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  1. Is it ironic that While heading to the tire repair shop to rotate our wheels, our tires get punctured and find out that the shop is closed?

    58% ironic 13 votes Technology Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that Anakin Skywalker submitted to the dark side as Darth Vader despite that he himself was destined to bring balance to the force?

    58% ironic 5 votes Art Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that USA made it in the worldcup but Portugal didn't.

    69% not ironic 9 votes Sport Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that The soccer player planned to propose to his girl friend for the goal ceremony.

    62% ironic 10 votes Sport Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that They killed a cougar because it wasn't afraid of humans anymore.

    67% not ironic 12 votes Animal Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that The song "Isn't it Ironic" isn't ironic?

    82% ironic 9 votes Music Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that The song "somebody is watching me" by Rockwell has you watch the paranoid singer sing about somebody watching him.

    59% not ironic 14 votes Art Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that I smiled but crying insidec.

    63% not ironic 4 votes Love Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Somebody who killed someone sleeps sound like the dead?

    52% not ironic 13 votes Death Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that "We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located, among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven’t got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located"

    67% not ironic 15 votes Science Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that Frederick Douglass, as a slave boy, bribed white boys to teach him how to read?

    63% ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that I once beat a WWF wrestler..in...

    66% ironic 5 votes Sport Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that I had my first deep/french kiss at church?

    58% ironic 13 votes Love Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that Smartphones are supposed to make our life easier but we lose our eye sight from overusing smartphone and our life becomes more difficult.

    70% ironic 5 votes Technology Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Love is all about nature that is why im loving it.

    72% not ironic 6 votes Love Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that One one of Tammy Wynette's most popular songs is called "Stand by your Man" when she has been married six times?

    92% ironic 19 votes Music Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that My dog got ran over by a animal resuce truck.

    93% ironic 47 votes Animal Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that Don Mazzetti plays a fool to show others their folly? (Socratic Irony?) Context: http://www.

    75% ironic 2 votes Sport Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that I was sent this joke SAN FRANCISCO MAN BECOMES FIRST AMERICAN TO GRASP SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY - Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony.

    78% not ironic 9 votes News Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that A thief stole a fake diamond from a museum rather than the real diamond.

    83% not ironic 42 votes Coincidence Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that My ex boyfriend got into a relationship and asked if we can get back together and 5 years later married to the same girl, says that he still has hope for both of us ?

    60% not ironic 4 votes Love Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Jesus was a carpenter and he was nailed to a wooden cross.

    63% ironic 20 votes Religion Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that The in vitro fertilization and embryo screening used to produce a successful offspring was later used to violate that offspring's reproductive rights by using her donated eggs to make a designer baby without her consent?

    50% ironic 1 votes Health Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that "...the knight wants to marry her but she is a loathly woman"

    54% not ironic 7 votes Literary Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that The recent movie title "Big Hero 6" suggests that it is the 6th in a series, but it is in fact the first.

    53% ironic 4 votes Art Vote →