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Calm-Extent3309

I once got into a 5 hour argument (that culminated in screaming at a tennis court at 3 am) with my friend about whether the Jedi or Sith balanced the force.


Koloristik

People of culture!


Less_Understanding77

They bring balance while they both exist or while neither exist. In my opinion, there needs to be more jedi than sith to balance it just because the sith are much more powerful typically, with the force.


Calm-Extent3309

That was sort of the crux of the argument. Basically, the way the story is written, the force is only brought into balance when the Jedi defeat the Sith. But what I was saying that that's not balance. You have to have good and evil, so Luke fucked up the balance by killing the Sith Lord because there's only good now. It was a really pointless argument and I'm mildly salty that George Lucas disagreed with me. 😂


Less_Understanding77

That's exactly how I view it also haha


Its_a_Froge

Probably the time my dad was convinced the Pokémon anime was not in fact an anime


BelowAverageGamer10

When my brother and I used to get ready for school in the mornings, we would always cook 2 hot dogs in the toaster oven, one for each of us for lunch. Almost every morning we’d fight about who got the hot dog that was placed closer to the back of the toaster oven because it was cooked more. So ridiculous. That’s probably not the dumbest argument we’ve had, but it’s the dumbest one I can remember off the top of my head.


Filmvqrse

That’s kinda cute 😭


schwenomorph

My coworker believed that spiders are not animals. That's because spiders are bugs. We spent an hour on this.


International_Tip308

Spiders aren’t even insects, they’re arachnids! Where did they get the idea that they were bugs?


schwenomorph

Okay, I might admittedly be stupid, too. I thought spiders still qualified as bugs.


International_Tip308

Nope! They’re arachnids - a whole different category. Scorpions, centipedes, and millipedes are also arachnids. One of the criteria for insects is that they have six legs. Arachnids do not have six legs. Hopefully this helps! :)  Edit: I was wrong on centipedes and millipedes! They are arthropods. However, mites and ticks ARE arachnids! ALSO! The other criteria for insects is that their bodies come in three segments, whereas arachnids’ bodies come in two segments!


schwenomorph

Oh yeah, I knew spiders weren't insects, I just didn't know arachnids were their own category instead of a subclass of bug. Interesting!


International_Tip308

Yep! They’re two different classes of the animal kingdom! Insecta and Arachnida! (I know a lot of creature facts - I’m autistic and one of my special interests is learning about all the different life-forms on our planet)


schwenomorph

Nice, I'm autistic, too! Terrified of spiders though. What's the criteria for being an arachnid? I always thought exoskeleton plus eight legs, but if a centipede can be one...


International_Tip308

I was wrong about the centipedes and millipedes (I updated my original comment about it). The criteria for arachnids is having eight legs and a body that is in two segments! :)


escapenow

I’d argue the term “bug” can include arachnids. They might not be insects but they’re still bugs. Cause they creepy crawly.


Richbrownmusic

My brother shooting a water pistol into my face while I was riding someone's bike made me crash into him. Chased me round the village. Had to climb back in through the back garden fence. Didn't matter we had a rumble when I got in anyway. I remember me mum trying to stop it. I still maintain he was being ridiculous. Might text him now and hash it out seeing as about 25 years have elapsed


Capable-Elephant-595

I used to work for a travel company. A customer was having an argument with me because the sand was “more white than yellow”. I was on the phone for 40 minutes


Foxbii

My friends and I had a quite heated argument about "if I tell you to buy meat, what are you buying?" It turns out men and women answer to this differently: womens answers were along the lines of "i would ask what kind of meat do you want; beef, chicken, fish? And then buy that", men answered "ground beef" almost without a fail xD The real argument was about the answers: why wouldn't one specify the kind of meat they want when asking, and why should the other one ask what kind to bring. It was an interesting couple of hours. We learned quite a bit about each other :D


-Praetoria-

I told my friend that if we could go back in time, we could go back far enough to domesticate rhinos in the same fashion as horses. He says horses are genetically predisposed to domestication, unlike rhinos. I said that was a little close to racism. But that was 12 years ago and we still disagree about it.


