Uncategorized 01 May 2005 11:14 pm
The stupidest argument in the world
Something I read today brought up a memory of possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever witnessed first-hand: my parents arguing about which of them was more Scottish (good) and who was more Irish (bad) than they were admitting. They argued about this for the whole twenty-or-so years that they were married, as far as I know. For the love of Pete, people. There are so many things stupid about that, I hardly know where to start.
I can begin to understand this continuing argument of theirs in terms of how it worked within their spectacularly broken relationship, but still, for crying out loud.
In contrast, my family of choice is more likely to argue about sensible things such as vi vs. emacs. *duck*
on 02 May 2005 at 8:43 am 1.desolina said …
my parents used to tease each other about this very issue. (my mother being the more scottish and snotty about it.) fortunately my dad always had us kids to back him up.
interestingly enough, andrew and i will give each other a hard time about this. i call him an upperclass twit, he tells me the only reason the irish weren’t imperialists is because they just couldn’t get it together on that scale, etc, ad nauseum.
on 02 May 2005 at 7:08 pm 2.Cam Sculpin said …
Heh.
My parents were dead serious about it. Madness.