Silliest arguments you've ever had with your spouse?

[SuperGinger]

DH has been cross with me for weeks after I told a very pretentious friend of mine that he watched "Love Island" apparently he has never watched it, it was TOWIE and I got muddled.

Probability. The question was “what are the odds of your third child being a girl if you’ve already had two girls” [50%, the third roll of the dice takes no account of what went before]. He thought the question was “what are the odds of having three girls” [different question, takes account of everything that went before in sequence, probability much lower]. DH speciality = maths, mine = English. This was 7 years ago and we still can’t talk about it.

😂😂😂😂

Centaurs. Bloody centaurs.

I asked a perfectly reasonable hypothetical question and he refused to humour me the mardy bastard.

I used the same question a few years later as an ice-breaker in a group interview. The two people we hired still talk about it now.

However, a scientist will tell you that having two children of the same sex does raise your likelihood of your third being the same sex! So dont have a scientist over for dinner and ask the question cos the row will never ever end!

😂😂 mental!

I once was craving shortbread and walkers chilli crisps (the big bag)

Dp said he'd stop off at asda on his way back from a friend's house but it ended in a row so bad he almost ran out of the house to get to the nearest supermarket

Came back and not only had he bought the wrong shortbread,(these where disks and i wanted the finger style) he'd paid £2.50 for the crisps (back when they where about a quid)

Through big fat and snotty tears,I refused to eat either and threw them on the floor with the poor bloke hiding in the kitchen and wondering why he's with me

I came on my period about an hour after he'd left to escape to his mates house-i remember just laying on the sofa,sobbing my eyes out

Only the second time in my life I've ever had pmt (the first was when ds dropped a sock on the floor and I lost it with the poor lad)

Hormones are awful,im just lucky he didn't leave me that day-I deserved for him to walk out and never come back (normally we are both really laid back)

I don't even like bloody shortbread

DP kindly bought a slice of cake for us both to share at a local cafe. She ate half of it and I ate one single bite. We had the rest of the slice of cake boxed up, so I ate the rest of it in the evening.

DP was annoyed the next day to find I ate the rest of my half! She shyly apologised in the end.

(The cake was delicious btw.)

Oh come on - you can NOT leave us hanging like that...

It'll be something like where are there lungs, do they have 2 sets?
Or about if the human part of the centaur develops the same as a human, so you have a goal with floppy baby head rolling about.

If there was a creature like a centaur but a giraffe / person rather than a horse / person, would it go giraffe body, human body, giraffe neck, human head or giraffe body, giraffe neck, human body, human head?

I manage front of house teams in cultural venues and being polite and patient when answering stupid questions is a key skill.

Neither… like a centaur it would be giraffe body attached to human torso then human neck and head. They meet at the top of the giraffe ribs and span up to the abdomen. No animal neck involved

I can only picture it as all giraffe with a man's head on top of the long neck. But the neck fades into man body. But is still neck.

It would be a giraffe body with a human from torso up attached. But would the human part be human-sized or giraffe-sized? Because it'll look daft if its human sized.

Neither. Giraffe body. Human torso and head.

Like a centaur.

As if a centaur doesn't look daft? 😁😁

Did you know we breathe through one nostril at a time, alternating in a cycle between right and left?

Mine and DH had a fight over Zorba the Greek. Whether living like you know it’s your last day on Earth is the same as living as you’d know you’d live forever. Would you change anything? I can’t remember who said what.

Nah you were in the wrong here

That’s how I picture it too

We had an argument that also DS who was 12 ended up involved in and he took his Dad's side.
It was about whether I should spend over a million on a dress for a particular event after Ronaldo's girlfriend reportedly had.
Firstly we don't have the kind of money, secondly the event was the Ballon D'or and I have never been and am not likely to ever go.
We argued for ages and it is still referenced now 😂😂

The physiology of the nasal cycle is fascinating and in no way comparable in credibility with the notion that the majority of people keep their lungs or their main accessory muscles of respiration in their shoulders.

You've been given several explanations as to why your husband was right - with links. Is it the phrasing you're taking issue with?

"Breathing with your shoulders" is commonly used to describe what happens because the person uses the upper muscles of their chest and shoulders to control their breathing. It also causes shallow breathing and is linked to stress, tension and poor posture. It's also really easy to see the upper chest and shoulder muscles doing the work when it's happening.

Me and DH had a right humdinger last week when he told DS that he should use his knife and fork in "The English way" or he will be judged by society
For context DH moved to The Uk at 9
He also asked why nobody had taught him to do it properly.I lost my shit because

1. I had cooked 2 nice meals for 3 of us (2 because DH is a vegetarian)
2. The impilcation was that I had somehow failed in my parenting duties
3. DS is 17 and is able to fit into all different types of society just fine
4. What even is The English way?
5. DH said this with a mouthfull of food
6. WTAF???

When everyone had calmed down it seems that when DH moved here and had to quickly learn English and a completey different culture while also dealing with his parents divorce he remembers being told that he had to do everything "The English way" now and was told off for using his cutlery wrong
In fact their whole integration wa shandled very badly by MIL to the extent that SIL refused to speak for 6 months and even now 40 years later can't speak or understand any of her native language and refuses anything to do with her culture

No, it's nothing to do with the phrasing, it's because it's blatant nonsense that the majority of people are breathing incorrectly in any way, let alone breathing "with their shoulders", and no number of randoms on Mumsnet "explaining" to me that my husband was right negates my own medical education and the evidence of my own eyes.

I mentioned it to my husband this morning. He replied, "That's absolute bullshit, did I really say that?" So he is now right 😄

About when spring starts. I’m Irish so it’s 1st Feb for me, but he’s British so that was still winter for him. And then it grew into when the other seasons start. August is autumn to me, leaves are coming down in Ireland then & it feels noticeably different than July. After over a decade him living on Irish soil, I think I’ve convinced him I was right 😁