was right!

Anyone else?

Had a massive argument with DH over whether dialing codes are alphabetical or not.

Had an argument with DH about the colour of the window sills on the Mishnish Hotel in Tobermory (its one of the coloured buildings in Balamory).
FWIW- every time we've been there we have got vair , very drunk.

Monopoly, we were kids but I'm scarred for life.

This!

My parents and I have a similar, ongoing, argument. A few years we (including DH and our DC) were having a lighthearted conversation about one of my DC doing something silly and a little bit sneaky. Mum said I had no room to talk, at least it what they did wasn't illegal and told everyone about a time when I was 15 and went out drinking with friends when I'd told her I was going to see a play with school. The reality was that I was 18, in the final months of sixth form and the play I was supposed to see was cancelled due to a problem at the theatre. I can't remember why but she didn't really want me to go out that night so I kept quiet about the play not being on and went out anyway. Even if her version of events was true, it was decades ago, not that big a deal in those days and was a one off in the context of a boringly compliant adolescence. However, it's become a BIG DEAL. We both believe we have evidence to show we were correct hers is made up. This has been discussed with old friends who can't remember and/or don't want to get involved. In all other ways we quite like each other and are fairly normal human beings.

Every.Single.Year my family argue over whether or not to build a pergola at our family beach house. It's never been built, every year we discuss where it would go, how much it would cost, what it would look like. 10 years and counting...

Not family as.such but a close friend and some of the rules of magic the gathering, can cause heated debates, thank goodness for Google and our other friend that knows the general rules .

My brother in law and sister fell out with me because I turned the tv off

Apparently this broke the TV by me using the remote control to turn it off.

The BIL was convinced I had magic powers??

What started out as a fun discussion about how we'd spend the lottery money, descended quickly into an argument about what the money would go on or who we'd share it with. It got pretty heated.

We hadn't even won the lottery

Er, I honestly can’t quite remember the whys and wherefores of the argument but it involved a lakeside walk and a coffee and someone waiting, or not waiting, or walking… or something. But it was a doozy. All my siblings and my mother and various partners all got involved/dragged in, there were sides taken, voices raised, doors slammed, grudges held. It was insanity. We’ve never spoken of it since. God knows what happened to us all.

About 18 months ago,I bought a 70’s coat on eBay-bargain price of 99p
its dark brown,fake fur and a pale brown collar
my dp kept banging on about ‘your purple coat with feathers’
we had a blazing row and didn’t speak for a few days over the fact it’s brown fake fur and not purple with feathers
even me showing him the bloody coat didn’t change his mind-‘it’s fucking purple!’
we made up-and he threw out the comment that ‘you still look like an ostrich in it even if it doesn’t have feathers!‘
cue another row-and we’ve now agreed to never speak of it again

my ex and I had a massive row over the sex of the tellytubbies
cue me,3 days after having his baby,stomping off while screaming ‘po is a fucking girl you arsehole!’ (not my finest hour,I do admit)
so sorry to anyone in my home town city centre 23 years ago,who may have heard me

years ago my (hard to buy for) dad mentioned that he liked the song ‘bat out of hell’ by meatloaf
so I was sent to buy it for his birthday-bought it and gave it to him
he put it on and immediately said it was the ‘wrong bat out of hell’
Cue massive family row
A full month of the family not speaking to each other-he still swears blind we got the ‘wrong one’ but can’t tell us which is the right one-possibly because there is no other ‘meatloaf bat out of hell’…

The great Christmas sprout row of 2016 lives on in family history

‘Po is a fucking girl you arsehole’ has just finished me!

I was on TikTok earlier and the fucking riddle was there!! Bastards!!! But it reminded me that actually a few years ago my parents and I did talk about the Riddle again, but this time they had changed their answer to what I had originally said (and therefore the correct answer). I was so confused. What made it worse was that they were then adamant that that was the answer they had always given and that I had given the wrong answer originally and I showed great restraint by not twatting them shouting at them.

At a market abroad. A man jokingly told my dad he'd give him a camel in exchange for my mum as she was beautiful.
She was raging that my dad didn't say she was worth at least two

My parents, while decorating our bedroom under the eaves couldn't agree whether the sloped wall should be considered (and decorated) like the wall or the ceiling. The room was closed and not entered again for six months.

My mum won the argument, and the room decorated. This was in the 70's, so paneling and ceiling tiles. Honestly, I can't really even remember how it was done! I have fond memories of looking up at those dotted tiles when I couldn't sleep.

@Hoppinggreen I hope whoever said they did emphasised the fact that whales are mammals have to have nipples 😂😂

The meaning of the word 'Sorry'. My DH says it means 'I feel regretful and I will not do that again'. I think it just means 'I feel regretful'.

I know I am right.

It comes up all the time though.

Yes, that was my whole point!!!!

We don’t talk about our (non existent) lottery win.
DH wants to give half to his family, I say he can give half of his half, he says that as he is the one who plays it would be his money, I say as it comes out of the joint account it’s half mine, he says not, I say it would be if I divorced him etc etc etc

@Hoppinggreen that's funny. I hope you won!!

😲I can feel myself getting sucked into this argument on your behalf! This would absolutely be an AIBU thread.

Great thread btw, has be chuckling into my coffee!

Two of my aunts once stopped talking to each other for years because one aunt's dog briefly chased the other aunt's cat. Or anyway that was the trigger, but I assume there must have been other underlying resentments.

Huge row with DP for putting the butter in the fridge.
I was about to make a cake and he should have known I needed the butter soft.

Huge row with PiLs over swings for the garden. They bought a swing/slide set for the kids one Christmas. We very politely and gently pointed out we already had swings - the same swings FiL had helped DH build the previous summer.

MiL went nuts - accused us of spoiling our kids, we were selfish and ungrateful. It was quite mad and went on for weeks. She refused to speak to us for ages. It kind of blew over and has never been mentioned since. Neither DH or I could quite get to the bottom of what that was all about.

DH and I had the the most enormous argument over a plastic moustache from a Christmas cracker.