Dumbest things you and your significant other have argued about

[NickB79]

I'm a big sci-fi buff, and so is my girlfriend. But, what bugs me to no end in movies set in the future is the lack of nuclear weapons. Yes, my solution to any and all alien menaces is a 20 megaton Welcome-to-Earth greeting card. You'll take a few million civilians out with the them? So what, the aliens/mutants/zombies are about to munch their way across the globe and eat/kill/enslave ALL of humanity. Get over it, it's worth it.

So, this past weekend I finally rent the final Matrix movie, along with the Animatrix anime that chronicles how the war started. They used nukes in the first anime short story, so I'm initially happy. Then problems start to pop up.

Me: How could the robots survive? It doesn't make any sense? We NUKED Zero-One (the robot city, set in the Middle East) when the war began.

Her: The movie explained that. The robots can withstand the radiation and temperature of a nuke, but humans can't, so it backfired on us.

Me: What material could withstand the 1 million degrees temperature generated at the center of a nuclear explosion?

Her: Maybe the robots build materials that could survive it.

Me: Materials strong enough to survive those unbelievable temperatures, yet can still be shot up with conventional machineguns like in the movies? I don't think there are any atomic bonds strong enough to hold together at that temp.

Her: (giving me that angry look, but I'm stupid enough to continue on)

Me: And they're susceptible to an EM pulse in the Matrix trilogy. A nuclear explosion creates the largest man-made EM pulse known. Even if the heat didn't get them, the EM pulse would have.

Her: (eyebrows go up and eyes narrow, should be running for the door but I'm still stuck in stupid-mode)

It got worse from there, we argued, we gave each other the silent treatment for a couple hrs, then we apologized and laughed our asses off about it. I still can't figure out what I was thinking to get so emotional over a movie. Heck, not even a movie, but an anime spin-off of the movie.

[librechik]

1. Are mushrooms multicellular?

couldn't get a University of Colorado biologist to commit himself on this. Nearly came to blows. Heh.

[koopie57]

2. we got in an arguement over

a tuna sandwich.

[The empressof all]

3. Pasta Salad

He once volunteered to make my pasta salad recipe for a pot luck we were attending. We did not have the two boxes of those curly pastas that I usually use. He mixed a box of Rotini and a box of small shells.

OMG--I just could not handle it and the entire salad went down the toilet.

In retrospect I was being really stupid but at the time it just really pissed me off that he could not take the time to run down the stairs to the grocery store and get the proper pasta. I mean every one knows you can not mix the shapes. :) :) :)

This happened when we first started living together and he married me anyway. I knew I met my match when he loved me even after being so bitchy about something sooooooo dumb.

[Spinzonner]

4. Or maybe 'because'

[Unperson 309]

5. Trouser Legs.

That's right, the length of my pant legs. I am a tad shorter than the average and one day I found a great pair of jeans at the Goodwill... but they were too long in the leg. Typical problem with me. Well, since they were bluejeans, I figured I'd just do the hippie thing and cut them off at the correct length and let them fray.

WRONG move, me Buckos! I come from a blue collar (hell, Tennessee poverty!) family. my darling mate is from upper middle class (her dad was an Air Force colonel, her grandfather a vice governor!) and She Does Not Speak Hippie!

"You WHAAAAAAAT??!!!" she hit the ceiling and bounced twice! How COULD I even CONSIDER wearing a pair of cutoffs? I was going to make this family look like white trash! (well, yeah, I'm the first generation of my lineage not to have a hitch on the end of my house, but...) I think I gave my poor love more than a few gray hairs that day!

I sued for peace by promising never, ever, EVER to take scissors to my garments again... ever... I promise, Honey! She agreed to shorten my pant legs herself.

No, the sun did NOT set on our anger! In fact, IIRC, the making up was quite nice!

Can't recall what happened to the jeans, though.

309

[rumguy]

6. We argued about squirrels and aliens

A gf and I got in an argument over a hypothetical situation where both a squirrell's life and a visitng alien's life are in danger and you can only save one.

She said she would save the squirrel as it was 'of this Earth' and she was part of the Earth and she felt the bond with the squirrel through the Earth, etc., etc...

I said I'd save the alien's life and I couldn't believe she would save a squirrel's life over an intelligent thinking and presumably feeling creature...

We actually argued about this. Seriously....some feelings got hurt.

[KT2000]

7. Kick for more stories

This is hilarious.
Its just me and the cats - all fights are based on intelligence and tolerance.

But and old boyfriend and I tried not turning on the TV - lots of stupid fights were sprouting all over. We went back to the TV to keep the peace.

