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Horrible Ironies?

  • 21-06-2009 10:35am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭


    I had a big black dog named Guinness. She was absolutely the coolest dog you'd ever meet, my best mate. Loved her to bits, as only the people who've had their own dog can understand.

    Lo and behold, she died of liver disease.

    I name my fecking dog after an alcohol, and she dies of liver disease. :(

    What's the most horrible irony you've experienced, the kind you feel really guilty for finding funny due to the subject matter?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,902 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    liah wrote: »
    What's the most horrible irony you've experienced

    Rain on a wedding day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,099 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I think the woman who survived the Air France plane disaster because she missed the plane and then got killed in a car accident a few days later is a hard one to beat.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    They sterilize the needle for lethal injections? , How ****ing ironic is that.:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    galwayrush wrote: »
    I think the woman who survived the Air France plane disaster because she missed the plane and then got killed in a car accident a few days later is a hard one to beat.:rolleyes:

    Hardly ironic, she just needed to reach her final destination.

    /gets coat


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  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    galwayrush wrote: »
    I think the woman who survived the Air France plane disaster because she missed the plane and then got killed in a car accident a few days later is a hard one to beat.:rolleyes:

    link? jesus christ.


    opened this thread to say inb4 alanis.. already too late lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    link? jesus christ.


    opened this thread to say inb4 alanis.. already too late lol

    http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25625201-661,00.html?from=public_rss



    The Times

    June 12, 2009 01:32pm

    AN Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident.
    Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31, London's The Times reports.

    All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.

    The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.

    It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck.

    Her husband was seriously injured.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 epik


    galwayrush wrote: »
    They sterilize the needle for lethal injections? , How ****ing ironic is that.:confused:

    wtf? That is my crazy new fact of the day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    One of my favourites has to be a Global Warming awareness march in Boston being canceled because the weather was too cold.........:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 epik




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  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    where are ya findin all these galwayrush?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    where are ya findin all these galwayrush?

    Mostly here on AH over the years.;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Nameajaysus


    galwayrush wrote: »
    They sterilize the needle for lethal injections? , How ****ing ironic is that.:confused:

    They do that both for the safety of the doctor and just incase the execution is called off.

    No idea why I know that :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭greyed


    liah wrote: »
    I had a big black dog named Guinness. She was absolutely the coolest dog you'd ever meet, my best mate. Loved her to bits, as only the people who've had their own dog can understand.

    Lo and behold, she died of liver disease.

    I name my fecking dog after an alcohol, and she dies of liver disease. :(

    What's the most horrible irony you've experienced, the kind you feel really guilty for finding funny due to the subject matter?

    My 4 cats were all named after south park, guess which one died three weeks later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    police assaulting women who were marching in protest against violence against women in Montreal. Couldn't believe it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Xiney will know where this comes from,;)

    You can fight
    Without ever winning
    But never ever win
    Without a fight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Knew a social welfare inspector who got kicked out for fraud :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Trying to find accommodation for a man.... Christmas week.... he had been let of Prison...he had absolutely nothing...find a house for him(very difficult to fine anything due to time of year).... it is completely empty not a stick of furniture the only thing in the house is a hairbrush...and the irony is the man is completely bald!!!!

    The only thing in the house is the one thing he doesn't need.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Our Minister for Health is very fat.:P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Just after trying a new face wash and its caused spots to appear. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Blarggggh


    The Marlboro man dying of lung cancer

    http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marlboro.asp


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dylano_k


    If Irony was made out of strawberries...we'd all be drinking smoothies right now !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Gary Glitter had a hit called Doing Alright with the Boys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭Ourlad


    galwayrush wrote: »
    I think the woman who survived the Air France plane disaster because she missed the plane and then got killed in a car accident a few days later is a hard one to beat.:rolleyes:

    Thats Final Destination 4 right there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    greyed wrote: »
    My 4 cats were all named after south park, guess which one died three weeks later.

    The sick one?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Our Minister for Health is very fat.:P

    Damn it! I opened this thread thinking no one would have thought of that, but damn it anyway!

    :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    greyed wrote: »
    My 4 cats were all named after south park, guess which one died three weeks later.

