Do I see some actual Irony?

Do I see the most farked up headline ever? At least I don't have to read the article.

Let me be the first...

This is vaguely ironic...I think...or something...

MattyBlast 2008-03-01 02:27:18 PM

Such a wrong looking ad!

Man and woman see man who has folder and hits man and woman who is old with the folder then the man hits the man but leaves folder he hit man with and in that folder is man's paperwork from a class that the man but not the woman took about anger management. Man.

What is with the pourly structured grommotically ambigguous lamme headlinens todae?

wow.

So the man hit the man and dropped the folder and the man hit by the folder was 63 and there was a woman and the police found the folder and the man had a paper inside the folder that he hit the man and the lady with that the police found. Bonus: He was in anger management.

is that the story?

Will they give the guy a refund on the classes? Because they don't seem too effective.

Assault with a folder? Hot damn!

blingice: This is vaguely ironic...I think...or something...

It's not. You don't have to be an angry person to assault someone and someone who assaults people is not necessarily an angry person.

Shut the fark up Donnie!!

The article was not much better .

I was astonished and surprised to learn......the folder which contained the man's anger management homework that the assailaintstuck the 68 year old man with and subsequently fell on the ground - then fled was blue

klymen: blingice: This is vaguely ironic...I think...or something...

It's not. You don't have to be an angry person to assault someone and someone who assaults people is not necessarily an angry person.

you should spend more time making fun ofthe head line.

A man hit a man and a lady was there and the police found a folder and the folder belonged to the man that hit the other man and what he hit the man and he may have hit the woman with was the folder and it was the same folder that the police found.

BONUS: the police found the man's homework.

Yep. That's got "FAIL" written all over it.

Not Irony.

You would expect someone taking anger management classes to flip out; they are angry.

Irony would be, for example, the instructor of the anger management class flipping out and beating someone.

"...paging Dr. Becker!!"

Lame headline aside, this reminds me of working in a copy center back in the day. This woman comes in and wants 100 copies of a flier, okay, fine. I told her it would be about five minutes unless she wanted to use a self-service copier. She flew into a rage, screaming about how we provide poor service and wanting to see my manager and blah blah blah. I looked at the flier... it was for an anger management class.

knucklebreather: Lame headline aside, this reminds me of working in a copy center back in the day. This woman comes in and wants 100 copies of a flier, okay, fine. I told her it would be about five minutes unless she wanted to use a self-service copier. She flew into a rage, screaming about how we provide poor service and wanting to see my manager and blah blah blah. I looked at the flier... it was for an anger management class.

Heh, now that's a much better story. And ironic, if she was supposed to be the instructor.

That was not ironic.

Moreover, if there was an antonym for ironic, it would be that.

Ateam That was not ironic.

Moreover, if there was an antonym for ironic, it would be that.

Obvious?

Hi everybody, you might remind me from the last greenlight with a concern of questionable irony.

I'm just here to give a friendly reminder that, yep, this is actually irony.

Yes, it would be MORE ironic if it was an anger management teacher... but you would still expect a student of an anger management class to try to restrain himself (particularly if he was on his way to/from said class as his possession of the folders would suggest).

It's not a full-blown irony, but it's a good 4/10 on the irony scale.

What's the opposite of ironic?

Oh yeah...THIS.

Now, if the student had broken up a fight, that'd be ironic. Or possibly if he'd been a "successful" graduate, then you'd expect that he'd be more restrained.

But no.

Subby -1, choppy writing.

worst headline ever

also this was posted back in august when it actually happened

Macphearsome: I'm just here to give a friendly reminder that, yep, this is actually irony.

Not it isn't. It is OBVIOUS that someone would be an angry person if they have to attend anger management. Not ironic at all. You lose.

klymen: It's not. You don't have to be an angry person to assault someone and someone who assaults people is not necessarily an angry person.

This one DID assault people out of anger, then got caught because of his anger-management homework that was supposed to be helping to prevent this sort of occurrence from happening in the first place.
Weak attempt at irony policing. It qualifies, dumbass. Go away.

/not subby

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Farking Hell: Not Irony.

You would expect someone taking anger management classes to flip out; they are angry.

Irony would be, for example, the instructor of the anger management class flipping out and beating someone.


If it was just "guy who is taking anger management flips out", I agree, it would be expected, not ironic. But the fact that it was the homework for the class that helped get him caught for such an act, instead of (as intended) helping him to avoid running into the law again for this kind of infraction, is what qualifies the situation as somewhat ironic.

Why is everyone arguing about this being ironic or not when they should be focusing on the fact that it's a REPEAT.

We already had this story on Fark, this is just the trial now.

Christ.

Headline writer needs a freakin editor to clean that up.

I wonder if the mods greenlight this stuff on purpose because you guys really get so hellbent on correcting each other...

Isildur: It qualifies, dumbass. Go away.

No it doesn't. If he was an instructor for an anger management course then it could qualify as ironic (..not even a good one). When someone who has to go to an anger management class assaults someones, it doesn't qualify.

Isildur: was the homework for the class that helped get him caught for such an act, instead of (as intended) helping him to avoid running into the law again for this kind of infraction, is what qualifies the situation as somewhat ironic.

No it doesn't. If his homework meant to help him escape the law or run away from the police then it would be ironic. that however is not the case.

Farking Hell: Irony would be, for example, the instructor of the anger management class flipping out and beating someone.

That would be closer to an ironic situation but still I would argue it's not ironic. Simply because you don't have to be an angry person to assault someone and someone who assaults people is not necessarily an angry person. So being the instructor would be somewhat irrelevant since it can be argued that anger and assault are independent.

tonesskin: Macphearsome: I'm just here to give a friendly reminder that, yep, this is actually irony.

Not it isn't. It is OBVIOUS that someone would be an angry person if they have to attend anger management. Not ironic at all. You lose.

Well, the part you're missing is that he's taking a class to fix his anger. And he was on his way to or from said class.

So you'd think "anger prevention" would be somewhere near the front of his mind, and then he goes and yells at a lady and hits somebody and runs away.

incongruous!

If you have to split hairs to argue that its not ironic,klymen: Isildur: was the homework for the class that helped get him caught for such an act, instead of (as intended) helping him to avoid running into the law again for this kind of infraction, is what qualifies the situation as somewhat ironic.

No it doesn't. If his homework meant to help him escape the law or run away from the police then it would be ironic. that however is not the case.

You're looking for an absolutely perfect symmetry down to the slightest detail that no one but a prig would insist upon.

It's like saying that Oedipus's father Laius's futile attempt to avoid his fate wasn't ironic, because he wasn't trying to escape a death perversely caused by his own actions, in his mind he was just trying to avoid a death that would happen if he did nothing.

According to you, in order for the story to be ironic, Laius's intention in ordering Oedipus killed would have had to be to avoid a patricide that Laius KNEW was going to happen as specifically as a result of something he himself did.

Sorry if any of that is unclear, but that kind of hyper-convolution is demanded by your definition of irony, which is so narrow that it's unlikely to have any instances in our lifetimes.

You sound like a guy who reads a Guy de Maupassant tale solely for the enjoyment of saying afterwards, "Bah, you call that an ironic twist? It was mildy incongruent and coincidental at best!"

There are plenty of Fark threads where the submitter richly deserves the scorn heaped upon him for horribly misusing the irony tag. This isn't one of them.

"Your homework is to start a fight and lose."

/still not an ironic story