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Next door are having a massive fight about google

363 replies

GingerFrogs · 28/09/2018 19:50

Screaming and shouting and swearing.

Something about "your not even fucking signed into google"

Walls are really thin.

What's the strangest fight you've heard?

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Flooffloof · 29/09/2018 21:59

Bonkers but I like it! It could be like your superpower! I can seeallthe blues!

Umm I got one Brown and one green eye, does that mean I see both colours equally?

Onecutefox · 29/09/2018 22:06

'well maybe if I'd have had my glasses 53 years ago I'd have picked a better looking husband!'
GrinGrinGrin hahaha

BigBumandMumTum · 29/09/2018 22:12

I don't know what the arguments about but he started shouting about "that fucking telly" which then crashed through the bedroom window.

A little while later he was out trying to convince the police officer that it had just fallen 😆

Kezzie200 · 29/09/2018 22:15

NYE when I was 18, many years ago, a drunk guy threatened my boyfriend as he couldnt get through to the toilet due to the place being heaving and really loud. I heard what he said but my boyfriend didnt and innocently said "pardon". Cue guy punching him. Cue boyfriend ducking with perfect timing. Cue me, with equally anti-perfect positioning, being punched on the nose!

At least drunk guy sobered up pretty quickly!

ThomasRichard · 29/09/2018 23:06

Older woman and her mid-40’s son having a quiet, dignified argument in the Waitrose cafe. She had evidently asked him to come for coffee so she could talk him into inviting Marco for Christmas. He was adamant he wasn’t inviting Marco because the last time he did, Marco had brought a 6-pack of non-alcoholic beer. It was brilliant.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 29/09/2018 23:35

My father, aged 67 at the time, refused to speak to my mother for a week because she said he didn't look like Paul McCartney.

This sounds familiar . . . .

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 30/09/2018 00:08

HerLadySheep

I heard our very shouty next door neighbour yelling at her poor down trodden husband recently, because "he was always doing the washing, leave the washing machine alone"

She is very odd!!

Oh god. Are you my neighbour? I recently shouted this at dh in the kitchen and the French doors were probably open. In my defence he tends to bung completely random selections of clothes in the wash and then stuff gets missed and muddled up and it’s infuriating. No school uniform gets washed but we’ve got about twenty clean towels.

I may be a bit shouty and odd but I hate living in the middle of a village, there’s no privacy whatsoever. Grin

Sallystyle · 30/09/2018 00:20

Me and my husband had a massive argument over penguins last week.

I claimed that Penguins look identical (the same type of penguins that is) and they identify each other by their voice. He claims that penguins might look identical to us but to each other they look different and they can also tell each other apart by looks. I told him he was being stupid because they are bloody identical looking. This ended up in a row about DNA and all sorts. It got quite shouty.

My mum and her friend come round and then we all debate the issue. It gets quite heated. The children then get involved and we all argue about fucking penguins. Clearly I am right. They do look identical and can't tell each other apart by looks.

BouleBaker · 30/09/2018 04:36

Um, U2HasTheEdge your DH may have a point. Penguins have unique spot patterns on their chest that can be used to identify them. It’s like a fingerprint, google Penguin Recognition Project.

However, it also seems that penguins use sounds to identify each other too.

nicenewdusters · 30/09/2018 07:19

Had a weird controlling ex many years ago, amongst other things he was obsessed with washing clothes. Allied to this was his insistence that only he hung wet clothes properly on the airer.

One evening we were arguing about something, next to an airer of clothes I'd just hung out. As I left the room I saw him move towards it, putting his hand out.

"And don't you move those bloody clothes!" I shouted as I left the room. Cue me trying to leave the room and him putting his hand out to move them. It was like:

...moves hand closer
"Don't you dare touch them"
..retracts, then as I'm leaving moves hand closer
"Don't you rearrange them"
...retracts, waits, moves hand closer
"So help me god don't you touch them."

And so it went on.

I left soon after Grin
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nicenewdusters · 30/09/2018 07:23

MsAdorable just read your post about HerLadySheep and her husband who's always doing the washing. Is that where my ex ended up??!! It says he's down trodden. My ex was a right bastard so I hope it's him !

StubbleTurnips · 30/09/2018 07:30

Our interesting old neighbours had a row about a fish food pot falling in the tank. All we heard was "YOURE GOING TO KILL THE FUCKING FISH...... Why don't you do the dog too while you're at it"

plus the classic row over spelling beautiful. Which finished with "it's B E A U T I F O L L you thick cunt" 😂🤣😂

theendofeverything · 30/09/2018 07:36

It was over whether you couldn't be sure that the colours you saw were the same as other people saw. The colour you all call blue could be different but you all know it as blue because you can only see through your own eyes.

@CrabbityRabbit – I have often thought about this being possible and tried to explain it to other people who never seem to understand what I mean!

AuroraN · 30/09/2018 08:31

Theend - that makes no sense to me either. Isn’t that a contradiction?

SheWoreBlueVelvet · 30/09/2018 08:42

I do think there's a degree of adaptation to eye perception. The old jungle vs plains theory on sight. Sure I heard last week that societies exposed to one colour more see it better.

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GingerFrogs · 30/09/2018 09:25

Not been.on here and just come back to see how many fights have been reported. I'm about to make a cuppa and read them all Grin

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borntobequiet · 30/09/2018 09:54

Ginger thanks for the thread.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 30/09/2018 10:01

nicenewdusters sorry to disappoint you but my dh is not a right bastard and he’s definitely not your ex, we met when we were 18. Grin

AlpacaPicnic · 30/09/2018 10:11

Floof according to the very scientific totally made up superpower of coloursight you could see all shades of brown and green very well but if you closed one eye, the other colour would pop for you.

I have a friend with heterochromia who has one eye that's one colour and his other eye is split into two different colours. It's been ages since I've seen him so I can't remember which way round but for argument sake it's one green eye and one eye is half brown half blue. He looks so cool!

HSMMaCM · 30/09/2018 10:23

when DM was dying, she said "I still haven't forgiven you for xebec". This was a Scrabble game from 20 years previously.

When you carry an argument to your death bed, it must be serious Shock

My sister and I now play scrabble online, so we can't argue about words any more.

Sallystyle · 30/09/2018 10:39

Boule. Well shit!

I'm not telling him!

Flooffloof · 30/09/2018 11:11

Ah thanks Alpaca, just tried the theory, don't think it works. Buuuut I am slightly hungover and may try later.
Also I don't think it looks cool, just odd. Would prefer two green eyes.

Fishingsea · 30/09/2018 11:55

Love this

youlooklikeaclown · 30/09/2018 12:00

With DH and self, it is over who is the best James Bond - DH insisting Roger 'eyebrows' Moore. I insist that it is Sean Connery. I dealt the killer blow....'Sean Connery has won an Academy Award and at least three BAFTA's' Does Roger want to borrow some awards for his mantlepiece? Mwhahaha

ElsieMc · 30/09/2018 12:12

I hope someone overheard my argument with a neighbour the other day because it would have given them a laugh if nothing else. He had - for the second time - chopped into my hedge over on my side of the property well beyond my wall. He scurried off when he saw me watching.

When I went round, he said that he was bald and my dh was bald. I asked him what the hell he was on about and he said "Well, it grows back". So there you are, go onto your ndn's land, chop back their plants and tell them its okay, cos someone is bald.