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What is the dumbest family argument you’ve had?

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HeechulOppa · 29/09/2022 12:34

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?

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Pumpkinpatchlookinggood · 01/10/2022 09:06

Current argument is over a disgusting coat dh has bought. I am not joking when I say it won't be coming on our upcoming trip away...

MrsPetty · 01/10/2022 18:53

I once had lunch with my sister. I ordered a starter and a main she just ordered a main. When my starter arrived she shared it with me. When the bill arrived I suggested we split it and she said she wasn’t paying for my starter 😂 I pointed out that she had eaten half of it but she was adamant she wasn’t sharing the cost as she would never have ordered it! I paid for the starter … about a fiver but let her know I thought she was a stingy arse - she didn’t speak to me for weeks!

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 01/10/2022 18:57

My DC had an argument/debate at breakfast once about whether God or The Queen was more important Confused

MalteserGeezee · 01/10/2022 19:02

Not my family, but I remember a phone-in to This Morning donkey's years ago in which a couple were on the verge of divorce because they disagreed over whether or not Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump (aka Lieutenant Dan) had legs in real life or not! I'm presuming this must have predated Google/Ask Jeeves

OliveHenry · 01/10/2022 19:22

I can't remember the fine details 'cos I was only about 10, but we had a massive family argument in the middle of Harrods.

My sister didn't want to go upstairs in the lift, so the family group split up, some using lift and some using stairs/escalator.

Then the groups couldn't find each other for ages, and when we finally reconnected each blamed the other for not being in the right place. It was a humdinger.

We don't dare mention it even now (40+ years later) for fear of fanning the flames!

CharlieSays13 · 01/10/2022 19:33

Tealpoppy · 29/09/2022 21:37

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’…

He wanted Hits Out of Hell, not Bat Out of Hell, it was a different album 😁🦇

thistimelastweek · 01/10/2022 19:35

Are pianos percussion or stringed instruments?

Got quite heated.

mummybear2104 · 01/10/2022 19:42

When I was 9 my Grandmother announced to my parents that she didn't like the artex they had chosen to have on the ceilings in our house. Dad said we have what we like it's our house. She promptly walked out along with grandad and didn't see her for years

OldTinHat · 01/10/2022 19:42

On a seafront walk with DM a couple of years ago and she spotted a mermaid's purse. I commented that I thought it was amazing they were shark/ray egg cases. She said I was wrong, they're seaweed. Cue blazing row on the seafront, I whipped up a Google search and she stormed off after I proved i was right and didn't speak to me for three days. I was staying with her, which was awkward!

BlueBloodedBlue · 01/10/2022 19:48

Massive row between DSs because DS1 wouldn't allow DS2 to come on holiday in the yacht he had bought because we won the lottery.

Yep, we hadn't won the bloody lottery.

BronwenFrideswide · 01/10/2022 19:58

Empra123 · 29/09/2022 22:47

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

Do tell @Empra123

Calandor · 01/10/2022 20:05

The mini golf bust up of 2005. I may only have been 10 but it was insane. Cousin turned on cousin, father on son. Crying, screaming, almost violence at one point!

All over mini golf.

Still, it beat the previous massive bust up over whether I'd been cheating at monopoly aged around 8. I had been (was an excellent cheat and she usually never noticed).

ColdHardFloor · 01/10/2022 20:15

My husband worked for a film studio a few years ago, they were making a movie from a big, big, well known franchise that I liked. He'd read the script for work and I asked him to tell me what was going to happen and he obviously couldn't tell me because they don't want the details leaked. Well I shouted and sulked all day long and wouldn't talk to him, this was on valentines day lol. Omg I'm cringing so hard remembering 😭

Hawkins001 · 01/10/2022 21:20

Hoppinggreen · 30/09/2022 07:49

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

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Technically if he plays it then it's his win.
However from legal, if you divorced then your correct it would be split assets.
I guess it's a tricky one.

feckoffbrian · 01/10/2022 21:46

The caravan fight of 2015 was legendary.

We were having a shit caravan holiday. DP's had insisted that we all shared a caravan (4DC, youngest was 4 months). It really was not going well at all but we were all trying to smile through the pain, for the sake of the children.

One night DM went to buy ingredients for dinner. I had wanted to go, as she is a terrible cook but she insisted.

She came back with asparagus, minced beef and long stemmed broccoli, and a fajita pack.

I joked that she had forgotten to buy the key ingredient, trifle, and the shit hit the fan in the most spectacular way.

Now, no one is our entire family ever suggests fajitas for a meal, and we always, always, always book separate accommodation when on holiday (and request that our accommodation is not in close proximity).

And, I cook for my family, DM cooks for DF.

TheIsaacs · 01/10/2022 21:53

Antarcticant · 29/09/2022 12:52

It's got a name here as a contentious riddle. There was a huge Mnet thread about it a couple of years ago, and no one could work out the answer. It was eventually solved by accident on another thread.

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Wait, what was the answer? I gave up on the original thread, it was too frustrating!

feckoffbrian · 01/10/2022 22:03

startrek90 · 29/09/2022 16:45

Whether it was the dead sea or the red sea that Moses parted. I maintained that it was the red sea, my parents disagreed. Long story short; the trivial pursuit game got thrown out the living room window and none of us spoke to each other for over a week. Oh, and we have NEVER played a board game since.

This made me laugh. DH and I never play board games either after a game of triominoes, more than 20 years ago, ended badly. (Which is a big shame, as I love board games!)

We were hammered, and he kept putting his triomino pieces on the floor, near or under my chair.

And then thought it would be funny to accuse me of cheating.

I may or may not have thrown the board game at him, including the notepad which I was using to note the scores, whilst screaming at the top of my voice what an asshole he was.

Curlygirl06 · 01/10/2022 22:47

gluteustothemaximus · 29/09/2022 21:14

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 Confused

Dh and I discussed what we'd do- he's insistent on a donkey sanctuary whereas I've told him he can't have one until we've finished building our own house, as I'm not living in a caravan whilst he's playing with donkeys.
We don't even do the lottery!

Justleaveitblankthen · 01/10/2022 22:56

An argument around 30 years ago with my brother about the most logical way to get to another nearby town. I have just realised it could easily be Googled now ( and I would prove I am right😎)

Noideaatall · 01/10/2022 23:18

DP said "Do we have any chicken stock?" and I replied, "No, but we've got a chicken." Biggest argument we ever had because apparently it isn't obvious that you can make chicken stock from a chicken...

sagalooshoe · 01/10/2022 23:20

Who 'owned' the last onion in the rack and what they already had planned for it.

StillMedusa · 01/10/2022 23:39

The great kitchen worktop debate.
We never row... but... we agree to disagree quite strongly.
Moved into our house in 2005.
Hated the dated kitchen. Replaced the cupboards and the flooring. Couldn't agree on a worktop.

18 years later... still the original Grin Every so often the topic comes up.. and we disagree strongly again. I suspect it will never change!

Remainiac · 01/10/2022 23:58

Me vs FiL - the argument was over whether 75% of something is the same as three-quarters of something… That went on beyond midnight.

FrangipaniBlue · 02/10/2022 07:15

Foreign Holidays.

The only one we've ever managed to agree on is Florida this year.

Other than that we just don't go abroad on holiday because can't agree on where to go or how much to spend.

christmastreewithhairyfairy · 02/10/2022 10:42

I love this thread - the pettiness of the arguments and how many of the PPs are keen to point out that they were in the right. I bet the other side still thinks they are in the right too 😆

DH and I had a whopper early on about running on roads vs running machines. I can't remember who was arguing what but we got into details about air resistance, they were diagrams, and it nearly derailed our upcoming wedding. Neither of us are/were runners