NuttierThanEver: OlafTheBent: Irony tag?

this

definitely this.

Feeling nervous...

meyerkev: NuttierThanEver: OlafTheBent: Irony tag?

this

definitely this.

Seriously. How did this NOT get the irony tag...unless subby didn't use the irony tag on purpose...to be ironic.

Subby is a genius!

Well from my understanding, the Luddites were less opposed to machines themselves as they were opposed to the harsh working conditions and low pay that came with them at that point in time.

So having a high-tech museum, while unusual, doesn't really break from the spirit of their protests.

The first time in recent memory a headline actually merits the irony tag and it's nowhere to be found. Are you attemped some sort of double irony, subby?

I had a hearty LOL in my pants.

Now that, Alanis, is irony.

Seeing as how the Luddite movement was a large bag of fail, maybe this isn't ironic.

I'm thinking Auric, as in golden.

The display will also have a laser show with a Michael Jackson robot singing a medley of his greatest hits.

If you aren't going to use [IRONY] here, then when?

Just stopping by to ask where the Irony tag is?

Awesome headline.

No [Irony] tag, since (for those who chose not to RTFA) the second half of the headline is not true.

But headline wins.

"The Luddites weren't against progress, but against unfairness,"

Being replaced by a machine isn't unfair. It sucks and during the industrial revolution probably meant crushing poverty if you were lucky, but it isn't unfair.

/The invisible hand will crush you like a bug.
//Bet the guy who sew animal skins together was royally pissed when someone invented weaving.

. . . but a vow of silence and the . . .

Proving, once again, that three can keep a secret if two are dead.


Doing my best to ignore the flood of Irony involved

Will all the dudes that work in the museum wear wimmens clothes?

/seem to remember the loom smashers wore dresses to confuse the factory owners. For major battles, they wore sequins to blind the opponents.

This story reminds me of my wedding - it rained. Also, I couldn't find a knife to cut my steak anywhere. Oh well, at least there were plenty of spoons available.

OlafTheBent: Irony tag?

Came here to say this!

So when finally an article shows up that really is ironic, the tag is absent.

But then again, I guarantee had subby used the irony tag there would still be people saying it wasn't.

dennysgod: So when finally an article shows up that really is ironic, the tag is absent.

But then again, I guarantee had subby used the irony tag there would still be people saying it wasn't.

That's pretty goddamn ironic, wouldn't you say?

Blaine the Mono amused.

techbuzz: Blaine the Mono amused.

Blaine's a pain

/and this is the truth

at least their useless museum is not costing $300 Million.

Well it's ironic now. What was the original tag?

Non-evil Monkey
Well from my understanding, the Luddites were less opposed to machines themselves as they were opposed to the harsh working conditions and low pay that came with them at that point in time.

This.


To The Escape Zeppelin!
Being replaced by a machine isn't unfair. It sucks and during the industrial revolution probably meant crushing poverty if you were lucky, but it isn't unfair.

So you're just goin' along, doin' yer thing, being a cottage craftsperson, when basically out of nowhere some jerkface opens a factory that makes whatever you were making. Do you get to share in the new prosperity of the industrial society? No, you're 'surplus'; either that, or you have to work in the new factory, in miserable, unsafe conditions; and whereas you were your own boss, now your life is being managed by some bastard as if you were a farm animal.

What is the natural response to this situation? Muse about creative destruction? Or engage in some destruction of your own?

Who cares what's "fair"? If something results in misery for millions of people, I don't give a fark if it was done according to 'the rules'. I want to farking blow it up.

Actually, it's not that ironic. Non-evil Monkey nails it, with the uprising serving as a cautionary tale for rapid incorporation of technology without a holistic concern for society.

FormlessOne: Actually, it's not that ironic. Non-evil Monkey nails it, with the uprising serving as a cautionary tale for rapid incorporation of technology without a holistic concern for society.

Actually, it is ironic in that "luddite" has come to mean someone who is opposed to technological change.

I can only be replaced by a machine that does nothing.
That's a waste of resources.
I am a revolutionary.

This is not ironic. It is mere coincidence.

/

Flapjack727: Well it's ironic now. What was the original tag?

Interesting.

RanDomino If something results in misery for millions of people, I don't give a fark if it was done according to 'the rules'. I want to farking blow it up. I shall look for your story(s) here on FARK. Unless you would care to dispute that the invention of the digital computer has resulted in misery for millions of people?? And the InTarNets, more misery. High Explosives, gunpowder, gasoline engines. Fire, the pointy stick, this "cooking food before eating" - all have added to misery.
To The Escape Zeppelin! The moving hand writes, and having writ moves on to squash you like a bug, eh?!