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  1. Is it ironic that I read the measure of an angle in math class and at the same time as the person sitting next to me said the forecast temperature which was the same number (63 degrees).

    87% not ironic 6 votes School Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that Jorge Masvidal was knocked out by Kamaru Usman after repeatedly mocking Usman's punching power?

    55% ironic 2 votes Sport Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that I had a "friend" who kept warning me about how men were allegedly abusive and perverted, but she emotionally and sexually abused me?

    70% ironic 5 votes Health Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that Someone posted on Facebook "Don't cry when I die or send me flowers, or fly a long way to be at my funeral, if you love me that much come and see me while I'm alive"" and didn't visit his own parents for many years, took a plane to his Dad's funeral?

    75% ironic 8 votes Death Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that Huey Newton, who as a young founder of the Black Panther Party advocated that African Americans carry guns to protect themselves against police brutality and led an armed protest march against one of the first gun-control bills in California into the state capitol, died 20 years later when he was shot down on an Oakland street by a black man half his age?

    60% ironic 8 votes Death Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that My daughter, who is divorcing her husband, believes that divorce generally is a positive solution and will not negatively impact her young children, even though the issues over which she is divorcing her husband largely stem from that fact that his parents divorced when he was a young child?

    75% ironic 2 votes Love Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A fat guy is talking about world hunger.

    77% not ironic 3 votes Food Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that That I broke my toe on the way to have a foot massage?

    50% ironic 1 votes Health Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that I am a reading teacher that collects...

    61% ironic 7 votes School Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that A person serving his or herself milk but, leaving a centimeter of milk left.

    88% not ironic 5 votes Food Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that The yellow pages listed a funeral home as frozen foods.

    63% not ironic 4 votes News Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Someone will write a poem about how homework takes forever, and then they realize they're done?

    88% ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that The most silent place to study at my university is the cafeteria and not the library or the study room?

    64% ironic 7 votes School Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that Wats ironic a grocery store with no food.

    88% ironic 6 votes Food Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that While someone is speaking about their vast knowledge of vocabulary and their careful choices in wording, they misuse a word.

    90% ironic 5 votes Literary Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that I would never consider buying a red car, but in almost all of my photographs in which a car is a significant part of the composition the car is red.

    50% ironic 1 votes Art Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that Your driving on a road and you see a stop sign but someone on the side of you is holding a sign that tells you to never stop at anytime.

    85% not ironic 17 votes Coincidence Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that A website that espouses its expertise doesn't use the proper possessive form? It is, after all, the readers' verdict, not a single reader's verdict.

    54% ironic 5 votes Literary Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Colorado Sheriff (Patrick Sullivan) is arrested and thrown into jail named after him: Patrick J Sullivan Detention Center http://usnews.

    88% ironic 4 votes News Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Someone said that she likes warm colors, but her favorite color is blue.

    70% not ironic 4 votes Art Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that The only word that you spell right on a spelling test is "illiterate"?

    76% ironic 13 votes Literary Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that I jokingly commented on a person's poor English on Facebook and incorrectly spelled a word?

    88% ironic 6 votes Technology Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that I am in a humorous online chat group called "The Sausage Fest" despite being borderline vegen in reality?

    65% not ironic 2 votes Food Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that A terrorist sends a bomb to the us president via mail but he gets it back because of the wrong postage and opens it :).

    50% ironic 3 votes News Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that The puritan settlers of early American colonies left England to practice their religion freely, but also were very intolerant of other religions?

    64% ironic 5 votes Religion Vote →