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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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Over600Ecalypts · 28/02/2018 12:49

With the bloke who ran the Youth Hostel in southern Australia - over whether it's tortoises or turtles that swim in the sea. He was adamant that tortoises were the sea creatures - mainly because he'd said that first, realised that I was right but just.couldn't.back.down. I decided to let it go because we wanted to see the fairy penguins more than win this argument. It was a moral victory.

beepthemeep · 28/02/2018 12:55

There are fairy penguins?????????

TO THE GOOGLE!

beepthemeep · 28/02/2018 12:58

OH MY GOD!!!

Sorry to derail but also not sorry Grin

What is the most ridiculous argument you have ever had?
What is the most ridiculous argument you have ever had?
What is the most ridiculous argument you have ever had?
VladmirsPoutine · 28/02/2018 13:18

My ex H and I once argued over the film IT. You know the one with the scary clown. I was adamant that it was based on Stephen King's novel by the same title and he thought it was just a film. We didn't talk for about 3 days. I even showed him the Wikipedia page and he responded by telling me that "any twat can edit Wikipedia". I honestly googled divorce lawyers over that argument.

frasier · 28/02/2018 13:20

oooh Phillip Island? I went there.

Cath2907 · 28/02/2018 13:26

My daughter and I once had a day long row about whether she was going to put clothes on. She declared she was going to stay naked. I wanted us to go out and do something and wanted her to get dressed. This was an argument we had a lot and this day I refused to wrestle her into clothes so she spent the whole day appearing (naked) and then screeching at me and disappearing howling when I said I wouldn't play with her until she got dressed. Had a LOVELY day inbetween the screeching reading my book whilst she sulked elsewhere. I think she finally gave in around 4pm and we made up. Have never had such a bad row since (she was about 4 I think).

beepthemeep · 28/02/2018 13:29

Actually, why aren't all the answers AIBU threads?! Grin

thenewaveragebear1983 · 28/02/2018 13:40

I had an argument in my head with a MN poster because I questioned the fact that so far this week they’ve asked questions such as:
what was your favourite subject at school?
what jobs would you not want to do?what job would you not want your kids to do?
what’s your strangest injury?
what’s the most ridiculous argument you’ve ever had?
have you ever mistakenly taken something that didn’t belong to you? (which if anyone’s interested is the winner of the prize for the dullest OP ever )
What’s the most damage done to your home?
What time you went into labour?
What was your first ever job?
Have you ever messaged the wrong person?

And of course ‘what’s the most pointless fact you know?’

Are you conducting some kind of census OP? Or are you going to correlate your results into some kind of you-gov-Esque data bank that will inform us that those who go into labour at night are less likely to have children who grow up to be airline pilots against our wishes, but more likely to have spilled paint on their new carpets?

Over600Ecalypts · 28/02/2018 13:48

Not Phillip Island but that is a good place to go see the fairy penguins.

Corkscrewbetty · 28/02/2018 13:54

A Big Issue seller said: "Big Issue, ladies?" to my mum and me. My mum heard: "You're a bitch, lady!" and I had to hold her back from hitting him. We still argue about it to this day. She won't have it that the man didn't call her a bitch. My sister and I think it's hilarious, but if we ever mention it, her nostrils flare and we get scared.

DarthNigel · 28/02/2018 13:56

Fleetwoodsmack...what do you mean by 'sound'? Grin

meettherussians · 28/02/2018 14:01

Another (as others have said this was cause of argument !)!ridiculous argumet with DH last weekend over a flipping phone charger

Theyhaveallbeenused2 · 28/02/2018 14:05

What would win in a fight between a shark and an elephant! I was team shark

9GreenBottles · 28/02/2018 14:06

Who would pay the conveyancing and estate agents fees to sell our house if my DP were to die before me, and I was to remarry and continue living in the house: my hypothetical future husband (being turfed out of his home) or his son.

That turned into a screaming match.

whoami24601 · 28/02/2018 14:10

DH and I argued just this week (we hardly ever argue!) over him saying horrid things to me. It wasn't until he, completely bewildered, asked me to tell him what I thought he'd said that I had to admit I had no idea 😳

MissionItsPossible · 28/02/2018 14:11

@BumDisease Well OP did want ridiculous arguments Grin

What made it funner (looking back) was that we didn't just laugh and say "Well we were both wrong" when we found out. We kept sniping back and forth:

"I told you she wasn't born in America"

"Yeah? Well I told you she wasn't born in Canada"

SharonBottsPoundOfGrapes · 28/02/2018 14:13

My brother swore you couldn't spend Irish euro's anywhere else other than Ireland. It was at work and we told him it's the whole point of the euro and he wouldn't have it. He got so het up that he was threatening to kick heads in and all sorts. It was so bizarre but it was a taste of his behaviour still to come. I'm nc with him now. (Not because of Euro argument).

MissionItsPossible · 28/02/2018 14:15

@VladmirsPoutine

My BF had a flounce over Drag Me to Hell (made a thread in AIBU about it ages ago actually) and someone provided me with a wikipedia link which he refused to look at because "anyone can edit it".

Beamur · 28/02/2018 14:16

My DH (then DP) had a furious row in the car about his Mum bringing cheerios with her when she visited. I asked him to stop the car so I could get out I was so angry.

UnderTheDesk · 28/02/2018 14:20

I had a argument with someone once about how different time zones don't mean that time travel is possible. He was insistent that they did and I was too hungover to argue with stupid.

SistersOfPercy · 28/02/2018 14:20

I once had an argument with my Mum over bleach. I'd taken her shopping at met her at the till where she had decided to stockpile bleach. She had about ten bottles of value stuff in her trolley. I joked that Tesco would put her on the terrorism list. She was not amused and proceeded to shout at me at the checkout. I walked out and left her to it😂
As an aside, when I cleared the house after she died last year there were half a dozen bottles between bathrooms and under the sink.

SharonBottsPoundOfGrapes · 28/02/2018 14:22

Now it's been mention dh has refused to concede as he doesn't trust Wikipedia (when it suits him) either. I once had to dig out an encyclopedia to prove a point once and he ignored me for 2 days he was so angry I'd proven my point. It was because the thing I was right about is something he considers himself to be an absolute expert in. Grin

BattleaxeGalactica · 28/02/2018 14:35

Probably the one I had with dd who helped herself to a good half of the little that was left of the Day Nurse I'd been hoarding eking out last Christmas when the shops were closed and no hope of more for several days.

In my defence (and this is nothing but the truth m'lud) the cold I was suffering from had been going on a couple of weeks and was indeed to carry on for a couple more. Day nurse was the only thing touching it. DD's was a just started sniffle but still...

Teutonic · 28/02/2018 14:39

A malteser!
A full on screaming, door slamming, divorce threatening row over one solitary malteser!
He slid his hand into the bag while I was distracted and ate the fucker!
30 years on I've still not forgiven him. The sticky fingered bastard. 😡

DailyMailFail101 · 28/02/2018 14:42

I had an argument with my husband over who got to clean the windows, we both wanted to as the other had to look after the poorly kids. He won