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 is expressly covered in the rules. The property owner must ask for their rent, before the next player throws the dice. If they fail to ask, the rent is null and void.

Mind you, some of my maths pupils told me that Monopoly was banned in their house.

As a netball umpire, I've seen more petty arguments than I can count. And the worst culprits are the adults, rather than the children or teenagers. The adult players are likely to say "I've been playing netball since before you were born..."

I agree with @DeanStockwelll on all counts!

Oh I know even after seeing it in black and white he refused to accept it.

My DH is fond of firing random stupid questions at me which I answer irritably with the first thing that comes into my head. One day he asked, "If you had a pair of testicles but they had to go anywhere but between your legs, where would you have them?"

I blurted out, "Oh FFS, on my forehead."

He spent the next hour arguing that it was a stupid place to put them. I said it was not a question that required a sensible answer so I could pick wherever I wanted. He rang round all of his friends, siblings and the children to confirm that they would not pick such a stupid place as I had. I stuck resolutely to having them dangle in front of my eyes and he still brings it up now.

Massive row with my darling late FiL (who was pissed tbf) over whether 75% was the same as three-quarters. He was adamant that it isn’t. It went on all night and all the next day and only ended because I had to catch a plane home.

I witnessed to middle age men have a screaming match over a hot desk earlier this week.

It appeared one had booked it and the other sat in it.

What started as "you may have booked it but you weren't here".....and ended with "you've always been an nasty entitled bollix".

There were at least 20 other free desks in the room.

It's now with HR!

I mentioned it in the raffle thread; in a discussion about a raffle to raise funds for the blind, whether it was appropriate for the child drawing the raffle to be blindfolded.

Two 6 yr olds playing rock paper scissors at opposite ends of a dark room.... behold the second player was having a little think before answering.

My husband and I have a Rottie, hence my name lol , we were on a road trip in Germany with our dog being looked after by family. I was determined to visit and spend a little time in the town of Rottweil as there Is a statue of a Rottweiler. Having looked at photos, I was convinced we were only a few feet away from it, But husband decided Google was better informed of directions, it took us the whole way round the town in opposite direction before realising I was right. The other people in the town must have been having a great time watching us . It was quite late in afternoon when we arrived but shops were open. by the time we found statue all the shops were shut so that just added to the argument lol

At the Highland Games a few years back and me and my husband had a heated row about the outfits worn by the girls competing in the Highland dancing competitions. With absolutely no background knowledge he insisted they had two sets, e.g. like home and away strips to avoid duplication of colours. Now whilst the dancers did seem to always compete in different coloured dresses I just couldn't think he was right about this. The argument raged all weekend and back down the motorway for 8 hours

I had a massive public row with my sister many years ago because we disagreed about a movie we’d just seen ( my sister was the instigator but I engaged). It was a proper screaming match 🤭 Neither of us are anti-social public nuisances so to have such a blazing row outside was very ‘not us’.

My DCs once had a huge row over possession of a leaf.

We were standing in a forest at the time

Another thread that needs the laughing emoji, sigh.

Our house backs onto the Sussex downs and we frequently have dog walkers walking behind our garden fence. The other day I heard the following argument (imagine in a Ray Winston type accent):

Man: "Ahhhhh look at that- bluebells are out!"
Woman: "those arent bluebells, they're blue flowers"
man: "of course they're fcking bluebells"
Woman: "NO, they arent"
Man: "YES they fcking are, they're fcking BLUE and they're fcking BELL shaped"
Woman: "they arent fcking bluebells"

and this carried on until all I could hear was a whisper in the distance with them still going at it.

What a shame that they couldnt enjoy their bluebell walk without arguing 😂

Even Catherine Zeta Jones is public about her love for crisp butties.

The only thing ‘wrong’ would be if they were those awful prawn cocktail flavour. Cheese & Onion all the way.

Between my mum and dad about which one of them put a spoon in the fork section of the cutlery drawer.

But Skips are not crisps. I would be really disappointed if I was given Skips on the side with a sandwich.

But were they bluebells, or other bell-shaped blue flowers?

I'm a nursery teacher (preschool class) so I've heard my fair share of ridiculous arguments, one in particular stands out to me though, 2 little girls aged 4 sitting across the table from me as I did some paper work arguing back and forth:
"You're a chicken bollock"
"No, you're a chicken bollock!"
No idea where they got the phrase but I felt like a prize chicken bollock having to explain to parents at home time...

I hate those silly people. Just a simple no thanks would do but they have to be a knob head!

H put the bedding on inside out one too many times and I packed his bags. Very unhinged. I was very heavily pregnant and I just couldn't cope with it at all. He has been shunned from any laundry or bedding application for years now. At the time H stood simply asking where he went wrong and could I help. I was ready for divorce.

Whether fish have hearts. No one actually looked it up...

Same with my Aunt. She contradicts herself mid-sentence and then gets angry with you for agreeing with her.

Two men arguing in the pub I worked in early 00s about where the, long gone, coal mine trains went to. It got so heated that I'd to call my dad to dig out old maps (he liked that sort of thing) to settle the argument. After that they would sit at opposite ends of the bar after being childhood friends & living in the same village they grew up in. I don't think they ever spoke to each other again.