Arguments People Lost Cause The Other Person Was Too Dumb

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Oct 21, 2019 12:00 PM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the arguments they had with other people that they ended up "losing" because the other person was simply too dumb to comprehend logic. Sucks to realize that you're in the middle of an argument with a mouthbreather who can't be reasoned with, cause they lost their sense of reason long ago. 

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  • 01
    Text - bread-in-captivity 6h Was trying to ask my neighbours to shut their dogs up at night because we can't sleep. "But my dogs never bark." There they are, barking in the background. Smh and walk away.
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    Text - swanyMcswan 5h A guy I used to work with believed that germs were a myth. He thought "bad air" is what made you sick. We worked in a meat department. Luckily he would wash his hands and keep stuff clean, but his logic was dirty things make bad air. I tried so hard to convince him germs were real. To the point I wou ld print off literature of various educational levels. From kindergarten to college level and he believed it was all a hoax. It drove me up a wall. He also believed the moon la
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    Text - ShoddyBiscottil 4h My coworker thinks that police radar guns work by scanning cars to see how hot their engine is... Because the faster you go, the hotter it will be, right? I tried explaining how Doppler radar works, but she remains convinced that she's correct, because, and I quote "My husband has one of those radar guns and uses it when he's cooking on the grill." Your husband has an infrared thermometer, you fuckin' nut.
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    Text - Kcups 4h I did not get credit in a game of Trivial Pursuit for my guess of King Tutankhamun.. The "correct" answer was, yep you guessed it - King Tut. I was like 13 and we had just done an Egypt study in school. So, I was positive about being correct and pretty proud for knowing it.
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    Text - MTAlphawolf 3h In HS football, the night before a game, we would get together and set goals for the game. Defense set the goal of >200 total yards of offense allowed. I corrected the > to a < to make it "less than 200 yards". They disagreed adamantly and kept the greater than. I was tutoring 4 of them in math at the time. They also hit their goal, more than 200 yards given up
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    Text - saurusmaximus 5h I got into an argument with a guy who swore red cars were faster. His rationale was "because Ferraris are always painted red" (which is also not true). At first I thought he was just messing with me, but no, he really believed it and nothing I could say would change his mind. I finally gave up on arguing with stupid and told him how right he was.
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    Text - Priest_Of_Chaos 4h Whenever l use words my mother never heard of and tells me to correct myself. I now have to actually get google definitions to show her I'm not speaking nonsense, cuz I used to always lose those because "She's the mom and older, therefore she knows more than me"
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    Text - tincantincan23 4h Flat eaarther/Newtonian relativity. When I was still in school, 'd work with my girlfriend's dad on some weekends for some extra money, and l'd normally be the only college educated one in a field of grown blue collar men. When one of them learned that I was a physics major, he was very eager to prove that my entire education was wrong. He tried to argue that the earth doesn't rotate and therefore (? Still not sure how this even draws this conclusion) the earth is flat.
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    Text - Thedemonspawn56 4h Guy said thati could touch a black hole becaus they only targeted stars and planets... I wanted to die, i was trying so hard not to laugh..
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  • 10
    Text - newrunnerman 4h "You should always drive as fast as possible to get the best MPG. Driving twice as fast cuts your travel time in half and cuts your gas usage in half as well."
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    Text - Back2Bach 5h A guy argued that a "baby grand" piano was for little children during their earliest piano lessons, saying "that's why they're called baby grands." I explained that the term "baby grand" simply refers to the smallest size of a grand piano, about 4'5" long. He just insisted that baby grands were for little children, and that's why they're called "baby grands."
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    Text - line_4 5h Cold air sinks; hot air rises. Other person: but then why does ice float?
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    Text - Joubachi 5h Last time I needed to call the support I needed to verify myself. The quite unfriendly sounding lady told me to give her a pin. I told her I never set up a pin, her answer basicly was I shall tell her the pin anyway. That went on around 5 times until I just hung up Sidenote1: You need to verify yourself before that step, which I did via temporary pin in an sms. Sidenote2: she never gave an option to do that or even set up a new pin, she insisted on giving her a pin that does n
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    Text - jana 6h What the "button for audible signal only" does at the crosswalk for pedestrians. My sister is an idiot.
