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 You can steal a tool to make it easier to steal?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that You're in prison and your name is Liberty?

    63% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that You ignore someone for several days and they tell you they miss you and want to talk to you and when you finally start talking to them they don't respond to you.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that I fractured my patella immediately following an interview for a position as a radiologic technologist?

    70% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that My friend rarely responds to any messages in a WhatsApp group, but following a week where none of us had sent any messages he said "this group's been very quiet this week"

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that For a singer singing a cover of "Black Hole Sun" in which he sings...

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A backpacker hiking in the woods with bear spray gets eaten by a bear.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that Someone would thank God for Friday even though it comes from Paganism?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that United States is a biggest vocal of human rights after all the damage in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Japan (2nd world war)etc.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that I can never remember the name of the movie where the guy takes a pill and becomes really smart?

    63% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that I'm a cancer and I recently quit smoking?

    58% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that We eat hamburgers that are made out of beef?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that Here's my example and people can vote because I don't fully understand irony: is it ironic that my mother tells me that if I emphasized my personality and got over my fear of being judged on externals that my potential is 'limitless' in the same email that she berates me for not contacting plastic surgeons (whose links she is resending) about relative minor issues? If it's not ironic, what is that? Other than messed up, of course.

    78% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that One of the main characters on my daughter's favorite preschool cartoon is a robot and just danced 'the robot'?

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that A white lady born in June named April Black, bumping into a black lady born in April named June White.

    75% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that My manager asked me to "focus" on 5 different tasks?

    57% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that The Israelites were breaking all the Ten Commandments just as Moses was on the mountain receiving them?

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that When I called a neurologist's office to make an appointment for my mother, I left a voicemail and couldn't recall the end of my own phone number? (ironic because of the type of doctor's office it is) ?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that A tow truck is involved in an accident?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that When a man wins an election as president of a Rifle Association one of his supporters fires off a rifle to celebrate and accidentally kills him.

    65% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that Taking a cooking class at the age of 79 .

    85% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that If a manager tells an employer it is difficult to get information from him? Also the employee doesn't realise the impact this is having on the company and if he doesn't improve he will lose his job.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that Someone at a company informs me of a job opening at the company.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that Japanese law requires the censorship of pornography.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that I have the dad's approval to the girl I love but we are coworkers.

    75% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →