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Contrast BothSidesHaveAPoint.

* ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful''
-->'''Oz''': And you can get a big pile of bananas.\\
'''Finnley''': Oh, I see, because I'm a monkey, I must love bananas. That, sir, is a vicious stereotype.\\
'''Oz''': You don't like bananas?\\
'''Finnley:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Of course I love bananas. I'm a monkey.]]

* "I'm not a monster Tom, well technically I am."

:: In the man's defense, [[spoiler:Peter Carey had attacked him first. He was essentially saying that he killed the man in self-defense, rather than murdering him in cold blood]], which, of course, is a ''very'' significant difference in a legal context.

* In ''Gizmos: Riddle of the Universe'' Kurt suggests reporting a crashed NASA spacecraft to the Gizmo Land government.

* In ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'', Jerry has this to say about his girlfriend, Mary (emphasis added).
-->'''Jerry Narrates''': "I and her '''are not dating''', if you Satanic scum think that there is something Satanic going on. '''We are dating''', but we are not having Sex until we get married."

* From ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons:''
-->'''Wilbur:''' If my family finds out that I brought you from the past, they'll bury me alive and dance on my grave. ''I'm not exaggerating!'' Well, yes I am.
** Wilbur seems to make a habit of this:
-->'''Lewis:''' You lied to me?!
-->'''Wilbur:''' No! Well...yes.

-->'''Lone Starr:''' Barf, we're not [[OnlyInItForTheMoney just doing this for money]]. ({{beat}}) We're doing it for a ''[[PrecisionFStrike shitload]]'' of money!

-->'''Barf:''' Look, Your Highness, it's not that we're afraid-- far from it! It's just that we've got this thing about death. It's... not us.

* ''Film/{{Clue}}'':
-->'''Wadsworth:''' THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIND OUT! WE'RE TRYING TO FIND OUT ''WHO'' KILLED HIM, AND ''WHERE'' AND WITH ''WHAT''!\\
'''Professor Plum:''' There's no need to shout!\\
'''Wadsworth:''' '''I'M NOT SHOUTING!''' ({{beat}}) ALL RIGHT, I AM! I'M SHOUTING! I'M SHOUTING! I'M SHOU--
** At this point, his shouting has vibrated the candlestick from its perch above the doorway he's standing in and clocked him on the head.
* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'':
-->'''Balian''': What is Jerusalem worth?\\
'''Saladin''': Nothing. (He walks away then turns around) '''Everything.'''

* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'': Topper to Harbinger when he's wary of a [[TheMole Mole]] on the strike team.
-->'''Topper:''' I'm not saying that I don't trust you, or that I do trust you, but I don't.

** Literature/{{Discworld}} itself doesn't have continuity errors, but it does occasionally have alternate pasts.
*** The above is not just a clever reinterpretation--attempting to understand the canon timeline is an exercise in futility because the timeline in the Discworld was literally shattered into a billion pieces and glued together bit by bit by a bunch of monks. ''Twice'' (that we've seen in detail so far...it's strongly implied that the History Monks do this ''all the time''). These monks are also constantly shunting time from places with too much to places with too little, so how long things take depends on how long they need to take.

** In the man's defense, [[spoiler:Peter Carey had attacked him first. He was essentially saying that he killed the man in self-defense, rather than murdering him in cold blood]], which, of course, is a ''very'' significant difference in a legal context.

* In ''[[Literature/MonsterHunterInternational Monster Hunter Legion]]'', the Hunters are fighting a monster that can take your worst fears and make them real. Trip worries about what the it might be able to pull from Owen's mind:
-->'''Trip:''' I mean, come on, you've been to Hell.
-->'''Owen:''' It wasn't really Hell. It was more of an infinite dimension of eternal suffering populated by awful beings beyond comprehension. Totally different.

** InsistentTerminology possibly due to the fact that she was still trying to snag [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] (she was talking about another guy).

** The Eleventh Doctor seems incredibly fond of this; Several of his episodes involve examples of him doing this.
** From [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]]: "Except it's not a torture chamber, is it? Well, except it is. Except it isn't."
** He also does one with himself in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]]: "Pantophobia. Not fear of pants, though, if that's what you're wondering. It's the fear of everything. Including pants, I suppose, in that case."

-->'''The TARDIS:''' Then you stole me. And I stole you.\\

*** This is something of a subversion, however. There is a distinction between understanding and comprehending, but not one Mal is likely to understand, comprehend, or care about.
**** The distinction is that "understand" is "to grasp the meaning of the word or phrase", whereas "comprehend" is "to have a clear picture of the reasoning by which the words that are understood were reached". In the above phrase, River knows what is going on, but doesn't understand ''why''. Admittedly, this is a pretty pedantic difference that usually doesn't matter. In fact, the word "comprehend" appears in the definition of "understand" on dictionary.com, and the word "understand" appears in that same resource's definition of "comprehend". Like most synonyms, the words mean essentially the same thing, just with different implications.
** [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jubal Early]] gives us the most egregious example:
--->'''Simon:''' So you're a {{bounty hunter}}.
--->'''Jubal:''' No, that ain't it at all.
--->'''Simon:''' Then what are you?
--->'''Jubal:''' I'm a bounty hunter.
*** Possibly explained by another scene where Jubal mishears "Are you Alliance?" as "Are you a lion?" implying that he may be hard of hearing (which seems like a bad trait for a bounty hunter to have, but whatever). So he may have misheard "bounty hunter" as...I don't know, "booty counter", maybe.
** Or he realized that the two of them meant different things when they said "bounty hunter".
--->'''Simon:''' So you're a horrible person that is going to take back my sister to the people that tortured her.
--->'''Jubal:''' No, that ain't it at all.
--->'''Simon:''' Then what are you?
--->'''Jubal:''' I'm a paid professional that is taking back a wanted fugitive to the proper authorities.
* ''Literature/GossipGirl'': "Actually, it's hash. I find it gives a softer high."
* ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'':
** Jim Trott's "No, no, no, no, no...yes", which is his VerbalTic. And also his (rarely seen) wife: "Yes, yes, yes, yes...no"
** Inverted in "Love and Marriage", when Alice shows her mum's ideas for her wedding dress (which includes Teletubbies, a bobbie's helmet, and a [[LiteralMinded train]] made of ''Thomas the Tank Engine'' characters, all made of wool and linoleum). Geraldine asks if she can give her honest opinion and Alice says yes... so long as it's not nasty or critical in any way.
* The Dutch children's show ''Series/BassieEnAdriaan'' gives us a [[RunningGag repeated example]]:
-->'''Bassie:''' ''[usually while drifting to sleep]'' I'll go look at that on the inside of my eyes.
** Usually this implied "I'm going to dream about that."

** Inverted in an episode that takes place in a dream (well, several dreams):
--->'''Dream-Giles:''' You hold them, you touch them, uh, use them, um...\\
'''Dream-Harmony:''' Props?\\
'''Dream-Giles:''' No.\\
'''Dream-Riley:''' Props?\\
'''Dream-Giles:''' Yes!

** In Season 8, Buffy works out that she was woken by a TrueLovesKiss from Satsu, a fellow Slayer. She tells her that they can't be with each other. Then Buffy sleeps with her. Then, reverting to the way she was with Spike, Buffy again tries to break off the romance, then sleeps with Satsu again.
** From Season 9:
---> '''Sophie:''' We certainly don't associate with ''anyone'' who'd do something like ''that''. Wait. Yes we ''do'', don't we?

* Rigel from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' insisted that he never retreats, but "strategically maneuvers".

* Averted in ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.
-->'''Sylar:''' I'm not a SerialKiller.\\
'''Luke:''' You kill people, you take souvenirs...\\
'''Sylar:''' Okay, [[VerbalBackspace technically]], I'm a serial killer.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''
** This dialogue snippet between two pepper pots:
--->'''Mrs. Thing:''' Oh, have you been shopping?\\
'''Mrs. Entity:''' No, I've been shopping.
** From the "Nudge Nudge" sketch:
--->'''Norman:''' Look, are you insinuating something?
--->'''Him:''' Oh, no, no, no...yes.
** From "The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had"
--->'''Sir John''': May I take this opportunity of emphasising that there is no cannibalism in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount...
* Monty Python's Eric Idle then went on to do a sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in which he begins a talk show on which he'll be interviewing Richard Nixon by assuring the audience that his show is, of course, "completely uncensored, except for the little bits we'll cut out."
* From the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Emohawk: Polymorph II":
-->'''Kryten:''' It's charging us with looting Space Corps derelicts.\\

*** Itself a callback to some crappy ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' knockoff they were watching at the start of the episode. (Rimmer considered it {{Glurge}}.)
---->'''Marnie:''' We'll always be together! It's just...that we'll be apart.

