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** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]": Louis de Pointe du Lac intimates that Lestat de Lioncourt is too old to understand adolescent behaviour when he makes the observation "''Tu as oublié ta jeunesse!''" (French for "You've forgotten your youth!" [[note]]which is the exact translation, although the official English-language subtitles offer the more wordy "You've forgotten what it's like to be young!"[[/note]]) Lestat [[AgeInsecurity feels insulted]] and swears in French.

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** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]": Louis de Pointe du Lac intimates that Lestat de Lioncourt is too old to understand adolescent behaviour when he makes the observation "''Tu as oublié ta jeunesse!''" (French for "You've forgotten your youth!" [[note]]which is the exact translation, although the official English-language subtitles offer on-screen caption offers the more wordy "You've forgotten what it's like to be young!"[[/note]]) Lestat [[AgeInsecurity feels insulted]] and swears in French.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': After the conflict in "The Fight for Castle [=McDuck=]!" is resolved, Huey explains to Louie why he wanted to not take shortcuts and search for the episode's MacGuffin "the hard way":
-->'''Huey:''' Sometimes, doing things the easy way gets you in hard trouble down the line.\\
'''Louie:''' That some sort of Junior Woodchuck rule?\\
'''Huey:''' Nope. ''(pulls him into a side-hug)'' Just something I learned by being [[TheSlacker your]] brother.\\
'''Louie:''' Aww. ...[[DoubleTake Hey!]]
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** When Calvin asks why his dad goes to work instead of his mom, his dad explains that they used to both have jobs but once Calvin was born one of them had to stay home to take care of him...
--->'''Calvin's Dad:''' Your mom's job had a lot of stress and aggravation, see...\\
'''Calvin:''' ...And she wanted to quit?\\
'''Calvin's Dad:''' No, she'd gotten used to it, so we figured she should be the one to...\\
'''Calvin:''' ''HEY!''
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* ''Film/RaisingTheWind'': When Sid and Harry bicker over whether Mervyn's musical skills are legit or not, Sid asks if he's ever been wrong, to which Harry replies, "Definitely". Sid doesn't realise what he's just said and thanks him.
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See also OverlyNarrowSuperlative and MyFriendsAndZoidberg, which are often specific forms of this. WithDueRespect is also sometimes used as this. A frequent technique in PassiveAggressiveKombat, and sometimes a clever way to deliver a QuietCryForHelp to third parties who are clever or informed enough to recognize the implications. May overlap with TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier when character A uses a language unknown to character B.

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See also OverlyNarrowSuperlative and MyFriendsAndZoidberg, which are often specific forms of this. WithDueRespect is also sometimes used as this. A frequent technique in PassiveAggressiveKombat, and sometimes a clever way to deliver a QuietCryForHelp to third parties who are clever or informed enough to recognize the implications. May overlap with TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier when character A uses a language unknown to character B.
B. When an author or other creative type does this, it may result in a MisaimedFandom.
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* On the topic of the progress of Janet's driving lessons in ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'':
-->'''Janet''': And I do think I'm doing ''awfully'' well, don't you?
-->'''Ian''': Oh, ''awfully''.
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* ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'': When Saber angrily notes that Gilgamesh allowed the kids to take the Saint Quartz fragments despite knowing they would draw in monsters, he replies back there was never any need for him to intervene in matters that would settle themselves, which Iori realizes means Gilgamesh knew he and Saber would act to save them. Gilgamesh then goes on to say that a king, much like a shopkeeper, bides his time, but then notes "this may be inscrutable to those who have ruled neither shop nor nation," to which Saber simply fumes in place. [[spoiler:The insult being that Yamato Takeru never actually became emperor, having been cursed with illness and died before being able to do so.]]

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* ''Film/CarryOnConstable'': PC Benson accosts a suspicious-looking man outside a post office, only to find he is Detective Sergeant Liddell, who tells him he looks quite sensible, immediately after giving the advice not to be misled by appearances.
--> '''Benson:''' (seeing Liddell's identification) Oh dear. But you look such a standard criminal type!
--> '''Liddell:''' Oh, don't be misled by appearances. After all, you look quite sensible.
--> '''Benson:''' (Flattered) Thank you. (Realising, as Liddell walks away) Charming.

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* ''Film/CarryOnConstable'': ''Film/CarryOnConstable'':
** Gorse being called a "Special" Constable[[note]] A Special Constable is a volunteer civilian policeman. They are empowered to patrol in uniform and keep the peace, but not to make arrests or investigate crimes[[/note]].
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PC Benson accosts a suspicious-looking man outside a post office, only to find he is Detective Sergeant Liddell, who tells him he looks quite sensible, immediately after giving the advice not to be misled by appearances.
--> ---> '''Benson:''' (seeing Liddell's identification) Oh dear. But you look such a standard criminal type!
--> ---> '''Liddell:''' Oh, don't be misled by appearances. After all, you look quite sensible.
--> ---> '''Benson:''' (Flattered) Thank you. (Realising, as Liddell walks away) Charming.
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* ''Film/CarryOnConstable'': PC Benson accosts a suspicious-looking man outside a post office, only to find he is Detective Sergeant Liddell, who tells him he looks quite sensible, immediately after giving the advice not to be misled by appearances.
--> '''Benson:''' (seeing Liddell's identification) Oh dear. But you look such a standard criminal type!
--> '''Liddell:''' Oh, don't be misled by appearances. After all, you look quite sensible.
--> '''Benson:''' (Flattered) Thank you. (Realising, as Liddell walks away) Charming.
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** In one Sunday strip, Calvin fantasises about going to the moon, and says he wish he could go. His father says he ''also'' wishes Calvin could go to the moon. His mother overhears and isn't particularly amused.
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* ''Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfCabal'', criminologist Leonie Barrows soon realizes that the vampire Horst Cabal is a BrainlessBeauty. So she tells him that he's very handsome to which he's extremely pleased, but then she follows it with how he likely didn't need to be good in school. It then sinks to Horst and he complains, asking her if she was saying he was stupid. Leonie then tells him she didn't say he was stupid, she just implied it.
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* ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'' slips one [[http://www.madamandeve.co.za/cartoons/me002637.gif here]] with Eve's "Madam Report Cards".
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* Inverted in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'' when Asuka says that "one could actually mistake [Rei] for a human being" after seeing her smile. Given that Asuka knows about Rei's CloningBlues and is trying to keep her status as a time traveller a secret, she deliberately worded it in a way that everyone else would merely interpret as one of her younger self's standard insults.

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* Inverted in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'' when Asuka says that "one could actually mistake [Rei] for a human being" after seeing her smile. Given that Asuka knows about Rei's CloningBlues CloneAngst and is trying to keep her status as a time traveller a secret, she deliberately worded it in a way that everyone else would merely interpret as one of her younger self's standard insults.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': Gru asks Miss Hattie whether she speaks Spanish. When she says no, he tells her that her face is "Como un burro" ("Like a donkey"). She is flattered... until she later buys a Spanish-English dictionary and slaps Gru in the face with it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'': Gru asks Miss Hattie whether she speaks Spanish. When she says no, he tells her that her face is "Como un burro" ("Like a donkey"). She is flattered... until she later buys a Spanish-English dictionary and slaps Gru in the face with it.
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* ''Fanfic/AnUnpleasantSurprise'': When a [[HeteronormativeCrusader disturbed Ashley Harris]] asks Molly [=McGee=] if [[AllGaysArePromiscuous she's attracted to her]] after remembering her say she looks good without her glasses, an incredulous Molly states she is not, nor will ever be, [[BitchInSheepsClothing attracted to someone like her]]. [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint Ashley completely misses the true meaning of her now former friend's words and just sighs in relief]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': The Mario Bros. write on their own {{defictionalized}} website for the film that they started their own plumbing business after getting fed up with "spiky" bosses, making a subtle jab at the expense of Foreman Spike, who resents the fact that they left his employ and still bullies them to this day.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': The Mario Bros. write on their own {{defictionalized}} {{defictionaliz|ation}}ed website for the film that they started their own plumbing business after getting fed up with "spiky" bosses, making a subtle jab at the expense of Foreman Spike, who resents the fact that they left his employ and still bullies them to this day.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': The Mario Bros. write on their own {{defictionalized}} website for the film that they started their own plumbing business after getting fed up with "spiky" bosses, making a subtle jab at the expense of Foreman Spike, who resents the fact that they left his employ and still bullies them to this day.
