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  1. Is it ironic that My dad had a heart attack on mothers day.

    60% not ironic 2 votes Health Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that I was born on 6/25 which was when the Korean War ended.

    85% not ironic 6 votes Coincidence Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that The word misspelled is often misspelled?

    90% ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that I stayed up late to do a project for school, but end up oversleeping and not going.

    70% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that To explain irony to someone, when you yourself can not properly identify it?

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that A fat burger joint is next door to a healthy eating joint where nothing on the menu is over 600 calories.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that I can't tell if this website is serious or not, because it fails to note that irony is inherently subjective, and the more pedantic it gets about what ISN'T irony, the more it is obviously wrong (because the objective definition is clearly satisfied, even though one's soul is not, which is where the ultimate determination is made)?

    65% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that Brail on drive through ATMs?

    55% not ironic 2 votes Technology Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that You try to sleep in a dream?

    75% ironic 2 votes Health Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that Adolf Hitler is portrayed as a "fine son" in one of Roald Dahls short stories.

    75% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that The Nazis burned books to try to eradicate anti-Nazi ideals, and yet their actions ultimately triggered a veritable flood of literature opposing those ideals?

    98% ironic 20 votes Irony Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that The following thought made me laugh in the same manner that I laugh at irony, and I thought it might quality under definition 2i: Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, but I'm not sure.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that I have dank memes.

    63% ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that An individual posted this as their Facebook status?

    52% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Today women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees and more than half of master's and...

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that John waits for the bus to school every day and gets hit at the stop by the school bully Jim.

    90% not ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that A type of cognitive bias (bias blind spot) is thinking that others are more biased than you?

    63% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that I caught the flu two days after getting a flu shot?

    78% not ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that We were in the pub having two pints, which is still over the legal limit.

    54% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that The home of a cop gets robbed.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that If someone lives their life avoiding flying because they are scared of dying, then is made to fly because of illness, then crashes and dies, is that irony?

    80% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that The table filled with turkey, goose, wreaths of sausages, punches and the fruits looked awfully disgusting.

    73% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that An employee at a car-production factory has not had a weekend off in a very long time, and the first weekend he has off, his wife tells him he has to build a miniature car for their children, so he spends his day assembling it.

    79% ironic 7 votes Coincidence Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that I had to search out a pair of scissors in order to open a package of scissors?

    88% ironic 9 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that Al Gore, in attempting to accomplish the historically rare feat of ascending to the presidency directly from the vice presidency, was trying to follow in the footsteps of his opponent's (George...

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →