What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard?
What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard?
I heard two people arguing about whether or not someone farted.
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I got involved in a argument between two older people about whether the earth rotated or not.
The very strange thing is that after I confirmed to them that the earth did indeed rotate and that is why the sun would rise in the east and set in the west, that was the end of the conversation and they thanked me and moved on.
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best way to prepare toilet paper before wiping: folding, crumpling, or rolling
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It depends.
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I speak Russian due to having lived under Soviet occupstion and constantly overhear Russian tourists while traveling in Asia and honestly I wish I couldn't understand because they argue over the dumbest shit. Now I'm in Thailand and the theme is price measuring everything down to the cents. I've heard several loud arguments over whether a thing is cheaper here than at home etc it's so weird. I get that Russia is going through an economic crisis but why you're traveling at all then.
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I had an argument with my partner that they got to sit in bed on their phone for 10 minutes while I had to get up and care for the newborn. They were paying bills. I was still jealous. The argument ended with us both agreeing we were tired and would send the kid to daycare and nap.
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Not one that I overheard but one that I was involved in:
I said that I didn't like bright yellow. This apparently was extremely offensive to the friend I was dating at the time and he had to convince me that I was wrong and there is no room for opinion on the matter of color preferences.
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A coworker insisted that preferring a silver- colored phone over a black one is racist.
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I don't know where people come up with these things.
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I'm curious what your neighbor thinks about a nice tie-dye?
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Not one I overheard but one were I was overheard. In Paris at a restaurant where my girlfriend and I (anglophones) commented on the couples baby beside us. She said it was such a cute baby. I countered the most babies are cute so it should go without saying. You really only have to comment when they are butt ugly like in Seinfeld. It was a fun discussion which made us both laugh. Mid meal the couple got up and said in English that they enjoyed it too.
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That’s kind of wholesome :)
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Is a hot dog a taco? Heard that one at dinner tonight.
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A hot dog is 100% a taco. The real debate is whether or not a hot dog/taco is a sandwich.
To answer this, you first need to solve two other questions: First, what would you consider to be bread? Second, whether a sandwich requires two separate pieces of bread. Is a wrap a sandwich? Most would consider a tortilla to at least be a form of bread, but it’s only one piece. A gyro, made with flatbread? What if it’s one solid piece of bread that is totally sealed, like a hot pocket, calzone, or Asian dumpling? Is dumpling considered “bready” enough to count? Or do we not count it because it’s not leavened?
And that brings us back to the taco argument. Do we consider a taco a sandwich? If we consider a wrap a sandwich, I would argue yes. Because the only functional difference between a taco and a wrap is how big the tortilla is. And if a taco is a sandwich, then a hot dog would also be considered a sandwich.
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There are some questions that make you think. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Does a toilet paper roll have 1 or 2 holes? Is a cereal bowl with milk a soup?
Then there are some questions that kill your brain. Is a hot dog a taco? Wtf?
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I've never heard that one, but I have heard people argue for a hot dog being a sandwich.
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Whether the Newport Jazz Festival was in Europe, because she knew it was in Europe, because that's the only time she'd been to Europe.
Difficulty rating: we were within 100 miles of Newport, Rhode Island, at the time. 2 hours in a car.
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If specific people existed when they where right in front of them existing. Those people are LGBT people and it's happening to much.
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What a stupid argument indeed. 😓 I knew someone who told their friend, TO MY FACE, that non-binary people don’t exist. I guess I’m not real.
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Not an argument but I once heard my neighbor casually (but loudly) discuss with someone how she could only orgasm anally
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Hey, don't judge.
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I'm not hear to kink-shame. It was just surprising to overhear
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she was just letting you know.
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"I have an open
backdoor policy" - op's neighbour.
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that we should worry about the feelings of Nazis.
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Make nazis Afraid Again
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“Grandpa, Israel isn’t a state, it’s a country!”
This was a woman in her 20s, if I had to guess
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I don't think that's weird. A lot of people don't know that "the state" means "the country" unless you are specifically talking about individual states within a country. I can see how that could be confusing for somebody who doesn't know better.
I'm reminded of when I was in like 8th grade or something and I was confused about how the UK can be a country but England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland are also countries. Similar concept.
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Overheard on a game chat recently. Two guys arguing whether 100 guys could take on a silverback gorilla. One of them insisted that silverbacks have impenetrable skin lol.
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armed?
human's technology is our evolutionary advantage. a single human- even a weak one- could kill a gorilla if it had an appropriate rifle or shotgun.
unarmed? dude might have a point... I'm not sure a hundred people could fight a gorilla at the same time.
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