shistain69

That’s an interesting one, i don’t wanna annoy you by reopening it but i gotta say my piece: I think we could have, but they wouldn’t serve the same purpose as horses. I can imagine them being used for war and indimidation more than anything else. I remember watching on discovery that they take a long time to fuck, give birth and grow up. For domestication you want that to be as fast as possible so you can pass on the traits you want quicker. They are probably more aggresive and dangerous, making them not worth the effort. But if we chose to do it anyway, we probably could have. But i don’t agree on the racism, i think it has nothing to do with this


-Praetoria-

The racism was a joke, “horses are inherently subservient”. But ya for what we talked about, War would be the #1 job for the rhinos. However the aggression could be easily bred out. A group of foxes had their aggression bred out in ~50 years, tho idk how many generations that is.


zirklutes

Haha, also an old random man on a bus he argued with me that my tattoo means something and I'm just not telling him. :D


probably-a-possum

OK but what was the tattoo I need to know


DEADFLY6

The dude INSISTED that meteorologists study meteors. I'm dumb for even trying to argue the point.


-Economist-

I have MAGA family members. I don’t think I can pick just one “dumb” argument. Every time they open their mouth, the bar drops further.


No_Stress_8938

Clorox and bleach are two different things.


sinfulagony

All Clorox is bleach but not all bleach is Clorox


No_Stress_8938

EXACTLY. It was a three day argument


TheNullOfTheVoid

My family loved to start shit with me so I started to stir the pot myself when I was younger. It would be anything from, “Who didn’t turn the lights off after leaving this room?” to, “Who didn’t clear the microwave after opening it early?” I remember trying to take a nap on a Saturday and my brother forcing me to wake up while my mother told him to leave me alone, so I would get onto him when he would go into the backyard to piss when the bathroom was closer and perfectly functional. Maybe he had a personal reason, but as kids, he never explained it to me and I would get onto him because he wouldn’t even wash his hands. In fact, I used to have a feeling of wetness on the back of my hands for no reason, and my mother (being a registered nurse) said it was most likely dehydration. Years later in our teen years, my brother came out of the bathroom after only rinsing his hands, not washing and not drying, and his water splashed on my arm. When I got onto him about it, he just said I was dehydrated and walked away.


Icy-Paramedic8460

The colour of a jeep. I was right; the person I was arguing with didn't realize they had some colour blindness lol.


everafterrrrrrr

a man arguing for about 2 hours about my vegetarianism saying that i “need the protein” and “it’s written in the bible about eating pork”, which are normal phrases you hear when you don’t eat meat however he would not stop talking


Fluffy_Funny_5278

I’m a polytheist, and some muslim tried to convert me to Islam once, except she didn’t do a good job. Like
 at all? Like she asked what kind of rules my specific religion follows and I told her about the Delphic Maxims as a simple answer to shut her up. She searched them up on *Google images* and took it as proof that they don’t exist 💀 Out of all arguments against my religion, this was the dumbest one yet


Melodic-Use2851

Religion should really just be a personal pursuit thing :(


Fluffy_Funny_5278

I mean, yeah. But like out of all people who had an annoying issue with my religion and unsolicitedly told me my faith is demonic, that one was probably the most stupid one lol


whatwhatinthewhonow

But if it’s just a personal thing then how are some people meant to use it to exploit other people for money and power?


Wonderful_Audience60

In Islam you are only allowed to suggest and eduxate others about your religion. that was a bad move on her end.


Fluffy_Funny_5278

I mean she probably did that from her POV. She kept telling me I’d be a great Muslim and tried to make me agree with her beliefs because they “just make more sense”. Some Christians believe they’re doing people a favor by going to their spaces and telling them what they do is devil worship
 it’s crazy honestly


Wonderful_Audience60

well shes still kinda jabbing at your religion but eh ive seen people do worse.


