Someone argued that I was actually probably Russian like their grandfather, not Polish because Polish and Russian is both Slavic and therefore the DNA test and our culture is probably wrong and I was Russian the whole time.
Most recent one: A dude in a chatroom was glazing MrBeast and spreading misinformation that he was this selfless philanthropist. I linked a bunch of articles from NBC, CBS, and CNBC about various controversies and scandals involving MrBeast being a POS in the past five years or so. He said “you can’t trust any info that comes from a .com domain.”
Flails
Well… He kinda has a point in a way. Doesn’t disprove yours though.
When we were kids and on holidays, my parents got into a really heated argument about the name of a jam’s brand. My mom “it’s Hero!”, dad " no, it’s Delicia!". They were both so adamant, it put a real damp on the entire vacation. Finally back home they went straight to the pantry to check out the name of the jam that was called Hero Delicia. Yeah… that was dumb.
Pre-internet era debates were the best!
I got into a loud verbal altercation with a teacher at one point who insisted I was asleep while I was arguing with them.
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…
My mother, who has had three kids, believes that women pee out of their vaginas. She realizes that pee comes out the urethra, but insists that a woman’s urethra is inside the vagina. She was extremely condescending to me when I tried to explain that’s not how it works, so I just gave up.
That’s why you can’t pee when you use a tampon
I dated a girl with severe, unmanaged BPD… It led to a LOT of wild arguments over the weirdest things lol
I also recently got into an argument with someone over whether or not Huskies and malamutes misbehave out of spite/revenge, or a lack of mental or physical stimulation…
It could really go either way with the huskies and malamutes. Depends on the situation.
I worked at Office Depot. I had a customer call in and ask how much the lawn mower tires cost. Told them he has the wrong store, we don’t sell them and then proceeded to hear him bitch me out about how I don’t want to do my job and help him.
Maybe they got Office Depot and Home Depot confused?
Someone argued with me, coincidentally, a Spanish-American, that I am actually Mexican.
People trying to convince you that you are different than what you are is the funniest
Yeahhh LOL
I couldn’t think of a bad argument until I read your comment.
Back when Overwatch was pretty new, they just released Ana, an Egyptian support character. I was browsing the overwatch subreddit and people talked about how accurately the voice actors were in the game. All the characters come from different places and some of the voice lines are dubbed and some of them are in their native language. Anyway, people praised the accuracy and i said that might be true, but Mercy is from Switzerland, Zürich to be precise and her voice lines are german. To be really accurate, she should have swiss german voice lines. But the voice actress is german-american.
I thought that was a reasonable thing to point out, it wasn’t a complaint or anything, it was just that people called the voice lines 100% accurate and glazed blizzard for it.
People called me dumb and told me that i have no idea what i’m talking about. I told them that i live here, and i would probably know. Even after my “i literally live here” comment, people were like: i think people in Switzerland also speak german. Yes, i know, but they don’t just speak it for fun. They also speak french, Italian and romansh, but we’re talking about a woman who lives in Zürich, where i live. But i was still wrong apparently and people explained to me what language i speak aktually and why i’m wrong.
I’ve lived in communities with deathtrap jails stocked full of kids and people on detainment and the people in those communities act like its normal and get weird when you are mad about it.
It’s about as uncanny as Stephen Kings’ “Derry” or whatever metaphor you can imagine. People just pretend they aren’t being constantly threatened with violent imprisonment, like their kids are free.
Someone once argued and kept insisting that I was a workaholic, despite me never being one.
There’s nothing worse than a workaholic in denial.
Had a RPG colleague try and argue that getting data on TV viewers’ habits was more reliable than what Netflix could have on their own users, because “[Netflix] doesn’t know whether the person is actually sitting down and watching, or sleeping on the couch”. I couldn’t get through his thick skull that TV viewers’ habits aren’t magically measured, only a small percentage of homes, usually only in the largest metropolitan city no less, have (or had, in the past) some specific equipment that tracked which channels were being viewed, while any internet service can get super accurate info on their users.
How would anyone know whether tv viewers were actually watching or just sleeping either?
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)
What the hell??? That’s horrible…
Sounds like a pretty typical interaction.
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
Most sane interaction with a .ml user
You have to understand that most humans are really fucking stupid, or at least illogical. Take every interaction with a grain of salt, because the person you are arguing with at the end of the day is a barely functional slab of meat that nature trained to think, as a joke.
I know what “tbh” stands for (to be honest), but what does “cx” stand for?
it’s just an emoticon, like :3 or xD, I use it when I find something amusing
now kiss
Not weirdest but absolutely stupidest. Told my older brother I wouldn’t date anyone at my company. Personal choice. He was so drunk and weirdly interested in my dating choices that we were yelling and I just couldn’t visit his place anymore. His drinking makes him too stupid.
I had someone tell me I was full of shit and a coward for suggesting a full face helmet and protective gear 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. I should really stop going to reddit…
My friend at the time watched some documentary about chess computers (Deep Blue etc.) and was telling me about the “super advanced algorithm called Brute Force”. I told him that brute force is means trying every possible combination, is the least efficient approach, and does not generally work for chess. He was adamant it was some genius algorithm. The only time in my life I remember saying “I have a computer science degree, I know what I am talking about”.