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    Text - Careless_Hellscape 3h They kept insisting that they were entitled to their opinion over something that was a fact. For some reason telling her that her opinion didn't Sway the truth just made her double down. Situation: I mentioned that a certain YouTube personality was gay. I said it matter of factly, not to be mean. The guy has mentioned being gay on his channel several times. This girl got mad and girl kept denying he was into dudes. This was despite me pointing out that he openly iden
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    Text - FutureBlackmail 4h I'll be finishing up my history degree in a few months. I really shouldn't be arguing my subject with people who've never had a reason to pick up a history book, but I was stuck with a buddy of mine for several hours a day for the better part of last year, and we got around to talking about pretty much everything. At one point, for one reason or another, we got to talking about the Comanche Indians. I mentioned a common misconception, and he countered with a stereotype
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    Text - ceramicsun 3h I was trying to explain to my roommates that we can't leave our front door unlocked 24/7 (especially when no one is in the apartment and when they're out and I'm sleeping) and that they should replace the keys they lost. Plus we're on a college campus where theft is pretty common and my room was broken into the previous year. Them: "We live in on a college campus so we're safe. What good is a locked door going to do if someone comes in with a gun? If something happens that's
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    Text - RazerWolf04 4h A friend of mine started a really long lasting and annoying argument when she accused me of hitting on the guy she liked, when in reality me and him were just close friends. She stood by the "girls and guys can't be just friends" theory and ended up pulling 4 other people into it, but they all sided with me. Yet she still didn't understand and me and him had to stop hanging out for while because rumors started to spread. It's all fine now tho. She got together with the guy
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    Text - Sully1102 3h That's is generally impossible to take home less money after a raise bumps you into a new tax bracket
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    Text - Nils_McCloud 5h An uncle whose firm and unshakeable belief that climate change is a hoax, is based on one thing: There was an above-average amount of snow in |January.
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    Text - banana_panda_ 3h This was recent, someone who doesn't run tried to tell me that running on a treadmill doesn't count because you can just lift up your legs and that the track does all the work. II tried to explain that while it isn't 100% the same as running outside, your body wants to stay relative to the moving track so yes you are propelling yourself forward, and many outside runners (myself included!) run on treadmills at some point for training when the weather isn't cooperating. I'm
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  • 22
    Text - Boxman75 1h Guy once told me he was speeding on his motorcycle one night in the freezing cold and was almost caught by a police helicopter with an infra red camera. He said he ditched the copter by taking his coat off and cooling his body down to ambient temperature so the infra red camera couldn't see him. lignored the fact that he'd be dead if his body temp dropped that much and simply asked why they couldn't pick up the heat from the engine. He said infra red cameras only pick up heat
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  • 23
    Text - Nyawk 3h One of my college teachers gave us a test on computer hardware. One question was What is the most important part of any computer? It was multiple choice. CPU, memory, motherboard, PSU. I told him that the question made no sense All of the parts are necessary, no one is most important. Without any one, the computer would not work He insisted that it was the CPU.
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    Text - AnnieandFish : 4h I tried to explain the weapons effect to a relative, explaining that, since he chose to carry a weapon, concealed carrying would be safer than open carrying. They thought I was trying to take their guns and kept asking why it's their fault if other people are "nervous." I had just said other people are more likely to act aggressively once they see a weapon. This never clicked. I didn't say this part to them because I never wanted to get shot, but if you show someone you'
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  • 25
    Text - Enemy_Within 3h I'm a bartender. When I put a drink up to be a table in the restaurant the servers have to put garnish on depending on the drink. I see new guy standing there staring at the lemons. Ask him what the deal is and he responds "these limes aren't ripe yet...." Try to explain that's not how that works and guy tells me I don't have to be an a**hole. Suffice to say we've lowered our standards for servers lately....
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