Given that the topic of this thread is essentially ‘anything you can have an argument about’, why don’t we try to find something less “futile” than @Meerkat_SK5’s claims to argue about?
“Toilet rolls: under or over?” would appear a tad banal.
ChatGPT made the following suggestions for “biggest argument” (after I excluded physical conflicts from the question:
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The conflict between science and religion – but that has already had an inordinate number of threads on this forum.
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Political ideologies – but I’m not sure that would be much fun.
Could we perhaps argue about what is the weirdest sport to have a reasonable level of international following? (The restriction is because many communities have their own idiosyncratic sport that few outside their community are probably even aware exists.)
Or can somebody else think of something that we can argue about?
My strategy is the same as that of the old joke:
An anthropologist is visiting a primitive society. One night, he hears drums beating in the distance. Concerned, he asks one of the tribesmen what's up with the drums. The native says "Drums ok, but if drums stop very bad--run away."
The drums beat on for an hour. Still uneasy, the anthropologist asks again if things are ok. Again, the native replies "Drums ok, but if drums stop very bad -- run away."After another hour, the drums stop. The native stops dead in his tracks and looks up and says “Drums stop! Very bad! Run away!!”
Scared now, the anthropologist asks what happens next.
The native replies “Bass solo!”
No prizes for guessing what the “bass solo” is in this analogy.
So please, do your bit to make sure the drums don’t stop. 