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Define irony

  • 25-12-2014 12:43am
    #1
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭


    RTE1 is currently showing Christmas/Midnight Mass while RTE2 is showing Father Ted :pac:

    Any other examples of irony recently?


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  • #2
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    The song "Ironic" by Alanis Morrisette.


  • #3
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,631 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    When a company post forms back to you because of insufficient proof of address.


  • #4
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Water charge protesters, protesting while it's p1ssing rain


  • #5
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    A bunch of idiots on a plane singing a song made famous by a band who died in a plane crash. -Garland Greene (The Marietta Mangler)


  • #6
    Kxiii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 864 ✭✭✭Kxiii


    It's like tinny and brassy, only made of iron.


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  • #7
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,822 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Kxiii wrote: »
    It's like tinny and brassy, only made of iron.

    Nah. Beaten to it. I prefer silvery and goldey.


  • #8
    Bears and Vodka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭Bears and Vodka


    Someone correcting somebody's grammar and making a grammar mistake themselves.


  • #9
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    What is it you mean by 'define' exactly?


  • #10
    dar100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭dar100


    Paradoxes can be ironic


  • #11
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    What is it you mean by 'define' exactly?

    I am not sure what you mean by "exactly" because being honest, I exactly have no idea what your exact comment of exactly is all about. To be exactly honest :P


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  • #12
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Prize for Peace was the best real-life example.


  • #13
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Saipanne wrote: »
    The song "Ironic" by Alanis Morrisette.

    A lot if not most of that song was coincident and not irony.


  • #14
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    I am not sure what you mean by "exactly" because being honest, I exactly have no idea what your exact comment of exactly is all about. To be exactly honest :P

    If you could even grant me an approximation my dear fellow I may be able to partake...


  • #15
    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    image_zpse0167835.jpg


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    What you do to your shirtys


  • #17
    lulu1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    What you do to your shirtys

    Or in most cases what the wife/ mother/sister/daughter/granny dose to your shirty's :)


  • #18
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    lulu1 wrote: »
    Or in most cases what the wife/ mother/sister/daughter/granny dose to your shirty's :)
    Or in my case, the tumble dryer.:)


  • #19
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife


  • #20
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    When those paystation machines mention 'no copper coins'.

    My garden gate.

    Rust.


  • #21
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Birneybau wrote: »
    10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
    Meeting the man of your dreams and then realising you're not gay.


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  • #22
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Meeting the man of your dreams and then realising you're not gay.

    Isn't that ironic, dont you think?


  • #23
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Isn't that ironic, dont you think?
    Yeah, I really do think.

    Jesus, is this what my life has become?:eek:


  • #24
    OpenYourEyes
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,070 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    A lot if not most of that song was coincident and not irony.

    That's the ironic thing about it!


  • #25
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Health & Safety officer getting injured at his own workplace due to a lack of health & safety precautions.


  • #26
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Irony


  • #27
    Littlekittylou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    There are different types of irony. Dramatic Irony situation Irony Poetic Irony , Verbal Irony.
    Watch the cartoons !

    http://www.really-learn-english.com/irony.html


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