I once made the mistake of telling my girlfriend that I had dreamt about a mutual friend. And although it was nothing sexual in her mind she took it that if I was dreaming about this other girl that it meant that I had feelings for her. (So we spent the whole day arguing, or at least she did because after a while I just stopped listening to her)🤔🤷🏻♂️😬🤦🏻♂️😂
One sided ones in certain fandoms where someone is upset that you didn’t qualify some offhand comment in some way. Or because you didn’t share their opinion exactly, and again this being the most casual of things. Like I made a comment in the Bojack sub about how Beatrice could have understood why they had to burn her things in the episode Time’s Arrow. (Because of Scarlet Fever). and someone responded with something about how her dad was a horrible person. Like they needed to have that said in every single comment that was slightly related to something. Orrrrr it could have been this bad faith thing, who knows.
A lot of people use the Bible as an argument in a loooot of discussions. Well here’s the thing… I’m not Christian, like many other people on this earth… That book is not an argument in real world issues, if u wanna believe in it, fine. But don’t push your beliefs or ideas on me buddy!
My girlfriend and I have two kids ages 1 and 2 and we consistently fight about who’s more tired … love her to death but it’s the dumbest thing we fight about …
I beat my brother because he ate my last piece of cookie. Like literally beat him up, we were yelling at each other for like twenty minutes straight, then our mom stepped in and he started crying. I said “fuck you both” in a very rude way and left my home for a few hours. Because of a cookie lol. We were both eleven yo.
My cousin argued with me a couple weeks ago about what MY favorite color is. It’s blue. She argued that it’s orange. She got mad when I asked if she was sober. She called my mother and got even more pissed off when my mom laughed at her and confirmed that my favorite color is BLUE. I just decided to head out at that point.
Literally any discussion with the vatniks (Russian “patriots”, a complete analogue of MAGA, although to be chronologically precise – probably MAGA is a complete analogue of vatniks).
Trying to convince someone at a table how the earth logically couldn’t be flat.
I told them you know the sun moves in a straight line across the sky. You know all normal parts of the world experience day night cycles.
If the world was flat how would the sun going across the sky work.
And I even went as far as to make a makeshift diorama to help this using a paper plate, a flashlight, and a pencil.
I tried to explain to my SIL (brother’s wife) that the earth is 4.6 billion years old, not 6,000, and dinosaurs did NOT live at the same time as people.
In pre-K I refused to give a girl the crayon she wanted because it was magenta and she kept calling it pink. I wouldn’t stand for the magenta slander. This is how my parents found out I was autistic.
In 7th grade my science teacher was telling us about how when the moon is full twice in the same month, it’s called a blue moon because the moon turns blue. I told her it was just a turn of phrase and the moon doesn’t actually turn blue. She SWORE the moon turned blue. This is why I stopped going to public school.
My dad once tossed the TV remote to me and accidentally hit me in the face. I laughed and said “ow, what the heck?” He said “what?” I said “you hit me” and he yelled “no I didn’t.” This immediately turned into the biggest argument I’ve ever had with my dad, he cursed me out, and we weren’t on speaking terms for a month.
One time I got mad after arguing with my girlfriend for an hour first thing in the morning about (you guessed it) weather or not I was mad at her. For the record, I wasn’t mad until I was forced to defend myself for an extended period of time before I could even get up to go to the bathroom. I still don’t know what started that to this day.
30 years ago I was at someone’s house partying after the bar closed. We were all listening to the radio and the song Blue Velvet by Alannah Myles came on. The guy whose house it was said it was Pat Benetar singing, I said it Alannah because I had the CD at home, but I wasn’t telling this guy. Someone called the radio station and asked who sang the song and when it turned out I was right that guy kicked me out of his house.
I was telling my friend about Ken Mattingly (Astronaut, was originally supposed to go up on Apollo 13), who was exposed to measles a few days before the launch of the mission and was thus replaced.
While telling the story, I said “German measles” as that was what I recalled the movie saying (or, the source I was using said german measles, it was a while ago. Either way, I got german measles from somewhere). My friend then looked up German measles and found out that it wasn’t actually a form of measles, but rubella. He then flipped tf out basically telling me “IT’S NOT MEASLES, THE DIFFERENCE MATTERS, IT CHANGES THE STORY. IT’S NOT EVEN IN THE SAME GENUS” continue for a few hours.
What my friend missed was that it didn’t matter for the point of the story, which was that Ken Mattingly got booted off Apollo 13, or the Apollo mission originally planned to land on the moon, but didn’t due to an explosion on the ship, and how Mattingly then later got to ride on the very successful Apollo 16 (didn’t walk on the moon though). The convo was also (supposed) to be about how strict NASA was at the time with astronauts being exposed to anything, so even in Mattingly got exposed to a goddamn mouse fart, he probably wasn’t going to be flying on Apollo 13 (exaggeration but you get the point)
It was just a very mundane story that I was telling while hanging out with a bunch of friends, and it blew tf up over german measles. It took my friend easily a couple months to realize that it in fact did not matter if I said measles or german measles.
Fought with a classmate over whether Cathy or Heathcliff was the worse character in Wuthering Heights. It was a very pointless argument on a rainy Friday afternoon and went further than it should have.
Some years later I get a Facebook friend request from said classmate. After our initial greetings and catch up she reopened the argument. We still disagreed.
So now it’s been 26 years and we are still mid argument – although it’s a lot more civil and tongue-in-cheek now. Pointless or not, I will die on this hill – Cathy is just awful.
I have a friend who will argue about almost anything if your opinion is different from his and he won’t drop it. He also won’t admit when he’s wrong. He just argues more or claims he’s right.
It’s crazy the number of things he’s gotten me to argue about that I don’t even have a strong opinion on.
Which type of grass is best, what style headlights are better, the difference between scythes and sickles, whether the boxes in Tony Hawk Pro Skater regenerate, etc.
I love the guy but it can be absolutely exhausting
I swore that lamb was its own animal and my friend pointed out a lamb is just a baby sheep… to this day I refuse to concede b/c I still separate them mentally.
I have had so many here on Reddit, I often tend to bail out when I see it is going to be a pissing into a head first wind level of futility as some people just need to be right on everything.
My mum has gotten so much worse and will always argue about so many topics no matter how much you provide evidence or try and get the old critical thinking going.
One bad one was a climate argument, she was dead set old mate on You Tube was spot on but I had photos of glacial retreat in France, photos I TOOK! which hammer in the point that the Earth is heating and fucking shit up but she still hammered in the point it was all a conspiracy etc.
Telling people to please wipe down equipment at gym I work for after each usage and I had one person who gave me so much lip saying they didn’t see the danger of leaving their sweat on workout equipment.
I remember playing COD back in the day (probably still happens) that this player keeps losing so this other player talked shit. And upon discussion, the winning player talked about something and lead to saying “oh it’s 5:30pm right now” and the losing player yelled back, NO ITS 5:32!!
Stupidest was when my then fiance (now ex) decided I was mad at them based on seeing my face as I passed by the doorway to our office. Like maybe a second. Nothing could have been further from the truth. However after enough “yes you are” “no I’m not” back and forth, it ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Same person tried to convince me that Latin was what people spoke in… Latin America.
When I was a kid I never wore the strap on my wii controller. Drove my brother mad since it was his system, but it never went beyond bantering until one day. He was recovering from a groin injury due to getting hit in the balls during soccer practice. I was playing Just Dance with my cousin, and he told me to put the strap on or I’ll fling the controller away. I didn’t listen, and on one of the dance moves I spun around and thundercunted the wii remote by accident, hitting my brother on his already injured groin area. After he cried he threw the remote back at me with full force, but I dodged it and it broke the TV. Next thing I knew I was fighting for my life on the floor while he attacked me like a WWE wrestler.
I had an argument with my ex as to whether it was his fault he bought a shitty car lol. He basically let his parents talk him into signing the papers… but it’s still his fault he signed the papers 🤣 he got soooo mad at me for speaking the truth
I once argued with the little girl next door when I was about 6-7 cause she shouted from yard to me if “I wanted a piece of her” and I was immediately up for the task cause I legit thought she was challenging me and i watched lot of ninja turtles growing up, so we argued cause she kept repeating it and it was making me mad well it turns out it was her bday and I didn’t quite hear what she was REALLY saying and she was only asking if I wanted a piece of her bday cake 😳😳😳 I felt so badly and apologized, we became friends surprisingly afterwards 😅 but for sure one of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever had
My cousins and I when we were kids and staying at a family friend’s beach house argued over whether a rope hammock was a swing or a hammock. Finally their dad got tired of our silliness and said “It is a hammock but it does swing, so what’s the difference?” 😆
This was a long time ago…someone insisted that a slice of toast had less calories than bread did. When I explained why it didn’t she told me that I didn’t understand science.
