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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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shiningcuckoo · 13/02/2025 10:03

My ex and I had a massive argument about whether stoner is an allowable word in scrabble. The game was abandoned and we didn't talk for 24 hours.

Yellowrosessmellpetaly · 13/02/2025 10:12

A friend in our 20s, we were bemoaning our then lives and jobs and deliberating our future. I must have been saying I wanted to be happy etc and she replied huffing 'what if I don't want to be happy'. Confused

Ok.

EVHead · 13/02/2025 10:29

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!

It’s not on the east coast either: are you thinking of Aberdeen?

Huckyfell · 13/02/2025 10:33

Boredmum24 · 02/02/2025 13:48

What would be the best flavour for hypothetical pasties that we weren't even baking at the time

Arghhh - are you from my house? I detest hypothetical arguments, they get so heated about something thats never happened and never will happen! "If I ever have enough money I will buy a helicopter...." and we have WW3 nearly

Oneearringlost · 13/02/2025 10:38

DH told me my laces were too long on my trainers, a long and vitriolic argument ensued.... in the middle of a concentration camp in Germany. Oh dear!

Kokomjolk · 13/02/2025 10:43

Judging by the absolute bollocks my two children argue about, I'm confident that any argument I've ever had as an adult must have been a lot more sensible than the arguments I used to have with my little brother when we were children.

I can't remember many of these but sibling arguments will always take the prize for sheer pointlessness.

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 13/02/2025 11:51

shiningcuckoo · 13/02/2025 10:03

My ex and I had a massive argument about whether stoner is an allowable word in scrabble. The game was abandoned and we didn't talk for 24 hours.

I was bored/curious enough to check

It's in the Oxford dictionary so would be allowed - I wondered if it was maybe a new addition and has changed since your game with your Ex but apprenlty it's been in use since 1150!

Workisntworking · 13/02/2025 12:26

Woman parked on opposite side of the street whilst I was doing some gardening. I happened to look up as she crossed the road which started her off with, "You got a problem?" She wouldn't have it that I was genuinely just in my own garden to do some pruning. She finished off with the accusation that I was looking at her with my face.

DH overheard this so now if one of us is getting a bit grouchy we'll say, "Are you looking at me with your face?"

Never seen her since which is a shame.

Renamed · 13/02/2025 13:08

Bernardtheseal · 02/02/2025 16:35

With my ex-husband about how many years there were between June 2022 and June 2024. I said two. Apparently it’s three because you count 2022, 2023 and 2024. My brain just can’t compute that.

Your brain can’t compute it because it’s bollocks.

2022, 2023, and 2024 are three years. However between June 2022 and June 2024 are only 2 years, or 24 months, or whatever you want to call it. Not three years though.

PoppyTonthere · 13/02/2025 21:54

EVHead · 13/02/2025 10:29

It’s not on the east coast either: are you thinking of Aberdeen?

Er... no, not Aberdeen. But you got me thinking, EVHead. Was he right all along? Were we cringe-makingly wrong? So I googled it and this is what Google said: >Inverness is considered to be on the east coast of Scotland, specifically at the mouth of the River Ness where it meets the Moray Firth; therefore, geographically speaking, Inverness is considered "east". < That'll do for me. Feel a bit relieved, tbh.

warmheartcoldfeet · 13/02/2025 22:35

Workisntworking · 13/02/2025 12:26

Woman parked on opposite side of the street whilst I was doing some gardening. I happened to look up as she crossed the road which started her off with, "You got a problem?" She wouldn't have it that I was genuinely just in my own garden to do some pruning. She finished off with the accusation that I was looking at her with my face.

DH overheard this so now if one of us is getting a bit grouchy we'll say, "Are you looking at me with your face?"

Never seen her since which is a shame.

This reminded me of my and my boyfriend trying to find a certain road in London and in the end, really annoyed, I raged 'Why do we have to look with my eyes, why can't you look with your own eyes'.

Now, whenever someone asks where something is, the other says 'why can't you look with your own eyes'.

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