History Main / DiggingYourselfDeeper

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* Mainland China under the CCP often accuse the USA and other Western nation for destabilizing peace... Except their aggressive expansionism throughout the South China[=/=]Sea of Asia and the territories surrounding India, and their desire to invade Taiwan rather than leave it alone, only ensured that they are seen as bullying aggressors instead.

Not to be confused DugTooDeep (which is about physical digging), or DiggingToChina (same). Nor DigYourOwnGrave, for that matter.

* Mainland China under the CCP often accuse the USA of destabilizing peace... Except their aggressive expansionism throughout the South China[=/=]Sea of Asia and the territories surrounding India, and their desire to invade Taiwan rather than leave it alone, only ensured that they are seen as bullying aggressors instead.

* ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}" ComicBook/TheContest'': Mala doesn't think before talking to Diana about how excieted the Amazons are for another contest to choose Wonder Woman, even though this means replacing Diana;

* Mainland China under the CCP often accuse the USA of destabilizing peace... Except their aggressive expansionism throughout the South China[=/=]Sea of Asia and the territories surrounding India, and their desire to invade Taiwan rather than leave it alone only ensured that they are seen as bullying aggressors instead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', Joaquin does this when trying to woo Maria, which annoys her, thus making her leave the dinner table and go to her room.

* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', after Tony Stark's daughter Morgan accidentally learns the word "shit" from him, he tells her not to swear, and then says "'Cause I got shit to do!". Cue her continuing to repeat the word...

* Mainland China under the CCP often accuse the USA of destabilizing peace... Except their aggressive expansionism throughout the South China[=/=]West Philippine Sea and the territories surrounding India, and their desire to invade Taiwan rather than leave it alone only ensured that they are seen as bullying aggressors instead.

* Spock finds himself in this position in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' when he explains to Kirk and [=McCoy=] how they can locate the rest of the crew by homing in on a rare radioactive isotope. Specifically, the necklace that had belonged to Spock's mother, and that he later gave to Uruha as a gift.

-->'''Tommy:''' Hey, I'll tell you what: [[{{Malaproper}} you can take a good look at a butcher's ass by sticking your head up there but wouldn't you rather take his word for it?]]
-->'''Mr. Brady:''' (''confused'') What? I'm failing to make the connection here, son.
-->'''Tommy:''' No, I mean, you can get a good look at a ''T-bone'' by sticking your head up a ''butcher's'' ass, but then... No, it's gotta be your bull.
-->'''Richard:''' Wow.
-->'''Tommy:''' Here's the deal, if I want you--
-->'''Richard:''' You have derailed.
-->'''Tommy:''' Shut up, Richard!

* Dracula in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'', after getting rid of the human Jonathan (whom he has disguised, for the monsters' benefit, as a third cousin of Frankenstein's right hand), is relaxing with his monster friends in a sauna. He mentions that he really wouldn't want his CuteMonsterGirl daughter to end up with Jonathan's "kind". Cue Frank getting upset. Dracula tries to explain himself and points to Jonathan's red, curly hair. Cue Griffin TheInvisibleMan getting annoyed, only for Dracula to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] that he couldn't have possibly known what Griffin's hair looks like. After a cut, we see other monsters getting annoyed.

In a SitCom, often a character will say something that's just meant to be a [[ComplimentBackfire friendly little remark]], and [[ThatCameOutWrong it will come out wrong]], possibly sounding creepy, crazy, or offensive; they'll try and clarify it (whether they really need to or not), but just make things worse, and dig themselves deeper and deeper into the creepy/crazy/offensive pit. Exceptionally deep and/or frequent excavations are commonplace in {{Cringe Comed|y}}ies.

May eventually lead to ShuttingUpNow.

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-->"It's a pleasure. I mean, it's not a pleasure that she's ill. Of course not. It's a pleasure that she’s here, being ill. Um..."\\

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': During a talk with Vetinari in ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Moist von Lipwig seems unable to put the metaphorical shovel down. The funniest point is probably that Vetinari didn’t even ask about the problem, Moist just assumed that this was the reason why his boss wanted to talk to him.

'''Moist:''' Er…which, it’s true, staff put in the posting boxes to keep down the snails…\\

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'', the protagonist's relationship with Becca can come crashing down from a badly managed conversation. When the protagonist helps Becca paint her apartment, the mood for sex hits, but they don’t have a condom ready. The protagonist can then choose to say that they could just have unprotected sex. He then goes down a path with leads Becca to kick him out, not wanting to see him again.

* Mainland China under the CCP often accuse the USA of destabilizing peace... Except their aggressive expansionism throughout the South China[=/=]West Philippine Sea and the territories surrounding India and their desire to invade Taiwan rather than leave it alone only ensured that they are seen as bullying aggressors instead.

* Three years after resigning in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which unearthed a long history of paranoid skullduggery, former US president UsefulNotes/RichardNixon agreed to a series of interviews with English journalist Davie Frost in a bid to rehabilitate his public image. In the interviews' most infamous moment, Nixon responded to Frost's inquiries about the Huston Plan, an illegal proposition to spy on and terrorize political opponents, by [[ButForMeItWasTuesday bluntly and nonchalantly]] stating that [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is NOT illegal."]] Rather than redeem him in the eyes of the public, the interviews only emboldened the international consensus that Nixon was an unrepentant crook. The events were later dramatized in the play and film ''Film/FrostNixon''.

* The founder of the Papa John's restaurant company, John Schnatter, criticized black NFL players, who out of protest kneeled while the national anthem was played, for which he had to resign as CEO. In an effort to avoid any other racist controversy again, a media-training company was hired, but during a role-playing exercise conference call, he complained that KFC's Colonel Sanders used to call black people the N-word without being criticized for it. He then [[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/papa-johns-pizza-founder-john-schnatter-racial-slur-n-word/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=54164675 had to resign as chairman of the board.]]

* The Mainland China under the CCP often accuse the USA for destabilizing peace... Except their aggressive expansionism throughout the South China[=/=]West Philippine Sea and the territories surrounding India, and their desire to invade Taiwan rather than leave it alone only ensured that they are seen as bullying aggressors instead.