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That's a very dubious interpretation. If John "isn't fooled for a second," then why did he look to confirm "Clay's" name on the directory? He was just being cautious by not giving him bullets in case he wasn't who he said he was.


* In ''Film/DieHard'', some of the terrorists are quite capable of doing a perfect American accent and passing for people from the United States. [=McClane=] isn't fooled for a second, however, and actually gives Hans an unloaded gun because the accent "Clay" used is ''too'' perfect. He praises Hans for his little trick, saying he "could have been on TV with an accent like that", to mock out how his Clay voice had no regional accent whatsoever and how it's so perfect it sounds strange coming from anyone other than a newscaster.

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* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': In "[[Recap/HouseOfTheDragonS1E8TheLordOfTheTides The Lord of The Tides]]," Aemond Targaryen makes a toast to his much older half-sister Rhaenyra Targaryen's sons, during a family dinner in which Rhaenyra and Alicent(Aemond's mother and Rhaenyra's stepmother/[[WeUsedToBeFriends former friend]]) [[HopeSpot seem to be putting aside their differences]]. While it sounds as though he's praising them, his use of "Strong" twice is a clear jab at how they are the bastard children of Ser Harwin Strong.
-->'''Aemond''': Final tribute. To the health of my nephews: Jace, Luke, and Joffrey. Each of them handsome, wise... ''Strong''. Come, let us drain our cups to these three... Strong boys.



* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Aemond delivers a toast to his nephews, who are rumored to be bastards of House Strong rather than trueborn Targaryens, saying that they are "Strong boys." No one can miss the accusation, but Aemond innocently insists that he's just paying them a compliment.

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* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Aemond delivers a toast to his nephews, who are rumored to be bastards of House Strong rather than trueborn Targaryens, saying that they are "Strong saying, "To the health of my nephews: Jace, Luke, and Joffrey. Each of them handsome, wise... ''Strong''. Come, let us drain our cups to these three... Strong boys." No one can miss the accusation, but Aemond innocently insists that he's just paying them a compliment.
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* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Aemond delivers a toast to his nephews, who are rumored to be bastards of House Strong rather than trueborn Targaryens, saying that they are "Strong boys." No one can miss the accusation, but Aemond innocently insists that he's just paying them a compliment.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': In "Identity Crisis", Flash Thompson has been trying to get a part in the school's production of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' in order to try to get closer to his latest crush, Sha Shan Nguyen. Towards the end of the episode he somewhat accidentally impresses the director enough to offer him the part of Nick Bottom. Flash ([[BookDumb who clearly knows nothing about the play]]) flirtatiously tells Sha Shan that they'll probably be spending a lot of time together now... only for her to rebut that he probably won't need much practice to prepare for the role (while imagining him with a donkey's head).

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%% * If you're in one of the Disney Parks, and the Cast Member you were just working with calls you a "Treasured Guest" or tells you to "Have a magical day" or "Have a Disney day", they were insulting you in the only way they can while keeping their job, since they reserve it for difficult or rude customers.
* IT people have a number of Stealth Insults on hand for venting about difficult customers:
%% ** Saying that the main problem with the system is BIOS. [[FunWithAcronyms As in, Blind Idiot Operating the System]]. This one's actually got some potential to confuse other IT people, since BIOS is also a legitimate technical term[[labelnote:*]]Basic Input[=/=]Output System, if you were wondering[[/labelnote]], referring to the firmware on most [=PCs=]; if there's a problem with your actual BIOS, you're ''really'' in trouble. That being said, the BIOS has mostly been phased out in favor of its successor, UEFI[[labelnote:*]]Unified Extensible Firmware Interface[[/labelnote]], so the snarky definition is becoming less risky.
** Saying that this appears to be a PEBKAC issue. [[FunWithAcronyms Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair]].
%% ** Referring to an ID-10-T error code.
** Complaining about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_8 Layer 8 (or higher)]] of the OSI model.
%% ** Referring to a PICNIC type issue: Problem In Customer, Not In Computer.
%% * There is a picture of UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton shaking hands with a soldier while the soldier is flashing a downwards peace sign with his other hand. This hand gesture means "I am doing this against my will."
* A former student of Nicholas Murray Butler (who was then the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Murray_Butler president of Columbia University]]) was asked to contribute a piece to ''Poetry'' magazine. He obliged... with a [[http://everything2.com/?node_id=1091716 poem]] in which the first letter of each line spelled out the statement "Nicholas Murray Butler Is A Horse's Ass".
* [[http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/headstone.asp This creative headstone]] shows what happens when your ex-wife and mistress meet up after your death but before the carving of your monument.
* 19th-century French theatre actor Frédérick Lemaître, angered by the noisy audience, called them "imbéciles" (idiots) before leaving the stage. The audience got quite angered and the theatre director ordered Lemaître to apologize. He did so, by saying "Je vous ai traités d'imbéciles. C'est vrai! Je vous fais des excuses. J'ai tort!" ("I called you idiots. That's true! [[BackhandedApology I apologize. I'm wrong!"]])
* Similarly, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill was once forced to apologize for accusing another politician of lying in Parliament. His "apology"? [[BackhandedApology "I called the Right Honourable Gentleman a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. Punctuate that sentence any way you like."]]
* UsefulNotes/PopePiusXII was said to have encountered an anti-Catholic journalist who provocatively asked him for a blessing. Without skipping a beat, Pope Pius XII blessed him, saying: "Ab illo benedicaris, in cuius honore cremaberis. Amen." This is a blessing used for incense, and it translates to: "Be blessed by Him in whose honour thou art burnt. Amen." Another version of the story has Pope Pius IX or Pope Leo XIII giving the same blessing to a group of Anglican clergymen in response to them making a heretical utterance.
* After a public dispute between Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton, the latter wrote an open letter of apology to the Royal Society. It contained what became a famous quote of his "If I have seen further than most it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" (''and not twisted little hunchbacks like Hooke'').
* When USS ''Pueblo'' was captured by North Korea and its crew taken prisoner, its sailors were photographed [[BlatantLies to show off how well they had been taken care of]]. The sailors found a creative way to get their message through: [[http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2009/06/pueblo-middle-finger.jpg many of them flipped the finger,]] telling their North Korean captors that the gesture was a "Hawaiian good luck sign." Needless to say, the North Koreans were not happy with them once they found out. "Hawaiian Good Luck Sign" is still a popular euphemism for it in some regions.\\\
The ''Pueblo'''s captain, Commander Lloyd Bucher, was tortured by the North Korean forces, who eventually succeeded in forcing him to confess. However, to quote [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], '' 'none of the Koreans knew enough English to write a confession, so they had Bucher write it himself. They verified the meaning of his words but failed to catch the pun when he said "We paean (paean meaning a fervent expression of joy or praise) the DPRK. We paean the Korean people. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung".' '' Another quote from the confession: "[We] beseech the Korean people to forgive our dastardly deeds unmatched since Attila."
* California Governor Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger vetoed a bill authored by one of his political opponents... with [[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/schwarzenegger a veto message]] in which the first letter of each line spelled out "Fuck You".
* A [[CourtJester Jester]] once compared UsefulNotes/KingJohnOfEngland (in other versions, John’s mediocre son Henry III) to Jesus. He said that Jesus had the same wisdom he had as a child as he did as a grown man. The King had the same wisdom as a grownup as he did as a child.
%% * Before the 2010 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup World Cup]], a network analyst stated: "You can't underestimate the USA's chances against England!"
* At [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III Stalag Luft 3]], where the events dramatized in ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' took place, prisoners called the guards "Goons", telling them that it stood for "German Officer Or Noncom."
* In a February 2011 interview on Creator/AlJazeera, a spokesman for the Libyan government was telling the reporters what was really happening in Libya so poorly that off-screen crew members could be heard laughing at the absurdity of his claims. The two reporters conducting the interview kept their composure despite the hilariously incompetent attempts to deny, spin, fold and mutilate the truth, and at the end of the interview one, with an absolutely deadpan expression, thanked the spokesman and said that he was a perfect representative of the Libyan government.
%%* Creator/SarahSilverman, the Creator/DonRickles of the backhanded compliment.
* There's also the time that the [[BritishRoyalGuards Band of the Welsh Guards]], after some protest, did decide to play a song to greet King Abdullah of UsefulNotes/SaudiArabia. The song they chose? [[Franchise/StarWars The]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD38SQ8srXw Imperial March]]''.
%% * Argentinian former-president ''Carlos Menem'' was loved during his time as president, but hated afterwards due to all the corruption he was linked to. In some sort of way, think of him as Argentina's UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. In 2011 he went to vote, and the guy who was supposed to receive him made a gesture that's popularly believed to protect you from jinx (which is touching your left testicle). [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qJnenyRW8wg/TkkjeE2f0FI/AAAAAAAAAgg/41D3RZqfiow/s320/menem+vota.jpg See it yourself.]]
* Not long after the Tiananmen Square protests, someone wrote a poem that, on the face of it, seemed to praise the Chinese government. It was even featured in the ''People's Daily''. Not long after, it was discovered that if you took the characters going diagonally, it read "[Prime Minister] Li Peng must resign to appease the anger of the people."
* The People's Republic of China enforces its world monopoly of pandas by denying foreign zoos a panda unless they sign a document that says that the panda and all its descendants belong to the Chinese government and they are only on loan. In one occasion, however, China gifted a couple of pandas to Taiwan that were free of this imposition, ''and was met with protests from the Taiwanese''. The Taiwanese understood too well that this was the Communist Party's way to say that Taiwan is not a foreign country, but a part of the People's Republic of China.
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler was on the receiving end of this more than once:
** The deposed [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany Kaiser Wilhelm II]] sent Hitler a congratulatory telegram on June 17th, 1940, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII after the fall of France]], which read: ''"Under the deeply moving impression of the capitulation of France I congratulate you and the whole German Wehrmacht on the mighty victory '''granted by God''', in the words of the Emperor Wilhelm the Great in 1870: What a turn of events brought about '''by divine dispensation'''!"''; basically, the Emperor said in diplomatic language [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Führer]] was an incompetent who only got lucky by the will of God. Hitler understood the subtext and got appropriately angry, but answered one week later in [[PolitenessJudo similarly diplomatic, but hollow language]].
** Hitler would then proceed to get snubbed by another monarch, Christian X of Denmark, in 1942, even though [[RefugeInAudacity the country happened to be under German military occupation at the time]]. When Hitler sent the King an elaborate telegram congratulating him on his 72nd birthday, the King replied with a deliberately curt message. This [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency infuriated Hitler to such an extent]] that he threatened to [[DisproportionateRetribution crack down on the whole of Denmark over it]], triggering the aptly-named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_Crisis Telegram Crisis]].
--->''"Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus. Chr. Rex"''[[note]]Giving my best thanks, King Christian[[/note]]
%% * It's said that, when asked what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi replied "I think it would be a good idea."
* Wilhelm II got one himself from UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck, who as Chancellor had had a good working relationship with Wilhelm's grandfather and predecessor, Kaiser Wilhelm the First, but was fired by Wilhelm II after two years of service. When Bismarck died ten years later, his headstone read:
-->Prince Otto von Bismarck. \\
A faithful servant of Kaiser Wilhelm ''the First''.
* Creator/ArthurCClarke described one of his methods of responding to crank mail: sending a reply in barely-legible handwriting with keywords scrawled in ''completely'' illegible squiggles (e.g. "Your [squiggle] is the greatest piece of [squiggle] I have ever seen.") so that the correspondent "did not know whether I was praising him to the skies or telling him to boil his head."
%% * Website/{{Google}}, for a while, had been working with the MPAA on trying to curb piracy via their search engine and had done quite a good job, chopping search results in half. The MPAA's response to that was "Everyone shares a responsibility to help curb unlawful conduct online, and we are glad to see Google acknowledging its role in facilitating access to stolen content". Google was quite incensed at that and broke ties with the MPAA and opted to work with the production companies separately.
%% * Related to the previous in a way; to circumvent NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, British reporter Hugh Massingberd [[http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/father-of-the-modern-obit/2008/01/04/1198950074313.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 decided to]] employ {{Unusual Euphemism}}s that served as this. "Didn't suffer fools gladly" translated as "complete bastard", "gave colourful accounts of his exploits" meant "liar", "powerful negotiator" suggested "bully", "Uncompromising ladies' man" was to be interpreted as "serial sexual harasser"[[note]]This was most famously said of the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, who was widely known to have both a long list of affairs and flings with Society ladies and an extensive history of indecent exposure.[[/note]] and "tireless raconteur" signalled "crashing bore".