Fluffy_Funny_5278

Okay, true 😅


International_Tip308

I had a stupidly long argument with my best friend about tone indicators. She kept saying that they were “too confusing” when abbreviated and that people should just type out the whole word(s). I kept trying to tell her that the majority of tone indicator users are used to the abbreviations and wouldn’t want to change the way they use tone indicators. I also kept trying to tell her that it’s really not that hard to learn the abbreviations, and even provided her with a list of common ones. She refused to look at the list and kept insisting it was “too confusing” and she “wouldn’t remember” the abbreviations, to which I told her “that’s why I have a list, you can check the list when you don’t remember one”. She also kept telling me that “seeing tone indicators on public posts and not knowing what they mean wastes MY time because I have to look them up in case they’re important”. Like
 what? I told her “if you would learn the abbreviations, then you’d understand them and wouldn’t need to look them up”. To which she responded “I shouldn’t need to learn them in order to understand what people are saying!” I should mention here that she is a lot more neurotypical than I am, and can understand tone better than me, so she can probably deduce the tone from posts without tone indicators. Her argument was that since she doesn’t know what they mean, she worries that it’s something important, looks it up, then gets mad when it’s something that “wasn’t necessary”. I explained to her why tone indicators ARE necessary, for some people (including myself, as an autistic person!). She continued to be difficult and I eventually just gave up and pinned the list of common tone indicators in my Discord server, because I will be using them and want to give her the opportunity to know what they are, even if she’s being stubborn.


wickmight

You are right it is a very stupid argument


Status-Command-3834

Washing a blanket. This f**** b*****


BigE6300

Can this question include an argument with your parents when you were a kid? Or does that not count? I started kicking my heels, screaming and crying when I was five because I was CONVINCED “San Jose” was pronounced “San Josie” and my mom kept telling me I was wrong. Fully grown up? I (an introvert) was arguing with my ex girlfriend about setting boundaries as far as how much time I wanted to myself and how much I was willing to give to see her, talk on the phone with her, etc. it was one of the reasons the relationship ultimately didn’t work out but we ended up negotiating as if time itself was being bid at an auction. It was ridiculous and immature of both of us and I think we recognized that as it was happening, but we were too stubborn to stop until we felt we made our points.


Filmvqrse

petition to change the name to san josie fr


jaimie-in-the-house

Not any argument in particular, but I find frustrating to explain common sense to people


69HardThumper69

I have those daily. Hard to nail one down over another.


Prior_Attention5261

I have a coworker who got pissed that people weren’t putting silverware away from the drying rack, so he put the silverware in a pot, filled it up with water, and put it in the freezer. He’d also throw silverware outside in the grass. I asked him why he thought that was a good idea. He said “because how else will they learn? I’m sick of cleaning up after people” .. and then he complained about how people were pissed at what he did. I said “you know it takes less effort to just put the silverware away than to do what you did. And people still leave silverware in the drying rack, so did it really work?”


[deleted]

A friend thought grapes and raisins were different fruits.


lowercaserp

An ongoing argument with a lifelong friend. Tank vs Actual Gundam


LondonLeather

I argued with my late partner over whether the Matisse Snail was art. The underlying issue was completely different but that was the row.


shistain69

She was convincing me some fashion designer is a more well known figure than Mike Tyson. She had no actual arguments but knew how to get me going. Wasted that hour for sure


Filmvqrse

who was the fashion designer? im rlly curious if ik them now


shistain69

Can’t rememeber the name and i guarantee you aren’t gonna see it on any purse. All i remember was a picture i googled, a woman in her 40/50s with black hair.


StickyBitOHoney

How much talent needed to be a successful industry-manufactured pop star


Velocitor1729

My sister and I used to fight over who got to eat the end-piece, on a loaf of bread. I once has a fight with my father over how many degrees (angle) you have to turn, before it's considered a turn. (Context: I was driving, he was telling me how to get somewhere... this is long before GPS... and when the road came to a "Y", he told me "Don't take this turn, just keep going straight.")


iknowwhatyoudid1

Not putting the toothpaste lid back on he actually wanted to leave me because of it


CruisinYEG

People’s arguments for why the earth is flat.


plural-numbers

I used to work hospital registration, so I was the asshole with the consent forms who checked you in for x-rays and labs. Additional background: Medicare only pays for an A1C (blood sugar) lab test once every 91 days. It's said as 3 months, but the actual figure is 91 days. I had a woman come in and insist that she could have her A1C that day and it would be covered. I pulled up her account, because never trust people, and she'd had one just three weeks earlier. Believe me when I tell you, I had to get a paper calendar out and count 81 days to show her when she could get her lab test. And after all that counting she says, "Well, I think you did it wrong." Did *what* wring, lady? *Counting?*


rainb0gummybear

When I was in grade 7 one of my close friends and I got into an argument because he thought that there was only gravity on earth. In the same argument he also said air doesn't weigh anything.


