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I have several items of clothing for which their dark colours could run on washing.

Some have a warning label in that says 'wash dark colours together'. Some have a label that says 'wash dark colours separately'. These apparently contradictory labels actually tell me to do the same thing, when context is taken into account.

What other examples are there, either out in the wild, or that could be constructed, of opposite messages meaning the same thing?

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  • This glas is half-full – this glas is half-empty.
    – Drossel
    Commented Jul 13, 2016 at 10:47
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    "The road up and the road down are one and the same... Also, the road is closed for construction."
    – DyingIsFun
    Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 2:59
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    flammable and inflammable
    – Barmar
    Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 18:24
  • Bad means good. grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/12/bad.html
    – k1eran
    Commented Jul 23, 2016 at 16:02
  • I think this is a duplicate of english.stackexchange.com/questions/320260/… In that other question i suggested "paradoxical heteronym", which was accepted as the correct answer.
    – Max Williams
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:05

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