'
tish fact' - a spurious, often fictitious piece of information stated as 'fact' that has little relation to
reality, no background and often dismissed out of hand. Directly related to Aatish '
Tish' Pattni's continual statements of fact that serve only to support his argument or current beliefs whilst attempting to either outwit or out-knowledge another 'friend' or member of staff in the office during open debate.
A good example of a '
tish fact' or something that could well be called as such would be to issue a statement without 100% knowing if it is true, then being immediately corrected by a peer only to retort with a similarly farcical background piece of information to support the original fallacy. This could be seen as the opposite of 'digging oneself out of a
hole', or rather to make a social '
hole' bigger by continuing to support an argument with lies or further embarrassing statements. Best avoided.
Example:
Person 1: "The lunar landings took place in 1978"
Person 2: "No, Apollo
11 landed on the moon in July 1969"
Person 1: "No it was definitely 1978 as Neil Armstrong is a distant relation of mine"
Person 1 has committed him/herself to a line of argument that they cannot support or realise they
may have
said in error, but only served to compound with a second statement of complete
crap!
Tish Fact!