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Silliest argument you’ve been witness to?

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ClassicStripe · 25/07/2025 09:42

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!

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ThatshallotBaby · 25/07/2025 13:51

Ds2 and ds1 arguing in the back of the car about who had more blood in them Grin
ds1 was the winner as he was older and bigger

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 25/07/2025 13:59

Two colleagues over the dishwasher. One ended up in tears.

Truly pathetic.

the80sweregreat · 25/07/2025 14:02

I had the main attachment to our stick cleaner on charge ,I had emptied it out but I didn’t close the attachment properly on the back. It was still able to charge ok and I didn’t realize.
Dh comes along a few hours later , puts it all back together to clean , but the dust comes out of it because he didn’t clip it together, but that was my fault for not having it on charge properly to start with , although he though he knows how it works and you need to clip it back properly before using it.
Full on arguing , it was all my fault , when really it wasn’t entirely. He wouldn’t accept that he should have checked it was closed before using it from charging.
Ds2 got involved , nobody spoke for the rest of the day but the dust and cleaning was dealt with once it was clipped back on properly! All such a faff over nothing.

BarnacleBeasley · 25/07/2025 14:02

I have an early memory of arguing with my sister about which one of us was 'me' and which one was 'you'.

the80sweregreat · 25/07/2025 14:04

I have friends who always argue over the dishwasher because she doesn’t stack it right and he has to undo it all. Be easier to just wash up by hand by the sounds of it!

Judiezones · 25/07/2025 14:04

My neighbour in my old house was always arguing with her husband. He was always picking fights over ridiculous things to wind her up. One time I was in the garden and could hear a real humdinger. She came outside and said they'd been rowing about whether or not Andy Murray's wife had a job and did she give enough money to charity.
Neither of them knew Andy or his wife nor details of their finances.

the80sweregreat · 25/07/2025 14:11

Eldest had a row with one of his friends over bread and if you can keep it fresher in the fridge or not.
They never did agree to disagree that it didn’t matter that much what you did, everyone’s different as to where they keep the bread.

Judiezones · 25/07/2025 14:17

the80sweregreat · 25/07/2025 13:13

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.

That sounds just like my mum! She took offence when she wrote art decor and I told her it was deco. Lots of arguing about how she'd always known it was decor and did I think she was stupid. When I showed it to her in a book, she didn't speak to me for ages. Similar happened when she said Convent Garden.

LivelyFinch · 25/07/2025 14:17

My brother and I once had a massive argument which ended with him storming off. All because he didn't agree with how I was going to spend my imaginary million pound lottery winnings.

Livpool · 25/07/2025 14:41

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Po and Lala are female and Dipsy and Tinky Winky are male - everyone knows that!

Lovesacake · 25/07/2025 14:44

Once had an argument with a friend about the possible future expansion of the Euro zone that descended into tears and us not speaking for a week 😂

godmum56 · 25/07/2025 14:46

the80sweregreat · 25/07/2025 12:44

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

It was still called the baths in the 60's and 70's and in 75/76 DH and I went and used the public baths at Jacobs Wells in Bristol. It was when natural gas was coming in and the flat we were going to rent had been empty at the time. When they went round doing the conversions, any properties that they couldn't get access to were just disconnected from mains gas. They went round at the end of each conversions block to convert the ones they had missed but it took a month for us to have hot water, or a cooker because that was gas too. No central heating at all in the flat, just a couple of gas fires. It was a cold november!

GoFaster83 · 25/07/2025 14:58

I told my friend that Stephen Gately was gay because a friend of my sister had dated him. She was so angry that I had apparently ruined her chances of marrying him that she didnt speak to me for a week.

Phoebesparrow · 25/07/2025 15:04

Livpool · 25/07/2025 14:41

Po and Lala are female and Dipsy and Tinky Winky are male - everyone knows that!

not my dickhead ex!lol
It was a full on row with him shouting 'the red ones a boy!'
It's a hill I will always die on

Livpool · 25/07/2025 15:10

Phoebesparrow · 25/07/2025 15:04

not my dickhead ex!lol
It was a full on row with him shouting 'the red ones a boy!'
It's a hill I will always die on

When DS was about 3 he could see Po was a girl
lol!

Livpool · 25/07/2025 15:13

My brother is 10 years older than me and was always starting arguments with me (I assume because I was young and slightly obnoxious 🤦🏼‍♀️). I never understood why though (I was about 5 and him 15) as my only retort was “shut up” or “I’m telling Mum”!

LeeshaPaper · 25/07/2025 15:15

A family member bought a new (to them) car for cheap. Asked another family member to guess how much they bought it for and kept saying triumphantly "no! less than that" to every guess. After three guesses, the guesser stormed off upstairs screaming "you're making a fucking show of me" I was dying trying to hold in the laughter at the whole thing

youalright · 25/07/2025 15:15

oishutup · 25/07/2025 09:56

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!

🤣🤣🤣 this is my level of petty I would of sat their for days and called work to say I wouldn't be in

MarxistMags · 25/07/2025 15:18

My DH and I had a massive row about a house in France which was for sale at a very reasonable price. It was on aTV programme we were watching. It was beside a river and just out of the town. My DH declared we should buy it at that great price, he could have his boat there and sail every day.
I said we'd have to go and look at it first, he said someone might buy it before we got there so he would buy it unseen right now. I said don't be ridiculous, so it turned into a slanging match, ending with me telling him to fuck off to France and not come back.
We had no intention of ever buying a house in France and never have.

Cravey · 25/07/2025 16:40

A m&s cake almost caused a divorce for us. He was sent to get the cake while I had a scan at hospital. No cake. Absolute meltdown from me as I was sure he hadn’t looked properly ( he had ). Poor bugger drove 20 miles to go to another store. In my defence I had bad news from the scan. Still talked about now.

lifetheuniverseandeverything42 · 25/07/2025 17:12

My children had an argument about playing catch with an imaginary ball. I wish I could remember all of it but I think they were arguing about whether one of them caught the ball or not. The fact that the ball was not real seemed to completely bypass them. They haven’t really stopped arguing since to be honest.

BloodyHellBob · 25/07/2025 17:21

@TheBewleySistersabsolutely they’re the best, well known fact! I’m not even fussy about whether they’re northern Tayto or southern Tayto both are food heaven in a crisp sammich! 😁

Dragonfly97 · 25/07/2025 17:24

A bloke having a tantrum ( in front of his young son) in Costa, because the cake he wanted wasn't available. He stormed out.

Weepixie · 25/07/2025 17:42

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It’s a ‘backie’ where I’m from in Scotland.

Phoebesparrow · 25/07/2025 17:45

Dp's just reminded me of the Beverly Hills 90210 (a TV programme in the 90's) row I had with my brother
I swore it was 90210 and he swore it was 9101210
I won the row but only because I punched him and broke his nose