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What is the most ridiculous argument you have ever had?

195 replies

Pointlessfact · 27/02/2018 21:37

I remember when I was in high school , me and my mate had an argument about Liverpool football club only buying players people hadn't heard off

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Igneococcus · 28/02/2018 06:18

We had a massive argument, where both of us thought the other one had gone completely mad, over if eagles are mammals or not. We are both biologists. And then I suddenly realized that my brain had morphed the German word Igel with the English word eagle (pronounced the same way) and I was talking about hedgehogs, not the bird of prey dp was talking about.
We still ocassionally disagree if the fabulous Chrysler Avenger stationwagon I drove when I met dp first was green or blue, that's more than 20 years ago. It was green of course.

emmyrose2000 · 28/02/2018 06:31

Broccoli.

Three days after giving birth to DC1, my mother visited me in hospital just after lunch time. She went on and on and on and on and on about how I hadn't eaten the broccoli that was left on my plate. (I'd eaten everything else). I'd only eaten broccoli once before on my life and decided it was disgusting (which she knew), so have no idea why she thought I was going to eat it that day!

Thank goodness there wasn't anyone else around to hear out loud whispered argument or witness me being reduced to tears by own mother over something so stupid. It's irrelevant that the three day blues probably contributed to the tears. It's still all her fault.

SD1978 · 28/02/2018 06:34

I cocked the cheap sausages instead of the posh ones for dinner for me and DH.......he was so disappointed as he’d been looking forward to them all day, he ended the marriage that night. Have never had those sausages since. And yup- I’d say there was obviously a tad more going on for him than juts the sausages, but still amuses me that technically we divorced over cheap sausages 😂😂😂

SD1978 · 28/02/2018 06:35

Cooked. Even. I did not have nefarious relationships with a sausage.

ToffeeNosed · 28/02/2018 06:54

At Christmas staying at my best friends. She was about to stuff the chickens - neck?! "That's not it's neck, it's its arse! We bickered all morning with me showing her where the legs were (either side of its arse). In the end I said ok just to keep the peace.
She was studying psychology and had beeen given various experiments to do the time. I think my reaction was one of them.

DarthNigel · 28/02/2018 09:00

Over wether Roy Keane is a nice person or not.

GaspingGekko · 28/02/2018 09:20

Over whether Maria Sharapova and Princess Diana behaved like each other! Blush

DoJo · 28/02/2018 09:30

Over whether his favourite cardigan was grey (it was) or brown (definitely not).

Oh my - I think your husband and mine might have the same cardigan! I ended up canvassing opinion from everyone we met and had a 100% success rate until one of my friends felt sorry for my husband and pretended to agree with him. It was very sweet of her, until she forgot that she had claimed to see it the same as him about 8 seconds later and said 'It must be grey, otherwise it wouldn't go with what you are wearing' and blew her cover!

iklboo · 28/02/2018 09:31

With ex-p who was adamant Caesar crossed the Potomac, not the Rubicon. Complete with pitying head shakes about poor iklboo being so stupid and 'I thought you had an o level in history'.

I got a map to show him. He said that proved I was thick as everyone knows the world was one land mass at that time and that's how the Romans travelled so easily.

Steaksauce · 28/02/2018 09:37

My husband and I had a row and didn't speak for 3 days because he hit me with a shell just as I was about to cross the finish line in 1st place on Mario Kart.
He then beat me and did this smug victory dance in my face. I threw my Wii controller at him and it escalated from there.

We don't play each other at Mario Kart anymore Blush

Raffles1981 · 28/02/2018 09:40

My exDH once started an argument because I made macaroni for tea but didn't do any chips with it. I admit, I wasn't particularly hungry so didn't think about chips. You would have thought, from his reaction, that I had served up dinner and then spat on his plate. I took my plate upstairs, had dinner in peace while he went without and sulked all night. It was one of the many petty arguments he started. Madness.

