Define irony..

[wez]

63-year-old sues AARP for age discrimination

 

63-year-old sues AARP for age discrimination - U.S. business - MSNBC.com

[Old Salt]

I KNEW IT!!!! You damn young people hate us old people.:mad: ;)

[wez]

I KNEW IT!!!! You damn young people hate us old people.

Ummmm, I think it's the opposite..

 

We aint the ones shipping your jobs overseas and trying to sell you our ramblers for $750,000 because "what do I care? I wont be here..

 

Plus, all our so called, self proclaimed "leaders" have wrinkles and need diapers.. :D

 

Lordy.. what has become of us?

 

I love everybody, really.. Well on my way to being old people.. ;) Big 40 this year.. :eek: Hoping I get a box of huggies..

[wez]

Irony is....

 

Perpetually trusting the people who cause the worlds problems, to fix the worlds problems..

 

Maybe that's not irony.. perhaps that's just stupidity.. I don't fukking know. Maybe there is no such thing as irony, only stupidity.

 

Maybe this is irony...

 

The free-est country on Earth having a federal government who is more involved in their citizens daily lives than all the non free-est countries on Earth combined.

 

Naaahhh.. not irony, that's just bullsh*t..

 

Black is white.. up is down.. good is bad.. bad is good..

 

Where's that new he/she that wanted to argue? Seems to have disappeared.. How ironic

[eddo]

Irony (to some wacked out Canadaian anyway) =

 

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay

 

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

 

It's like rain on your wedding day

 

It's a free ride when you've already paid

 

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

 

It's a traffic jam when you're already late

 

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

 

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

 

It's meeting the man of my dreams

 

And then meeting his beautiful wife

 

Isn't it ironic, don'tcah think?

[emkay64]

Irony (to some wacked out Canadaian anyway) =It's a black fly in your Chardonnay

 

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

 

It's like rain on your wedding day

 

It's a free ride when you've already paid

 

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

 

It's a traffic jam when you're already late

 

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

 

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

 

It's meeting the man of my dreams

 

And then meeting his beautiful wife

 

Isn't it ironic, don'tcah think?

She's a dumbass. The whole song is about a bunch of coincidences. Take an English class Miz Morrissette...geez.

[IWS]

She's a dumbass. The whole song is about a bunch of coincidences. Take an English class Miz Morrissette...geez.

I used to think that about her song too, but most of them actually fall into one of the definitions of irony called dramatic or tragic Irony

 

Irony (iro-ny)Pronunciation:ˈī-rə-nē also ˈī(-ə)r-nē

 

Function:noun

 

Inflected Form(s):plural iro?nies

 

Etymology:Latin ironia, from Greek eirōnia, from eirōn dissembler

 

Date:1502

 

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

 

2 a: 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

 

3 a (1): incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result 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

irony - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

[emkay64]

Perhaps it may be examples of cosmic irony: events that appear as if in mockery of the fitness or rightness of things. However, in the song...her definition of irony is extraordinarily thin, but in all actuality...I really don't care :P