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Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 1, 2024 19:28:35 GMT -5
All sparkling wine is Champagne. No it isn't. It's called Champagne after the region of France it was fermented in. Everything outside of that is just Sparkling. Belgium is so serious about that they banned Miller High Life because they use the tagline "The Champagne of Beers".
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Feb 1, 2024 22:13:26 GMT -5
My sister called anything with Betty White on it "The Golden Girls". I was watching a lot of GSN back then. All animated movies are Disney. All Canadian cartoons were made by Nelvana. This may be stretching the OT, but... All the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles basically act like Michelangelo. All the Beatles talk like Ringo. Back to video games...based on TV and movies...all video games sound like the Atari 2600. The superhero example mentioned before was always kind of a thing, like it was one big pool rather than two major companies. SNL spoofs and such mixed DC and Marvel. I'm totally guilty of that one lol it's because most of them follow the Disney formula, I think. Very few veer off and do something different.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 1, 2024 22:59:23 GMT -5
All facial tissues are Kleenex. When your brand name becomes the default for that item, you've cornered the market.
All cartoons are for kids. Sure, the kids can watch Heavy Metal and Fritz The Cat. I worked at a video store that had some R-rated anime in the 'children' section, not knowing that Akira might not be a good show for a 4-year old...
A more recent one: all smart phones are iPhones.
Another I've seen in my corner of the world (which is full of undereducated people)... all Asian restaurants are 'Chinese Food', doens't matter if the food (and owners) is Japanese, Filipino, or Thai.
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Post by Soultastic on Feb 1, 2024 23:10:59 GMT -5
Growing up I had a PS1 and then a PS2, but never a Nintendo console. Years later, when me and my brother were teenagers, my grampa introduced us to a friend of his and his family as "the masters of Nintendo".
Miss you, gramps.
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Post by Malcolm on Feb 2, 2024 1:08:05 GMT -5
My sister called anything with Betty White on it "The Golden Girls". I was watching a lot of GSN back then. All animated movies are Disney. All Canadian cartoons were made by Nelvana. This may be stretching the OT, but... All the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles basically act like Michelangelo. All the Beatles talk like Ringo. Back to video games...based on TV and movies...all video games sound like the Atari 2600. The superhero example mentioned before was always kind of a thing, like it was one big pool rather than two major companies. SNL spoofs and such mixed DC and Marvel. I just had flashbacks of Turtles Forever.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Feb 2, 2024 14:08:56 GMT -5
All facial tissues are Kleenex. When your brand name becomes the default for that item, you've cornered the market. Also: All bandages are band-aids and all trashcans are dumpsters.
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Post by Soultastic on Feb 2, 2024 15:52:30 GMT -5
All facial tissues are Kleenex. When your brand name becomes the default for that item, you've cornered the market. Also: All bandages are band-aids and all trashcans are dumpsters. Duke "The Dumpster" Droese strikes again.
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Post by Mike Strike on Feb 2, 2024 17:51:16 GMT -5
All the Beatles talk like Ringo. On that note, Every Mario character talks like Mario is apparently a thing.
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Post by Blindkarevik on Feb 3, 2024 10:48:04 GMT -5
I'm a metal fan.
I live in the trenches of this argument every day.
I miss home. I miss my family. But the war, she won't let me go.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 3, 2024 10:57:51 GMT -5
As a longtime hip-hop head, the fact that people misconstrue all rap music as being "gangsta" with having violent, misogynistic, and hedonistic lyrics. There are different types of sub-genres out there, like political rap, conscious rap, and others. I could tell a lot of people that there are different types of rap out there.
I could also talk about those who are dismissive about it, how "it's not music" and such. I could tell them about The Roots, who actually have a band with members who play instruments.
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 3, 2024 12:43:26 GMT -5
All chicken nuggets are Chicken McNuggets.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Feb 12, 2024 14:40:27 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I just remembered one
All martial arts are karate.
It used to be king fu, but it somehow evolved.
The karate kid did this twice somehow.
I’m never cared for karate kid 3 so I never watched besides the one time as a kid. Didn’t know Cobra Kai karate was a Korean martial art, yet it’s still called karate.
Then karate kid set in china where they learn kung fu.
Then the cobra Kai series, where they bring in instructors from Korea where they still refer to it as karate and the instructor as Sensei.
I just saw a video labeled “chuck norris style karate” even those they wrote Tang Soo Do on the thumbnail
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Post by schma on Feb 12, 2024 22:12:47 GMT -5
The all sparkling wine is Champagne thing doesn't bother me. The whole 'if it's not from this region they can't call it this' thing feels pretentious. I understand that soils are different, but I look at all sparkling wine being Champagne as similar to all tissues being Kleenex or all bandages being Band-aids.
With the recent Karate Kid set in China, I believe it was called the Kung Fu Kid everywhere but Canada/US where they worried people might not realize it was a reboot.
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Post by cosmo on Feb 13, 2024 0:04:45 GMT -5
My dad refers to all found footage movies as "Blair Witch movies."
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Post by The Wild Man of Borneo on Feb 13, 2024 2:50:58 GMT -5
Samurai. Anyone with a sword is a samurai in pop culture. I feel that this also applies to ninja. All Americanized toku shows are Power Rangers to a lot of people. Also, referring to the mecha as zords even when taliking about Super Sentai. All martial arts are karate. It used to be king fu, but it somehow evolved. Depending on who you talk to, it's either "all martial arts is karate" or "all martial arts is kung fu."
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Post by cosmo on Feb 13, 2024 8:49:22 GMT -5
All Americanized toku shows are Power Rangers to a lot of people. Also, referring to the mecha as zords even when taliking about Super Sentai.
Which reminds me, people I know who have absolutely zero familiarity with with anime just refer to it as "Japanese cartoons."
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 13, 2024 14:10:56 GMT -5
Also, referring to the mecha as zords even when taliking about Super Sentai. Which reminds me, people I know who have absolutely zero familiarity with with anime just refer to it as "Japanese cartoons."
I remember it being called Japanimation for a long time...
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 13, 2024 19:37:11 GMT -5
That is what it was called when I got into it in the mid to late 80s.
Anime wasn't really used much in the States until 93ish.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Feb 13, 2024 19:49:14 GMT -5
All superheroes are Marvel. The amount of times I've heard people genuinely asking when Batman and Wonder Woman will join the Avengers is astonishing. To that end, all superhero movies are "Marvel movies". In fact, to an increasing extent, any four-quadrant movie with a high budget is a "Marvel movie" nowadays. I've heard people refer to the Fast and Furious franchise as basically Marvel. Also, everyone from the Middle East is Arab. I'm not going to get into just how profoundly wrong this is, so I will just leave it at a simple that's not true.
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Post by cosmo on Feb 13, 2024 20:30:07 GMT -5
All superheroes are Marvel. The amount of times I've heard people genuinely asking when Batman and Wonder Woman will join the Avengers is astonishing. To that end, all superhero movies are "Marvel movies". In fact, to an increasing extent, any four-quadrant movie with a high budget is a "Marvel movie" nowadays. I've heard people refer to the Fast and Furious franchise as basically Marvel.Also, everyone from the Middle East is Arab. I'm not going to get into just how profoundly wrong this is, so I will just leave it at a simple that's not true.
Considering that the Fast & Furious movies are all pretty much like the Avengers but with cars instead of superpowers at this point, they're not far off. Didn't Idris Elba even have his own Iron Man suit at one point in one of them?
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