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Most ridiculous argument you've ever had.

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Christmasfizzleout · 02/02/2025 13:13

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 ?

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mashingwachine · 03/02/2025 21:16

paulhollywoodshairgel · 03/02/2025 17:55

@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 😂😂😂

Pulled out of shoulder sockets and ripped off are not the same. That said, I was asking becsue I thought you knew something not that you were assuming.

While I don't think a tablecloth would save anyone jumping from a tall building, I don't see any reason it would rip the arms off or out of sockets either.

thejadefish · 09/02/2025 10:13

My DH once had an argument with a friend of ours. Said friend insisted that the mains AC current into your home was absolutely safe if you stuck your fingers in a socket/touched a live wire in your house or whatever. DH said that it would definitely kill you. She insisted that it would not (pre smartphone days so couldn't look it up). Her reasoning was that because its "alternating current" it would kill you then immediately bring you back to life.

When I was planning my wedding I had an argument with my mum about wedding veils. My mum insisted that I shouldn't wear one (I wasn't sure whether to have one or not) and that she didn't wear one when she got married. I said yes you did. No I didn't says mum. Back & forth we go until she says "how do you know, you weren't there!" In response to which I pointed to the large photo on the wall behind her of her wedding day where she's clearly wearing a veil 😂

Wouldprefertobereading · 09/02/2025 10:15

Tallisker · 02/02/2025 14:19

I argued for years with a boy at school as to whether the car in the Sweeney was a Granada GXL or a Consul GT. unfortunately he was killed in an accident before the argument was resolved.

I was still right, though Grin

That’s dark..

DilemmaDelilah · 09/02/2025 10:32

Previous boyfriend, very intelligent but no common sense. Recipe called for a certain sized dish and then to add 1 inch of water on top of the ingredients. He was adamant that 1 inch of water was the same whether the dish was big or small, so 1 inch of water in a 9inch square dish was the same as 1 inch of water in a 6 inch or 12 inch square dish.

I very nearly screamed - I was so frustrated.

Miaowzabella · 09/02/2025 11:17

I had an argument with my dad about whether tigers lived in Africa. He was adamant that they did. Yes, on the savannah. Alongside the lions.

Miaowzabella · 09/02/2025 11:20

paulhollywoodshairgel · 03/02/2025 16:06

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 😂😂

He should definitely try it.

sp1ders · 09/02/2025 11:20

When the dcs lived at home we'd have regular arguments over the cheese. Ds1 would eat dh's cheddar cheese and dh would go absolutely bananas over it even though I always bought him a fresh supply. I once went to the shops and bought ten blocks of cheddar just to shut him up because his reaction was totally disproportionate. Ds2 would also sometimes eat the forbidden cheese, but blame it on ds1 which just made things worse. I had my own cheese which I was happy to share, but was stuck in the middle of the arguments.

These events came to be known as 'The Wars Of The Cheeses' and marked a particularly turbulent time in our family history 😂

Chuchoter · 09/02/2025 11:23

An idiot and her idiot husband insisted one of my dogs was a Lurcher when in fact he was a Longdog.

They had never heard of 'Longdog' and instead of being receptive and learning the difference between a Lurcher and a Longdog, she was instantly hostile and insulting with her husband chiming in to support her!

What a couple of red faced fools they were when I googled it on my phone and showed them.

She huffed and puffed about and he tried to bluster it out. Utter fools.

Springflowersmakeforbetterhours · 09/02/2025 11:26

Dh regularly argues with anyone who dares to step into it... About condiments... Apparently they need their own shelf in the fridge and Woe Betide those who allow them to stray.. He even went to work seething one day and ranted to his boss about one of us not using the condiments shelf..
Heck knows what he thought!

SnuffleTruffleHound · 09/02/2025 11:31

a woman I once knew said I was an animal abuser as I'd watched Tiger King.

fallingrocks · 09/02/2025 11:44

SnuffleTruffleHound · 09/02/2025 11:31

a woman I once knew said I was an animal abuser as I'd watched Tiger King.

That’s you told.

itsgettingweird · 09/02/2025 12:28

MargaretThursday · 02/02/2025 15:37

Had dd1 and her friend round when they were about 4/5yo.

They came and told me that in their games they were going swimming so they needed to buy a swimsuit, and I was the shop.
So I pretended to fish under the counter and said "what about this one? It's pink with purple flowers on it."
And they both said "no". I continued describing swimsuits until I described one and they both said "yes, I want that one" at the same time.
So I said: "It's a good thing I had fresh stock in today of that one. I have 5 of them."
They both maintained that the <purely imaginary> one I held up first was by far the nicest, and had objections to each of the other "four".
They didn't normally argue at all. 🤣

Love this 😂

itsgettingweird · 09/02/2025 12:46

Christmasfizzleout · 02/02/2025 19:46

Some of these are brilliant!

Just thought of another. Went out for with my school friends in half term. We must have been around 14. We ended up having a massive fight and splitting into 2 groups.... you know what started it - disagreement over the lyrics to Careless Whisper. Half the group thought it was 'guilty feet have got no rhythm' the others 'guilty feeling, got no rhythm!' Wouldn't happen today with google.

