I'm way over my quota.

Misread the headline, thought it said "4 days a week" and went, "Yeah, that's about how I remember it." 4 days a year? Man, most of you apparently have terrific families.

The article says that women usually start it, but doesn't reveal who is usually right. I would guess, but, you know...

wow, those are some happy families

My family members (save me) spend 365.25 days a year being biatches

That's it? 4 days a year? Amateurs.

I don't need this, I work to damn hard to sit here and listen to the crap you're telling me!

/stomps up the hallway and slams door.

Unless you have other family members on Fark.

I wish I knew which four days so I could schedule a solo camping trip.

They must factoring in all those families that simply don't talk about instead of arguing.

As I remember it, my dad, sister, brother and I spent about 4 days a year arguing with each other. My mother spent about five days a week trolling.

It seems more like 12 or 13 years in some millennia. Depending on what kind of century the wife unit had.

/Nanu nanu.

Now I Is!: They must factoring in all those families that simply don't talk about their problems instead of arguing.

/FTFM

untaken_name

Misread the headline, thought it said "4 days a week" and went, "Yeah, that's about how I remember it." 4 days a year? Man, most of you apparently have terrific families.

Keep in mind they are talking about time actually in argumetment, not all the seething and stewing outside of it.

It's like saying a baseball game lasts 7 minutes. Yes, that's seven minutes of actual action, but lots of anticipation and subtext in between.

aerojockey: untaken_name

Misread the headline, thought it said "4 days a week" and went, "Yeah, that's about how I remember it." 4 days a year? Man, most of you apparently have terrific families.

Keep in mind they are talking about time actually in argumetment, not all the seething and stewing outside of it.

It's like saying a baseball game lasts 7 minutes. Yes, that's seven minutes of actual action, but lots of anticipation and subtext in between.

I think my family probably spent more than 4 days a year arguing even with that in mind.
Actually, me and my dad, because I think my mom just tried to stay out of the way most of the time.

Then again we were white trash and my dad was a drug addict, so probably not the most healthy or normal enviroment...
I don't remember me and my mom ever arguing when my dad wasn't around.
Hence why I don't live near them anymore and them coming to visit a few times a year is enough for me.

/no he's not on drugs anymore
//still an asshole though

If someone wasn't arguing with someone else in my family, on an hourly basis my Mom would have put a mirror under our noses to see if we were still breathing.

A friend of mine came to dinner one night when I was in 7th or 8th grade. Dinner time at our house was a free for all: if you didn't yell louder than the person next to you, you starved and were left out of the discussion. My school chum took this as fighting, and I had to explain that's the way my family discussed things - yelling and waving hands about to punctuate a point.

When my brothers and I had a real fight, you knew it. Black eyes, bloody noses and trips to the ER were par for the course.

/looking forward to TG dinner

There are less arguments when women know their place and stop starting drama as a form of attention-whoring.

//runs and ducks....

Neo-Rio-101: There are less arguments when women know their place and stop starting drama as a form of attention-whoring.

//runs and ducks....

Technically, it would be "fewer" arguments, because there is a discrete number of arguments. Other than that, you are 100% correct.

4 days a year? Where do these saintly families live?

I'd say four days a month is more like it. (with them being 24 hour days split up into several hours a day)

I said, nothing's wrong!

Mine spent at least 48 hours a week arguing, even if you strictly limit the time counted to actual fussing, shouting, and fighting.

Four days a year is "scary" to the submitter?

The most common rows are over household chores, children "treating the house like a hotel", and couples taking each other for granted, a survey of 3,000 families found.

Television was a big source of disagreement, with mothers preferring soap operas, fathers wanting to watch sport or documentaries, and children arguing for films or reality TV shows.

Four days a year arguing about THAT is scary? Is it farking really?!

labman: I'd say four days a month is more like it. (with them being 24 hour days split up into several hours a day)

4 days a month?

I see what you did there.

Yep. Our family argues only four days a year: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

That's it. If you don't behave I'm turning this thread around and taking us back home.

w_houle: Yep. Our family argues only four days a year: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Ours only argued on days that ended in "y".

The only time my family doesn't argue is in Smarch

Almost time to set up the Festivus pole.

The All-Powerful Atheismo: The only time my family doesn't argue is in Smarch

Lousy Smarch weather

slackers

FTA: Researchers found that daughters were most likely to slam doors during an argument, while fathers preferred to go for a long drive to cool off.

They needed research money for this? I could have done it for free.

I'm at a point in my life where I would argue that estrangement would probably be best for myself and my family as in the amount of contention that seems to be between the lot of us. To the point where my sister only seems to get acid reflux around the holidays (no, we actually established it wasn't the abundance of bad-for-you-food) and I need oral surgery to correct the affects of grinding my teeth from stress related incidents while being around my mother.

I think estrangement should be argued for overall health and well being but will my mother listen? Hells no.

I would just like to say: HA!

fanbladesaresharp: FTA: Researchers found that daughters were most likely to slam doors during an argument, while fathers preferred to go for a long drive to cool off.

They needed research money for this? I could have done it for free.

YOU CAN'T TELL ME HOW TO RESEARCH

For the first 25 years of married life, me and Mrs Luckyeddie used to row constantly, but it does get better. For the last 10 years, not a single cross word.

Mind you, it's difficult to argue when you are under three feet of concrete in the basement with a baseball bat shaped shaped indentation in your skull.

KatjaMouse: I'm at a point in my life where I would argue that estrangement would probably be best for myself and my family as in the amount of contention that seems to be between the lot of us. To the point where my sister only seems to get acid reflux around the holidays (no, we actually established it wasn't the abundance of bad-for-you-food) and I need oral surgery to correct the affects of grinding my teeth from stress related incidents while being around my mother.

I think estrangement should be argued for overall health and well being but will my mother listen? Hells no.

I go to my doc for drugs. Try it. Tell him what you told us, poof! a day's worth of mellow.

/Or you could just smoke dope if you're into that.

Television was a big source of disagreement, with mothers preferring soap operas, fathers wanting to watch sport or documentaries, and children arguing for films or reality TV shows.

Dad gets the remote, everybody knows that.

farklenny: The article says that women usually start it, but doesn't reveal who is usually right. I would guess, but, you know...

I would QFT except that could be perceived as daring to question the wisdom of She Who Must Be Obeyed.

The survey needed to break things down by how much time is actually spent arguing, and how much is just the husband being yelled at while he stands there like Dug wearing the cone of shame.

Refusing to argue over stupid shiat only gets you "OH, SO YOU DON'T THINK IT'S A BIG DEAL?"

Jamieboy

looking forward to TG dinner

This, my wife was lamenting that she couldn't use work as an excuse to avoid the holidays. We're both working the day after Thanksgiving, so we can use that as a bail early card. Overeating with people who make you suicidal does not strike me as something to be especially thankful for.

/would love to just phone it in

Gulper Eel: Refusing to argue over stupid shiat only gets you "OH, SO YOU DON'T THINK IT'S A BIG DEAL?"

Next time, try this. "No, I don't think it's a big deal. I'm going for a walk, I will be back in 10 minutes, please be ready to talk like an adult when I return."

I spend more time than that arguing with people on the internet.

IamPatSajak: I spend more time than that arguing with people on the internet.

No you don't.

aerojockey: untaken_name

Misread the headline, thought it said "4 days a week" and went, "Yeah, that's about how I remember it." 4 days a year? Man, most of you apparently have terrific families.

Keep in mind they are talking about time actually in argumetment, not all the seething and stewing outside of it.

It's like saying a baseball game lasts 7 minutes. Yes, that's seven minutes of actual action, but lots of anticipation and subtext in between.

Anticipation and subtext? More like gum chewing, spitting, nut scratching and general standing around.

EatHam: Next time, try this. "No, I don't think it's a big deal. I'm going for a walk, I will be back in 10 minutes, please be ready to talk like an adult when I return."

FTFmy testicles and the continued attachment thereof.

esteban9: aerojockey: untaken_name

Misread the headline, thought it said "4 days a week" and went, "Yeah, that's about how I remember it." 4 days a year? Man, most of you apparently have terrific families.

Keep in mind they are talking about time actually in argumetment, not all the seething and stewing outside of it.

It's like saying a baseball game lasts 7 minutes. Yes, that's seven minutes of actual action, but lots of anticipation and subtext in between.

Anticipation and subtext? More like gum chewing, spitting, nut scratching and general standing around.

You argue funny.

Man, there must be some awful serene families out there that I haven't met because is throwing the curve way the hell off.

EatHam: Gulper Eel: Refusing to argue over stupid shiat only gets you "OH, SO YOU DON'T THINK IT'S A BIG DEAL?"

Next time, try this. "No, I don't think it's a big deal. I'm going for a walk, I will be back in 10 minutes, please be ready to talk like an adult when I return."

He'd probably come back to all his stuff out on the lawn.