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It's no secret that people tend to take things too personally. A statement about your own favorite TV show will be interpreted as an attack on their favorite TV show. An attempt to pass someone on the freeway can turn into an impromptu drag race. Here are some incredibly minor and absurd things people tend to react to as if they've been slapped in the face. There's just some petty stuff that that people are extremely passionate about.

This Tumblr disagreement over whether or not this bread knife is real became a real debate with counterarguments, claims and diagrams. Frankly at first glance it looks like fake bread, but I guess that's why lawyers exist. For some more lawyer Tumblr stuff, here's a tumblr thread on ridiculous court transcripts. For another argument, here's a tumblr user absolutely schooling another on horses.

They say time heals all wounds, but that is absolutely not the case when you forgot to bring the cranberry sauce to a Thanksgiving eleven years ago. Your own family will needle you on a disaster like that for the rest of their lives. People will remain salty about petty injustices, and there's not really too much anyone can do about it. There's always forgiveness, but then no one would get to complain and where's the fun in that.

The more you get to know people, the more you realize it's the smallest things that often make us the most upset. Car got totaled? Too bad, gotta move on. Someone took your designated parking spot? This cannot stand. We all have our preferences, things that get under our skin, and petty things we're extremely passionate about.

Leave it to people to parse out the extreme limitations on what you can do with horse genetics. They just get so dang big, it's hard to think about realistically. For some interesting junk about horses and their weirdness, here's a tumblr thread on a "master" in animal sciences getting schooled on horses.

Come to think of it, small mistakes like the continuously changing shape of a sign in a cartoon were always slightly annoying. Who'd think that some day literally thousands of people would devote their attention to these kind of subtle animation errors? Nobody pretends that cartoon logic always makes sense, but it is fun to point out.

People have their favorite small preferences and beliefs. We will nitpick over everything from how to conduct yourself in a store to their least favorite multiples of seven. The smaller things get, the more passionate people get about them. People can get amazingly petty, like this Costco parking lot standoff that ended in petty revenge. There are some things people are just tempted to believe, even if they're completely ridiculous, like people's favorite conspiracy theories.

There's probably something in your life that you regret doing. Not even something big. You might regret some small detail or behavior that you don't even do anymore. That's exactly the kind of thing a lot of us tend to remember when we're laying in bed in the dark, trying to sleep. It might have been an awkward date, or something that happened in 8th grade. Out of the darkness you just remember "Oh crap remember that time I farted in gym and that girl started to throw up?"

In a world with well-known dumbass conspiracies like flat earth "theory" and the anti-vaxx movement, mention of conspiracies can be a bit stressful. Some of them are smaller, more specific, and personal. And while many are sort of silly, the more you think about them, the more believable they seem...