With friends I just remember the saying where its if you want to keep your friends never bring up politics. If I want to have a political debate I just post at the PP. But never with friends, at least not seriously.
However every now and then me and a friend will get into a fight over trivial matters like whether or not the word "couple" was limited only to two of something or "couple" as in a small number but still greater than two. He brought up the point that "a couple" is two people. I say that in the connotation a couple means two, but that if I said "I have a couple of dollars in my pocket" most people would not assume that I just have two dollars, not the mention webster, Oxford, and Word-net agrees with me.
However there have been a few times where we've gotten into serious fights over each other's habits, to him my normal behavior is lethargic, at the same time is behavior is way to active, often spending time doing pointless and wasteful things and sometimes hes too nosy. Some of the other times we accuse each other of commiting the offensive act first, usually its met with feverent denials of the charges. One time it got so damned serious he actually sent me an ultimatum where if I didn't apologize I'd lose him as a friend. First of all I never commited the atrocities he accuses me of (obviously he has a different view), and secondly at the time I was so pissed I couldn't really care less. In anycase we went silent for about two weeks before finally we kinda just decided to bury the issue and be friends again.
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Originally Posted by PUG1911
What usually causes these problems is not one's views, but how one expresses them.
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Amen to that, there have been countless times I've gotten into an argument because my friend doesn't seem to understand the way I express myself.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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