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What is the most ridiculous argument you have ever had?

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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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Weebo · 03/03/2018 20:26

I thought he ate the Picnic bar I had set aside for myself - He denied all knowledge of it even being there.

This ended with me seriously calling him a liar and thief. I actually cried.

I may have been suffering from PMS.

BattleaxeGalactica · 03/03/2018 20:34

On the kids front I can recall having to referee a fight over the only black Duplo block in a box of many hundreds of blue/red/yellow blocks of equal or greater size...

Timeandtune · 03/03/2018 20:39

I remember being well nigh hysterical with poor DH because he happened to mention to the child minder he had fish fingers for tea.
I felt massively judged by her ( probably all in my addled, back to work and sleep deprived head).

LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 03/03/2018 20:41

I had a WhatsApp row with my sister over an emoji! I told her it was Bowie she said it was Prince. It went back and forth, with both of us questioning why the other was being so difficult then she flounced off as much as you can in a WhatsApp argument
It turned out that on her phone she had Prince but I saw Bowie and I had Bowie but she saw Prince! Grin

LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 03/03/2018 20:41

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Teacher22 · 03/03/2018 20:43

He took your Wispa? He took tyour WISPA?

Oh, the levels of saintly forgiveness in the world. It makes me feel humble to think about it.

MiniPharm · 03/03/2018 21:12

While backpacking with my friend - an argument over whether Erasure were good (her) or shit (me). We didn't talk for 2 days, while on one of the most beautiful and remote islands in South America Sad

With another friend - argument about whether Madonna has still got it (her) or a bit past it (me). Ruined an otherwise lovely meal out Shock

Polkadot1974 · 03/03/2018 21:26

Another phone charger argument here. DH taking the wires from the plugs and responding very badly to my asking if he was “Fecking eating them and where the feck was MY charger from the bedroom?”
Insisted he was innocent and showed me in wonder about three days later while shaking his head “look at this. I’ve got 4 cables in my laptop bag!” “How funny”
I properly wanted to scream

thebewilderness · 03/03/2018 21:31

Whether or not to count the block you are on when telling someone how many blocks away the next bar is. They were all three sheets to the wind.

Ladylimpet · 03/03/2018 21:59

Some of these are hilarious!
Me and my boyfriend argued about the filter on my washing machine. It had broken (couldn't get it out)..it looked wedged in to me like it had gone in on angle. He said it wasn't. He'd just made tea and told me to eat and we'd sort it later...but I'm an impatient bugger and lay on the floor in my tiny kitchen going on about angles. He told me if I said angle again he was going home! Both of us getting proper pissed off! I just went and had a shower and was hysterically laughing to myself while shouting... angle, angle, angle.
Think we were both tired 😂

fourcorneredcircle · 03/03/2018 22:05

DH and I regularly row about my choice in paint colour. He’s fucking colourblind. Hmm

maximum4 · 03/03/2018 22:26

DH and I had ‘OnionGate’ at CP Logleat in front of a villa full of family and friends - we were cooking dinner for 12 of us - (errr why?! Did we even agree to do that?!)

It was ridiculous and almost ended up in divorce - we were cooking a bolognase sauce together - DH didn’t want me to fry the onions and garlic first. He wanted to just cook the minced beef - and not even add onions. Suffice to say we can laugh about it now but at the time it was HUGE and in front of everyone! Plus we generally never argue even after 27 years of wedded bliss!

Recently my DS3 (14) has his braces removed. DS1 (18) was waiting in the car. When we came out of the orthodontist - they proceeded to debate who had the straightest teeth - with DS1 stating that having naturally straight teeth was best - as opposed to DS3 having required treatment to straighten them - quickly it became an argument with the 18 year old being unable to admit defeat! Again hilarious and they both still laugh about it!

PixieN · 03/03/2018 22:45

This is so funny. My DH & I always argue over how to stack the dishes. He has a particular way of drying plates & cutlery for maximum efficiency (including leaving a tea towel underneath Hmm ), whereas I don’t care. I thought it might be better when we went on holiday & had a dishwasher, but DH moaned that the idiotic cleaners had put the egg cups upside down, which gathered dirty water at the top - I listened to him rant for a while, then admitted that I was the culprit. It was funny listening to him back track Grin

Awhoosh · 03/03/2018 22:47

@HerrenaHarridan that sounds sad. I hope you sort things out (if that's what you want).

Stormwhale · 03/03/2018 22:49

I had an argument with a woman in a car park. I had been following the flow of the traffic to leave the car park, and stopped when the car in front stopped. This woman walked straight into the back of my car, and then proceeded to shout at me for stopping. I pointed out that if I had not stopped I would have hit the car in front, but she kept shouting at me as she walked away. Apparently I was a stupid woman, and I could have seriously hurt her. Confused baffled is an understatement.

amzi · 03/03/2018 22:53

I once had an argument with a friend about a celebrity’s mole, didn’t speak to the girl for 2 months after. We were both extremely petty 14 year olds.

BBTHREE76 · 04/03/2018 00:26

Not read the whole thread but mine is with DH over whether Die Hard is a Xmas film. Never resolved as neither one of us will give in, and we sort of skate around this topic every Xmas so it doesn’t start up again. 😬

Sloegin2 · 04/03/2018 00:34

This has made me laugh as DH and I have had a stupid argument tonight.
It was about Paul Walker’s death - speed vs faulty harness . I haven’t spoken to him since because I’m so angry about it!

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 04/03/2018 01:29

Whether or not 12 was the same as a dozen. We nearly came to blows.Grin

OJZJ · 04/03/2018 04:52

SteaksauceGrin I had a very similar tantrum with my five year old son.... he kept stealing the Mario 1 ups instead of sharing them fairly or killing me in various ways (as he does with his friend) I had a complete tantrum after about the 4th/5th time and threw my remote whilst refusing to play any more.... I am a 45 year old woman ffs!!! (I apologized afterwards-honestly)

OJZJ · 04/03/2018 05:10

Theyhaveallbeenused2
Taken the bait here....
Are said elephant and shark fighting to the death on land or in water? Grin

OJZJ · 04/03/2018 05:38

About 12 years ago when young and foolish I had so many spectacular rows with my ex which would usually end up with her storming off to her mums... a few that stand out....
A frozen chicken!... came home from a 12 hour shitty shift at work to find she hasn't taken the Chuck out of the freezer.... cue her storming off to her mother's saying we had split up....
Jeramy Kyle... I worked two jobs to make ends meet whilst she say at home watching Jeremy fucking Kyle all day(her unemployment lasted 7 years think she only got a job after we split)Took a week's holiday to spend time together. She got up and watched an episode... i bit my tongue... followed by a second episode .... words were had.... followed by a third fucking episode ..... cue me packing my bags and driving 300 miles to my sisters stating it was OVER!!! Needless to say I HATE THESE TYPES OF PROGRAMMES

Once had an argument can't remember what over but I lobbed her clothes and belongings out of the window
(Flat in the town centre above a shop) and sent her packing and as she was bent over retrieving them I lobbed a mop bucket of dirty water over her in front of a pub full of people.... never run so quick in my life when she came storming back in ....
Not a naturally volatile person she just brought out the worst in me lol ..strangely enough we are still friends

OJZJ · 04/03/2018 05:40

Longer than 12 years ago i cant autocorrect my typo error

BurningGubbins · 04/03/2018 06:03

Over an instalment of Wonkey Donkey from SMTV live. The answer was “tuna crooner”, which my best friend insisted didn’t work (it doesn’t, in her regional accent). She thought the programme had made a mistake, I said the problem was the way she spoke. Hangovers were involved. It got ugly.

ImogenTubbs · 04/03/2018 07:04

I had an argument with a friend over the number of claps in the Friends theme tune.

DH and I had an argument about strawberries and whether it was xenophobic to say British strawberries are nicer than Spanish ones.

I was right both times, obviously.