Most popular examples

The community's favourite irony examples, ranked by views and votes. Think you can top them? Submit your own.

  1. Is it ironic that On Saturday I slipped on grass and broke my leg putting up a "Caution Slippery" notice.

    75% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that Dropping your phone and cracking the screen! Then you take 10 steps and find a phone case!

    75% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that When teaching a lesson on irony (to support a unit on Greek myths) the teacher intended to hold a discussion on what was ironic in the story the class had read, but failed to do so during class.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that In an attempt to save themselves from a threat that will bring them chaos, the villagers brought their land to chaos.

    75% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that A wheelchair user is needing to go to an extreme sports shop to get glasses?

    80% not ironic 8 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that Someone whose boyfriend lives hundreds of miles away tries to look her best for him, even though he will not see her?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that I was offered my dream job just after finishing university and then had to move.

    73% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that I woke my baby by dropping the baby monitor?

    67% not ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that An old man always gets his newspaper everyday from the paper boy, but since he's running he goes to get one himself and is killed by getting hit by the paper boy's bike.

    83% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that This website was designed to explain irony, but due to everyone's lack of understanding the voting system has just confused more people by marking unironic things as ironic and vice versa.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that His initials are JL, My moms initials are JL, My initials are MW, my dad's are...

    83% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that A world full of alive ice cream cones eat humans for a treat.

    70% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that People who purport to be secularists and are opposed to the RCC, find no difficulty in another religion imposing medieval restrictions on women students.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that If I wear a shirt that says "beauty school dropout" when in fact I am a licensed, working beautician who never dropped out of beauty school?

    80% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that I don't have a key to my own house, but others do.

    65% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that A driver notices a roach climbing out of her air conditioner vent and gets in a wreck trying to kill...

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that I work overnight 7p-7a...

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that Katniss Everdeen vow to kill president Snow but killed Coin instead?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that The word underrated is overrated?

    78% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Not being able to sleep at night is becoming tiresome.

    65% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that Raining is showing me proper flames?

    57% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Phonetically isn't spelled phonetically?

    85% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that I tried to open a door and it got stuck.

    83% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that Not sure if it's Irony or just a flaw in my logic but the laugh I had was certainly the same: A very stubborn person goes to a doctor for the first time in nearly 4 years & explains they need a few things checked but are there because their anxiety has flared up & gotten pretty severe, to the point of hyperventilating, shaking & even vomiting before & after just going to the supermarket and have also had a resting heart rate of 108-120bmp for last few days & pleaded for some help.

    60% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that I mistook the laminator for the automatic stapler and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't staple anything and only realized it was a laminator when a colleague helped me laminate somethin?

    88% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →