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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Played perfectly straight in a conversation between two bison (yes, bison) in a telephone company commercial a few years back{{when}} for camera phone support:
{{quote|'''Bison 1:''' Is that a purse?
'''Bison 2:''' No! It's a murse! It's for men! It's European!
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** ''[[Appleseed Ex Machina]]'' may be making fun of this example by giving Deunan Knute a pink LandMate prototype.
*** She only borrows it. [[Real Men Wear Pink|It's not hers.]]
** Then there's Akito Tenkawa's Aestivalis in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', which is very
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'''Deadpool''': It's a motorbike! It's 100% manly! }}
* In an ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comic Jean Grey asks Jubilee if she still has nightmares. Jubilee responds that nightmares are for babies; she has "traumatic evening episodes".
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114100606/http://www.superdickery.com/real-men-wear-pink/ This] example on [[Superdickery.com]] shows how Robin doesn't even want to think about Batman wearing pink.
* [[Batman|Spoiler's]] costume is not purple, it's ''eggplant''. "Purple would've looked stupid"
* [[The Smurfs|King Smurf's]] costume is not yellow but ''gold''.
== [[Film]] ==
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** Nintendo themselves went through a period of referring to all colors by non-standard names. The aforementioned pink GBA was "fuchsia" and the orange GC was "spice" for no clear reason.
*** Try Polar White, Onyx, Cobalt, or Metallic Rose DS Lite colors on for size.
* Hot Topic peddled a denim skirt to teenage male [[Emo]] kids as a "one-legged pant." It's still listed at [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602214510/http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/product.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028382&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442165228&bmUID=1190984678217 the web site], but may or may not be sold anymore.
* There are new skates now called "side-by-sides" that have, get this, two wheels in front and two wheels in back! Anyone born before 1992 may remember that these hip, ''new'' alternatives to inlines were called "rollerskates" for much of the 20th century.
** This kind of thing is more properly called a [[wikipedia:Retronym|retronym]].
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*** Inverted by many wargamers whose contribution to 'realism in rules' debates is "It's grown men playing with toy soldiers."
* There are some anime fans who will get very annoyed if you refer to what they are watching as "cartoons"... then again, considering [[Animation Age Ghetto|the stigma of the word "cartoon"]]. "Anime" in this context is a shortening of ''animeeshon,'' the Japanese pronunciation of "animation." And the French ''animé'' more literally just means "animated."
** The very same stigma makes western comic fans call them Graphic novels.
** On the same note: "It's not a Comic]], it's ''[[Manga]]''!"
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** DMV and law enforcement ignore this, of course. The color field on vehicle registrations is too small, and the police don't want technicalities because they put crimson or scarlet instead of candy-apple for vehicle color.
* It's not a skirt, it's a [[Man in a Kilt|kilt]].
** To be more pedantic, "skirt" is a general term for a wide range of garments that consist of a length of fabric beginning at the waist and descending below the crotch, and
* Stewardesses are [[Rouge Angles of Satin|flight]] attendants nowadays.
** Is that really a fair comparison? I mean, it's not like they require male flight attendants to wear skirts...
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** Although we do still have wars, we don't have wars WITH countries any more, we have wars IN countries.
** Well, you know, you only have wars with sovereign nations. When you're dealing with a "terrorist state", its merely a police action. "The War On Terror" is a bit like "The War On Drugs" in that respect.
***Thus William the Conqueror (a vassal), Attila the Hun (a tribal warlord), Jefferson Davis (a rebel) and Prince Charles Edward Stuart (a pretender) did not engage in war and no one had wars with them because none were sovereign nations?
*** How is a sovereign nation defined? [[Circular Reasoning|Oh wait,]] [[Asskicking Equals Authority|usually by who wins a war.]]
** Former Minister of Defence of Germany Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg stated that there is no war in Afghanistan. It is "a situation similar to war".
*** Which in [[Germany]] actually was the inversion of the trope. Here German politics insist on politically correct vocabulary and calling it an 'armed conflict' and suchlike. The use of the [[Bundeswehr|army]] in foreign conflicts is unpopular and a very sore theme, with people having been going 'Screw it, that's ''war'', and WTF are we doing there anyway?' for a long time. So Guttenberg actually was ''less'' euphemistic by daring to call the situation "war-like" and being "perceived as war" by those involved, resulting in one side rejoicing at his frankness and the other side ''still'' criticizing him for using the term 'war' even if only in a simile.
** All propaganda aside, a war is a very specific kind of armed conflict, defined by international law. Many modern conflicts are really not wars but rather uprisings. Think difference between murder and a manslaughter that is transparent to Joe Average but pretty important in court.
* The Blackpool FC kit is tangerine, not the
* Look up the ''official'' colors of any American sports team and it's safe to say that "yellow" will always be called "gold" instead. Because honestly, who wants to be known as the team that wears yellow?
** That's due to heraldic custom. In heraldry, yellow/gold and white/silver are considered equivalent and as such often called by the metallic "or"/gold and "argent"/silver, whether or not they're actually supposed to represent gold and silver.
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