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 Someone who loves correcting people's spelling and grammar has their name misspelt by someone noting a correction they made whilst calling them a grammar nazi.

    60% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that A policeman got pulled over for speeding?

    50% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that My colleague resigned because the firm would not make her a managing director and in order to replace her we have had to hire someone at managing director level?

    60% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that My sister after hiking in the Smoky Mountains, over fallen trees, narrow bridges, twisted roots, and crossing streams over loose stones.

    65% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that A gang of thieves robbed a bank, and investigators found out that one of them is policeman.

    67% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that My daughter damaged my car while speeding.

    60% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that I bought a computer for my boyfriend and decided to return it b/c we are not speaking.

    83% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that If someone was going to complain of a stomach flu to get out of going to a sleep over only to find that the person holding said sleep over had to cancel because they had the stomach flu?

    55% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Seto Kaiba owns (and is CEO of) a multibillion-dollar computer/electronics/gaming company - a sure sign of nerdiness - and yet HE still calls a certain group of kids at his school "Geek Squad" and "The Nerd Herd" to insult them?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that You say something is ironic when it isn't.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that For many years, the tavern has been a private residence and ironically, the principal mill has been a fine restaurant and bar.

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that My flight to the Superbowl got cancelled.

    65% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that I am feeling sorry for myself for having to spend the whole weekend oncology exam as I read about people with leukemia and lymphoma.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that Israelis are upset about not invading and demanding a "final solution" to the Palestinian problem.

    67% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that An insurance company makes a shirt saying "it will be all right" on the bottom part behind it ?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that A child repeatedly asks 'are we there yet?' because he knows that that's what children do, even though he knows we're not anywhere near our destination.

    52% not ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that If someone movies to Zurich, Switzerland (one of the safest cities in the world) to escape high crime rates and is robbed upon arrival?

    88% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that The speech pathologist has developed a voice disorder.

    73% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Someone who provides advice on a subject, say cruising, has never been on a cruise?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that A 35 year old , in a room full of 20 year olds, tells one of them that they're "an old man.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that For an Apple store Specialist to have the same "Sam Sung"? http://twitpic.

    68% ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Someone would refer to Jews living in Nazi Germany as a 'protected group' (using the modern legal definition of the term).

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that While our self-proclaimed enemy...

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that We wear sweaters in the winter when we don't sweat?

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that My partner moans about me watching back-to-back episodes of one tv series, then does exactly the same thing himself with another tv series?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →