{"id":85,"date":"2011-02-02T01:09:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/certificate-of-wrongness\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T01:09:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:09:29","slug":"certificate-of-wrongness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/certificate-of-wrongness\/","title":{"rendered":"Certificate of Wrongness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being an opinionated, arrogant, arse who works with a bunch of opinionated, arrogant, arses, I spend a great many hours engaged in heated debates. These arguments usually end in deadlock but occasionally they become a farcical circus where one of us realises they were wrong but pursues their argument in the hope of finding <i>some<\/i> truth in order to save face (usually by changing the argument or invoking some form of logical fallacy). For the purposes of catharsis and the <a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopediadramatica.com\/Lulz\" title=\"lulz\">lulz<\/a>, the common reaction by the others is to demand an acknowledgement that wrongness has occurred: insisting they use the words &#8220;I was wrong&#8221;.<br \/>\nPondering this, I wondered whether it should be put in writing for posterity in a kind of &#8220;Declaration of Wrongness&#8221;, that can be pulled out and waved at the victim in future debates; again this would be both cathartic and generate lulz.<br \/>\nTwo colleagues (both geniuses) went further and created a legally binding, and utterly brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/48001932\/Certificate-Of-Wrongness\" title=\"Certificate of Wrongness\">Certificate of Wrongness<\/a>!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/48001932\/Certificate-Of-Wrongness\" title=\"Certificate of Wrongness\">Download it<\/a>, save it, and use it for righteousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an opinionated, arrogant, arse who works with a bunch of opinionated, arrogant, arses, I spend a great many hours engaged in heated debates. These arguments usually end in deadlock but occasionally they become a farcical circus where one of us realises they were wrong but pursues their argument in the hope of finding some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}