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(MSNBC) Ironic Pilot crashes his plane on Cessna Street   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 76
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DJ Kulture
2010-09-04 05:13:23 PM
Look. Can we just get an "Appropriate" tag and bin the irony one?
 
johnsoninca [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 06:58:24 PM
Wow, they name streets around an airport after planes? Next they'll be naming streets around stadiums after players.
 
cretinbob [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 06:58:31 PM
DJ Kulture: Look. Can we just get an "Appropriate" tag and bin the irony one?

This.
It's in no way ironic that there would be a street named "cessna" near an airport and he wasn't flying a Cessna anyway. Even if he were, it still wouldn't be ironic.



Definition of IRONY
1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -called also Socratic irony
2a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
 
Hiro Nakamura [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 07:11:15 PM
Wow, you guys must be a blast IRL.

/not subby
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 07:14:33 PM
IT WOULD BE IRONIC IF HE CRASHED ON IRONIC STREET

...

Let's move on.

:-/
 
walkerhound [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 08:33:55 PM
Step 1: find non-ironic story
Step 2: ?
Step 3: get your headline greenlit!
 
BesiktasBoy83
2010-09-04 08:35:23 PM
So maybe he saw the name on the street and tghought it was his private parking position ;)
 
Chastain86 [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 08:37:11 PM
It's like a plaaayyyaaayyyyne on your wedding day.
 
Walter's Vietnam References
2010-09-04 08:38:06 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: IT WOULD BE IRONIC IF HE CRASHED ON IRONIC STREET

...

Let's move on.

:-/

would it?
or would it be ironic if he crashed on safety drive?
 
fluffy2097
2010-09-04 08:38:39 PM
If he crashed into an FAA Safe flying class, THEN it would be ironic.
 
fearmongert
2010-09-04 08:39:20 PM
Would it be ironic if he crashed on Morissette Lane?
 
Ball Zitch
2010-09-04 08:39:37 PM
cretinbob: DJ Kulture: Look. Can we just get an "Appropriate" tag and bin the irony one?

This.
It's in no way ironic that there would be a street named "cessna" near an airport and he wasn't flying a Cessna anyway. Even if he were, it still wouldn't be ironic.

Well if people actually get it and start using it right, what then? Do we get after them about ending sentences with a preposition? Cuz that would give us a whole new batch of people to rip on.

/oops
 
wildcardjack
2010-09-04 08:40:14 PM
Pfft, it's not even a Cessna.
 
ryandee
2010-09-04 08:40:22 PM
What if he crashed on No Crash Blvd?
 
The Incredible Sexual Egg [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 08:40:55 PM
Chastain86: It's like a plaaayyyaaayyyyne on your wedding day.

And we have something that salvaged this thread. Bravo
 
ryandee
2010-09-04 08:43:07 PM
The pilot was a Mr. Milo Playitsafe
 
IrieTom
2010-09-04 08:43:49 PM
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Cessna Street?
 
aspAddict
2010-09-04 08:46:35 PM
cretinbob: Definition of IRONY

Blah blah blah

What cretinbob may look like.
imgs.xkcd.com
 
bobbette
2010-09-04 08:47:58 PM
It would be ironic if he crashed on Airborne Ave. or was playing "Wind Beneath My Wings" at the time.
 
texdent [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 08:48:56 PM
But is the pilot over Macho Grande?
 
ApostateAbe
2010-09-04 08:49:10 PM
DJ Kulture: Look. Can we just get an "Appropriate" tag and bin the irony one?

I knew the Irony Police would get here first. That's so ironic.
 
littlebadwolf
2010-09-04 08:49:49 PM
Ball Zitch: cretinbob: DJ Kulture: Look. Can we just get an "Appropriate" tag and bin the irony one?

This.
It's in no way ironic that there would be a street named "cessna" near an airport and he wasn't flying a Cessna anyway. Even if he were, it still wouldn't be ironic.

Well if people actually get it and start using it right, what then? Do we get after them about ending sentences with a preposition? Cuz that would give us a whole new batch of people to rip on.

