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  1. Is it ironic that I spent all my money, every last penny, on a new wallet?

    78% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that My family normally eats dinner at 7 pm and the one day I stop at 4:30 to get a snack to hold me over until dinner, we eat dinner at 5 pm?

    55% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that Christian Bale played serial killer Patrick Bateman in american Psycho, but years later visited those wounded by a killer attending one of his movies?

    65% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that I am enjoying christmas on facebook in a foreignland alone.

    88% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that A man who devoted his life to teaching how to avoid car accidents got killed in a car accident?

    85% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that If members of the group in Oregon who uphold the constitution, are convicted of a felony, they will lose their right to own firearms?

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A person whom is obviously basic tattooed this quote "Motivated by the fear of being average"

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that Someone being run over and killed by an ambulance.

    83% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that I had to run to catch a train to meet a friend to go for a walk.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that The slogan for a lawyer's website read: "Practice Poetic Justice" ?

    83% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that I called my friend in the marines a communist?

    50% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Somebody said a guy looked pregnant because they gained weight, and then 10 years later they got fat themselves?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."...

    67% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that I picked up my car from a body shop today, having just completed repairs to a small dent I caused.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Cobblers in india make shoes but don't have shoes to wear themselves.

    73% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that I cheated on my wife on Super Bowl Sunday 5 years ago? And she slept with someone on Super Bowl Sunday this year? Even though she didn't know at the time?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that A person with terrible spelling is annoyed that their name is misspelled.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that The procrastinator meeting was postponed.

    57% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that A friend was rushing to get her package in the mail and her name is patience.

    88% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Would this be considered double irony? Drenched by torrential rains during an hour long walk in Hong Kong, I am offered an umbrella by a friendly stranger as the sun comes out.

    50% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that A Jew gets a tattoo of the Hebrew word for "irony.

    70% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Someone try's to commit suicide by overdosing but doesn't remember it the next day?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that 14 year old girls in New York City can now get the the morning after pill but not a Big Gulp?

    65% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that My mom has no natural gas service in her community.

    78% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that There is free Wifi at an Amish store?

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →