27 People Give Examples of The Dumbest Arguments They've Ever Been In

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Sep 22, 2019 8:00 PM EDT

A recent AskReddit thread has people sharing the most idiotic arguments they've found themselves caught up in with someone. It takes two to tango, and sometimes we just find ourselves firmly in antagonistic moods. Hopefully none of these infuriating arguments ring any bells. 

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  • 01
    askreddit stupid argument - Text - RazerWolf04 7h My brother and I argued if our staircase had 13 or 14 steps, based on an argument about if the floor of the second floor counts as a stair-step or not. We still have no solution.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - dontcryformegiratina 7h Iremember when I was about 13 my parents had an hour-long shouting match that ended with them almost getting divorced. The issue? Whether or not the nation of Iraq has a coastline.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - barely_responsive 8h YOUR FINGER IS ON MY SIDE OF THE CAR, TAKE IT BACK! WELL YOUR BREATH IS ON MY SIDE, STOP BREATHING! Culminates in both parties trying to breathe the other to death.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - AardvarkAndy 9h S 1 Award My wife and I once argued over whether or not liked mustard on my hot dog. I was for me liking mustard, she was against me liking mustard. The argument lasted way longer that you could ever imagine it would.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - miss_kimba 8h My mum blamed me for eating her kinder surprise hippo. It was a last straw kinda situation Ithink, mum feeling those "taken for granted mum" feelings I suppose. I adamantly insisted I hadn't eaten it. My brother stood up for me and claimed that he hadn't eaten it either. A rare occasion where my brother and both trusted each other as being 100% truthful. Mum didn't talk to me for a whole week. At the end of which, we found the missing hippo shaped
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - CorrectionalChard 8h I'll tell you about the only legal trouble I've ever been in, the fight that got me arrested. It started over whether we should return a box of crayons or not, and to this day I don't have any idea how it escalated to the point of the cops being called, but they were and I was the one taken in.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - Speedly 5h With an ex: I owe you $80 for the bills of ours that you pay, and you owe me $40 for the bills of ours that I paid. Here's $40 in cash; we're even. She did not understand this. literally had to go get another $40 out of the ATM, and hand the $80 to her. Then I had her hand me the $40 she owed me. "Now how much do you have in your hand?" She still didn't understand. She somehow has a college degree.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - FormalMango 5h S 1 Award My husband and I have this thing where say "I love you" on Saturdays. Every other day it's "I love you, but only on Saturdays." I don't know how it started, but it's been going for 11 years now. We're both shiftworkers, so sometimes we have to stop and think what day it actually is. We had an argument recently over whether it was Saturday or not. I said it was Saturday, he said it was Friday. It was Monday.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - Dr_Chemiramen 8h With a woman who claimed that -2 -5 because, when talking about temperature "-5 is more cold"
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - derawin07 6h A 70 year old woman thought that hurricanes ere named according to their gender identity. She thought they were male or female.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - CaptainBunana 6h Once argued with a girlfriend saying "2+2 is always 4" and she was like "not always"
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - daepicclutch 7h It lasted for a week of just arguing about "do you eat or drink soup"
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - shicole3 6h When we were kids my brother and I got in a physical fight because he said I like mini wheats and l insisted I didn't. His argument was that I always sang the mini wheats song and I was deeply offended that he wasn't aware that it was just stuck in my head but I hated the cereal. I actually did like the cereal I'm not sure why I was arguing with him about it but l remember how genuinely angry I was.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - Andromeda321 7h Astronomer here! I still think of the guy sometimes who insisted relativity wasn't real because he didn't believe in it. Like, that was his entire argument. When I explained the astrophysical effects we see, and how the GPS satellite system would fail within a half hour if didn't take relativity into account, he was still all "but it doesn't make sense!" (He had also neve actually studied physics.) Like, at least conspiracy theorists get pretty
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - rockerobyn 7h That you could still be a vegetarian and eat fish These two girls were persistent that you could because... I don't know. I explained that it was just eating Vegetables and not eating meat fullstop. These two AGREED but continued to say that you could eat fish. In the end we got our teacher involved, who did like home ec, and asked. She was like 'no you cannot, that makes you a pescatarian.' They didn't ev acknowledge i was right.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - TK-DuVeraun 8h Someone tried to fight with me over how to spell my name. Now, my name is in a lot of languages with slightly different spellings. I would have accepted any of those spellings, but this one was just... Not even close. It didn't make any logical sense. An analogous example is if my name was Thomas and someone was insisting it was spelled Tomash. And not just the name Thomas in general, but that me, on my birth certificate, was named Tomash. I swea
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - Back2Bach 8h A guy argued that woodpeckers pecked "to sharpen their beaks for attacking other birds." In vain, I tried to explain that woodpeckers peck trees to search for food and to create nesting sites. They also peck in rapid succession or drum on resonating metal or wood surfaces to establish their territory and to attract mates.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - Gerrard1995 9h Whether or not Albert Einstein or Arnold Schwarzenegger would be more useful to have around during a Zombie apocalypse, how earth would Albert Einstein come in handy!
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - joantheunicorn 8h I had been a vegetarian for like 8-9 years. I follow a pescatarian diet (think vegetarian seafood) for the last 10 years or so. All that time, I've had several people argue with me while discussing various diet choices that fish is not meat. I blame the Catholic church and Lent.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - leinrihs 9h I argued that tuna was a fish. They argued it isn't. They are also now a successful vet.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - Fiatfahrer87. 9h My girl believes she can divide by zero. This argument goes on now for more than a decade.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - argofire 9h How the ch in masochism is pronounced. My friend caught me saying "masoKism" while he would say "masoSYism." To be fair, he grew up speaking French, in which the ch in masochism is pronounced in "his" way. But he insisted that i was the wrong one here and that shit's infuriating
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - shackledanddrawn44 . 8h If Reggie White was in the Chunky Soup commercials. I knew he was. My SO said he wasn't. He realized halfway through the argument that I was right. But still committed to his answer regardless. "REGGIE!!!!! Did you eat your Chunky Soup?!"
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - VirginKingBehe 7h I spent 20+ years in the suburbs of Long Island. My grandmother didn't want anyone parking in the driveway, so we parked in the street. I parked my car across the street. A super convenient spot that doesn't block any driveways. I don't mind parking in front of my grandmother's house, but this time, I would have had to parallel park and I wasn't feeling it that day. Anyway, I walk inside and she starts yelling about how I need to park in front
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - ShyAcorn. 6h My boyfriend insisted that when two people an argument and one makes a point so reasonable and logical the other one can't disagree with it it's unfair. I tried, logically and reasonably, to explain several times why that is just winning the argument and completely fair. His answer was that I was being unfair.
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - neverallthetime 8h A (then) friend of mine went on a rampage about why he looks better than me, why he's successful, and how my 'women game' is shit. And I, stupid as I were, complied and actually tried to explain why he was wrong. I feel the cringe every time I think of it. To be honest, I now think it was because of his lack of self confidence, since he wasn't 'popular and that he just tried to make himself feel better I should've been a better friend then, t
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    askreddit stupid argument - Text - Skrivus 6h In college my roommate and l argued about a line in Monty Python & the Holy Grail. The scene with the Black Knight where the line "Alright, we'll call it a draw" is uttered. We argued about who said that line, whether it was King Arthur or the Black Knight It went on for hours longer than it should have because I was stubborn and refused to admit I was wrong.
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