No matter how big an asshole in an article may be, someone will always step in to defend the asshole
I want to post a collection of stories about all of the ridiculous conversations I've had while working in customer service, but I'm worried I'm going to get a lot of Pinkham's Law responses.
In any internet post about terrible restaurant customer behavior, no matter how terrible the behavior in question, someone will show up to try to justify that behavior.
That commenter who defended the guy who threw a plate at his server is a great example of Pinkham's Law.
The act of using breast cancer to guilt consumers into buying a product which, if it had not been for the advent of aiding the cure for cancer, they would not have bought.
KFC: Together we can make the largest donation in Komen history.
Consumer: Stop pinkwashing me, you fuck-head! Why wouldn't I just donate money to breast cancer if I wanted to?! Everyone knows you benefit more than the cancer foundations!
Riding on the LGBT rights while promoting ones political hatred.
E.g. Anti-immigration and far-right groups performing “gay pride” events at locations with a large Muslim population to insult Muslims or to expose alleged anti-gay hostility among Muslims.
"Are those Neo-Nazis campaining for LGBT rights?"
"They're just pinkwashing again"
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).