In my family it's usually the funniest argument that wins a debate. If you are too busy laughing, that means that you can't add a counter argument and have effectively lost. It feels less like the other person has "won", and more like you are conceding defeat the funnier person.
This doesn't seem to be as common among other families. There, they tend to use well thought out arguments, or dogma, or loudness to try and win a discussion.
An example is where Laura was pushing for buying "light" or "healthy" cheese but I was arguing against it because I don't like the taste as much. It went something like this:
L: But it's better for us!
J: Every time I eat that light cheese, a little part in side me dies.
L: Ya, the fat part.
Another example was where a couple of us where trying to convince my middle brother to stop wearing the tapered, 80's jeans that he thought were cool (and might have been) when he was a teenager. There was some discussion on how to actually describe the jeans, so Laura who was doing some task in the kitchen was called over. When asked what type of jeans they were, she glanced at them and 1/2 a second later made the deadpan judgment that they were "woman's jeans". Everyone got a good laugh and as far as I know my brother has never worn those type of jeans again.
It's just impossible to debate when you're gasping for breath because you're laughing so much.
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