"We'll have to agree to disagree then"

[Sparrowlegs248]

Er.....no, you're wrong.

Iabu by getting so annoyed about this, particularly as it was on a fb group. (I know......) but the subject in question wasn't a matter of opinion, (as suggested) but a simple fact.

Its a bit of a cop out isn't it?

BUT yabu because without this phrase How would we deal with the homeopatists?!? That's so true and exactly the 'facts' I was assuming this was about. My child was cured by a 5 million dilution of sage Bullshit.

I find that these 2 quotes help

Um, did you mean homeopaths?

If you ever get a bill from a homeopath just give them a penny in a jug of water.

sometimes theres not a wrong or right. maybe thats why people agree to disagree.

but as others have said if its fact we need to know the fact. it could be a miff/fiction

Sometimes if you like or respect a person but they have a twattish opinion on one issue it is better to agree to disagree and let it go. Yes, I'm looking at you DH and your conspiracy theories......

Homeopaths!! That's the word the gin was hiding from me!

Yes homeopaths -point still valid-

My mother believed that the human race had evolved rapidly over the past 50 years, with the outcome that women were fertile for longer than they had been in the past. Nothing we could say would dissuade her from the belief that all women in their 40s can now fall pregnant just as easily as women in their 20s do (in general).

We tried to explain establishment of careers and needing to save money and all those things pushing the average age up, but she wouldn't have it - insisted that we'd just evolved significantly as a race in that short space of time. It was weird!

My mum said this to me today. The fact she was disputing was that I saw her 2 weeks ago. She refuses to believe me (dementia) so we had to agree to disagree. But that's about as incontrovertible as I can think of.

Why do you need to be right on Facebook ?

Is someone disagreeing with you on social media so important to you it justified a thread elsewhere on social media. You sound a bit over invested.

Time to step away from the keyboard.

I spent far too long this week arguing with homeopath believers on Facebook. I left the group and was far happier.

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What was the subject? You neeeeeed to tell us.

Even if you 100% know you are right and have proof etc, please don't be that person! One of my sisters is so argumentative and would argue that grass is red no matter what proof you had, she cannot leave an argument without being told she is right. I have said let's agree to disagree in the past, once at my mums birthday meal(!) and she just couldn't leave it at that.

A newspaper article on a health-related topic contained a simple sentence that, due to a grammatical error, said the exact opposite of what it meant to say. (So said the more dangerous of two foods was the healthier.)

I emailed the editor, initially just questioned what she was trying to say. Her reply confirmed it was supposed to mean the opposite of what it did say, and that even after my drawing her attention to it, she didn't see a problem. So I told her it said the opposite of what she thought, and included links to references. She replied asking me if I wanted to teach her to suck eggs. (Which may have been a joke, as one of the foods was eggs.) As the article was never corrected, and the email conversation took place within an hour of it being published online, I think I'm reasonable in assuming that she never changed her mind about being right.

I gave up on her and started an AIBU about it, in which the vast majority agreed I was right. Closure achieved.

Should have clarified. lighthearted

I didn't argue, just the initial comment, and one follow up.