What’s the stupidest argument you can remember?

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Just talking about my mother in response to @AmbiePam’s post brought this to mind. We argued a lot. It got to the point where I’m convinced she would have argued that black was white if it was the opposite view to mine. When I was growing up we always had turkey at Christmas. And after it had all been eaten, we used to hang the carcass outside and the bluetits would peck the bones clean. This was something she had always done and I think was something her family had done. Well one year, watching the birds, she commented that it was rather horrible really as it was a sort of cannibalism, birds eating birds. Of course I replied that it wasn’t cannibalism at all, it was just the same as, for example, a sparrowhawk eating a sparrow, a peregrine eating a pigeon, or one mammal eating another like a cat eating a mouse or, for that matter a human eating a pig. She simply would not have it and we ended up having a massive row (again). Did you ever have stupid arguments like this? Incidentally one year we tried hanging a carcass outside for the birds here but they ignored it. Presumably the local bluetits where I grew up had learnt to pick the scraps of meat from the bones but the ones down here hadn’t. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2026.