"Next up... 'Man Getting Hit By Football'".

"MY LIVER!!! MY LIVER!!!"

Stabbed himself "in the region of the groin".

Isn't that near the seashore?

Probably the femoral artery.

Or the femoral vein.

One of them. Not good when punctured.

Does anyone ever purposefully stab themselves in the groin?

If you know of someone who did, please don't relate the details. *cringing*

he may have just slaughtered his "favorite" sheep

Dorf11: There was a case in Germany last year where a man had a guy he met on the internet cut off his penis, fry it, and then they both ate it before he then killed him and cut the rest up for meat. How do you like that knife to the groin story?

Not ironic, unless he was stabbing the animals in the groin

/discuss

This is ironic how??

Accidentally stabbed in the 'groin' Hall of Fame winnah

"Man dies after accidentally stabbing himself in the "groin" while slaughtering animals"

I'm confused, is it ironic because the animals planned on stabbing him in the groin first ?

/Loves to beat the irony dead horse, before it stabs me in the groin ...

(rapping)"...A groin in-jur-y!"

/Sam Malone

Whats up with these dumbass aussies lately?

well, that certainly didn't take long for the people of Farkinstan to go from:

how DARE you make fun of this tragedy??? (see earlier plane crash thread)

to:

this is so teh funny!!!!

testy beat me to my joke....

i guess he was killing animals, but instead rendered himself unable to reproduce?

I cant believe the insensitivity you people are displaying in this thread! What if this mans family reads it? Its bad enough someone lost a son or husband... you people make me sick :(

"Strathmore Station, near Collinsville"

That's quite a distance from Darwin, actually.

Confucius say: "It hard to type when both hands covering wang."

Yawn. Not ironic.

The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply coincidental or improbable, in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly. Thus 78 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the use of ironically in the sentence In 1969 Susie moved from Ithaca to California where she met her husband-to-be, who, ironically, also came from upstate New York. Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us. By contrast, 73 percent accepted the sentence Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.

From The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

BearToy: I have no idea why, but I've been doubled over laughing at that for about five minutes.

bigredkrzy
welcome to the internet.

....Meanwhile, his mate escapes into the outback with the intended victim...

Apparent Nuisance - Served with fava beans and a nice chianti, I'm assuming? :)

I bet he was stumped as to how that happened.

In case you guys werent aware, I was being sarcastic- I was one of the evil-doers on the nascar thread. I offered the entire thread a box of kleenex, and for some reason that was deleted. Apperantly I am a troll.

A man is attempting to kill a sheep, misses and kills himself... that does seem to be ironic... dont ya think?

Is it ok to make fun of dead people again?

Not

Forsythe P. Jones:

Funny, funny, funny! I loved that one!

Is it ok to make fun of dead people again?

BeerNut - lol... there does seem to be a wee bit of hypocrasy (sp?) when it comes to such things...

it puzzles me when i look at the following equations:

nascar people dying = bad
other people dying = funny

so, i guess it's ok to make fun of dead people until the next nascar death. or something.

i think it's just the news flash tag.

come for the surfing, stay for the groin stabbing


smell my finger

I would call this "poetic justice" rather than irony. But we don't have a poetic justice tag. So whatever. It could be considered "sad" or "scary" for those of us who sympathise with the people who, you know, produce meat. I forget what my point was. I need to go to bed.

GIS for "groin stab".

I knew someone that died. It was sad.

People that slaughter animals, kill things for a living.

it wasnt sad, it was funny. he deserved it.

Much of it also depends on how someone dies, or is injured. It's the cornerstone of slapstick comedy. Take the follwoing:

Four year-old child beaten to death by drunk father--Not funny

Drunk guy looks down barrel of jammed potato gun and shoots himself in face while trying to show his son gun safety--Funny

That would also be ironic.

Also ironic - a diabetic getting run over by a truck full of insulin.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

ENOUGH with the "ironic" tag and ensuing confusilarity...it makes my head asplode. :(

Heh - confusilarity....is that a word? Did I just create a new word?

/going to bed

I guess if you're Bob Barker or some wacko vegan, it'd be a rawkin' case of shandenfreude (sp?) or whatever, but otherwise it's just some guy killing himself at work with one of his tools, which ain't exactly uncommon.

It's not safe to be a Queenslander today.

*hides*

All this talk of irony... hmmm. If you fly planes for a living and then a toy plane gets stuck waaaaaay up your nose and explodes and you flail comedically all about the house, eventually jamming your finger into the kitty who was playing with a squeaky plane, and the cat flails and flails and hisses and slashes and eventually gets you in the nuts, causing you to scream and ram headlong into the TV which had a documentary about planes on, and then the TV explodes and the house falls down and there you are squirming and flailing with a jammed kitty and burning and screaming and then you escape only to run into the street and get flattened by a parade float shaped like a plane... is that irony or do I need my meds?

This is sad, another man doing a hard days work and dieing on the job. You people who find this funny are sick.

Steak forever!

Why does anyone think this is funny or worthy of a darwin award? Please explain this to me.

Darwin how? Industrial accidents happen all the time. He was doing his job, made a mistake, and died. If a state trooper gets in a car wreck and dies is that Darwin?

Darwin isn't really a factor here. Someone slipped up. Darwin should be invoked only when someone does something outrageously stupid, like doing anything from Jackass. If he was juggling whatever it was that he sliced himself with, then Darwin would be there faster than a fat kid on a cupcake.

PETA wins!

maybe the irony is actually in the using an "irony" tag when there is nothing ironic.