This is... Irony Police!

Actually, I'm out getting a donut...could someone else take care of this?

Roxanne Kowalski: I was being ironic.

C.D. Bales: Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at.

But they were Mexican!! I was being ironic!

oldebayer: Roxanne--what a great Steve Martin movie!

Thanks for the reminder (must order from Netflix soon).

regards,
-dc

in before the shiat storm
/i'm drunk

its like reign on your wedding day

Tr0mBoNe: But they were Mexican!! I was being ironic!

No, no lo fuistes.

lolmadillo: its like reign on your wedding day

Nice.
No man shall ever reign on his wedding day.
Keep this in mind, guys... just let them decide what it is going to be like.. that way when it all goes to hell, you can tell her why it would have been be better if you did it.

6. the incongruity of this. (penis)

Americans would miss the hole trying to fark themselves.

It's like someone buying you a beer and giving you a Coors...

/What?
//Peanut Butter sammich then!

Accent: lolmadillo: its like reign on your wedding day

Nice.
No man shall ever reign on his wedding day.
Keep this in mind, guys... just let them decide what it is going to be like.. that way when it all goes to hell, you can tell her why it would have been be better if you did it.


.....that would be the shortest marriage, evar.

It's like she wants to spoon when you want to fork.

Did someone REALLY just write an article about this?! GET A LIFE!!

No wonder they have so much knife crime in the UK. If I had to read her crap too often I'd stab somebody too.

It's not satire if it's not funny. Basically the guy was just parroting the opinions of the morons I used to work with who ate this kind of "Barack Osama terrorist bump" shiat up. This is funny to him, I guess, because he's never heard it being seriously touted as a political opinion, and thinks it's silly. It's not; it's just stupid.

I still think the whole thing is a goddamn publicity stunt.

If only someone could write and record a song about things that are ironic. I'll bet that would straighten out this misunderstanding.

FTFA
"No," I replied. "What's ironic is that she's Canadian."

blah blah blah

Sarah Churchwell is a columnist for The Independent in Britain.

Obviously, if you talk about another person's place of nationality, it is ironic, for some reason. Ergo, she is ironic.

/The day Irony is agreed upon by everyone, is the day there is only 1 person left.

First these guys



and now this?

/make it stop now, plz

feckingmorons: No wonder they have so much knife crime in the UK. If I had to read her crap too often I'd stab somebody too.


LOL I read it as "knife creme".

AppleOptionEsc: /The day Irony is agreed upon by everyone, is the day there is only 1 person left.

How ironic...

I havn't been posted in this thread yet. Isn't that ironic?

bingo the psych-o: It's like she wants to spoon when you want to fork.

Bill Dawes!

fark off irony.

/,

... so irony is like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife?

right?

Well, if that article's purpose was to prove Americans understand Irony... then his article is truly ironic.

Actually, if the writer is herself American, that's definitely not irony... that would, by her own arguments, be expected.

I almost thought it might qualify as situational irony-- intending to teach the definition of irony, while in fact teaching it incorrectly -- but that would be more if she gave the correct definition, but then fewer people understood irony than before.

Irony is like goldy and silvery, only it's made from iron.

bingo the psych-o: It's like she wants to spoon when you want to fork.

Gotta know WIN when you see it. Congrats.

bartink: 6. the incongruity of this. (penis)

Hmm so the situational irony of Alanis' song is actually ironic? she expects a reward, happiness, or the weather to conform to her emotions and it doesn't come true? A free ride that is late, for example, is ironic in that the person offering the ride probably doesn't realize there is no big deal in offering it anymore. Or something.

From your link:
5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
6. the incongruity of this.

Or were you not implying anything of the sort?

"What's ironic is that she doesn't understand what irony means!" "No," I replied. "What's ironic is that she's Canadian."


Wouldn't that only be ironic if Alanis Morisette was also from Britain (the same nationality of the speaker), and not Canada?

irony is a literary device. and in no way do i wish i was surrounded by six-foot tall danish hookers right now.

maybe we need to just change the definition of ironic to whatever it was people used to be trying to say when they misused the word "random" a few years ago.

Firefly4F4: Actually, if the writer is herself American, that's definitely not irony... that would, by her own arguments, be expected.

I almost thought it might qualify as situational irony-- intending to teach the definition of irony, while in fact teaching it incorrectly -- but that would be more if she gave the correct definition, but then fewer people understood irony than before.

Well, if an American, while making the argument that they understood irony, proves a lack of understanding as to what irony is... isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

Had it been any other subject she were teaching, I'd agree... but since it was irony she was, as an American in England, attempting to show...

::JimStarkBand has suddenly been attacked by bees, leaving a much better end to this conversation than any true conclusion would have::

Like when it's raining soup but all you've got is a fork?

Subby fails.

The article actually got the definition of irony right, and used it properly.

His defense of Ms Morrisette is actually reasonable. Wedding days are supposed to be these idealized events where nothing can go wrong (never mind they tend to be be scheduled on summer days where rain is a regular occurrence and on weekends where rain is statistically more likely)

He defends the new yorker cover which is a boatload of fail. A double boatload because the only people who don't appreciate the irony are the ones its was tarted towards.

/Also he his incorrect about satire being played straight. Satire is played over the top.
//Like anyone thinks that Colbert is an accurate representation.
///Then again what do I know, I'm drunk

hyperspacemonkey: bartink: 6. the incongruity of this. (penis)

Hmm so the situational irony of Alanis' song is actually ironic? she expects a reward, happiness, or the weather to conform to her emotions and it doesn't come true? A free ride that is late, for example, is ironic in that the person offering the ride probably doesn't realize there is no big deal in offering it anymore. Or something.

From your link:
5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
6. the incongruity of this.

Or were you not implying anything of the sort?

Exactly that, and penis.

The irony being that in this man's native India the swastika is considered a good luck symbol, as it has been for thousands of years?

/I don't get it
//how ironic

Nothing in this thread has made any sense whatsoever.

bartink, is that picture less irony and more poetic justice?

Dubai Vol: The irony being that in this man's native India the swastika is considered a good luck symbol, as it has been for thousands of years?

/I don't get it
//how ironic

No, it's ironic that he's in a bedding store when he sleeps on a dirt floor.

/it's a cultural thing

mekki: bartink, is that picture less irony and more poetic justice?

Its kinda the exact opposite of rain on your wedding day.