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  1. Is it ironic that An ambulance drives at high speed to answer an emergency call in order to help save a life but then runs over the patient they were supposed to help and kills them instead?

    85% ironic 11 votes Death Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that The song Gimme a Grade has rock music ROck music is used for rebellion, but in Gimme a Grade, Baljeet sings about conforming and doing what he's told.

    52% ironic 5 votes School Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that That halloween, a holday with satanic connections was celebrated on sunday a holy day.

    64% not ironic 7 votes Religion Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that A cardiologist dies from a heart attack?

    68% ironic 12 votes Death Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that I hate tomatoes but love ketchup.

    57% not ironic 3 votes Food Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that The younger sister in Agnes Owens' short story 'The Lighthouse' says to her sibling "I hope a monster doesn't get you" and later in the story, a monster in fact, gets them both.

    75% ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that The rapper 50 cent is going broke?

    68% ironic 9 votes Music Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that The more i eat the less i get fat?

    63% ironic 7 votes Food Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Someone who always wanted to be in the team they admire gets accepted then injures themselves before the game?

    57% ironic 4 votes Sport Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that So this youtuber invented training zombies, they follow you and then you kill them, and he died in a real train crash.

    88% not ironic 4 votes Technology Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that A plastic, non-degradable bag has the word "green" on it?

    59% ironic 12 votes Science Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Kevin Spacey was in a film called The Usual Suspects, in which he feined a weakness to gain sympathy and invented a story to escape prosecution.

    75% not ironic 2 votes News Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that The love of your live doesn´t love you.

    77% not ironic 3 votes Love Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that My mom always said she was scatter brained and then got diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Health Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Shane Warne, former spinbowler for the Australian cricket team, seems to have a thing for English women, but most Australian cricket supporters would be fiercely Anglophobic (in the stands at least)?

    70% not ironic 2 votes Sport Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that Brad Pitt injured his Achille's tendon while playing Achilles in the film Troy?

    51% not ironic 9 votes Art Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that A sculptor spends 50 years making a likeness of himself in stone.

    91% ironic 7 votes Art Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that Someone with the initials SMA is allergic to milk.

    67% not ironic 6 votes Food Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that While unloading a truck-full of groceries onto the floor you stub your toe on a bottle of BBQ sauce called Stubb's?

    78% ironic 9 votes Food Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that My art work is the same as a famous painter?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Art Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that I said to my new classmate that we are not that much good friends.

    83% not ironic 3 votes School Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that My grandma asks me three good things and she is truly upset.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that "The kids were scared of their parents.

    68% not ironic 5 votes News Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that I'm trying to break up with my girlfriend for a lack of communication, and when I try to call her she doesnt answer?

    59% not ironic 9 votes Love Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that I loved the book The Book Thief by Mark Zusak; I decided not to give it back to the owner.

    87% ironic 6 votes Literary Vote →