# Stupidest fight between you and your SO. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305 "2004-02-15T04:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/21 "2004-02-16T19:37:11Z")
We don’t really fight. We disagree and get into discussions. There’s hardly ever bad blood. We argued about whether tidal waves and tsunamis are the same thing. from: [http://www.crystalinks.com/tsunami.html](http://www.crystalinks.com/tsunami.html) > [@](#): > > Tsunamis are often incorrectly called tidal waves, but tides have nothing to do with them (though the damage may be worse if a tsunami hits at high tide). I was arguing that tsunamis are often called tidal waves and that he knew what I was talking about when I said tidal wave even though I know that tidal wave is an incorrect term when referring to tsunamis. We also argued about quicksand. from: [How Quicksand Works | HowStuffWorks](http://www.howstuffworks.com/quicksand.htm) > [@](#): > > If you step into quicksand, it won’t suck you down. However, your movements will cause you to dig yourself deeper into it. I was arguing that quicksand isn’t like lightning sand from _The Princess Bride_ but that it does really exist and has to do with saturation levels. He said it was a movie invention because he thought I was referring to movie type quick death quicksand. Now that I’ve typed them out, all our issues have to do with miscommunication, not really fighting. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/22 "2004-02-16T19:58:27Z")
The freaking mayonnaise jar. I put it on the shelf in the refrigerator. So what does he do? He goes over, opens the fridge, picks it up and PUTS IT ON THE DOOR. WTF? Why can’t he just leave things alone?! It doesn’t MATTER where the f\*ing mayonnaise jar is! It doesn’t care where it is, I don’t care where it is, only HE cares where it is! Besides, I CAN PUT THE DAMNED MAYONNAISE JAR ANYWHERE I WANT!!! GRRRRRRRRRRAHHHH! ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/23 "2004-02-16T19:59:56Z")
Me and the ex got into a knock-down, drag-out one time because I wouldn’t let him trade the baby’s playpen for crack. I know, I know. I’m such a hardass. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/24 "2004-02-16T20:02:57Z")
I could be perpetuating a myth, but IIRC one of the primary factors in the divorce of James Cameron and Linda Hamilton was Cameron’s habit of leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/25 "2004-02-16T20:12:12Z")
Mighta been a different thing altogether if the baby hadn’t still been in the playpen, eh? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/26 "2004-02-16T21:27:30Z")
Easy. After seeing cigarette prices advertised on convenience store: jsgoddess: How can they charge so much more for Marlboros? Marketing? jsgod: Dunno. jsgoddess: Are they better than Brand X? jsgod: Dunno. jsgoddess: But you used to smoke. What brand did you smoke? jsgod: Whatever was available. jsgoddess: Were some better than others? jsgod: Dunno. jsgoddess: You don’t know if some were better than others? jsgod: I didn’t like menthol. jsgoddess: But between the name brands and off brands, were the name brands better? jsgod: No. jsgoddess: So why do people pay more? jsgod: 'Cause they know the names. jsgoddess: So it’s marketing. jsgod: Dunno. jsgoddess: _scream of rage_ Julie ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/27 "2004-02-16T21:45:07Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Mighta been a different thing altogether if the baby hadn’t still been in the playpen, eh? See **UncleBeer** , _you_ understand. 😛 You know, if you’d told me at the time that I’d be laughing about it two years down the road I’d have called you a liar and a fool. But here I am, laughing away. I consider it, in hindsight, to be the absolute pinnacle of the ridiculousness that was my marriage. If fighting over trading baby goods for crack ain’t a wake-up-call for the oblivious (namely, ME), I don’t know what is! [sub]ps–now that you’re not modding, who am I supposed to consider my local delegate? huh? Well? Did you even stop to think about that? :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/28 "2004-02-16T21:47:22Z")
I think the dumbest fight I’ve ever had with a man involved the dilemma of getting up and moving to the bedroom, or just having sex in the living room. I can no longer remember why, but I _do_ remember that I won, we stayed in the living room, and I got a serious rugburn for my efforts. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/29 "2004-02-16T21:58:32Z")
“The pasta incident”. I don’t like to talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/30 "2004-02-17T02:58:33Z")
**if6was9** and I have argued about Pete Rose getting into the HOF since before we got together. It’s a recurring argument, and we know each other’s points, but for some reason, we simply cannot NOT argue about it… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Aureos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Aureos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aureos)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/31 "2004-02-17T05:15:27Z")
Walk into the apartment…to IT playing video games…La-Z-Boy pulled up to the tv, feet propped on either side of the TV. The reason: the water flooding into the apartment…he didn’t want to get his feet wet. Now did he call Service??? did he call me at work??? No…he plays Big Game Hunter…not even something that has T&A like Tomb Raider _sigh_ I had water in the bedroom closet, the bathroom, the kitchen and the living room…it was NOT pretty. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/32 "2004-02-17T06:18:22Z")
My ex spent most of his life in Woodbridge, VA. We met and married in DC and ended up living not too very far from his parents’. One of our first arguments started because he was mad because the Washington Redskins played in RFK and that was almost Maryland and it wasn’t fair that he had to drive all that way to go to the games. I pointed out to him that they were the _Washington_ Redskins, not the Virginia Redskins. He didn’t get it. It wasn’t faaaaAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIiiiiir that he had to drive all that way. No, I have no idea what I saw in him. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/33 "2004-02-17T06:37:11Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > “The pasta incident”. I don’t like to talk about it. Don’t you mean the _noodle_ incident, Calvin? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/34 "2004-02-17T07:15:59Z")
A former girlfriend and I actually had a fight on whether or not we just had a fight. Seriously. I don’t even remember what the “non-fight” was about (we can see which side I argued,) but I do know that just after she made some comment about how we were a real couple now because we had our first fight. We didn’t, but that fight we did have was our first fight. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/35 "2004-02-17T15:44:25Z")
or The Spaghetti Incident? ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/36 "2004-02-17T16:39:20Z")
**"The Box War of 2003"** Christmas morning. All the presents are unwrapped and we’re cleaning up the debris, and I pick out a few boxes that I want to save. He says we have too many boxes. I say that we don’t have any boxes of _this_ size and shape. We proceed to start yelling at each other about the number of boxes we have or need to save, ending with him, in a screaming rage, emptying the closet under the stairs of every box we had. And me, with boxes flying across the room, sorting the huge pile while the children watch in awe. OK, so we had a lot of boxes. But it was _Christmas_! ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/37 "2004-02-17T18:31:08Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > **if6was9** and I have argued about Pete Rose getting into the HOF since before we got together. It’s a recurring argument, and we know each other’s points, but for some reason, we simply cannot NOT argue about it… :rolleyes: Banning Pete from Major League Baseball most certainly DOES include the GD HOF. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/38 "2004-02-17T18:38:06Z")
> [@Aureos](#): > > Walk into the apartment…to IT playing video games…La-Z-Boy pulled up to the tv, feet propped on either side of the TV. > > The reason: the water flooding into the apartment…he didn’t want to get his feet wet. Now did he call Service??? did he call me at work??? No…he plays Big Game Hunter…not even something that has T&A like Tomb Raider _sigh_ > > I had water in the bedroom closet, the bathroom, the kitchen and the living room…it was NOT pretty. I dunno, that one seems like a rather legitimate fight to me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/39 "2004-02-17T18:51:57Z")
Ya know…if I answer this question, then **said answer** will become the stupidest thing we have argued about! 😃 Trust me on this one. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305/40 "2004-02-17T18:53:44Z")
I think **jjimm** meant [The Linguini Incident](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102313/) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-fight-between-you-and-your-so/229305.md?page=3)