    4 Cats? Hmmmm......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    Michael Schumacher isn't The Stig


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,397 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    the banks needing to be loaned money and bailed out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

    An old man turned ninety-eight, He won the lottery and died the next day :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dylano_k


    An old man turned ninety-eight
    He won the lottery and died the next day
    It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
    It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
    And isn't it ironic... don't you think

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
    He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
    He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
    And as the plane crashed down he thought
    "Well isn't this nice..."
    And isn't it ironic... don't you think

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
    When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
    And life has a funny way of helping you out when
    You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
    In your face

    A traffic jam when you're already late
    A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
    It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
    It's meeting the man of my dreams
    And then meeting his beautiful wife
    And isn't it ironic...don't you think
    A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
    Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
    Helping you out


    Before there is 100 different posts of lines from this song i thought i might aswell save you the bother


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    dylano_k wrote: »
    An old man turned ninety-eight
    He won the lottery and died the next day
    It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
    It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
    And isn't it ironic... don't you think

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
    He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
    He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
    And as the plane crashed down he thought
    "Well isn't this nice..."
    And isn't it ironic... don't you think

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
    When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
    And life has a funny way of helping you out when
    You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
    In your face

    A traffic jam when you're already late
    A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
    It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
    It's meeting the man of my dreams
    And then meeting his beautiful wife
    And isn't it ironic...don't you think
    A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
    Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
    Helping you out


    Before there is 100 different posts of lines from this song i thought i might aswell save you the bother

    None of that is ironic, it's just bloody unfortunate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    The song Ironic contains no irony. That's pretty ironic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Going into an Irish hospital with a minor ailment only to have some idiot infect you with MRSA.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    None of that is ironic, it's just bloody unfortunate.

    If you're a town planner, stuck in a traffic jam on your way to a seminar with other town planners where you're giving a lecture saying how you solved the problem of traffic congestion in the town


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    A black fly in my chardonnay.

    Was gonna link to the video, but this is better. :pac:



  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭dylano_k


    A black fly in my chardonnay.

    Was gonna link to the video, but this is better. :pac:


    She's actually looking pretty shaggable in this video :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Trying to find accommodation for a man.... Christmas week.... he had been let of Prison...he had absolutely nothing...find a house for him(very difficult to fine anything due to time of year).... it is completely empty not a stick of furniture the only thing in the house is a hairbrush...and the irony is the man is completely bald!!!!

    The only thing in the house is the one thing he doesn't need.

    I was hoping that you were going to say that he ended up staying a few nights back in prison due to you not being able to find anywhere for him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 epik


    Obligatory...

    Pro-Lifers killing people
    http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/susan_brooks_thistlethwaite/2009/05/the_killing_of_george_tiller_a_pro-life_murder.html

    If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. - Bill Hicks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    dylano_k wrote: »
    She's actually looking pretty shaggable in this video :D

    That is certainly not an ironic comment.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Kirnsy


    define irony:

    "a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane, to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    dylano_k wrote: »
    An old man turned ninety-eight
    He won the lottery and died the next day
    It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
    It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
    And isn't it ironic... don't you think

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
    He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
    He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
    And as the plane crashed down he thought
    "Well isn't this nice..."
    And isn't it ironic... don't you think

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
    When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
    And life has a funny way of helping you out when
    You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
    In your face

    A traffic jam when you're already late
    A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
    It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
    It's meeting the man of my dreams
    And then meeting his beautiful wife
    And isn't it ironic...don't you think
    A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

    It's like rain on your wedding day
    It's a free ride when you've already paid
    It's the good advice that you just didn't take
    Who would've thought... it figures

    Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
    Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
    Helping you out


    Before there is 100 different posts of lines from this song i thought i might aswell save you the bother


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttwb14w0j58



    Im not sure if someone has posted that or not but...there you go:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭Foxx92


    Getting run over by an ambulance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 epik




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Foxx92 wrote: »
    Getting run over by an ambulance.

    http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/10/15/story18062.asp

    We do irony very well in this part of the country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    The English Education minister recently had one of his internal e mails published in the papers. It was littered with spelling and grammatical errors.

    Also, there're the pro lifers who make their point by murdering Doctors who carry out abortions. That's always struck me as ironic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Going to Slane '09 and looking back in anger :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Mmmmmm theres so much ironing in here
    Its so delicious


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