What was the dumbest thing another person has said to you while in an argument?

[Its possible]

And how did you react to it?

[WraithKingOstarion]

ohhhhh this will be an interesting thread. waiting for the usual suspects to show up.

[unbound]

Perhaps the dumbest is when I pointed out that the claim was a lie (easily disproven). The response was something along the lines that it didn't matter that it was a lie but the point was relevant none-the-less. That was a strong facepalm moment.

[I Push Buttons]

Wasn't an argument I was in since I don't argue with people IRL... But my buddy was arguing with some lady about parking spaces in a packed parking lot. After a couple shots back and forth at each other the lady just yells "YEAH WELL I HAVE CANCER!"

I was like "wtf?" It was just so out of left field.

Shit was literally like:

Friend (seeing the horribly parked truck that was splayed sideways across two almost three parking spaces, but not noticing the driver was at the truck): "What kind of idiot parks like that?"
Lady: "Who are you calling an idiot!?"
Friend: "You if you're the one that parked that truck!"
Lady: "Its not easy parking a truck this big!"
Friend: "Maybe you shouldn't drive a truck that big then!"
Lady: "YEAH WELL I HAVE CANCER!"

[Dwarfhamster]

“Because it’s in the Bible.”

[Tenlo]

When I used to work at a grocery store "I demand the sale product that you are out of cuz it's 10 mins till.closing cuz I chose to drive the 45 mins to come here!"

Retail customers are silly

[Jakexe]

"Music didn't even exist before the 1920's" goalshifted to "Written music didn't exist until the 1800's"


In an argument about how metal originated. /facepalm

[Freighter]

Kept repeating some weird idea he had about how women's bodies function and when I told him that's not how it works he just doubled down.

Like, if I said something about men's bodies and a man told me that's not how it works, I'd be like oh, sorry, I didn't know. Not double down on stupid.

[Templar 331]

"I've been raising kids since I was 5 years old. I know what I'm doing!"

I just sat there stupefied.

[Mister K]

That everyone is born the same and what differs how we're raised, is up there with some other ones.

Not totally wrong however. Nature/Nurture.

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"I've been raising kids since I was 5 years old. I know what I'm doing!"

I just sat there stupefied.

That's really dark. Could have parents who neglected his/hers sibling which resulted him picking up the parenting. Damn son.

[Katchii]

"I didn't read/watch the article/book/movie/source material, but [insert completely unfounded opinion/view about the thing they just admitted to not seeing/reading]"

[kail]

"I've read online..."

[Templar 331]

That's really dark. Could have parents who neglected his/hers sibling which resulted him picking up the parenting. Damn son.

It was a her and yeah her family is shit. But so is she....

[Orby]

I saw an arguement between two women in the street and one yelled at the other...

"Get outta my face, Or I'll fuck my face in you"

biggest verbal diarrhoea moment ever, think she meant something else but she was just so mad words just randomly came out...

[Flarelaine]

A conversation comes to mind from just earlier this week.

Me: <Coworker>, check on <user>, she has problems accessing the database.
Coworker: I checked on her earlier and everything works fine.
Me: Apparently it's not the case, she has just called and asked for help.
Coworker: But I checked on her earlier and everything works fine.
Me: Yes, well, maybe, but now she has just called and asked for help.
Coworker: But I checked on her earlier and everything works fine.
Me: And I have just talked to her and she asked for help. Or have you checked on her in the 30 seconds since I talked to her?
Coworker: Yes!

[Ivanstone]

I've gotten into two separate arguments about policing recently.
One person thinks the police should be abolished because they do nothing about the huge increase in crime and are just racists picking on minorities.
The other person thinks we need much more cops because they are under siege from the huge increase in crime.

After rolling my eyes at both of them I looked up crime stats for my town and found that by most metrics crime is half of what it was in 2000 despite a minor uptick from meth related activities over the past couple years.

[CloverJeweler]

I don't remember...

[Seranthor]

And how did you react to it?

They said and I quote, 'Do you think I'm stupid'... I had to stop them and ask, 'Are you really sure you want me to answer that'