Most ridiculous argument you've ever had.

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DD15 has just gone swimming training. She spent all morning moaning about how cold the pool is and how she didn't want to go. Before she left I found her kit bag in the hallway containing a damp manky towel, obviously left over from last session.

She refused to get a fresh one and spent 10 mins arguing that I was mistaken and that it was in fact dry!!

Anyone else ?

DH and I once argued for about an hour (both slightly intoxicated I'll admit) about whether dogs actually see in 'slow motion'. Neither of us were making much sense but I think it all boiled down to a misunderstanding of whether time itself actually moves differently for dogs, or whether their eyes process things more quickly, meaning they have more time to see movement.

It got quite hostile and I eventually tearfully said 'let's just leave it'. 😂

Neither of us drink much now we're older!

Ridiculous argument with DD1 - I mentioned something about the dual carriage way.

She corrected me that it was George Harris Way.

I say no, it’s dual carriage way.

She wouldn’t have it and it went on from there.

DH and I once had a stupid argument in a Chinese restaurant over a plastic moustache from a Christmas cracker. I was a bit pissed and kept putting it on and winking at him. He was getting more and more irate every time I did it, but for some reason I just couldn’t stop myself.

Had a huge row with 14 year old DS in the middle of Oxford Street as he insisted I could not have possibly heard of this cool new brand of clothes he’d found online and wanted to go to the shop to look at it…the brand in question was Stussy. He would not be convinced that it had been around for years. He had to eat his words when I produced a photo of his Dad wearing a Stussy jumper in the 1990’s!

DH and I recently had a full blown row about the fact that one of our friends hasn’t proposed to his girlfriend (she wants to get engaged, he thinks it’s too soon) - we had to take a step back and remind ourselves it didn’t affect us in the slightest

Very polite, quiet and calm argument with a pupil (blonde little thing, looked like the Milky Bar Kid) in my class.

To avoid sticky spills etc it's water only in class. They could have squash at break and lunch.

His had spilt into the box that held the water bottles.

Me: Please put your bottle in your bag, it's only water in the classroom.
MBK: It is water.
Me: It's blackcurrant.

MBK: It's water.

Me: It smells like blackcurrant.
MBK: It's water.
Me: It's purple.
MBK: It's water.

Me: Just put it in your bag and get a paper towel.

DH and I had an argument about a hoover. Well, I had an argument with him, I think he's still a bit baffled by it 10+ years later.

When we moved in together, DM gave us my DGM's hoover (DGM had died a few months previously). It was quite old and not expected to last, but saved us buying a new one and we were poor uni students so it helped.

Three years later we were moving into our new house. DH said something about not bothering to bring the hoover, that it wasn't working very well anymore so we'd be best to throw it away and buy a new one, etc. I burst into tears, wailing about how it was my Gran's hoover and she was dead and did he have no empathy?! He was totally bemused by my reaction and that made me even angrier. We just could not come to an agreement about it at all.

In the end I huffily said I'd give it back to DM, because DSF would probably be able to fix it... He did, and I wasn't at all smug about that 😁DM used for another decade, and every time I saw it I was like, "HA, DH! IN YOUR FACE!" (We ended up buying a new one, of course.)

At the time of the argument I was 37 weeks pregnant and very much over it...

He can be a challenging arse at times, but this was far and away the worst. He's not done anything like it again. I won't ever get over it.

Me and My Brother had a huge row and an airport in Turkey and didn't speak for the whole flight home over whether whales had nipples.
They do and I was right!!!!!

DH and I recently had an argument about which beach on a long-ago holiday had been blighted by a dickhead with a drone.

This is so funny.

We have loads of twins in our family and they are all bonkers in the best way.

Had an argument with my dad that my australian passport that I had just sent away was most definately maroon and not navy blue. I was absolutely convinced, to me it was like saying my red car was blue. I had to send it away to the passport office, and when it returned weeks later - blue - I was both totally shocked and bloody annoyed that he was right and convinced Id lost my marbles. He was very very smug about it, and brings it up all the time.
Tbf it was very funny. Its now a family joke that I would be the most unreliable witness ever.

Not me but my DC - had an argument about who was more important. God or The Queen (when she was still alive obv)

I had a minor fallout with a guy I was chatting to OLD when he told me I wasn't a "proper" musical fan as I'd probably only seen movie versions. He asked me to name things I'd seen in the theatre. I listed things he'd never heard of. Not really an argument and we stopped talking a few days later. It wasn't the first time he'd tried to tell me I was wrong.

Many many years ago, whe I was a teenager, had an argument with my mum about the name of a local road.
I said it was Turle Road, she insisted it was Turtle Road. It got quite heated and included my being told that I should "respect my elders and betters".
In the end, I went down there with my camera, and took a photo. A week later, when the film was developed, I was proven correct .
In fairness, she did apologise. We laughed about it foe several years after, as we both seemed to have a 'stubborn gene'.

I had an argument with my now ex partner about where my friend lives because I had asked him to drop our son off there, I’d given him the address and even screenshotted where abouts it was on maps even though he had been there previously and between him and his dad they couldn’t manage to knock on the door in the correct street and it went on for absolute fucking months about how wrong I was despite the road name being written on the fucking screen shot as well as my
message and despite me going there all the time and knowing where the fuck they live, he just COULD NOT be wrong. It still makes me mad now thinking about it and ever anyone’s parcel goes ary someone will without doubt text the group chat saying “mahbe exDP was the postman”

Whether the word spaniel has two or three syllables

Back in the day, our family would always play Boy's Name/Girl's Name at Christmas. Every year my Dad and Uncle would have a huge row over whether Sea Potato was a valid choice for a vegetable beginning with 'S'.

Playing the same game, my Aunt ended up in a tearful rage when her DH genuinely couldn't think of a girl's name beginning with 'H'. Her name begins with 'H'...They didn't speak for the rest of Christmas Day.

The first time I took my now DH to visit my mum in a small Highland village, it was a beautiful summer's day and I decided to go the scenic route through a narrow twisty glen. As we were driving along he asked me what the tall wooden posts with reflectors attached were for at the side of the road.

I told him they were for the snow plough driver to know where the road was in the winter. He absolutely refused to believe me, insisted I was taking the piss and kept asking "what are they really for"?

It was only when he asked my mum later and she confirmed that he finally accepted that's what they were for.

30 years later I still occasionally remind him.

A jacket potato. I'd put one in the oven and put it on a high heat which caused the oven to smoke. DP was really not happy about it so an argument ensued and I walked out!

Of course it's two! June 2022 - June 2023 and June 2023 - June 2024.

Today's moronic statement is one on Facebook where the poster is arguing that because people don't pay for healthcare like they do in the US that it's free.

JFC 🙄

For some reason, my mum, who had a very good education and was normally a good speller, thought art deco was called art decor.
She was adamant it was decor and went on and on about it. I kept saying Look it up! and she got madder and madder. In the end I just said OK you're right, to shut her up.

A guy at work was saying if you jumped out of a skyscraper window holding a tablecloth you'd survive as it'd act as a parachute. I said no it would just get ripped out of your hands. He argued (mansplained) for hours that I was wrong. He said that if you tied it round your wrists it would work. I said that your arms would just get ripped off. It went on and on and on 😂😂

Your arms would get ripped off?

I had a row once with a boyfriend about whether or not he liked yoghurt! (He said he didn't, I insisted he did!)

@mashingwachine if you are falling at a great speed with something tied to your wrists I assume your arms would get pulled out of your shoulder sockets?? I'm no scientist though 😂😂😂