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  1. Is it ironic that If you focus all your attention on breathing, it becomes more difficult.

    58% not ironic 4 votes Health Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that The Amish go to amusement parks?

    50% ironic 1 votes Religion Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that In the Miss USA pageant, Miss Utah, when asked what the pay gap between men and women "says about society," stumbled around for an answer, eventually saying that we need to "create education better"?

    75% ironic 2 votes News Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that A soldier is making a doll for a village girl and the mother of the little girl hands a bomb to another soldier.

    75% ironic 2 votes Death Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that Someone sees the future and sees that they're going to die, and then dies because they're being way too cautious?

    86% ironic 14 votes Death Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that I spent all day painting my nails when I should have been working, and just accidentally chopped one off with a vegetable knife.

    50% ironic 1 votes Food Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that Before reading, Pride and Prejudice I did not believe I would like it because it was not really my typical type of book but ended up really liking it?

    53% not ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that My friend is learning the law (to become a lawyer) illegally?

    65% ironic 2 votes School Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Necromantic books are heavenly?

    50% ironic 1 votes Literary Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that Charles de Gaulle never strangled a communist without the presence of a priest?

    50% ironic 1 votes News Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that A Mage with a hydrophobia strongest elemental magic is water.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Pee Wee Herman played the voice of a spaceship that kidnapped a 12 year old boy for 8 years, and was later arrested for possession of child pornography?

    77% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that All three famous between the leg tennis shots were against Novak Djokovic.

    63% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that You move your wedding inside because it's going to rain and a pipe bursts.

    90% ironic 6 votes Coincidence Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that I had to ask what FOFY (find out for yourself) means?

    92% ironic 6 votes School Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that For someone to kill and torture their lifelong friend and then miss them deeply for the rest of their life?

    63% ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that When a person witnesses the death of another, their life begins.

    83% not ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that A nacho truck with no nachos.

    50% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that I've been talking about riding my bike to work for the past 2 years.

    63% not ironic 8 votes Coincidence Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that You burn down a water park?

    82% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that A man tries to capture a woman's heart by doing something dangerous, and in doing so, he nearly gets himself killed, but another man ends up saving him and the woman falls in love with THAT man for being a hero?

    78% ironic 5 votes Love Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that An online personality, who received the most love from a particular country, would end up dying unexpectedly in that country while on vacation?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Death Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that Phobophobia is the fear of having a fear?

    99% ironic 66 votes Irony Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that You have to go through a long process to acquire a driver's license, but it only takes a moment to get into a car accident?

    86% not ironic 5 votes Death Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that When a grammar nazi who corrected your grammar makes a grammatical error.

    70% ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →