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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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enigmainthemist · 27/07/2025 10:03

SchnizelVonKrumm · 27/07/2025 09:09

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

I'm pretty sure they are bluebells - if I ever hear them arguing again I might shout over my confirmation lol

ConcernedOfClapham · 27/07/2025 10:33

FightingTemeraire · 25/07/2025 10:30

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

Oh God, yes 😆😆😆

Missj25 · 27/07/2025 10:36

MyUmberSeal · 25/07/2025 10:34

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 🤣.

🤣 🤣

Missj25 · 27/07/2025 10:42

Friday evening just gone , my daughter , 23 & I were discussing a lady we both know , 82 with severe dementia..
My daughter asked me a random question “ if I had severe severe dementia right now , what would you do ?” , I said I would need to place you in a care home as i couldn’t care for you myself with working full time & looking after your sisters , 17 & 14 ..Obviously I’d see you every day ..
She got cross with me & gave out 😂
She stayed cross with me for the evening, like FFS 😂..

TheCurious0range · 27/07/2025 10:44

BarnacleBeasley · 25/07/2025 13:18

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'.

Crevice tool is right, hoover beak is better

Anotheronelikeit · 27/07/2025 10:46

I had an argument in a pub when I was 19/20 with a very drunk acquaintance over whether the earth was flat. I was sober, and rather amused by the sheer idiocy of his argument. Obviously I was arguing it was NOT flat.
A third person did join in to strengthen my argument, but that then annoyed me and I made an sub-argument with them.
So 2 drunks, 1 sober and although I was absolutely right about the earth not being flat I was the idiot arguing with drunk people.

Nannylovesshopping · 27/07/2025 10:58

Jeez I’m so argumentative, I can have a row with myself!
I am so enjoying this thread🤣

Ilovemychocolate · 27/07/2025 11:08

I look after children.
Two 3 year olds in the back of the car.
One says out of the blue “my daddy”
Other one responds “no,my daddy”
They then had a furious argument for ages, shouting “MY DADDY!!!!!” at each other, for no apparent reason whatsoever.
What made it even funnier is one of them doesn’t even have a daddy! (Lesbian parents) 😃

LaurieFairyCake · 27/07/2025 11:47

Last year my DH and I argued over wall colours in a house we bought. He was adamant that the bit above the French doors that led into the sitting room was a different colour from the wall.

So I said ‘you think the cheap developer we bought this from painted 6 inches above these doors a different colour to the entire hallway’ Confused

he was so OBVIOUSLY wrong, it just looked a tiny bit different as the light from the front door lit it up.

we still can’t talk about it 😂 as I think he’s too fuckwitted beyond words to think that

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 27/07/2025 12:13

WalterMittysPuppet · 25/07/2025 17:56

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.

This one is my favourite.

Seriously though, where would you put your testicles really? Because on your forehead is ridiculous.

KawasakiBabe · 27/07/2025 12:21

DH and I once had an argument about whether everyone in the world would know who Alex Ferguson was. I mean clearly not even close to everyone, he’s an idiot!

LionessesRawr · 28/07/2025 02:27

Couple lost in Epcot.

woman- it’s left
man- no it’s right
woman- it clearly says left on the map
man - hunny I was in Iraq I know how to read a map it’s right
woman- YOU’RE NOT IN FUCKING IRAQ NOW! WE’RE IN FUCKING EPCOT AND THE DRINKING AROUND TNE WORLD STARTS THERE (points 👈🏻👇) WHICH IS FUCKING LEFT

WalterMittysPuppet · 28/07/2025 12:29

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 27/07/2025 12:13

This one is my favourite.

Seriously though, where would you put your testicles really? Because on your forehead is ridiculous.

That's what he says! My defence is IT'S NOT A REAL QUESTION 🤣

scalt · 29/07/2025 06:32

Ellmau · 27/07/2025 09:27

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

If I remember rightly from school, fish have “single” hearts - the blood goes from the heart, through the body, then the gills to be oxygenated, then back to the heart. The blood doesn’t go back to the heart again between the body and the gills, unlike in mammals.

Damnloginpopup · 29/07/2025 07:41

godmum56 · 25/07/2025 12:03

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

Get back in your box, you!

🤣

scalt · 29/07/2025 07:43

WalterMittysPuppet · 25/07/2025 17:56

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.

He must have been reading Families and How to Survive Them. There is a cartoon of two boys (learning about facts of life) seeing girls’ boobs, saying “girls have testicles too, great big ones”. The other says “but what a silly place to put them”.

godmum56 · 29/07/2025 07:50

Damnloginpopup · 29/07/2025 07:41

Get back in your box, you!

🤣

🤣

RichPetuniaAgain · 29/07/2025 08:01

Apologies to sidetrack, but a poster mentioned earlier that there’s a Princes in the tower thread. Could someone let me know where it is please? Have looked, can’t find it!

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 29/07/2025 08:03

RichPetuniaAgain · 29/07/2025 08:01

Apologies to sidetrack, but a poster mentioned earlier that there’s a Princes in the tower thread. Could someone let me know where it is please? Have looked, can’t find it!

Same! Really want to read that!!

RichPetuniaAgain · 29/07/2025 08:07

Found it! Look for posts by HenryTudor1485 😁

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 29/07/2025 08:13

Got it -thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damnloginpopup · 29/07/2025 09:42

BunnyLake · 27/07/2025 08:53

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.

How can you say that? Taytos Prawn cocktail are THE BEST (even better than their salt and vinegar which is usually better with other brands). Cheese and onion are fucking MINGING and shouldn't even be made let alone eaten. Even in a sarnie.

IAmNeverThePerson · 29/07/2025 09:55

DS1 and DS2 once squared up to each other about something to do with black/white holes. We were in the woods without phone signal so no possibility of checking.

Only ended when I suggested that if they laid a hand on each other the next hand they would be feeling would be mine. They walked back to the car in stoney silence one either side of me (for safety).

They were 8 and 10.

They only calmed down when a friend of mine walked past and asked what the matter was. She is a happens to be creationist, so they were able to join forces (internally because she is lovely and they are not rude). Because however wrong the other one was they weren’t that wrong. 😂.

BunnyLake · 29/07/2025 09:56

Damnloginpopup · 29/07/2025 09:42

How can you say that? Taytos Prawn cocktail are THE BEST (even better than their salt and vinegar which is usually better with other brands). Cheese and onion are fucking MINGING and shouldn't even be made let alone eaten. Even in a sarnie.

I’ve never heard of Taytos (I also hate salt & vinegar) 😁

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