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!

My late dad called it the baths as they used the baths there as they didn’t have one indoors.
( 1930s/ 40s times)

This is the funniest😀😀😀😀

Two I recall. Ds 1 and 2, aged 5 and 3, having fisticuffs over who ate the last imaginary cake.
DH and I having a right set to about wether bagpipes originated in one place and the idea spread to other countries, or if they were invented in different places at the same time...

I’m north and say pool but my mum always said baths and the old swimming pool (shut down thirty plus years ago) was called st johns baths.

Interesting point. I live in the West Country (if that's relevant) and am in my late sixties. As kids and teenagers we always referred to it as "the baths". Everyone I knew had their own bathrooms but I guess it was a hangover from years gone by.

DH and I once had an argument about the colour of the windowsills on the Mishnish Hotel (one of th famous coloured houses in Tobermory/Balamory).
I was right.

Building yellow, sills white. Everybody knows that 🤣

Ooh this is interesting, certainly in my family the Newcastle/Leeds lot said baths and the West Country lot pool.

That is interesting. I'm in Bristol and everyone always said "baths". Were your West Country lot posh!

My brother went through a phase of arguing the colours were see are not the actual colour of things. So is the grass green? No, it is in fact every colour but green…. Etc. he was 19 and studying at Cambridge so thought he was super clever, forgetting we’re from the same gene pool. Scientifically I’ve no idea if he was right but no normal person argues the grass isn’t green (mine is kind of brown right now but that wasn’t the point he was making). The argument went on for months, on and off. Proper screaming at each other. God, he’s annoying. We get on better now he lives an 11 hour flight away.

Oh absolutely darling 🤣🤣 (nope not a bit)

DH and his DB, now in their 50's and 60's, can argue for hours about some random memory from their childhood. E.g Dad had a blue car when we went to Blackpool' 'No it was red' 'No it wasnae' 'aye it was' and so on until we end up with a blazing row round the Xmas dinner table.

It was so long ago both have forged different memories in their head.

Separately they are perfectly normal adults but together its like toddler tantrums.

@Billybagpuss . To give him his due, DH was arguing the point during the brief period the building was painted black. We've been visiting family up there for over 30 years and he's usually had a few beers when we are there.

I honestly think some of the stuff people argue about on here is the most ridiculous; pages and pages long threads arguing about shaving off pubes or how often to wash bed sheets, shoes on or off in the house, how often to wash towels. People writing long multiple paragraph posts filled with scathing insults because a complete stranger likes to wax their minge. Madness.

My parents live in york and often go to Stamford Bridge which isn't far away from them (I'm now nc so only hear about it occasionally but they are still at it)
As you go in,there is a bridge and a pub
They'd gone loads of times over the years,when suddenly he says 'that pub was at the other end of the bridge'
'Eh?'
'That pub has been moved,it used to be on the other end of the bridge'
'Don't be so daft,your saying that they've moved the pub,brick by brick to the other end of the bridge,just to piss you off?
'Yes'
'Don't be so fucking silly!'
'I'm telling you...'
They where still rowing about this 25 years later-neither will back down and its almost ended in divorce a few times
Nobody dare mentions it in fear of setting them off again!

Your dp is definitely wrong , crisp butties are one of the best snacks .
Tho my preference is walkers cheese and onion.

@Phoebesparrow I'm with your dp , it's a backie and I'm from the northwest .

HUNGRY hippo. Not Angry. It were us who were angry!

Never heard of a backie before! Riding pillion maybe ?
My late mil could start an argument in an empty room.
She often used to contradict any memories just for the fun of it I think even if she was shown actual evidence she was wrong ( photo or something) then not speak to you for days for being right.

@BloodyHellBob Tayto crisps are the best crisps in the entire universe.

This has reminded me that DP and I have a long-running disagreement about what the hoover attachments are called. I think there is one called a 'crevice tool'. She thinks it is called a 'hoover beak'.

Do you know The GNU Song, by Flanders and Swann, @Itsapuzzle42.

Once heard a great expression from a lovely Irish chap who I lodged with years ago - “You’d argue with your own toenails at that age”! DD16 can start an argument from absolutely nothing & if DH or I didn’t walk away, she would continue for hours! She’s neurodivergent though so that possibly makes a difference. DH & I had some really silly fall outs in the early years of our marriage. We ended up screaming at each other because I’d put a sweet wrapper in an empty waste bin that had been put on the stairs to be taken back up & DH insisted that was wrong! Still winds me up when I think about it now 🤣

Had to go on holiday once with in laws and my sister in law and she didn’t wash up a frying pan. Full on arguing , shouting and a really bad atmosphere ( none of them got on , it wasn’t really over washing up one thing) so I ended up cleaning it just to keep the peace. They knew how to argue. It makes for a tense time when people can’t get on or be reasonable about anything , hot headed and old feuds. They fell out over some sea food once as well. Nobody ended up eating it in the end.

My late DM used to say some people could fight with a feather or they could cause friction between two breastbones😂. I once heard two women arguing in the hospital car park about which of them should drive home. One said she couldn’t drive home because she was wearing flip flops. The other woman said well she couldn’t drive home because she had just taken two Co-codamol tablets. Hopefully flip flops woman swapped shoes with Co-codamol woman.