My wife is from New York near Buffalo. I’m from North Carolina. We got in an argument once because she says hotdogs in biscuits are called hotdog wraparounds. I said that’s just a pig in a blanket. She argued that pigs in blankets are only called that when you use those Hillshire Farms type of miniature cocktail sausages. I replied yeah maybe back home in Yankeeville and she threw a shoe at me.
My narcissist emotionally and physically abusive ex husband (when we were dating… I was afraid to cancel the engagement but that is a diff story and this was30 yrs ago) picked his nose and it was a giant sloppy booger. He got it up in my face and tried to wipe it on me saying it was a joke. Got mad at me for not being able to take a joke and said I was childish for getting upset about it. When he was the one picking his nose and trying to put it on someone.
My daughter got mad at me when I said I was going to hire a cleaning lady. She had moved back in with me with her fiance and instead of rent she was supposed to keep the house clean. She wasn’t doing so at l so I said I’d hire someone. She yelled at me that I couldn’t afford it yada yada. I told her then clean like you’re supposed to. It turned into a nasty fight for some reason (she has bipolar and bpd. Idk if that had something to do with it or not)
Same abusive ex husband got mad when I went out to dinner with my brother. It turned physical and I finally called 911. It was so bad. This is the day I finally left. It was on a Friday. On Monday brother took me to attorney and he paid attorney retainer fee and I filed for divorce.
Someone random girl accused me during the last week of university classes in December of 2023 of convincing the Introduction to Leadership professor to make the final assessment of the term difficult.
She’s lucky that I kept my mouth shut and didn’t get aggressive.
I reposted a pic of Lady Gaga to my fb page and she happened to be in skimpy clothes I guess. My aunt comments and says something rude and judgmental about it, then starts a major argument with my sister about it and hates my sister now. She said something along the lines of how I shouldn’t care about a pop star that doesn’t care about me, and that it doesn’t matter so why am I even mad. But to me, why did she even decide to comment? Not everything needs a comment. So it was a big fucking thing of going in a circle of “this does not matter.”
Had she not said anything at all, it would have been fine though!!
the first time I ever made my ex girlfriend cry happened because I said that the YouTube she found attractive would never date her, and I played around that I’d steal him from her. She said I was “stealing her favorite YouTuber and never really liked him.” like girl were we not dating?? only until he shows up i guess 😭😭 I was genuinely joking, he isn’t my cup of tea
Playing golf with two other guys. One of them is insisting that brother and sister are identical twins. I started to argue back, monozygotic vs dizygotic etc, when the other guy chimes in that his brother and sister are also identical twins. It was the 17th hole, so i let it go.
A relative fell head first in to the flat earth conspiracy a few years ago. He tried to argue that it just looks like the sun is disappearing behind the horizon because it is perspective. He did not seem to remember that I use perspective drawing almost every single day at work. He just did not seem to grasp how perspective works. Or any basic 3rd grade geometry in general.
Earlier he had tried to school my cousin about how taxes and the financial system works. But he seemed to forget that my cousin has a masters degree in economy, and works as a financial analyst for a governmental institution.
I once had an argument with my father, about “them” putting something in the water which turns everybody gay. I believe its spun off from that Alex Jones thing about making frogs gay or something?
His reasoning: “Well there are more gay people now – how else do you explain it?”
My reasoning: “Ok…you’ve drank water since 1970…..are you gay?”
Him: “..no..but…the water….”
I went on a long rant about how people, and various other animals, have always been gay, its just now more socially acceptable to voice it – hence “more gay people” in his mind or whatever.
We also recently argued because he’s been in these “men hate women” groups or something online, and he said something about women having “too many rights” which really set me off. He’s married to a woman, has a living mother [who raised him solo], has a sister, a daughter and a granddaughter [via myself] – so the mental gymnastics is off the chain
My friends were arguing that “girth” refers explicitly to penis radius, while I was arguing that it could be used for the radius of any round object.
What really made it stupid was they were at most half serious and were otherwise just taking the piss, but I became infuriated. Not my proudest moment.
My older brother took me to the first Captain America movie in theaters and made a joke like “You’d think with a guy like Captain America on our side we’d have beat the French to the revolution.” We must have loudly argued for 10 minutes before he Googled it and realized that we had our revolution a decade before, but only won because of the support the French gave us. When it comes as time for us to repay the favor, we shined them off because we were too busy building a nation to aid in their war for independence.
The we watched a 2 hour long movie about how bad ass Americans are and how the world would be fucked without our support in WWII.
My ex accusing me of being under her trailer spying on her with cameras through the vents. We have been together 3.5 years she has broken up with me 50+ times. Lunacy
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I once made the mistake of telling my girlfriend that I had dreamt about a mutual friend. And although it was nothing sexual in her mind she took it that if I was dreaming about this other girl that it meant that I had feelings for her. (So we spent the whole day arguing, or at least she did because after a while I just stopped listening to her)🤔🤷🏻♂️😬🤦🏻♂️😂
One sided ones in certain fandoms where someone is upset that you didn’t qualify some offhand comment in some way. Or because you didn’t share their opinion exactly, and again this being the most casual of things. Like I made a comment in the Bojack sub about how Beatrice could have understood why they had to burn her things in the episode Time’s Arrow. (Because of Scarlet Fever). and someone responded with something about how her dad was a horrible person. Like they needed to have that said in every single comment that was slightly related to something. Orrrrr it could have been this bad faith thing, who knows.
There are so many, difficult to pick one, but as a matter of fact I hate when people are arguing regarding objective reality
Argued for 20 minutes with my roommate about whether or not cereal is a soup. Still not talking to each other.
Obviously circular arguments. That’s stupid. “Why is it stupid” because it is.
A lot of people use the Bible as an argument in a loooot of discussions. Well here’s the thing… I’m not Christian, like many other people on this earth… That book is not an argument in real world issues, if u wanna believe in it, fine. But don’t push your beliefs or ideas on me buddy!
That two people must be talking to each other cuz I noticed their IG green dot syncing.
My girlfriend and I have two kids ages 1 and 2 and we consistently fight about who’s more tired … love her to death but it’s the dumbest thing we fight about …
I beat my brother because he ate my last piece of cookie. Like literally beat him up, we were yelling at each other for like twenty minutes straight, then our mom stepped in and he started crying. I said “fuck you both” in a very rude way and left my home for a few hours. Because of a cookie lol. We were both eleven yo.
Is water wet? (Yes🙄)
My cousin argued with me a couple weeks ago about what MY favorite color is. It’s blue. She argued that it’s orange. She got mad when I asked if she was sober. She called my mother and got even more pissed off when my mom laughed at her and confirmed that my favorite color is BLUE. I just decided to head out at that point.
The debate was over…’is water wet’?
Literally any discussion with the vatniks (Russian “patriots”, a complete analogue of MAGA, although to be chronologically precise – probably MAGA is a complete analogue of vatniks).
I’m almost sure it was Mario Party related.
Trying to convince someone at a table how the earth logically couldn’t be flat.
I told them you know the sun moves in a straight line across the sky. You know all normal parts of the world experience day night cycles.
If the world was flat how would the sun going across the sky work.
And I even went as far as to make a makeshift diorama to help this using a paper plate, a flashlight, and a pencil.
I tried to explain to my SIL (brother’s wife) that the earth is 4.6 billion years old, not 6,000, and dinosaurs did NOT live at the same time as people.
Yes, she’s a Creationist.
Take your pick:
In pre-K I refused to give a girl the crayon she wanted because it was magenta and she kept calling it pink. I wouldn’t stand for the magenta slander. This is how my parents found out I was autistic.
In 7th grade my science teacher was telling us about how when the moon is full twice in the same month, it’s called a blue moon because the moon turns blue. I told her it was just a turn of phrase and the moon doesn’t actually turn blue. She SWORE the moon turned blue. This is why I stopped going to public school.
My dad once tossed the TV remote to me and accidentally hit me in the face. I laughed and said “ow, what the heck?” He said “what?” I said “you hit me” and he yelled “no I didn’t.” This immediately turned into the biggest argument I’ve ever had with my dad, he cursed me out, and we weren’t on speaking terms for a month.
Dumbness comes in different forms.
Anytime I try to argue for gun control in the US on the internet.
One time I got mad after arguing with my girlfriend for an hour first thing in the morning about (you guessed it) weather or not I was mad at her. For the record, I wasn’t mad until I was forced to defend myself for an extended period of time before I could even get up to go to the bathroom. I still don’t know what started that to this day.
30 years ago I was at someone’s house partying after the bar closed. We were all listening to the radio and the song Blue Velvet by Alannah Myles came on. The guy whose house it was said it was Pat Benetar singing, I said it Alannah because I had the CD at home, but I wasn’t telling this guy. Someone called the radio station and asked who sang the song and when it turned out I was right that guy kicked me out of his house.
I was telling my friend about Ken Mattingly (Astronaut, was originally supposed to go up on Apollo 13), who was exposed to measles a few days before the launch of the mission and was thus replaced.
While telling the story, I said “German measles” as that was what I recalled the movie saying (or, the source I was using said german measles, it was a while ago. Either way, I got german measles from somewhere). My friend then looked up German measles and found out that it wasn’t actually a form of measles, but rubella. He then flipped tf out basically telling me “IT’S NOT MEASLES, THE DIFFERENCE MATTERS, IT CHANGES THE STORY. IT’S NOT EVEN IN THE SAME GENUS” continue for a few hours.
What my friend missed was that it didn’t matter for the point of the story, which was that Ken Mattingly got booted off Apollo 13, or the Apollo mission originally planned to land on the moon, but didn’t due to an explosion on the ship, and how Mattingly then later got to ride on the very successful Apollo 16 (didn’t walk on the moon though). The convo was also (supposed) to be about how strict NASA was at the time with astronauts being exposed to anything, so even in Mattingly got exposed to a goddamn mouse fart, he probably wasn’t going to be flying on Apollo 13 (exaggeration but you get the point)
It was just a very mundane story that I was telling while hanging out with a bunch of friends, and it blew tf up over german measles. It took my friend easily a couple months to realize that it in fact did not matter if I said measles or german measles.
Fought with a classmate over whether Cathy or Heathcliff was the worse character in Wuthering Heights. It was a very pointless argument on a rainy Friday afternoon and went further than it should have.
Some years later I get a Facebook friend request from said classmate. After our initial greetings and catch up she reopened the argument. We still disagreed.
So now it’s been 26 years and we are still mid argument – although it’s a lot more civil and tongue-in-cheek now. Pointless or not, I will die on this hill – Cathy is just awful.
I have a friend who will argue about almost anything if your opinion is different from his and he won’t drop it. He also won’t admit when he’s wrong. He just argues more or claims he’s right.
It’s crazy the number of things he’s gotten me to argue about that I don’t even have a strong opinion on.
Which type of grass is best, what style headlights are better, the difference between scythes and sickles, whether the boxes in Tony Hawk Pro Skater regenerate, etc.
I love the guy but it can be absolutely exhausting
Getting lectured by the “thin air money from nothing” people who dismiss/evade all facts, reason and logic
I swore that lamb was its own animal and my friend pointed out a lamb is just a baby sheep… to this day I refuse to concede b/c I still separate them mentally.
Explaining to people what a fraction is
I have had so many here on Reddit, I often tend to bail out when I see it is going to be a pissing into a head first wind level of futility as some people just need to be right on everything.
My mum has gotten so much worse and will always argue about so many topics no matter how much you provide evidence or try and get the old critical thinking going.
One bad one was a climate argument, she was dead set old mate on You Tube was spot on but I had photos of glacial retreat in France, photos I TOOK! which hammer in the point that the Earth is heating and fucking shit up but she still hammered in the point it was all a conspiracy etc.
With an American who liked my accent and said they wished they had an accent. They would just not hear it as I explained that everyone has an accent
I once had an argument with my brother in law. He truly believed Obama was a terrorist because his name sounded like O bomb A.
Telling people to please wipe down equipment at gym I work for after each usage and I had one person who gave me so much lip saying they didn’t see the danger of leaving their sweat on workout equipment.
While these are more friendly debates than true arguments with my best friend, we have:
Was Light Yagami doing the right thing?
Is Soup a Drink?
Who would Win? Spongebob or Goku?
Is it a Ladder or Stepladder?
How many holes does a straw have?
Does a Slingshot count as a Gun?
No matter what side we’re on, we understand why the other person is on the other side.
I remember playing COD back in the day (probably still happens) that this player keeps losing so this other player talked shit. And upon discussion, the winning player talked about something and lead to saying “oh it’s 5:30pm right now” and the losing player yelled back, NO ITS 5:32!!
they both went back and forth for like 10 minutes
Stupidest was when my then fiance (now ex) decided I was mad at them based on seeing my face as I passed by the doorway to our office. Like maybe a second. Nothing could have been further from the truth. However after enough “yes you are” “no I’m not” back and forth, it ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Same person tried to convince me that Latin was what people spoke in… Latin America.
When I was a kid I never wore the strap on my wii controller. Drove my brother mad since it was his system, but it never went beyond bantering until one day. He was recovering from a groin injury due to getting hit in the balls during soccer practice. I was playing Just Dance with my cousin, and he told me to put the strap on or I’ll fling the controller away. I didn’t listen, and on one of the dance moves I spun around and thundercunted the wii remote by accident, hitting my brother on his already injured groin area. After he cried he threw the remote back at me with full force, but I dodged it and it broke the TV. Next thing I knew I was fighting for my life on the floor while he attacked me like a WWE wrestler.
I had an argument with my ex as to whether it was his fault he bought a shitty car lol. He basically let his parents talk him into signing the papers… but it’s still his fault he signed the papers 🤣 he got soooo mad at me for speaking the truth
I get SO MANY at my job, but-
Had to ‘convince’ a customer half of 95 cents was less than half of one dollar.
Whether I should use matte or gloss screen on my personal laptop, which my ex does not use and I will be using hours a day for possibly 5-10 years.
We are both designers in different areas. And swears by Macbook/ gloss screen while I prefer matte screen.
She’s narcissistic
At one point she says using matte screen is ‘wrong’.
But it’s not her computer.
She dragged the argument on for close to 30 mins.
At that point I just gave up and said I love and prefer using wrong equipment in my work.
Argument over which superhero is better, still pretty interesting topic though.
I once argued with the little girl next door when I was about 6-7 cause she shouted from yard to me if “I wanted a piece of her” and I was immediately up for the task cause I legit thought she was challenging me and i watched lot of ninja turtles growing up, so we argued cause she kept repeating it and it was making me mad well it turns out it was her bday and I didn’t quite hear what she was REALLY saying and she was only asking if I wanted a piece of her bday cake 😳😳😳 I felt so badly and apologized, we became friends surprisingly afterwards 😅 but for sure one of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever had
Person a) ghosts aren’t real
Person b) I do not believe in ghosts, but I just don’t know. They could be real.
… Argument ensues over the concept of believing something isn’t real…. While also leaving the possibility of its existence open
Kind of dumb since we both definitely don’t believe in ghosts.
My sister thinks that just because the El Camino wasn’t Australian, means it isn’t a ute.
My cousins and I when we were kids and staying at a family friend’s beach house argued over whether a rope hammock was a swing or a hammock. Finally their dad got tired of our silliness and said “It is a hammock but it does swing, so what’s the difference?” 😆
This was a long time ago…someone insisted that a slice of toast had less calories than bread did. When I explained why it didn’t she told me that I didn’t understand science.
Ones with Trump supporters, they don’t believe anything you say, literally
My wife is from New York near Buffalo. I’m from North Carolina. We got in an argument once because she says hotdogs in biscuits are called hotdog wraparounds. I said that’s just a pig in a blanket. She argued that pigs in blankets are only called that when you use those Hillshire Farms type of miniature cocktail sausages. I replied yeah maybe back home in Yankeeville and she threw a shoe at me.
My narcissist emotionally and physically abusive ex husband (when we were dating… I was afraid to cancel the engagement but that is a diff story and this was30 yrs ago) picked his nose and it was a giant sloppy booger. He got it up in my face and tried to wipe it on me saying it was a joke. Got mad at me for not being able to take a joke and said I was childish for getting upset about it. When he was the one picking his nose and trying to put it on someone.
My daughter got mad at me when I said I was going to hire a cleaning lady. She had moved back in with me with her fiance and instead of rent she was supposed to keep the house clean. She wasn’t doing so at l so I said I’d hire someone. She yelled at me that I couldn’t afford it yada yada. I told her then clean like you’re supposed to. It turned into a nasty fight for some reason (she has bipolar and bpd. Idk if that had something to do with it or not)
Same abusive ex husband got mad when I went out to dinner with my brother. It turned physical and I finally called 911. It was so bad. This is the day I finally left. It was on a Friday. On Monday brother took me to attorney and he paid attorney retainer fee and I filed for divorce.
I told an American tourist we have some popular ski resorts here (Australia). He got mad and told me I must be thinking of Austria.
He then got more angry when I tried to explain… so I walked away.
Someone random girl accused me during the last week of university classes in December of 2023 of convincing the Introduction to Leadership professor to make the final assessment of the term difficult.
She’s lucky that I kept my mouth shut and didn’t get aggressive.
I reposted a pic of Lady Gaga to my fb page and she happened to be in skimpy clothes I guess. My aunt comments and says something rude and judgmental about it, then starts a major argument with my sister about it and hates my sister now. She said something along the lines of how I shouldn’t care about a pop star that doesn’t care about me, and that it doesn’t matter so why am I even mad. But to me, why did she even decide to comment? Not everything needs a comment. So it was a big fucking thing of going in a circle of “this does not matter.”
Had she not said anything at all, it would have been fine though!!
the first time I ever made my ex girlfriend cry happened because I said that the YouTube she found attractive would never date her, and I played around that I’d steal him from her. She said I was “stealing her favorite YouTuber and never really liked him.” like girl were we not dating?? only until he shows up i guess 😭😭 I was genuinely joking, he isn’t my cup of tea
Playing golf with two other guys. One of them is insisting that brother and sister are identical twins. I started to argue back, monozygotic vs dizygotic etc, when the other guy chimes in that his brother and sister are also identical twins. It was the 17th hole, so i let it go.
A relative fell head first in to the flat earth conspiracy a few years ago. He tried to argue that it just looks like the sun is disappearing behind the horizon because it is perspective. He did not seem to remember that I use perspective drawing almost every single day at work. He just did not seem to grasp how perspective works. Or any basic 3rd grade geometry in general.
Earlier he had tried to school my cousin about how taxes and the financial system works. But he seemed to forget that my cousin has a masters degree in economy, and works as a financial analyst for a governmental institution.
Argued with a fellow college student for 30 minutes if watching a video on 2x reduced watch time by half.
Their reasoning? The time bar kept the same amount of time, and moves by “1 second increments”
I once had an argument with my father, about “them” putting something in the water which turns everybody gay. I believe its spun off from that Alex Jones thing about making frogs gay or something?
His reasoning: “Well there are more gay people now – how else do you explain it?”
My reasoning: “Ok…you’ve drank water since 1970…..are you gay?”
Him: “..no..but…the water….”
I went on a long rant about how people, and various other animals, have always been gay, its just now more socially acceptable to voice it – hence “more gay people” in his mind or whatever.
We also recently argued because he’s been in these “men hate women” groups or something online, and he said something about women having “too many rights” which really set me off. He’s married to a woman, has a living mother [who raised him solo], has a sister, a daughter and a granddaughter [via myself] – so the mental gymnastics is off the chain
It wasn’t an emotionally-invested argument, but back when I worked in a café, there was a customer who was certain I was offering her too much change.
My friends were arguing that “girth” refers explicitly to penis radius, while I was arguing that it could be used for the radius of any round object.
What really made it stupid was they were at most half serious and were otherwise just taking the piss, but I became infuriated. Not my proudest moment.
My older brother took me to the first Captain America movie in theaters and made a joke like “You’d think with a guy like Captain America on our side we’d have beat the French to the revolution.” We must have loudly argued for 10 minutes before he Googled it and realized that we had our revolution a decade before, but only won because of the support the French gave us. When it comes as time for us to repay the favor, we shined them off because we were too busy building a nation to aid in their war for independence.
The we watched a 2 hour long movie about how bad ass Americans are and how the world would be fucked without our support in WWII.
“Paprika flavoured chips are healthy because there is paprika on them”
My ex accusing me of being under her trailer spying on her with cameras through the vents. We have been together 3.5 years she has broken up with me 50+ times. Lunacy