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‘What’s the most British argument you’ve ever overheard?’ – 23 reassuringly ridiculous disagreements from the UK

13.

‘My five year old and his friend were arguing the other day about whether wellies were called ‘wellie boots’ or just ‘wellies’.’
toffee-crisp

14.

‘Drunk old boys at a bar in Sheffield arguing about the correct name for a ‘pork pie with egg in t’middle’.’
NarrowPhrase5999

15.

‘I overheard an argument at Deptford DLR about whether a cup of tea in hot weather cools you down. I was getting quite -ahem- heated but my train left before I could find out if it was gonna come to blows, honestly it was sounding like it might.’
Horror_of_the_Deep

16.

‘Two fellas I worked with in the early 2000s nearly came to blows over whether a vegetarian sausage was really a sausage. It went on for over an hour.’
mightbeyourpal

17.

‘Wasn’t over heard it was one I had. Argued whether when drinking tea from a mug you should have your pinky finger out or if that’s just reserved for tea cups. Apparently mugs are too ‘brutish’ for pinky out but I disagree.’
Mrdeadfishrock1

18.

‘A lady arguing quite vehemently that a microwave lasagna counts as a nice home cooked meal because she cooked it at home.’
Scary-Specialist7297

19.

‘There’s a great bit in one of the Adrian Mole books about his father nearly having a fight with someone over the merits of the first page of The Hobbit. Apparently ‘eleventy-one’ is one made-up word too many.’
stewieatb

20.

‘I work in an environment with multiple people from around the country.

Everyone piled in on the pronunciation of ‘nougat’ over lunch and it got disproportionately heated. There was no consensus, but bizarrely the South West and Northerners both said it different (like ‘nugget’) to the South-East Englanders and Scots (‘noo -gah’). Then there were some outliers calling it ‘noo-gat’. Discovered a strange dividing line that day.’
BrightwaterBard

21.

‘At Leeds festival overheard the classic (in a Yorkshire accent I might add): ‘Don’t like chips and gravy? Fuck off back to Reading’.’
Independent-Flow2644

22.

‘An argument in a pub maybe 10 years ago. No idea what it was about exactly, but it was concluded by one participant yelling ‘WELL IT MUST BE TRUE, BECAUSE IT WAS ON NEWSROUND!’ across the bar at the other.

Sadly we were on the other side of the room so only heard the closing argument!’
crucible

23.

‘I’m nipping to the baker. Who wants a bread roll?’
CountvanSplendid

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