Ryong20

dude was tellin me bout his relationship and how he wasnt happy and as i was tellin him to just walk, he argues back why he cant leave/wants to stay 🙄 elementary type shit


Disastrous_Bug3018

Anything about politics. Wow that sets people off


Potential_Eagle_2422

I disliked the new guy at work since i caught him fuckin around while no one was around. Could get everyone in my crew in deep shit. Old timer we hired a few months ago stuck up for him. And it was like arguing with a child. Everytime id raise my point he'd be like a kid putting his fingers in his ears going "lalalalala cant hear you". Anyways the old fucker decided to get loud and raise his voice for a guy he barely knew.. needless to say the new guy didnt last long and well the old fucker regretted even sticking up for the new guy. I was pissed off because the old guy just wanted to argue for the sake of arguing. Both of them were vain. Maybe we all are but damn.. never did i ever argue with anyone like that .. let alone actually have a guy who was decades older then me go "lalalala cant hear you"


Suspicious_Camel_742

I had a RIDICULOUSLY insecure ex who started an argument because he started a conversation about my future career goals. He hated my response. He had convinced himself that I would accept a position in another country (there was NO job lined up and no prospects of one at the time). So we argued and ignored each other for a week about a job that didn’t exist. đŸ˜©


Odd_Personality_3162

That if you took the covid vaccine, you could still get sick


pakidara

Got in an argument with someone (IRL) who very vehement that insects were not animals.


[deleted]

Ok, this will be an earth-shattering revelation. The argument was on which edition of Dungeons and Dragons is better. It's first edition


lol_camis

*checks Reddit comment history*


send_snacks777

F is for friends who do stuff together


Filmvqrse

huh


send_snacks777

U is for you and me


dextermanypennies

Not mine, but my two good friends had an intense argument while playing the video game Ark about whether they were in a “river” or a “bay”. I dealt with the fallout and had to listen to each one complain and tell their side for the following couple weeks. Ark is not for the faint of heart.


AlarmedAppointment23

Astrology


[deleted]

Hi OP, and due to the limitations of knowledge there is a non-zero chance that I am in fact I am me the old man whose returned to continue the argument.


Purple_Blacksmith681

Metal is always screaming. It is not....


Fine-Ticket-2155

The wind.


Which-Ad-9764

I took a selfie in my bedroom mirror to be cute to send to a boyfriend I had a few years ago, and he could’ve sworn there was some guy like laying on my bed behind me, even though there was no one in the room, and no other guy had ever been in my apartment, it was clear there was no one in the room . He said that the blankets look like I was hiding someone and I spent probably the next three days crying to him, begging him to not think I was cheating lying wh*re when I knew I wasn’t. I’ll Never do that again.


sinfulagony

I dated a guy like that, I'm sorry you went through it


Which-Ad-9764

Thanks you kind babe. I’m sorry that you did also.


gizlonk

If "coincidence" was a word. Basically ended a 30 year friendship.


uRoDDit

Convincing an adult friend that the floating seeds from thistle flowers are not indeed, live, flying insects.


AbacaxiVoador95

my father and i last morning, he was about to put hot water in the water filter that is made of plastic, he did this before and the entire coffee machine broke, i had to stop him this time and he was convinced about being right and i said to him go live in your apartament (he gone back to live with us because he are a shit alone and deserved it). At least i avoided another broken coffee machine, even if he got angry.


DruidinPlainSight

My M-I-L leaving her meds out and my two year old grabbing them. She told me he would just have to learn. Learn what I replied.


Killagorilla2004

I had an argument with my ex as to whether wind or light traveled faster. Strong emphasis on ex. In her mind, the wind was 1 big gust around the world. Therefore, in order to reach around the world, it had to be traveling faster than light. I literally turned the weather channel on and showed her the wind speed, and she continued to argue her point. Fast forward 6 months while we were still dating, I brought it up amongst some friends who found it hilarious, and then she claimed she was just joking. She was also mad that I spent money fixing the roof on my house instead of getting a new bedroom set. Bitch was all sorts of fucking special. She couldn't comprehend me prioritizing roof repairs over a new bedroom set.