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What's the most ridiculous argument you've ever heard??

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    #182
    Hotale.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Sofaspud wrote: »
    I once knew a girl who was adamant that there was the same amount of alcohol in a 330ml bottle as in a 500ml can, because they both had 4% alcohol. She didn't get the concept of percentages.

    It's surprising and disappointing how many people think this.


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    #183
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    It's surprising and disappointing how many people think this.

    I'd say it's well over 100%, if you tally up the different survey findings.


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    #184
    tiablue
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭tiablue


    any argument on facebook is usually pretty pathetic pmsl :)


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    #185
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    The argument that claims the death penalty is a deterrent.


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    #186
    Adamocovic
    Registered Users Posts: 9,292 ✭✭✭Adamocovic


    People who say having legal Irish citizenship and a passport still don't make you Irish, had many debates with my dad about this!


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    #187
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Adamocovic wrote: »
    People who say having legal Irish citizenship and a passport still don't make you Irish, had many debates with my dad about this!

    You have to be able to speak fluent Irish and love GAA to be proper Irish. Anyone who doesn't do either of these just another West Brit ;)


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    #188
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭ct5amr2ig1nfhp


    Tayto vs King


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    #189
    SoapMcTavish
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭SoapMcTavish


    Sofaspud wrote: »
    I once knew a girl who was adamant that there was the same amount of alcohol in a 330ml bottle as in a 500ml can, because they both had 4% alcohol. She didn't get the concept of percentages.

    Yes - exactly - I think there are quite a lot of people who make this mistake ...


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    #190
    tiablue
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭tiablue


    Carson Chilly Trapdoor wrote: »
    Tayto vs King

    Now thats fighting talk haha


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    #191
    tiablue
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭tiablue


    Adamocovic wrote: »
    People who say having legal Irish citizenship and a passport still don't make you Irish, had many debates with my dad about this!

    If you moved to china and got a chinese passport, Would you be chinese??


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    #192
    Gambas
    Registered Users Posts: 846 ✭✭✭Gambas


    Ireland should be a single political entity (aka united) because all the counties are all joined together without sea water getting in between them.


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    #193
    shamrock2004
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭shamrock2004


    2 junkies on the train, man and a woman. The fella had a combat fighter jet magazine with him. As they were getting off, the centrefold page about an F-15 fighter fell out of his magazine on to the ground. Yer wan turns around and yells 'Tomo yer bleedin F-15 fighter is on da grou-ind'. As they were so mashed, an argument then ensues about whether it was from his magazine or not. Whole carriage was in stitches after.


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    #194
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    tiablue wrote: »
    If you moved to china and got a chinese passport, Would you be chinese??

    In terms of citizenship, there's nothing else they could be - see article 8.


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    #195
    Adamocovic
    Registered Users Posts: 9,292 ✭✭✭Adamocovic


    tiablue wrote: »
    If you moved to china and got a chinese passport, Would you be chinese??

    Ha not a place for debating on this thread but if you had Chinese citizenship then you can be classified as Chinese. Irish is the word given to the people of Ireland, a citizen is a person who is legally from Ireland, you are legally from her because it is the place of your birth, if someone moves here at a young age and legally becomes a citizen they're as Irish as you.

    But again this isn't a place for debates just a place to say our most ridiculous argument, if you would like to follow up I'd suggest a pm rather than post here :)


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    #196
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    tiablue wrote: »
    If you moved to china and got a chinese passport, Would you be chinese??
    Adamocovic wrote: »
    Ha not a place for debating on this thread but if you had Chinese citizenship then you can be classified as Chinese. Irish is the word given to the people of Ireland, a citizen is a person who is legally from Ireland, you are legally from her because it is the place of your birth, if someone moves here at a young age and legally becomes a citizen they're as Irish as you.

    But again this isn't a place for debates just a place to say our most ridiculous argument, if you would like to follow up I'd suggest a pm rather than post here :)

    National identity is completely subjective, regardless of citizenship or passports. Total grey area


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    #197
    Adamocovic
    Registered Users Posts: 9,292 ✭✭✭Adamocovic


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    National identity is completely subjective, regardless of citizenship or passports. Total grey area

    Well national identity is a feeling of belonging, I am talking about a legal stand point, but as I said I'd say we should just move on and not clog up this thread.


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    #198
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    National identity is completely subjective, regardless of citizenship or passports. Total grey area

    That is true, but that can be easily clarified by bringing in national identity cards.


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    #199
    Adamocovic
    Registered Users Posts: 9,292 ✭✭✭Adamocovic


    Met someone who claimed to be a "vegetarian" who said it was cruel and wrong to eat meat but she found no problem in eating fish because "we'll thats different, fish aren't like animals at all"


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    #200
    Zed Bank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    Atheism is a religion.


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    #201
    karma_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭karma_


    Libertarianism.


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    #202
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Zed Bank wrote: »
    Atheism is a religion.

    Of course it's not but a lot of the atheists I know are extremely zealous in their atheism and, ironically, are more likely to preach to me than any of my religious friends.


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    #203
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    "Atheists are smarter than Religious people"

    One of the most egotistical things I have ever heard. But lets be honest, out of all the religions in the world, out of what... the few billion people who believe in something... they are all "stupid" accordingly :pac:

    Of course this really isnt about beliefs and atheism. It's about certain people blowing themselves out.


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    #204
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    I once had an argument with my brother who tried to convince me Maynooth was in Dublin......

    First of all I was annoyed because I was pointing it out to him on the god damn map and second of all I was annoyed that he could be so stupid!!! He was 13 at the time but I still don't think his stupidity was justifiable. He wasn't even trolling me, stupid brother is stupid. He realised half way through the argument I was right but being his stubborn self he wouldn't give in.

    I punched him in the end....

    Whenever I bring that story up now, I get something thrown at me. :P


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    #205
    Mike747
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 383 ✭✭Mike747


    Not believing in multiculturalism makes you a racist.


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    #206
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Mike747 wrote: »
    Not believing in multiculturalism makes you a racist.

    Most of the time, though.


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    #207
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,905 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Wow...pages of absolute bollocks talk trying to justify the invasion of Iraq in a thread entitled "What's the most ridiculous argument you've ever heard??"


    The irony...


    :pac:


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    #208
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Wow...pages of absolute bollocks talk trying to justify the invasion of Iraq in a thread entitled "What's the most ridiculous argument you've ever heard??"


    The irony...


    :pac:

    Or "google it" :D


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    #209
    csallmighty
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    That eating meat is wrong


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    #210
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    That Linda Martin is actually a human being.


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