Absurd debates you have had

[unicron44]

Here's a recent example:

I recently had a debate with a person who is a mutual friend of one of my best friends that was about basebal (this was on Facebook FYI). He would say something and I'd take it, put it in quotes, and then stated why I thought he was wrong. So instead of it going any further he stated he was going to read my response, said I had no idea what I was talking about, said he was right without saying anything, and called me ugly.

Any funny stories about debates with others?

 

[AddytheGreat]

Me and my friend once had a debate in the middle of History about weather a team of 10 determined velociraptors could down a T-Rex. Yeah, that was a pritty weird debate.

 

[Henkie36]

Greatest in-game conversations I've ever followed in CoD 4, between a girl who called herself Alice anda guy who's name I can't remeber, so i'm calling him Bob.
[Alice knifes Bob]
Bob: What was that?
Alice: A knife. I just owned you.
Bob: Knife is a one-hit-kill, it's a fag weapon.
Alice: You'd pay to see me gay.
Bob: ''Fag'' is not the same as ''gay''.
Alice: Yes it is.
Bob: Yes, well... Shut up, you know what I mean!

 

[Joel Dawson]

I was almost thrown out of a Biology class for getting in a debate with everyone over Space Jam. Apparently no one else there thought it was terrible.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

My friend and I are constantly arguing the age-old question...

Who would win in a fight, Superman or Goku? (Obviously Goku, but I don't want to debate this here).

That same friend and another friend of mine are also constantly debating whether or not Superman and Lois Lane could have sex. One of them believes they could, while the other thinks he'd "shoot right through here", so to say.

Yeah, they're pretty dumb debates.

 

[Joel Dawson]

Sorry. Double Post.

 

[The Moehlinator]

I have a buddy who loves to have randomly stupid debates. Most recent was whether or not Master Chief could take down a functioning first gen terminator. Before that, we argued about whether zombies could walk from one continent to the other through the oceans.

Obviously, they cannot. That is just stupid.

 

[unicron44]

I was almost thrown out of a Biology class for getting in a debate with everyone over Space Jam. Apparently no one else there thought it was terrible.

One day in Biology my friend brought up would you let a barber shave your pubic hair after a haircut. Well we were doing a lab and just talked about this for the whole class and whenever someone walked past we would ask them to make them uncomfortable. For some reason weird stuff like that me and my friends will talk about for way too long of a time while others will stop at a few sentences.

 

[Corax_1990]

I have a friend that dislikes the Mass Effect series, preposterous twaddle speak says I.

 

[kayisking]

I have a buddy who loves to have randomly stupid debates. Most recent was whether or not Master Chief could take down a functioning first gen terminator. Before that, we argued about whether zombies could walk from one continent to the other through the oceans.

Obviously, they cannot. That is just stupid.

Of course they couldn't, the pressure under the ocean is about the same as carrying a hundred trucks on your shoulders. I'm pretty sure they would just fall apart.

OT: I once had discussion with my friend about the fact that Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Jhonson are genetic clones of each other.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I had an argument over what was the correct term for a flat-top mountain. I said peninsula, my friend says plateau. Turns out it was Mesa. The absurdity comes in when we get into a conversation as to why my friend was not less wrong than I was.

 

[Gaiseric]

Not to long ago I started watching The Pacific with my older bother and he had the idea that they shouldn't have used ships to transport troops or supplies, they should have just used planes to parachute drop them wherever. Now my brother considers himself to be Rommel and Sun-Tzu rolled into one(in other words he thinks himself a military genius and can't ever be wrong). I tried to tell him that would be impractical and a logistical nightmare(silk for parachutes, pilots, navigators, mechanics, airfields, the number of planes needed, jump training, problems moving heavy equipment, range on transports, gas, etc) he proceeded to say that it would be faster and that I was wrong. Period. And then he left.

That's pretty much how every debate with him has ended.

[sub]I try to avoid these with him now[/sub]

I've also had a debate with a friend on why what kind of medicine works better, the nasty tasting kind or the better tasting.