FleetwoodSmack · 28/02/2018 09:57

Cooked. Even. I did not have nefarious relationships with a sausage.

Grin

Roy Keane is, if not exactly 'nice', sound, Darth.

My most ridiculous argument was with DH, in bed, about 3 am about the exact order of the songs on The Joshua Tree, and we refused to allow one another to check on the net.

The Joshua Tree came out in 1987, and this argument took place in our current house, so after 2012, but before U2 announced the Joshua Tree tour. So no, no idea why this was suddenly crucial in the small hours.

Wetwashing00 · 28/02/2018 10:04

An argument was started once because I wore his slippers, whilst he was asleep.

My DD started an argument at me because I made her a bacon sandwich without asking if she wanted one first. She did want one and ate it up glaring at me 😂

operaha · 28/02/2018 10:06

Had a full on storming off strop when we'd only been together a few weeks when we discussed a completely hypothetical stag do, where I asked what he'd do if there was a strip club involved, and he answered that he'd not thought about it as none of his friends would ever be up for it... it went on and on with me at one point shouting "you've got daughters"!!! . Yes there had been booze involved. Somehow we still ended up married and funnily enough he's not been to any strip clubs!

Wetwashing00 · 28/02/2018 10:13

UnicornPug

What is it with kids? My DD does the exact same!
Or she will ask a question?
‘Is grass green?’
‘Yes babe’
‘No it’s not!’

Seriously why ask me If you’re just going to disagree?

Tamatave2000 · 28/02/2018 10:18

Which end of egg to break
Which end of toothpaste tube to squeeze

velouria · 28/02/2018 10:25

Igneococcus I have the green/blue argument with various people on a regular basis Grin starting to wonder if I'm a bit colour blind (I'm always on the green side Hmm)

MissionItsPossible · 28/02/2018 10:32

Whether Rihanna was born in America or Canada.

iLoveABiccy · 28/02/2018 10:59

DP & I argued because my Card got sucked into the ATM machine haha he called me stupid! Little Shi*t Grin

Then one night I ate half of his McDonalds fries.. I had a few wines & I can consume a ridiculous amount of food when I do!.. So, whoops.

DannyLaRuesBestFrock · 28/02/2018 11:03

Mt husband and I were watching one of them programmes where an explorer meets secluded tribes.

This particular tribe ate monkeys.

I was vegetarian and pregnant at the time (relevant) and asked my husband if he would eat a monkey.

He said he would if he was starving and I went mad at him and started crying and never spoke to him for about 2 days as I was fuming with him and he told me I was being ridiculous 😂

tiredbutFuckIt · 28/02/2018 11:10

Not quite the same but someone I eventually fell out with insisted there was no such thing as the leaning tower of Pisa. They had never heard of it and I wasn’t going to convince them!

Eltonjohnssyrup · 28/02/2018 11:17

My mother was absolutely convinced that email addresses worked like telephone landline number codes and showed where a person was when they contacted you. So .com was sent from the US, .co.uk from the UK, .de from Germany.

A family friend was visiting the UK from Russia and had logged in and sent my Mum an email from her web based Russian account so ending with .ru

I met them for lunch but when I told my mother she accused me of lying and said she knew she was still in Russia because her email came from .ru

She wouldn’t listen to explanations, it’s like banging your head on a brick wall.

BumDisease · 28/02/2018 12:26

@missionitsimpossible she's actually from Barbados Wink

BumDisease · 28/02/2018 12:31

I once had a screaming match with my parents who wouldn't believe that their new smart tv would need an aerial to pick up freeview because "it's a smart tv". My dad seemed surprised when he phoned customer services and they told him the same thing.

beepthemeep · 28/02/2018 12:34

Day 3 after DD was born - argued over the fact that I didn't have the baby blues/raging hormones (I said I didn't, DP was adamant I did).

Later on, he came home with the wrong sort of 🧀 cheese (a weakling number 5 cheddar instead of the number 7 I like). And lo, there were many, many tears.

I think he may have been right all along.