Just had to Google as I always thought it was "guilty feet" and worried I'd been wrong for decades.

maggiesleapp · 09/02/2025 14:37

thisfilmisboring123 · 02/02/2025 13:21

My husband once tried to take a knife out of my hand and cut a kiwi for me.
I was not very happy and a 10 min heated discussion followed.

He constantly tells me I cut things wrong and it really winds me up. This particular day I’d had enough.

Are you lefthanded? I ask because my DM couldnt bear to watch me cut bread or fruit, always thought i was going to cut the hand of myself! My DH usually gives me a bit of ribbing too. Havent cut myself yet

Expectinglittlebean2024 · 09/02/2025 14:43

I once argued with a university flatmate when making a box cake mix. We only had to add water and stir, yet we both thought we could stir better...

DemonicCaveMaggot · 09/02/2025 14:51

DH and I had an epic row as to the location of the sculpture 'Nine Evening Fireflies' on the Forest of Dean sculpture trail. Neither of us would back down and it was all the more awful as it was the day after we got married and we were on our honeymoon. We were both stalking all over the place trying to find the bloody thing.

It was nowhere because they had cut down the trees it had been hanging in.

DemonicCaveMaggot · 09/02/2025 16:40

Our late cat (DemonCat1) and DC1 had a row.

DC1 was lying on our bedroom floor with the cat beside them and the argument went like this

DC1: No DemonCat
DemonCat: Meow
DC1: No DemonCat
DemonCat: Meow
DC1: No DemonCat
DemonCat: Meow
DC1: Glurrrfffff

DemonCat ended the row by showing her forepaw into DC1's mouth. I didn't think it was possible to have an argument with a cat until that point.

Heatherjayne1972 · 09/02/2025 16:58

I have two boys. They once had a vicious argument because one boy wanted a jacket potato for tea and the other wanted a baked potato

everyone got what they wanted

on a less lighthearted note my ex once threatened to call 999 over an argument about an egg sandwich- a tiny overreaction (he didn’t in the end)

fallingrocks · 09/02/2025 17:58

DemonicCaveMaggot · 09/02/2025 16:40

Our late cat (DemonCat1) and DC1 had a row.

DC1 was lying on our bedroom floor with the cat beside them and the argument went like this

DC1: No DemonCat
DemonCat: Meow
DC1: No DemonCat
DemonCat: Meow
DC1: No DemonCat
DemonCat: Meow
DC1: Glurrrfffff

DemonCat ended the row by showing her forepaw into DC1's mouth. I didn't think it was possible to have an argument with a cat until that point.

Edited

Our 17-year old cat talks back and even argues all the time. You can just walk past her and she will just do a quiet ”rrr”. And it’s the tone or something, but you just know she is judging.

Over the years we all know exactly what she is saying, and we reply too. She wasn’t like this before, but in the last 5 years I swear she has developed so many different meows and sounds just like words. When dd moved out she developed a completely new sound calling desperately for dd in her old room.

mrstea301 · 10/02/2025 10:34

Lolypoly14 · 02/02/2025 20:54

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.

I can't stop giggling about the plastic moustache story 😂😂😂 can just picture doing big comedic winks thinking it's hilarious while the other person is getting really annoyed 😂😂😂

MannyTeddy · 10/02/2025 17:13

George Harris way 😂

DD 10 told me I had made the word nozzle up! Totally adamant about it as we argued in a petrol garage 😂

notacooldad · 10/02/2025 17:25

Years ago I was on on a training course with work,it was one day a week and my classmates came from.all over the north West and north Wales.
I usually took a couple of my work pens with me and it had my place of work printed on the pen.
One day in class I noticed a bloke had one of my pens. He said,no it was his pen. I said that it was mine and look, it's got my work place on. He was 100% adamant it was his. He was not joking with mexand it got nasty.
He lived 114 miles away from me. At the beginning of the course he said he had never been to Morecambe in his life and here he was being deadly serious that it was absolutely his pen ( and not the one that I couldn't find previously) I saw him in a different light after that.
I could have got half a dozen free pens with my work place name and address on if he wanted them. It was strange!

PoppyTonthere · 12/02/2025 22:01

My late DH once argued with me that Inverness is on the west coast of Scotland. He was unshakable in this and went on and on argued all night even when friends who witnessed the argument showed him a map (no Internet then) and showed him where Inverness is - on the east coast. Gah!

MoonWoman69 · 12/02/2025 23:17

In the days when you were still allowed to, (well, at the companies discretion!) I used to go with my husband in his lorry when he worked nights, (if I wasn't working) driving for a famous bakery.
I'd been to Glasgow with him once before (we live in Yorkshire) and the second time we went, he came up the slip road off the motorway and indicted left. I said, it's right, not left. He said no it isn't. I said it is, it's a right turn. He then proceeded to say, how would I know, I'd only been once before. I said I remembered it was right, as I remembered the big junction at the top!
We argued for ages, waiting for the lights to change and he wouldn't back down, he was adamant it was left! I said ok then.
He turned left. And of course, it was right! (I have kind of a photographic memory when it comes to directions! I only have to have visited somewhere once!) As he'd turned beyond the point of correction, he said, shit, it's right!
He then had to manoeuvre the artic to turn round! I didn't get an apology, he just kept repeating that he could have sworn it was left! Ggggrrrr! He doesn't question me about directions now, funnily enough, he just goes with what I say!