And whether or not a spider monkey with razor blades on its feet and tail would make the greatest attack animal.

 

[Queen Michael]

My mom and I discussed/argued about how many smurfs there is in the rainsmurf. They usually say there's seven, but I said that if you count indigo as a smurf you'd darn well need to include the smurf turquoise as well. After a while I started laughing and smurfed "What a weird thing to argue about, huh?"

 

[Nansen]

me and my friend are always discussing pros and cons of horrible and absurdly difficult choices of "would you rather...?"
like, would you rather sleep with your father than drink a blended baby? or, which is worse; instantly gaining 110 pounds and never being able to change your weight or having to eat three packs of butter everyday for the rest of your life?

I am also regularly dragged into debates of wether or not the moon landing was fake by my mom's boyfriend. because that conspiracy is his religion and he has found "new evidence". so yeah.

 

[Cheesus333]

I had an argument over what was the correct term for a flat-top mountain. I said peninsula, my friend says plateau. Turns out it was Mesa. The absurdity comes in when we get into a conversation as to why my friend was not less wrong than I was.

Sorry, but you were definitely more wrong. The plateau is the flat bit itself. A peninsula is a spit of land that sticks out from a coast

 

[Sharpiez]

Me and my friends regularly argue about whether things are the way they are in front of a computer. Seriously, when I fire up google on my phone I can usually end the conversation with the first search page.

And yet...

We still let it go for about 10 minutes because we just enjoy it too much. Most of the time we just end up agreeing at the end which... Is okay.

Strangest debate we had was whether our friend really had a threesome during his freshman year in college, in the middle of a Panera, in pretty busy hours, and it got pretty heated. The debate was centered on how he only recieved oral sex from the two girls so it should/shouldn't be considered a threesome.

Good times.

 

[Corekrash]

I was more of a witness than a participant, but several months back I recall having lunch with a friend from IT. One of his guys from IT sat with us and eventually their conversation evoled into a "Who would win" back and forth over marvel characters.

First was a heated debate over "Could Forge build a weapon that could actually kill Deadpool?"

Then it got ugly when it became "Could Juggernaut move the that one guy thats supposed to be unmovable?" The blob or whoever (Sorry I'm not real well versed on comic book characters.

They're both friends, still are, but I swear they were about to come to blows over it all

 

[Ambi]

I had a debate with a friend about where the back wheels of the bus were located. The back wheels are not located right at the back of the bus.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

An argument I'm having on the gay marriage thread (short version)

Me: Good, everyone deserves to have marriage equality

person: The institution of marriage makes no sense, why they heck does the government have to make it legit? Gays will just be unhappy regardless.

Me: Good point, but the legal system makes everything legit and all you're doing when you use that argument is keeping things the same for everyone who's heterosexual and maintaining discrimination against same-sex couples seeking equal benefits that everyone else gets automatically when they get married to their opposite sex spouse.

person: I'm not against gay marriage dude, i'm just telling you it's pointless and people should have the right to just be with whoever they want when they want without any legal 'declaration'

Me: say that to the evangelical church down the street from my house, who's members run/staff banks, stores, schools, hospitals... they're not going to care about how much I love my boyfriend, we're not legally married so they'll quickly to deny us those standard rights (to them or the government it's an imaginary union otherwise)on top of any underlying prejudice they may hold. when we question this treatment "nowhere in the law does it say that you're both married and we don't recognized marriage by verbal contact... only if they signed your marriage forms".


I really can't understand people like this, it's just a veiled way of saying "I don't give a f&&k about what happens to you or what discrimination/prejudices you face because I don't deal with them and I don't understand why people get married anyway" I can tell he's young and or single, because I've never heard anyone brush off the concept of marriage so much as to say it has no legal significance, even for people who are denied that and other kinds recognition.

It's a nice concept, but I'd prefer not to have society treat my partner like my "roommate" rather than my spouse just because he's also a guy all because some people are paranoid that the government is out to get them.

 

[Daveman]

When does a knife become a sword?

Many hours of discussion ensued. None of it was sensible.