The Britney Spears pictures we brought you yesterday don't even begin to tell the story. Well, actually they do - but they don't prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the Britster was sh!tfaced on New Year's Eve. This picture, however, does:

T.H. Gossip would like to note that we are not critical of Britney Spears for partying, especially on New Year's. We are merely pointing out the absurdity of her people's statements that she simply fell asleep (from quote-unquote exhaustion, not boozing) at the party.

Come on now. It's New Year's Eve - and since filing for divorce from K-Fed, she's already partied hard with various D-listers and skanks, given us a nice crotch shot and hooked up with a dirtball named J.R. Rotem. At this point, what could Britney reeally do to embarrass herself? We know what we're getting, and accept it, despite its faults.

Fell asleep at the club?! Right. That happens all the time. This is almost as absurd as Bill Clinton saying he didn't inhale the marijuana he once tried, or Paris Hilton's claim that she's only slept with two guys. Unless she was just talking about this morning...