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!

This thread is the very reason we need the laughing emoji back.

@Thedoorisalwaysopen agree 💯

My children once had a 6 HOUR argument about the colour of the sky during a car journey where the time, sky and aspect changed - I just left them to it and turned up the radio.

They also had an argument about the best and most environmentally sound house from the three little pigs once - pigs don’t bloody build real houses- it went on for hours !

There was a famous thread on a bodybuilding forum in the 00 where two guys argued for hours about the number of days in a week.

Please challenge them to a wall building competition to see who wins! They need to settle this once and for all.

😂 no one can predict how a gnu conversation will go

A couple of decades ago my MIL gave me a Christmas present of embroidered fridge door handle covers. Most people have freestanding fridges in Malaysia, often big American style ones. MIL has handle covers on her fridge.

I thanked her nicely and later, in private, joked with DH that there wasn't a chance in hell that I would ever use them. DH took massive offence and we argued on and off through the rest of the visit and part of the flight home. He said that they were thoughtfully chosen and it was disrespectful to his mother not to use them. I said they were ugly and didn't fit well in our modern kitchen, it was a gift to me and so my choice whether to use them and not his, and anyway MIL had no plans to visit us in London so how would she know whether I used them or not.

When we got home we both realised that our fridge had recessed grip points for opening and neither of us ever mentioned handle covers again.

My cousin and I spent the whole trip to the SWIMMING POOL arguing about whether we were going to the swimming pool or the baths. She obviously was wrong, and yes lives the other side of the north south divide to me 🤣 we were 6.

Me and my business partner argue a lot. We've been friends for 24 years and had the business together for 10. We made a pact recently that we do not discuss business on nights/days out/social events AT ALL. I speak to him over email and phone about the business outside of socialisation, and I talk to him like a colleague. Then we'll go out, have fun, get drunk with other friends too and all's fine as long as nothing business-related is brought up.

Recently I took him out to a gig for his birthday. In taxi on way back and he mentions something about the business. We start arguing. I then said 'come on, not the time or place now' and he said I started the argument by mentioning things. I said I didn't, this went on for several minutes and I backtracked right back over the conversation to the point to prove that it was indeed him that started the argument. It continued and then I said 'Joe, we're basically now having an argument about who started the first argument, come on!'

In the end he asked the taxi driver who started the argument and I told him to leave him out of it, he said to the driver 'We do like one another, honestly we just bicker!' I said 'speak for yourself, I never said I liked you'...

We're both professionals in our 40s/50s alongside our business. It's what the kids might call RIDICK. 😂

Then we landed at the pub, bought a bottle of wine and forgot all about this argument or who started it .

but it isn't any colour..its an optical illusion

I miss the laugh emoji!

I once had to rapidly back away from two men getting into a fist fight in the yoghurt aisle at Tesco. I think one of them had bumped the other with his trolley.

When DH and I first lived together we had a row over who was using too much washing up liquid.

A middle aged couple in Tesco having a humdinger over whether to get the green or yellow bananas. Cleared the busy aisle and clearly the tip of the iceberg of issues.

When I was about 7 or 8 me and my Grandmother had a huge argument about whose angry hippo was whose-it got so heated that my Grandfather put his newspaper down and came through from the other room to resolve it 'I have been listening to this argument for so long that I've decided to do something about it' 😂

He concluded that we were both right so he had no idea what we had managed to find to argue about.

I overheard a couple in a hotel lobby having a vigorous argument over whether the temperature outside qualified as 'really hot' or not.

Argument week before Xmas on the bus between two people about their dealer not getting them their drugs on time. It ended with:

“Well he’s not getting a Xmas card from me this year.”

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Completely agree! I’d have worn it out on this thread, right from the very first response (which I love).

I heard a story of someone who fell out over a packet of crisps !

Same 😂😂😂

The worst agrguement I ever had to my dh was about hoover attachments and which ones are optimal for hoovering stairs. I laugh every time I think about it (which is usually when I'm hoovering the stairs with my preferred attachment) but at the time we were both very invested and passionate about our hoovering preferences! It was a proper ding dong!😂

Is this a north-south thing? I thought it was more based on age and that older buildings are labelled as ‘baths’ as they originally held public baths in the days when every house didn’t have its own bathroom. My mum always referred to ‘baths’, as did I growing up but would now say ‘pool’.

That’s funny . They Won’t be sending them one with the snow picture on it! 😆

Indeed. I want this to be a warning to other Mumsnetters.

Yes!!!!!!

dh once walked off with the dice when i didn’t tell him I’d landed on his property in monopoly. Still claims to this day I cheated!