Biggest argument you've ever started.

[King Toasty]

Title says it all. But I'll repeat it for the slow ones: What is the biggest argument you've every started, for anything?

For me, it happened on this very site. I suggested renaming the Sun to the Daystar.
The science nerds showed up, telling my the Sun was scientifically called Sol. Then more came and said, "NO YOU'RE WRONG, IT'S SUN". The Latin nerds showed up, saying Sol was grammatically correct, then battled the science nerds. By now, a religious nerd discovered Daystar means Lucifer in Latin. Groups of the religious nerds showed up, flaming the Latin and science nerds. The political geeks flew in, shooting down the science, religious and Latin nerds with political-correctedness. Left-wing and right-wing people showed up, blasting each other, and the religious nerds. Communists appeared, a racist or two, and a neo-Pagan. It just went downhill from there.
It was a hot-topic for days, and I think quite a few people were frozen for their posts.

All I wanted was a cool-sounding name for the Sun.

 

[guntotingtomcat]

"We can't tell if animals have emotions" in a tutorial full of dog owning women. Mistake, especially in the morning when hung over.
I do feel sorry for you, though, and will add an appropriate emoticon

 

[Wintermoot]

a sort-of flame war on the piracy of music I myslef am pro music piracy since 99% of the price goes to the record comapny,s and 1% goes to the store so yeah there you go (please dont put me on probation!)

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Title says it all. But I'll repeat it for the slow ones: What is the biggest argument you've every started, for anything?

For me, it happened on this very site. I suggested renaming the Sun to the Daystar.
The science nerds showed up, telling my the Sun was scientifically called Sol. Then more came and said, "NO YOU'RE WRONG, IT'S SUN". The Latin nerds showed up, saying Sol was grammatically correct, then battled the science nerds. By now, a religious nerd discovered Daystar means Lucifer in Latin. Groups of the religious nerds showed up, flaming the Latin and science nerds. The political geeks flew in, shooting down the science, religious and Latin nerds with political-correctedness. Left-wing and right-wing people showed up, blasting each other, and the religious nerds. Communists appeared, a racist or two, and a neo-Pagan. It just went downhill from there.
It was a hot-topic for days, and I think quite a few people were frozen for their posts.

All I wanted was a cool-sounding name for the Sun.

That's awesome.

 

[SimuLord]

Things I've learned about how to start monumental arguments:

When she says "where do you see this relationship going?", the correct answer is not "I don't know" or "Let's talk about something else" or even "into the bedroom." There are only two correct answers:

"To happily ever after territory. I want you in my life...forever, if you'll have me that long."

or

"To hell in a handbasket if you keep asking me questions like that."

Note that the former may lead to marriage and the latter is a guaranteed breakup. But if the girl is asking the question, she wants to know if you plan to marry her---no matter whether you've been together five minutes or five years. This is because women are crazy...desperate, broken women a thousand times so.

 

[unicron44]

We were talking about the Obama Healthcare Bill. I was in the middle, sorta leaning more towards being for it, but I still had my reservations about it. So I said it's good for people who don't have insurance and it could help a lot of people, especially those who just got out of college and can no longer be on parents insurance. My friend was ultra Conservative and would not listen to a word I said, just screaming at me whenever I tried to speak. I also noted he could be in this position in a few years time. I was never great friends with him and that sorta soured our relationship. He is merely a mutual friend now but he is like a leech to a lot of my best friends. A lot of us don't like him because he can be a total douche but I try to avoid him the best I can.

 

[Ubervelt]

Dude, screw what other people say. Are you doing this for them or for you??
Then call yourself whatever you like. I personally think that "Sun to the Daystar" sounds cool.

Back on topic,

The biggest argument I have ever started was:

If you are traveling in a train at the speed of light and you shine a torch out the window to the people in the carriage in front of you, will they be able to see the light??

Countless hours have been spent researching Stephen Hawking's and Albert Einstein's theory's and so far after many months, still no closer to a definite answer.

 

[Stasisesque]

I once stupidly mentioned circumcision in a predominantly male environment.

 

[AcacianLeaves]

I got permabanned from a gaming forum during the 2008 election for calling someone a 'douchenozzle' in a thread wondering why people were against universal health care. I don't get into political discussions on gaming forums any more, lol.

 

[Vault101]

when we were young me and my brother had a huge fully heated argument as to weather dingoes were truly native to Australia

I said they were he said technically they werent (or not as much as the other animals what ever he ment by that)

We both had points but technically I think I was right

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

Got into an argument because friend said you can eat ANY food with chopsticks...
I asked them ANY? They said ALL food...

 

[Blackdoom]

There was the time I claimed art didn't exist whilst surrounded predominately by artists and musicians. Some how I won the argument it was either through my brilliant sleep deprived mind, my stubbornness or because everybody left leaving me to claim victory.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Between a class mate and myself. We were put into teams and the goal was to determine who, among a number of "applicants" would make the best assistant manager (business class) anyway it basically came down to two choices: Will who was popular but prone to become bored and after change or Karen, who though quiet and reserved showed potential.

For a whole HOUR, we argued loudly. The whole class was basically watching us. My classmate wanted Will. Cause he would make the workplace exciting and would bring new ideas. I wanted Karen because she was approachable and with some time could be great.

Classmate said "she would never get listened to and nothing would change". I said "he'll never stick to the one mthod and waste time and money constantly retraining the staff".

To this day its unresolved.

Karen totally suited the job anyways.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Between a classmate and my self and yes it was a religion vs science. He said that the world was created by god and then evolution took place. I said loud and clear infront of the whole classroom "You cannot have both god and evolution it is this or that". And we continued 30 minutes onwards of argueing.

Ofcourse now I see how stupid I was since neither of us could be 100% sure that they were right.

 

[Estocavio]

I got into an argument with a friend of mine over the use of Digital Platforms over the use of Retail - Apparently its wrong. Neither of us won, it was just a pointless debate of him refusing to shift from believing that Digital Platforms were the devil, and me trying to establish a medium.

 

[Jacob.pederson]

Title says it all. But I'll repeat it for the slow ones: What is the biggest argument you've every started, for anything?

For me, it happened on this very site. I suggested renaming the Sun to the Daystar.
The science nerds showed up, telling my the Sun was scientifically called Sol. Then more came and said, "NO YOU'RE WRONG, IT'S SUN". The Latin nerds showed up, saying Sol was grammatically correct, then battled the science nerds. By now, a religious nerd discovered Daystar means Lucifer in Latin. Groups of the religious nerds showed up, flaming the Latin and science nerds. The political geeks flew in, shooting down the science, religious and Latin nerds with political-correctedness. Left-wing and right-wing people showed up, blasting each other, and the religious nerds. Communists appeared, a racist or two, and a neo-Pagan. It just went downhill from there.
It was a hot-topic for days, and I think quite a few people were frozen for their posts.

All I wanted was a cool-sounding name for the Sun.

http://muyuubyou.blogdns.org:45987/apache2-default/?p=595

Well this one got 483 comments And all I wanted people to do was throw away their TVs!

 

[shadyh8er]

It wasn't started by me, but I was a witness. My family was having dinner in this restaurant to celebrate my grandma's birthday. This was in 2008. For some reason one of my uncles thought that it would be cool to ask my brother who he was going to vote for. He said "McCain," which prompted my liberal aunt to say "Don't listen to your father! Vote for Obama!"

All hell broke loose after that.

 

[Mcupobob]

It was with a friend of mine, we were stoned despite his Jesus ace 9. Anyways the topic went from religion too atoms for 4 fucking straight hours, and I already gave up on the whole thing 20 mins in.