[ScrewyRabbit]

8. We argue about washing dishes

She believes in soaping up the sponge, and if the dishes are in a fetid pool of 3-day-old standing water, she can still clean them because she has a soapy sponge. I on the other hand must drain the sink and fill it up with fresh soapy hot water. Anything short of that is both un-hygenic and inefficient (so believe I).

We argue about something having to do with vacuuming before dusting, or dusting before vacuuming. I can no longer remember which side I take, to be honest. She probably can't either.

I consider it a good marriage -- the fact that all we argue about is really trivial shit that no one in their right mind would care about.

[Randomthought]

9. Just today

My husband and I had a big argument on what day he wrote me a check to pay his share of last month's credit card bill.
That's very dumb!

[WindRavenX]

10. He wore a Red Sox shirt

See, the man doesn't understand/like sports, and I'm a die hard Yankee fan. He's in Boston (I go to school in Boston). Now, he's wicked smart, so just to get a rise out of me, he decides to wear a Red Sox shirt that he had sitting in his closet one day.
Now, I looked at him and I said, "I am not having sex with you if you wear that shirt on". I meant to say it in a kidding way, but he took it the wrong way...it was a five minute arguement, but it was humorous in a sick way :D
BTW, he still wears it...sometimes we go out with him wearing that Red Sox shirt and me wearing my Posada and Yankee hat.
Yes, we get stares..
I miss that man...demmit I need to get back to Boston :(

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Before we got married....

and he got down to Dallas (doing the whole "long distance relationship" thing...) I was having to plan the entire wedding by myself.

I mean, it's mostly a chick thing anyway, and I conferred with him every once in awhile about various things, but you know guys. They could care less.

So after several phone calls of me bringing up suggestions about programs or poems for them (I did all our invitations and programs on the computer and with Kinko's help), or colors, or whatever, he just kind of blew everyting off.

Finally, I forged ahead alone, figuring he just didn't care, so all was cool. So one night I mentioned something I'd done or planned for. Suddenly he got all moody and quiet, and started giving me the silent treatment because I was doing everything without him!

Rrrrrrrr.....eventually I hung up on him. He called me up and grovelled, after realizing he was being an idiot.

[bushisanidiot]

12. Acceptable Table Manners

I ended up getting really cocky and said that if I go to a fancy restaurant and there are WAY too many eating utensils in front of me I'm just gonna take 1 knife, 1 fork and 1 spoon and hand the rest to the server and say that I don't need 'em.

she was MORTIFIED!

heh.. ;)

[JM]

13. What my kids wear to services

My family traditionally gets somewhat dressed up to go to services. Coat and tie for important ones or when there is a family member being honored, a little less for others or during the summer, but no jeans, etc.

My kids have never been dressed up for services. I wanted them to get nice slacks and coats for services in the fall. My wife, who ordinarily LOVES shopping for ANY occasion, was insistent it was unnecessary.

Last weekend she came home with a suit for our oldest, and went back to get another for our youngest. I said nothing before she did it, and said nothing afterward. Sometimes silence truly is golden.

JM

[asianjoanne]

14. well...

Our arguments can be so retarded, it's laughable.

My boyfriend (noahmijo on these boards) and I seem to always argue about his mom, our cramped room/kitchen, messes being left by other people, etc. We seem to never really argue over anything that has to do with us. Although, I do get angry at times when he always brings up how "we need to get active!" He's going to get me for saying that on here, but it's true! Almost every week I need to hear how we need to be active and lose weight and stuff. I know it's for my health and his, but having to be reminded over and over again that I have a tiny bit of chubbiness just doesn't make me feel very happy. LoL

Other than that, our relationship is awesome! :headbang:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I once broke up with someone because he picked fights over stupid

stuff like that.

Example:

There was a vegetarian restaurant in town that had a daily lunch special. One day, he and I went there and saw that the daily special was an Indian combo: vegetable curry, dhal, and brown rice.

I decided to order it, because I love Indian food.

He immediately started in on how it was irresponsible for the restaurant to serve a meal that didn't contain any protein.

I said that the combination of dhal and brown rice constituted complete protein.

He said that that was just propaganda from radical vegetarians.

I said that I didn't care. It looked good.

He said that I was endangering my health by not getting enough protein.

I said that you didn't have to have animal protein at every meal.

He said that that was just propaganda from radical vegetarians.

And so on and so on.

He also picked fights about stuff such as why I was ordering plain seltzer instead of lemonade, whether all accidents should be preventable, the difference between hourly and salaried employees (I gave him the definition and he seemed to want something else--I couldn't figure out what), and how I should enjoy camping.

This type of relationship gets boring real fast, and ever since then, I have shied away from anyone who says that he loves a good argument.