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  1. Is it ironic that A mother bought her son a gun for his 11th birthday which he later murdered her with?

    50% ironic 3 votes Death Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that I ring my phone company because i have some issues with my phone and their phones are down?

    75% ironic 2 votes Technology Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that I hate when people don't get up and throw their own trash away while I'm asking someone to throw away my scraps of paper?

    75% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that Hating something, but knowing too much about...

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that All I want to do is eat my sandwich, but my one year old keeps shoving "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" in my face and demanding I read it, repeatedly.

    50% ironic 5 votes Literary Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that I almost got ran over by a hearse.

    66% ironic 5 votes Death Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that People type to other people "your a idiot".

    57% not ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that A fat person calls a person fat?

    70% ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Watching a dude yell at dudes about being dudes, is that kind of ironic?

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that Mark Twain said, "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco".

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that Someone would use a lung cancer model as an ash tray?

    70% not ironic 2 votes Health Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that My Grandfather passed away on my birthday?

    56% not ironic 5 votes Death Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game, a celebrated hunter with little respect for the animals he kills for sport, later becomes the hunted?

    50% ironic 1 votes Literary Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that A group of physician assistant students develop deep vein thromboses while sitting for an extended period of time, studying the subject of peripheral artery disease?

    77% ironic 3 votes Health Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that A Piggly Wiggly has become a Planet Fitness?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that Is this an example of Irony? "Running with scissors in the traffic, trying to cut straight to the chase.

    91% not ironic 14 votes Coincidence Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that In this story, a grandmother warns her son that there is an escaped criminal in the area that her son's family is vacationing...

    83% not ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that A big billboard advertising a grammar school reads "Christian Brothers' Grammar School" - Is that Ironic.

    63% not ironic 4 votes School Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that The most basic people in my class are calling me basic?

    73% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that I'm using a book stand to prop up my Kindle while I take notes?

    68% not ironic 4 votes School Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that The computers in a maths and computing college never work.

    62% ironic 5 votes School Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Candy Crush keeps asking me if I want to send a life to a friend that has passed away?

    88% ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that There Was no sign of piano, organ, hymnbooks, church programs the familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that Sarah buys a dress for a party.

    65% ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that I got lost on the way to the eye doctor?

    66% not ironic 8 votes Coincidence Vote →