* [[http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/connecticut-senior-cant-walk-high-school-graduation-because-hidden-yearbook-message-0 This story]] about a Connecticut high school senior who says he is being kept from walking at his graduation ceremony because a quote he had printed in the school’s yearbook contained a hidden, profane message that upset school administrators. Namely:
-->“SMSA has taught me valuable lessons, such as Friendship, Unity, Community, Kindness, Youth Optimism and Understanding.”
%% * In 2014, [[http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/ex-bungie-composer-marty-odonnell-wins-epic-legal-fight-with-former-bosses/ composer Martin O'Donnell was fired from]] {{Creator/Bungie}} after he protested how they and {{Creator/Activision}} were hoarding away his symphonies written for ''{{VideoGame/Destiny}}'', titled "Music of the Spheres". A year later, he started his own company called Highwire Games, [[https://highwiregames.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/meet-the-team-2/ whose site includes a bio]] linking to his previous work for Bungie. Clicking on the link to "Music of the Spheres" [[spoiler:leads to a 404 "Page Not Found" on Bungie's website.]]
* A more tragic one: After Nicole Simpson's death (her spouse Creator/OJSimpson was tried for her murder, and was acquitted, but later found civilly liable for her death), her sister opened a charity in her name to prevent domestic abuse.
* One of St. UsefulNotes/ThomasMore's epigrams chronicles how a poet once attempted to praise the king in the style of Virgil by saying that he is second to none. However, a blunder the poet made described him as a king "to whom no one is second". More takes this and runs with it, hailing him as the poet "to whom no one is second".
* The fourteenth-century Hebrew polemical letter ''Do Not Be Like Your Fathers'' (''Al Tehi ka-Avotekha''), by Profiat Duran, purports to be a defense of Christianity against Judaism, and the Church at first took it as such. (It helped that the author, like the original recipient, was a Jew who'd chosen baptism over death during the 1391 anti-Jewish riots in Spain and Portugal.) However, Christian readers eventually realized the letter was one long Stealth Insult to their faith, and [[BookBurning burned]] it in public.
-->Do not be like your fathers, who believed in one God from whose unity they removed any plurality. They erred indeed when they said, "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one" ([[Literature/TheBible Deuteronomy]] 6:4), when they understood this unity in its purest sense [...] Not so you! You shall believe that one can become three, and that three united make one.
* After the 2016 US election resulted in UsefulNotes/MikePence becoming Vice President, a flurry of controversy erupted due to his history of supporting [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]]. A few weeks after the election, [[http://www.wkbw.com/news/law-introduced-to-ban-conversion-therapy-in-erie-county Erie County introduced a bill]] to ban conversion therapy, named "[[FunWithAcronyms Prevention of Emotional Neglect and Childhood Endangerment"]].
* A popular meme after UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's election was that Americans owed him the same respect that Trump gave to them or Republicans to UsefulNotes/BarackObama -- as in, [[WithAllDueRespect none at all.]]
* [[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/03/24/democrats-introduce-mar-a-lago-act/99585476/ One bill pitched by Democrats in early 2017]] was to publicly publish White House visitor logs like the Obama Administration, as well as for Presidential vacation sites. The bill's name? "Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act", or [[FunWithAcronyms MAR-A-LAGO]] Act, named after Donald Trump's favorite Florida resort that he attended every weekend.
* June 2017 had [[http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/337416-covefe-act-would-make-social-media-a-presidential-record the Democrats introduce a bill]] to make presidential social media posts be classified as presidential records, the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically For Engagement Act, [[https://ssl.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170531121403-trump-covfefe-tweet-screengrab-super-169.jpg an acronym for, well...]]
* When FBI Director James Comey was fired by the White House, he stated, "I have long believed that a President can fire an FBI Director for any reason, or for no reason at all."
%% * Fans can submit letters to many of Creator/MarvelComics's books, including ComicBook/America2017. This book attracted many [[{{Troll}} internet trolls]], who come together and make fun of the book. A troll successfully got one of their (scathingly insulting) letters published, under the guise of praise. For example, the writer compliments the book for [[{{Narm}} always making them laugh]], and compared it to ''Film/TheRoom2003''. The book's writer responded to the letter kindly, showing that she didn't get she was being insulted.
* Amid the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the trailer for ''Series/RebootTheGuardianCode'', ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' co-director Thomas Romain posted "[[RecycledPremise Wow, you really liked Code Lyoko didn't you?]]" on the official Reboot: The Guardian Code twitter.
