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define "irony",no cut n paste answers allowed.and if anyone mentions alanis morissete i will kill you.. 
people use the word so much out of context, and i believe it is a difficult word to properly define.
so who's up for it?
a scenario that is ironic.
people use the word so much out of context, and i believe it is a difficult word to properly define.
so who's up for it?
a scenario that is ironic.
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Well, most of the scenarios in Ironic by Alanis Morisette, are... Ironic.
What is it then?
That's sarcasm, isn't it?
i'm trying to think of a situation,i'll get back to ya.
I agree, thats not ironic.
But, like "It's a death row pardon, two minutes too late", seems pretty ironic to me.
i.e; the very thing he spent his life trying to stop ends up killing him.
I'm stealing this from a comedian and putting it in my own words, None of what she sings about is ironic. Its bad luck. The fact that she sings a song called ironic and there is nothing irnoic in it is fairly ironic.
And its already been said in this thread before, it just took this long to register with me.
I cannot give an example of irony as I am retarded.
Example of irony... person campaigns their whole life to free monkeys from testing labs. He finally succeeds in getting into the lab and locating the keys to the cage... he opens the cage door and the first monkey jumps out and eats his head. How ironic.
sarcasm is a form of irony.
there are loads of different types of irony, but generally it's when the literal meaning and the understood meaning of the phrase are different.
it's also a little ironic that none of the situations in a song titled 'ironic' are at all ironic.
The ironic thing about Alanis' song was how little of it described real ironic situations.
There are a few different types of irony -
An example of situational irony -
a plane sent to rescue a group of people stranded on an island crashes, killing the people who were on the island and leaving the rescuers stuck in their place.
An example of a simple verbal irony would be, as Turlough said above, if someone says something like "lovely weather", when the weather is clearly shite.
And Americans don't 'get' irony anyway apparently.
Obviouly others too, I'm not the only one in the country. But I doubt theres an overwhelming number of people who dont get it as compared to other countries. Believe it or not, not everybody here is retarded, I think. No guarantees on that one though. But then again I dont think theres anybody overseas who isn't retarded either. Everyone is retarded. Big happy retarded world.
Lets say I was a certain President of the US of A and I go and visit a primary school to give a speech about education, and then i go to the black board and write education like so: EDUKATION
Also what's ironic is that a certain chief of police goes on the stand saying "we are gonna get tough on speeding drivers" while 2000 of his officers speed every day in excess of 20 mph more than the allowed speed.
not that i bear a grudge or anything....
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propper "irony" involves a twist of fate somewhere.most of the elements are there,but just lack that imo.
Crocodilite was telling StarGalaxy off because of what the latter said to the young smokers. Then in Croc's thread about spitting, someone thinks he's SG.
i got ya, skip!
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any reason for your change?