The irony thread

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**warpcrafter**

This is like War!, but with irony as the theme. I'll start.

I find it ironic that people are waiting in the cold and rain for three hours to get an H1N1 vaccination. (Just heard it on CNN)

**Crazy_Carnifex**

The Carnival is held on the Plains of Abraham.

**Black Blow Fly**

People get upset when they discover others are happy.

G

**LunaHound**

The older people get , the younger they try to act.

**Khornholio**

People who insist their political viewpoint is the only correct one calling others "Fascists!"

**FITZZ**

LunaHound wrote:The older people get , the younger they try to act.

And that would be a bad thing

**George Spiggott**

I often get good advice that I just can't take.

**Black Blow Fly**

Young people who think they know everything.

G

**Albatross**

Young people who think they know everything.

People posting examples of irony on thread about irony, who don't quite understand irony. See also: Calling a song 'Ironic', then filling it full of supposed examples of irony which are not ironic, but merely unlucky.

**Black Blow Fly**

It's ironic when a simple person has a brilliant vision.

G

**Orkeosaurus**

A free ride when you've already paid.

**Black Blow Fly**

A Democrat forgetting to pay their income taxes on time.

G

**Slappywag**

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

Now thinking about it, most of the lyrics are just stupid...

**Albatross**

How COULD you?

**Orkeosaurus**

It's ironic that a famous song dedicated to displays of irony would have such lousy examples.

**Slappywag**

Orkeosaurus wrote:It's ironic that a famous song dedicated to displays of irony would have such lousy examples.

My favourite being "Ten thousand spoons when all you needed was a knife."

That's just, well, ridiculous?!

**FITZZ**

What's really funny is that for the most part,the song dosn't define irony correctly.
A trafic jam when your already late isn't ironic,a trafic jam making you late to discuss improved highway conditions and their impact on speeding up travel time is ironic.

**Slappywag**

Exactly, the irony is that the song is about irony but isn't ironic (poor examples) at all.

Making...it...ironic?

**dogma**

She's not that smart.

**Black Blow Fly**

It's okay though.

G

**person person**

**garret**

Green Blow Fly wrote:Young people who think they know everything.

G

What is supposed to mean? Are you saying that young people can't be smart?

**warpcrafter**

garret wrote:
Green Blow Fly wrote:Young people who think they know everything.

G

What is supposed to mean? Are you saying that young people can't be smart?

Young people don't know how much stuff is out there that they don't know. Remember, the first step to wisdom is admitting how ignorant you are. The best way to do that is to watch a family guy marathon. Uh, never mind.

**Black Blow Fly**

Yeah please don't confuse knowledge with
wisdom. They are two entirely separate things to say the least really.

G

**tblock1984**

First:
i⋅ro⋅ny –noun: an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

This:

Orkeosaurus wrote:It's ironic that a famous song dedicated to displays of irony would have such lousy examples.

WIN!!! My wife and I bitch about that EVERY TIME we here that song...

I find it ironic that I was going to start this thread yesterday (seriously, I was), but decided to paint a unit of boys instead... Then today, I see this and I am like WTH?
GET OUT OF MAH HEAD, WARPCRAFTER!!! lol

I love irony. It R delicious... OM NOM NOM!

**Frazzled**

Its bad that I don't have a clue what this thread is about, but of course I'll randomly say something anyway.

Five wienerdogs together,
Waddle this way, waddle that way...
licking little girls' faces.
The cranky one likes Frazzled
They bark as one when gigantor dog walks by.

**reds8n**

..You always hurt the one you love, the one you shouldn't hurt at all.

After years of being forced to play 40k Orks with old Gorka Morka figures, we can now download for free the old Gorka Morka rules and play said game with the new ork figures.

**youngblood**

Conor Oberst put to lyric a few ironic thing.

If you hate the taste of wine
Why do you drink it till you're blind?
And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares
How come you say it like you're right?
Why are you scared to dream of God
When it's salvation that you want?
You see stars that clear have been dead for years
But the idea just lives on...

**Gitzbitah**

'"The use of words expressing something
Other than their literal intention."
Now that...IS...irony!'

Bender Bending Rodriguez; a robot made to bend anything but unable to bend denotative definitions.

**Shinigami**

I once saw a court case for not having an MOT.
The defendant worked for a car dealership performing MOTs.