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[LMNO]

It would be easy to go down the "we would have won anyway, haters gonna hate" route, but I'm pondering if I should try and change my feelings about the tribe if it turns out they're culpable.

Though that would make things tricky in the Alphapants household.  Mrs LMNO is a huge fan.  Perhaps the most effective way of dealing with cognitive dissonance is, "My wife would get pissed at me otherwise. Let this one go."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  I just read a Reddit thread on this issue. First of all, all the articles I've seen refer to "weighing" the balls, which makes very little sense. Second, one of the Redditors, in response to questions of whether changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure could have effected the pressure in the balls, made the statement "higher pressure = more air, therefore it weighs more".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Underinflating sounds like a really stupid thing to do. If that's what happened, this is a bad decision for the books!

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

I'm experiencing some mahor cognitive dissonance, and since I know that it's happening, I'm having fun seeing my brain jump around and act all twitchy.

Basically, the sports team I've given my tribal allegience to has been accused of cheating, and there appears to be evidence to back it up.  Because I give weight to the concept of fairness, my morals are in conflict with my tribe.  It's really fascinating to see what's my mind's been doing.




• Deny that it even happened. "There's no way they could have had the opportunity."
  
• Even if it did happen, it's not cheating because it wasn't utilized. "The game was won on the ground, and Brady had one of his worst passing games all season."
  
• We didn't win by cheating, the other team lost by poor play. "Their defense sucked, and their offensive line was non-existent."

And in a very clever turnaround, pretending to appeal to fairness itself. "Did the officials check the other team's equipment too, or just ours?"

The thing is, I know how this works, and in all likelyhood even if they are found guilty of cheating, the emotional tribal affiliation will beat out the intellectual morality, and I'll go on being a fan.  Brains are weird.

You forgot "if you're not cheating, you're not trying." And "Everybody's doing it. The Pat's are just under a bigger magnifying glass."

Also, the Pats are the Pats. Bellichick is just *a* coach among the many coaches, players, staff, fans, etc...the team has had...

^^^That's the one I use when the Broncos occasionally let a player like Romanowski slide.

[Cain]

Enjoy your commentated video, you filthy animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gefef8HsmvA

[Eater of Clowns]

I'm experiencing some mahor cognitive dissonance, and since I know that it's happening, I'm having fun seeing my brain jump around and act all twitchy.

Basically, the sports team I've given my tribal allegience to has been accused of cheating, and there appears to be evidence to back it up.  Because I give weight to the concept of fairness, my morals are in conflict with my tribe.  It's really fascinating to see what's my mind's been doing.




• Deny that it even happened. "There's no way they could have had the opportunity."
  
• Even if it did happen, it's not cheating because it wasn't utilized. "The game was won on the ground, and Brady had one of his worst passing games all season."
  
• We didn't win by cheating, the other team lost by poor play. "Their defense sucked, and their offensive line was non-existent."

And in a very clever turnaround, pretending to appeal to fairness itself. "Did the officials check the other team's equipment too, or just ours?"

The thing is, I know how this works, and in all likelyhood even if they are found guilty of cheating, the emotional tribal affiliation will beat out the intellectual morality, and I'll go on being a fan.  Brains are weird.

At the end of the day, it's just a bunch of dudes in plastic armor running on a field.

This is where I fall on this issue too.

I JUST FEEL LIKE WHEN WE'RE ALL HURTLING TOWARD OBLVION BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND, FURTHER ALONG, AS A SPECIES, WHY DO WE BOTHER DOING ANYTHING AT ALL

[President Television]

I'm experiencing some mahor cognitive dissonance, and since I know that it's happening, I'm having fun seeing my brain jump around and act all twitchy.

Basically, the sports team I've given my tribal allegience to has been accused of cheating, and there appears to be evidence to back it up.  Because I give weight to the concept of fairness, my morals are in conflict with my tribe.  It's really fascinating to see what's my mind's been doing.




• Deny that it even happened. "There's no way they could have had the opportunity."
  
• Even if it did happen, it's not cheating because it wasn't utilized. "The game was won on the ground, and Brady had one of his worst passing games all season."
  
• We didn't win by cheating, the other team lost by poor play. "Their defense sucked, and their offensive line was non-existent."

And in a very clever turnaround, pretending to appeal to fairness itself. "Did the officials check the other team's equipment too, or just ours?"

The thing is, I know how this works, and in all likelyhood even if they are found guilty of cheating, the emotional tribal affiliation will beat out the intellectual morality, and I'll go on being a fan.  Brains are weird.

At the end of the day, it's just a bunch of dudes in plastic armor running on a field.

This is where I fall on this issue too.

I JUST FEEL LIKE WHEN WE'RE ALL HURTLING TOWARD OBLVION BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND, FURTHER ALONG, AS A SPECIES, WHY DO WE BOTHER DOING ANYTHING AT ALL

When you put it that way, why wouldn't we give a shit about football? If anything we care about is a distraction, distraction becomes the single most important thing there is.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm experiencing some mahor cognitive dissonance, and since I know that it's happening, I'm having fun seeing my brain jump around and act all twitchy.

Basically, the sports team I've given my tribal allegience to has been accused of cheating, and there appears to be evidence to back it up.  Because I give weight to the concept of fairness, my morals are in conflict with my tribe.  It's really fascinating to see what's my mind's been doing.




• Deny that it even happened. "There's no way they could have had the opportunity."
  
• Even if it did happen, it's not cheating because it wasn't utilized. "The game was won on the ground, and Brady had one of his worst passing games all season."
  
• We didn't win by cheating, the other team lost by poor play. "Their defense sucked, and their offensive line was non-existent."

And in a very clever turnaround, pretending to appeal to fairness itself. "Did the officials check the other team's equipment too, or just ours?"

The thing is, I know how this works, and in all likelyhood even if they are found guilty of cheating, the emotional tribal affiliation will beat out the intellectual morality, and I'll go on being a fan.  Brains are weird.

At the end of the day, it's just a bunch of dudes in plastic armor running on a field.

This is where I fall on this issue too.

I JUST FEEL LIKE WHEN WE'RE ALL HURTLING TOWARD OBLVION BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND, FURTHER ALONG, AS A SPECIES, WHY DO WE BOTHER DOING ANYTHING AT ALL

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Enjoy your commentated video, you filthy animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gefef8HsmvA

YAASSSSS

[EK WAFFLR]

This warms my heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_2VrmPwH4

[Doktor Howl]

If I had a time machine, I would go back 2 million years to the Olduvai Gorge and hunt monkeys until I disappeared.

[rong]

I had a dream that I was on a school bus and some friends were trying to figure out how long it would take to get to some island by boat. 

they were like, "it's this far in this direction and this far in that direction, so it should be . . . umm"

then I was like, "the problem is that you're not thinking one-dimensionally"

then george takei turned around and high-fived me and we started talking about those ear bugs that khan put in chekov's ear.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I had a dream that I was on a school bus and some friends were trying to figure out how long it would take to get to some island by boat. 

they were like, "it's this far in this direction and this far in that direction, so it should be . . . umm"

then I was like, "the problem is that you're not thinking one-dimensionally"

then george takei turned around and high-fived me and we started talking about those ear bugs that khan put in chekov's ear.

Weirdly, that sounds a lot like my day today.

[Faust]

On Facebook, I've taken A good cartoons approach to wind Robert Dobbs up in discordian society 2014, it might not be all that funny, but if he is going to post misogynistic shit Ad nauseam I am going to bore him to death with this Gimmick. We'll see who runs out of nauseam first. If anyone else wants to chime in do.

[LMNO]

Enjoy your commentated video, you filthy animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gefef8HsmvA

YAASSSSS

The hell kind of gun is that?