/oops

The whole preposition thing really isn't an English rule, it's from Latin, perhaps? Prepositions work just fine in English at the end of the sentence.

I'm pretty sure subby nailed his incorrect use of the irony tag on purpose.

I find it ironic that a certain group of people who most claim to know what irony is find nothing at all to be irony. They'll go to all sorts of contortions to explain one interpretation of a situation that isn't ironic. I'm not referring to the large number in this thread who are just aiming for correct usage. Those people need to learn how to spot a troll.
 
Dire
2010-09-04 08:50:53 PM
There is nothing ironic about this, I think subby was trolling...
 
Barakku
2010-09-04 08:51:04 PM
It would be ironic if he crashed into the Ironic tag and we couldn't use it for the headline of an ironic post
 
GodsTumor
2010-09-04 08:54:14 PM
Was it this guy...

img824.imageshack.us
 
mark12A
2010-09-04 08:57:00 PM
We'll take it!
s.ytimg.com
 
Hop-Frog
2010-09-04 08:58:00 PM
Did it make a sound like *BOING*?

Sorry.
 
Brock Stoli
2010-09-04 08:59:01 PM
Came here looking for Garp.

/left satisfied
 
gimmeasammich
2010-09-04 08:59:18 PM
For those who don't know what irony is... (and anti-fans of Alanis M's song)

Link

not a rickroll, I promise
 
Tillmaster
2010-09-04 08:59:28 PM
Sounds a bit like the area around the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. with streets called Meistersingerstrasse and Niebelungstrasse and the like.

I wonder if there's a Hindenberg Street around Lakehurst, NJ.
 
Mein Fuhrer I Can Walk
2010-09-04 09:01:00 PM
littlebadwolf: Ball Zitch: cretinbob: DJ Kulture: Look. Can we just get an "Appropriate" tag and bin the irony one?

This.
It's in no way ironic that there would be a street named "cessna" near an airport and he wasn't flying a Cessna anyway. Even if he were, it still wouldn't be ironic.

Well if people actually get it and start using it right, what then? Do we get after them about ending sentences with a preposition? Cuz that would give us a whole new batch of people to rip on.

/oops

The whole preposition thing really isn't an English rule, it's from Latin, perhaps? Prepositions work just fine in English at the end of the sentence.

www.smbc-comics.com
 
jake_lex [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 09:02:36 PM
What was ironic is that this pilot had always been Mr. Play It Safe, afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase, and kissed his kids good bye. He'd waited his whole damn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down, he thought HOLY farkING shiat WE'RE ABOUT TO farkING CRASH
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 09:03:04 PM
Walter's Vietnam References: would it?
or would it be ironic if he crashed on safety drive?


:-/

Frogdammitsomuch!
 
Ball Zitch
2010-09-04 09:03:20 PM
littlebadwolf: Well if people actually get it and start using it right, what then? Do we get after them about ending sentences with a preposition? Cuz that would give us a whole new batch of people to rip on.

/oops

The whole preposition thing really isn't an English rule, it's from Latin, perhaps? Prepositions work just fine in English at the end of the sentence.

I'm pretty sure subby nailed his incorrect use of the irony tag on purpose.

I find it ironic that a certain group of people who most claim to know what irony is find nothing at all to be irony. They'll go to all sorts of contortions to explain one interpretation of a situation that isn't ironic. I'm not referring to the large number in this thread who are just aiming for correct usage. Those people need to learn how to spot a troll.

The whole "ending a sentence with a preposition is bad grammar" thing is only for strict 9th grade english comp teachers (yeah I'm looking at you, Mr. Atherton). There are some cases where it is incorrect, but not for what most people think. It's only for when they're unnecessary. Also, there's a difference in prepositions for what I'm talking about (grammar) and what you're talking about (language). None of this matters. What I say is irrelevant. But I try to have fun with it anyway. Interesting discussion is good, especially if it raises honest questions and valid debates. But correcting someone with a lengthy explanation and copy pasta is just kind of rude.

/not you, the other guy
//and probably the dozens of other irony experts that are bound to show up
 
Goodfella
2010-09-04 09:06:14 PM
www.gunaxin.com
 
Clete Orris
2010-09-04 09:06:17 PM
Did he pay the Piper, that son of a Beech?
 
Zerk_Fitting [TotalFark]
2010-09-04 09:07:32 PM
Maybe this accident has something to do with the airplane being owned by the Three Stooges, Howard, Howard, & Fine,
 
BasqueBastard
2010-09-04 09:09:01 PM
Zerk_Fitting: Maybe this accident has something to do with the airplane being owned by the Three Stooges, Howard, Howard, & Fine,

Good catch, I was about to post a pic of the Stooges....

2 minutes too late
 
BasqueBastard
2010-09-04 09:11:54 PM
texdent: But is the pilot over Macho Grande?

I'll never be over Macho Grande

/Penny's is having a sale!
 
ryandee
2010-09-04 09:14:52 PM
The plane crashed into the house of an old man who had won the lottery the day before.

/well, isn't this nice?
 
traylor
2010-09-04 09:17:17 PM
It was ironic because the pilot was doing touch and go landings. As the result of his maneuvers he crashed, and that is the opposite of the normal or expected result. Thus this is an ironic situation.

/wouldn't be ironic if he had been doing touch and crash landings
 
Kill the mentally ill
2010-09-04 09:20:03 PM
walkerhound: Step 1: find non-ironic story
Step 2: ?
Step 3: get your headline greenlit!

It would seem that in this case, step 2 is "use Ironic tag".
 
Lupine Chemist
2010-09-04 09:24:00 PM
Not trying to be the irony police, but it's not hard to remember that apt is the opposite of ironic. It does cheapen the meaning when opposites are used for the same concept.
 
JonnyBGoode
2010-09-04 09:24:08 PM
I think it would be ironic if nobody pointed out that it wasn't ironic.
 
Clete Orris
2010-09-04 09:28:08 PM
JonnyBGoode: I think it would be ironic if nobody pointed out that it wasn't ironic.

It would be "ironic" if this guy was the pilot:

www.filmjackets.com
 
roncofooddehydrator
2010-09-04 09:29:49 PM
Let's look back at the definition of irony, from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary:

a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result

Does one expect planes to crash on streets (in general), or ones named after planes (in this specific case)? No.
Is it wryly amusing that it did? Yes.

Is it ironic? According to this definition - Yes.

/Suck it irony police.
 
ATTENTION
2010-09-04 09:32:16 PM
What if he fell asleep at the wheel then crashed?
 
Dire
2010-09-04 09:39:59 PM
roncofooddehydrator: Let's look back at the definition of irony, from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary:

a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result

Does one expect planes to crash on streets (in general), or ones named after planes (in this specific case)? No.
Is it wryly amusing that it did? Yes.

Is it ironic? According to this definition - Yes.

/Suck it irony police.


WRONG. Planes do crash, and often when they do crash, they crash on streets. And most plane crashes occur near airports. And streets named after aviation-related terms are very common around airports. Just because you are retarded, doesn't mean most other people are too; the general "one" you used in your first question WOULD expect planes to crash on streets, and they do have the common sense to know that most plane crashes occur around airports.
 
MorphOSX
2010-09-04 09:42:48 PM
Can you tell me how to crash, how to crash on cessna street...
 
RoyBatty
2010-09-04 09:46:34 PM
Dire: roncofooddehydrator: Let's look back at the definition of irony, from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary:

a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result

Does one expect planes to crash on streets (in general), or ones named after planes (in this specific case)? No.
Is it wryly amusing that it did? Yes.

Is it ironic? According to this definition - Yes.

/Suck it irony police.


WRONG. Planes do crash, and often when they do crash, they crash on streets. And most plane crashes occur near airports. And streets named after aviation-related terms are very common around airports. Just because you are retarded, doesn't mean most other people are too; the general "one" you used in your first question WOULD expect planes to crash on streets, and they do have the common sense to know that most plane crashes occur around airports.

A few years ago the local waste treatment plant caught fire and the cops had to evacuate everyone on Huge Flaming Pile of Crap street.

/I had already moved.
 
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