I just got into an argument over a breadmaker

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What's the stupidest thing you've ever got into an argument about?

― Nicole, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom just caught a pyromaniac today. Apparently he had already burned down ten houses and a few cars. She saw him this morning putting fire to the mailbox!!! So she called the police and they went on a chase! My mom is the COOLEST!

― nathalie, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(sorry, I just wanted to say this.)

― nathalie, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing I've ever been in the middle of can compare to the violent two-hour argument my brothers had over a piece of french toast. Or the college seminar on Plato's Symposium where this guy, drunk off his skinny ass, argued that Socrates was trying to say men could get pregnant. No, not figuratively. Literally. You know, baby-in-the- belly and all.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had some very inane ones with a quasi-boss at my company. She's since left, thank God. They were the kinds of arguments where you have to keep yourself screaming in the other person's face. It'd be too boring to outline what these arguments were -- in brief, they were cases where a person with no industry experience whatsoever INSISTED, against all rational argument and at the last possible minute, that I do something in a completely counterintuitive, time- consuming and a quite frankly INCORRECT way, all to prove to anyone who cared that she was adding something to the process.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: Geir. Lest we forget.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to forget. Theoretically me vs. Kat Marco remains the prime moment.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Me and Demsa on AMA, I think. Or Heather The Garbage Fan!

― Dan Perry, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got into an argument once in a waiting-room at the doctor's a few years back. It involved a picture hanging on the wall. The other patient (who I'd never met incidentally) was convinced the picture in question was hanging off-balance. I was convinced it was hanging straight. This degenerated into an all-out mutual verbal assault, the like of which I'd never had without alcohol.

We were both thrown out, finally shook hands, and agreed that were probably better off seeing the local shrink instead.

Surreal.

― C J, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: Geir. Lest we forget.

And a quick Google Usenet search reveals that Mr. Hongro's still at it and in "top form," so to speak.

Here's a Geir beaut:

> This is about music, not about skin colour. European music is superior, not because it is made by Europeans, but because it is superior. "Head music" is simply SOOOOO much more worthy than "body music". And it is regardless of the skin colour of those who make it. Thus, Stevie Wonder made GREAT music in the 70s (save for his funky and unmelodic stuff like "Superstition"), while James Brown made unlistenable crap only. The same way, Genesis and Yes made highly sophisticated and highly worthy music while Booker T & The MGs (a mainly white group) was plain crap.

It's nice to know that some things never ever change ...

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, fucking fuck. You didn't need to do that, you know! ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had an argument about the respective ages of the main characters in Sense and Sensibility. For hours.

― Archel, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

I just had an argument with a co-worker that quite clearly was not about the thing we were talking about and was just a kind of general alpha-male jousting. I hate these things but yet I always get sucked into them!

― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Friday, 27 January 2012 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

as long as he didn't realize it was just alpha-male jousting, then you win!

― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:07 (thirteen years ago)

That is a pretty great point...

― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:06 (thirteen years ago)

I've gotten into more than one argument (with the same person) about the make up of short lived soft drink Surge (I insist that it's nothing more than Sprite and Mountain dew mixed together; he disagrees).

― Frasier Ramon (EDB), Saturday, 28 January 2012 21:07 (thirteen years ago)

I honestly have no recollection of this happening. Also, my mom's not the coolest. I grew up.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:54 (thirteen years ago)

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