For what it’s worth, it’s only been two years since I took a psych class, and I seem to recall that woodstockbirdybird’s definition of cognitive dissonance is closer to what’s generally accepted. FWIW.
Demo, you da man. You’re absolutely right.
Problem? Demo’s mom is a wild one in the sack, I have no problems with it. 
Well, I think it’s both. The first step is that tension arises because newly obtained information conflicts with previous beliefs. This is the dissonance part. But this leads the person experiencing cognitive dissonance to attempt to reduce this tension by any of a number of mechanisms, including rationalizing their apparently illogical behavior.
There’s a Dilbert cartoon that summarizes it pretty well. I’m going to butcher it a lot, but it goes something like this:
- Dilbert sitting in his cube thinking, “I hate this job.”
- Dilbert realizes that he could make more money working for the competitor.
- Dogbert tells him, “Only an idiot would work at a job that pays less money unless they really loved their job.”
- Dilbert sitting in his cube thinking, “I love this job.”
Yep bitch, we college age people often call each other bitch. Like, this weekend i kept calling demo a bitch, because, well, he is one.
i love you demo
[sub]wait, this is the pit. I fucking hate you demo, you stupid bitch. There, that’s better[/sub]
Putting words in your opponent’s mouth is called a “straw man” argument.
What’s it called when you put straw in your opponent’s mouth?
ummmm, coerced grazing???
West Virginia Foreplay.
Wow- I actually WAS consuming a beverage when I read the “West Virginia Foreplay” comment, and while I didn’t “splort” it, I did choke on it.
Excellent…
Zette
Finagle
you’re a bitch cause your mama’s a bitch, and your daddy’s a bitch, and your daddy is your mama’s bitch, and your the biggest bitch of them all.
there, was that so offensive?
Band name!
At least he knows how to spell “you’re”. Bitch.
Here, let me show you how it’s used.
Six, thanks, you’re right. Your definition of Straw Man was the one that I was thinking of.
considering the ammount of chemicals floating around in my body when I wrote that you should be glad I didn’t post it to ATMB… biatch.
oldscratch, eh? Well, I’d say “Get behind me, Satan”, but that would be a dangerous thing to say to someone who’s felched one of every type of mammal and several reptilian and avian species.
I haven’t done the platypus yet.
Face down and with a wig Fringale