Silliest argument you’ve been witness to?

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DP and his brother are super competitive about most thing. But the silliest competitive argument they have ever had was who would be better at building a wall. Neither of them have any experience at building a wall and both do IT based jobs so it was completely hypothetical but it went on for ages!

One of the most heated rows DP and I ever had was about whether I was sufficiently upset about the death of Lemmy.

Dh and his friend once had a massive row about the Baldwin brothers which resulted in them having to go to the library iirc to find out who was right, it was a long time ago, before the internet clearly. They were both wrong 😂😂

Two drivers, face to face, blocking the road, with their arms folded across the steering wheel, engines switched off, stony faced and glaring at each other.
Both believing the other driver was in the wrong and should have given way. Queues of traffic beeping behind both of them…Either car could have simply moved to end the argument.

In the end, other cars managed to drive up on the pavement around them to get past.

I do think back to them occasionally and wonder who gave in first!

I once had a screaming row with an ex that ended up with me storming out of the house … about the nine times table 😬

An argument with my DP about crisp sandwiches. I was laughing because he was so adamant that crisp sandwiches “are wrong” no reason why they were wrong but apparently they are. I, however, believe they are the food of the gods (tayto cheese and onion with real butter).

At a friend's housewarming, a couple who were typical 40s-50s, unhappily married but pretend to like each other, only to say subtle digs and snipes every 5 minutes about each other, in front of each other, in unrelated conversations. Big charcuterie table, everyone filling plates around them because they decided to have a massive argument about red vs green grapes. He thought red grapes were just ripened green grapes, she thought they were different varieties. He's wrong and a bastard, she's wrong and a bitch. They were stood about a metre apart so every now and then people would duck in between them to get to the table, which added to the comedy element. They gave up eventually and she sat on one side of the room slagging him off, he sat on the other side getting more drunk and ignoring her. It was exhausting, just bloody divorce, or better yet, google it and settle the debate so you're not screaming over the cured meats!

I’m blatantly placing marking for the laughs

I’m amused by how heated a current Mn thread about whether Richard III killed the Princes in the Tower is.

Many years ago (1995 if my memory serves me right) my late DH and I had a very fiery exchange about gnus. Just for reference, a gnu is a large African antelope type thing with a beard and a main. Neither of us had ever been to Africa nor, for that matter, encountered a gnu. We hadn't even been watching David Attenborourg. It was right up there with the best of Monty Python.

Was at a cafe on the high street in Glastonbury…conversation/argument went as follows…

Server ‘would you like mayonnaise in your BLT’
Customer ‘no I would have asked for it if I did’
Server ‘ok I was just asking, some people like it’
Customer ‘yes but I don’t so it was a pointless question’
Server ‘ok calm down mate, there’s no need to be rude’
Customer ‘fuck you, and your sandwich, I don’t want your negative energy in my food’

And then he walked out.

I sipped my cappuccino and smiled 🤣.

My husband and I once got far too invested in a snitty argument as to whether you'd refer to a packet of Skips in conversation as "a packet of crisps" or "a packet of corn snacks."

Obviously the answer is crisps.

You are of course right and my husband is an idiot. 😅

DS once had an argument with another kid over a ball.......while standing in a ball pit up to their knees in identical balls.

I once had a screaming row with DH over tomatoes. I was very, very pregnant and it was about 1 billion degrees in the middle of an heatwave and he bought normal tomatoes instead of the cherry tomatoes I wanted. I threw them at him and stormed out, slamming the door behind me. I got half way down the front garden and came to my senses. Had to sheepishly knock on the front door to get him to let me in.

Actually, to be fair, couldn’t really call it a row as DH didn’t get a word in edgeways and was thoroughly bemused by the whole thing.

Hormones ….. you were right, even if you were wrong!

In their early teens ds2 and ds3 once came to actual blows over whether "anything is possible". It still occasionally reignites 10 years later 🙈 Fortunately without hitting each other these days.

Which of the three dustpan and brush sets was the most appropriate to use for a particular task. I overheard it at a customers house.

My parents tussling over a glass tumbler which then fell to the floor and shattered, after which they argued for half hour over whose fault it was

Omg. When I met my husband one of our first conversations was about a gnu. It was a happy funny conversation though.

How dare you! That’s important stuff for us history nerds!

shall we have a row about it?

my dd and I debate about when modern history started almost weekly.

I'm glad to hear that your gnu experience was an improvement on mine!

Two man getting out of their cars and having a fist fight in the middle of the road in a tunnel. One had apparently cut the other up. It went on for a few minutes until a bigger man got out of his about 5 cars back and told them to cut it out

And my DDs once had an argument about what colour the sky was.

Two fully grown men arguing over whether they should re queue in the shop for the 3p cheesecake that they saw in the reduced basket by the counter after paying for their shop.

It got so heated that the man that had got to the front of the queue just let them sneak back in and buy it.