* Upon hearing that the bus driver who had her arrested years earlier died (sparking the Montgomery Bus boycott), Rosa Parks simply responded "I'm sure his family will miss him."
* The Ig Nobel Prize is normally awarded to scientific research which is strange-sounding but has a level of value, but has been known to operate as a MedalOfDishonor as well, in which case it will usually present whatever horrible event it speaks of as if it were a breakthrough in research. A good example is their 2016 prize to Volkswagen in the field of chemistry, which lauded the company "for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested."[[note]]Volkswagen had been caught programming vehicles to switch to a low-performance low-emissions mode when tested and back to high-performance high-emissions mode under normal driving conditions.[[/note]]
%% * In 2007, Creator/JamieKennedy acted as the emcee for Creator/{{Activision}}'s [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]] press conference, and his performance was widely considered a trainwreck. Game Trailers' video coverage of the presentation took a jab at Kennedy's expense by describing him as a "comedian" and putting his profession in quotations.
* The famous GiftedlyBad Scottish poet Creator/WilliamTopazMcGonnagall wrote a poetic tribute to his colleague Rev. George Gilfillan. Gilfillan's diplomatic response: "Shakespeare never wrote anything like this."
* After Jessie Lee Peterson had David Pakman on his show ''The Fallen State'' for a particularly painful interview, Peterson asked whether Pakman had fun during the interview. Pakman replied, "In a thousand years, when the sociologists and philosophers try to figure out what exactly happened in the United States right around this time, this type of conversation is going to be incredibly informative for them, so I'm glad to have participated in it."
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives The Mace of the House]] is a ceremonial symbol of the United States House of Representatives, carried into the House Chamber by the Sergeant-at-Arms and placed on a pedestal near the rostrum to begin sessions of the House. If a Member of the House is unruly or out of order, and a verbal warning is ineffective, the Speaker (or whoever is presiding over the session in the Speaker's place) can order the Sergeant-at-Arms to present the Mace to the offender i.e. take it from the pedestal and hold it in front of the Member. During the 2019 and 2020 State of the Union Addresses, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wore a brooch in the shape of the Mace, as a symbol of her authority as Speaker. Since the Speaker sits behind the President, she was also, in a way, presenting the Mace to Donald Trump for the entirety of both speeches, symbolically declaring him unruly and out of order.
* During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Germans awarded a number of American P.O.W.s with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Merit_Medal War Merit Medals]] for outstanding contributions to the Nazi war effort via their forced labor. Now, that alone was already quite a slap in the face, but note that the medal was given to non-German ''civilians'' for this. In other words, they were basically saying those prisoners weren't real soldiers.
* When Robert Muldoon was Prime Minister of New Zealand, he once said that anyone who emigrated from New Zealand to Australia raised the average IQ of ''both'' countries.
* A prankster [[https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3507377-prankster-at-nra-event-thanks-ceo-for-all-your-thoughts-and-all-your-prayers/ crashed]] the 2022 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics National Rifle Association]] meeting to "thank" NRA chief Wayne [=LaPierre=] for offering his "thoughts and prayers" after each mass shooting. A number of attendees [[MisaimedFandom applauded]].
* This infamously happened to ''Film/{{Morbius|2022}}'' where, rather than insult the movie, people dubbed themselves to be "Morbheads" and began praising made-up parts that weren't even in the movie like the now {{memetic|mutation}} "[[Franchise/PowerRangers IT'S MORBIN' TIME!]]", claiming it made "one morbillion dollars", photoshopping Website/RottenTomatoes to claim it got a 203% critical / 142% audience score, and claiming Creator/MartinScorsese had called it "the truest height of cinema that not even he can top", and claiming the reason it was such a BoxOfficeBomb was "everyone was too busy that weekend to see it", and creating fake news articles to talk about the sequel that "was already greenlit." Even ''Creator/JaredLeto'', the star of the movie, got in on it by reading a fake sequel script on Twitter.
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* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', Hiyoko Saionji is killed by [[spoiler:Mikan]] and is found with the sash of her obi facing the front. This is because courtesans and prostitutes in Japan used to wear their obis front-facing to make their kimonos easy to take off, so Hiyoko is nonverbally being called a trashy skank, which happened to be her favorite insult towards her killer.

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