What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone?

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I was working telephone company helpdesk. A customer called in demanding that I raise the priority of their ticket so the serviceman (who was in their house already) would finish the work faster. I made the mistake of trying to explain that’s not how it works.

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• tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  My colleague doesn’t believe in Einstein and his discoveries. I said that things like spacetime and the relativity of time were in fact proved but he insisted they were all lies. He doesn’t even believe that the speed of light is the fastest thing ever because it’ll be proved only when we’ll go that fast in first person loool

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I had someone tell me I was full of shit and a coward for suggesting a full face helmet for downhill skating (for reference, DH skating can get you traveling at highway speeds). They were talking about if you wore a helmet, a regular park helmet would be totally fine because they’re designed for skateboarding falls. I tried to explain that park skating and DH are two totally different things, which need different gear and skills, but they just kept doubling down on their crazy bullshit. It was either a troll or an insane person but either way, I regret wasting my time on their bullshit. Hopefully the person we were trying to help just ignored their stupid ass.

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• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The worst conceivable argument: When someone tries to shut you down by claiming that “you’re always so combatative, why can’t you just let this go?”

  My brother in Christ… you are arguing with me. You are probably being at least as combative as myself. Why can’t YOU just let this go? And of course, if you do anything other than let them have their way, they take that as proof that you never let anything pass.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  One coworker claimed that all seedless fruit are genetically modified. I explained that it’s just good old selective breeding. No fancy tech required, though gene editing can achieve the same result. I even pulled up the relevant Wikipedia article to back it up. His response? And I quote:

  Wikipedia, it’s all lies.

  That hit me like a mental blue screen of death. My brain froze for a solid few seconds before rebooting. Once I recovered, I realized I’d just witnessed what might be the dumbest argument I’ve ever heard in person.

  At that point, I knew he was far beyond reason, so it was time to cut my losses. I let him keep his distorted worldview and steered the conversation toward less soul-crushing topics. It’s a coping strategy I’d learned a few years earlier: when you encounter people like that, you can either bang your head against the brick wall or simply walk around it. Once you realize it’s not a problem you can solve, it’s better to just avoid it.

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m usually the one who makes arguments wierd

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I bet $1 I could out-weird you.

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Fight! Fight!

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Nice try P Diddy. I can’t get fooled again

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• lilcutie24@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  people kept trying to convince me i was lesbian when i was straight as a younger teen. as it turns out, im bisexual

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• PoorYorick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I got into a loud verbal altercation with a teacher at one point who insisted I was asleep while I was arguing with them.

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• EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Someone on lemmy made a comment that basically said people dislike .ml for bad reasons, and I replied that I don’t like them bc I don’t like fans of regimes that would have me killed for being queer. He called me a liberal, I replied that I hate democrats at least as much as him, and he said “is it because they’re not killing Palestinians swiftly enough for you?” shit had me fuming, still kinda does tbh cx who the fuck calls someone a zionist for disliking the guys supporting zionist genocide??? (the answer is it was Ensign_Crab, fuck that leftist infighting weirdo. he prob only said I wanna kill Palestinians bc every right wing accusation is a confession)

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  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Most sane interaction with a .ml user

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    now kiss

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  • blackwitch@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    What the hell??? That’s horrible…

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    • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s extra bewildering bc I always liked the takes of his I saw around Lemmy, being told I love genocide by another “lefty” felt 100x worse than any of the other weirdos who say things like that to strangers

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• emotional_soup_88@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  An idiot once argued that I support totalitarianism because my parents’ country was once occupied by the Soviet Union. I will not say what I wish on this person. It’s like saying that I support violence because I was punched in the face…

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• 0x0f@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone once argued and kept insisting that I was a workaholic, despite me never being one.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    There’s nothing worse than a workaholic in denial.

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• wendyz@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone argued with me, coincidentally, a Spanish-American, that I am actually Mexican.

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    People trying to convince you that you are different than what you are is the funniest

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    • wendyz@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeahhh LOL

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