* This snippet from ''Series/{{Skins}}'', when Naomi goes to visit Effy in her psychiatric institution.
-->'''Effy:''' You think you're going mad, so you came to see me to see what a crazy person looks like.
-->'''Naomi:''' No. NO! No...yes.

* Sisko on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': "I wasn't yelling. I was expressing my opinion loudly." It seems to run in the family, as his father once claimed "I wasn't sleeping, I was checking my eyelids for holes."

* ''Series/TheWestWing'':
-->'''President Bartlet:''' You told the press I have a secret plan to fight inflation?\\
'''Josh:''' No, I did not. Let me be absolutely clear, I did not do that. Except, yes, I did that.
** Also counts as a bit of a GeniusBonus, as UsefulNotes/RichardNixon had a "secret plan" to win in Vietnam, and UsefulNotes/GeraldFord claimed to have a plan to fight inflation...a key part of which involved [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_inflation_now buttons]].

* From the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "To Market, To Market", as Henry is polishing his new desk:
-->'''Henry:''' Radar, you know what kind of wood this desk is made with?
-->'''Radar:''' Oak, sir.
-->'''Henry:''' Nope. It's oak.
** An atypical example, because each time he does it (which he does to everyone he shows the desk off to) he's not actually listening to them. He's just glorying in having something cooler than ''[=MacArthur=]'' has.

** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' joins in on the fun. Victory in The Halls of Reflection relies upon you running from [[BigBad The Lich King]] and escaping his fortress before he one-shot kills your entire party. The linked achievement for doing this in a certain time is "We're Not Retreating; We're Advancing In A Different Direction!"

-->"Kill is such an ugly word. Actually, we're going to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] you to Amon Ra!"

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has Sarge's "We're not retreating; We're advancing, towards future victory!"
** Also: "It's not pink, it's lightish red!
*** Which gets the appropriate response: "They have a word for that. PINK!"

* SFDebris' review of Creator/DavidLynch's Film/{{Dune}}, discussing the changes in the Baron's character from the book:
--> "I hate to be all [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks "they changed him now he sucks"]]...but at the same time, they did change him, and now he really does suck.

--> '''Dalek''' ''*to Cybermen*'' "THIS IS NOT WAR!! THIS IS PEST CONTROL!!!"[[note]]Technically, no, pest control is ''not'' war, but the ''implication'' is clearly that the Daleks ''do'' in fact intend to wage war against the Cybermen--they simply do not wish to dignify it with the name of "war."[[/note]]

'''Tyrion Lannister:''' I'm not questioning your honor, Lord Janos. I'm denying its existence.

* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'': The Cat, after his tail gets chopped, to Sally and Conrad:
--> Look, I'm not saying we're going to sue, I'm just saying we have a case.

-->'''Cat:''' Look, I'm not saying we're going to sue, I'm just saying we have a case.

* In ''[[Literature/MonsterHuterInternational Monster Hunter Legion]]'', the Hunters are fighting a monster that can take your worst fears and make them real. Trip worries about what the it might be able to pull from Owen's mind:

--> "I hate to be a TheyChangedItNowItSucks...but at the same time, they did change him, and now he really does suck.

-->'''Cat:''' Look, I'm not saying I'm going to sue, I'm just saying we have a case.

* When a wrestler get suspended it's not because testing revealed them to have massive amounts of steroids in their system, it's because they committed a "wellness violation".

* In ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Skin Game]]'' Murphy asks Harry if he really intends to rob Hades. Harry replies that he intends to ''burgle'' Hades, and that it won't be robbery since he, in spite of Murphy's previous impressions of him, is not about to offer violence to a ''god''.

--> ''Sulley'': You're wasting time. We need a new team.
--> ''Mike'': We can't just "get a new team"! I checked this morning, it's against the rules.
--> ''Sulley'': What if we disguise the new team to look like the old team?
--> ''Mike'': Oh no, we are not cheating!
--> ''Sulley'': It's not cheating, it's...leveling the playing field.

--> ''Sulley'': Okay, so it's kinda cheating.

--> (Mike narrows his eyes)

This is when a character rejects a word in preference of a more colorful (or much blunter) one--often with the same practical meaning, given the circumstances, but with some extra connotations.

In most occasions, it will reflect just how easy, one-sided, or unsporting the thing in question is.

The most common form is "We're not lost, we just don't know where we are."

See also BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord, MetaphoricallyTrue, InsistentTerminology, and ByNoIMeanYes.

As an aside: In philosophy, this is a fallacy known as "Distinction Without a Difference".