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  1. Is it ironic that An old man turns 98 wins the lottery and dies the next day?

    53% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that On the cover of this years October's New Yorker,...

    73% not ironic 6 votes Technology Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that God Answers Prayers of Paralyzed Little Boy "No," Says God.

    60% ironic 3 votes Religion Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that If a white Western man who keeps railing against Western women on his own charges of depravity wakes up married to a Filipina in Manila under circumstances he can't exactly remember, except that from a hangover he must have had way too much to drink - and as soon as they get back to his homeland of Australia, she divorces him?

    70% ironic 2 votes Love Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that Someone, a real-life human being that you have never met in person, could have a deeply rooted emotional affect on you?

    85% not ironic 4 votes Love Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that They had no idea the other person was posting something at their work, not at first.

    50% ironic 1 votes Love Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that I posted the following: I don't know if this is a 'blessing' or a 'curse'.

    55% ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that Someone is appointed as Lord High Executioner and must execute others, but he himself is slated to be executed first?

    62% not ironic 5 votes Death Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that My old manager at a fastfood joint would illegally clock us out while we were still working...he...

    65% ironic 2 votes Food Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that The production on the movie "Noah" was held up by flooding (from Hurricane Sandy)?

    68% ironic 8 votes Religion Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that We didn't lose power when the storm knocked out electricity everywhere.

    88% ironic 4 votes Food Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that A "Patient Support Society for XYZ" medical condition, is located a few metres from a hospital (same hospital grounds) where they don't really diagnose or believe in XYZ condition?

    50% ironic 1 votes Health Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that A man is going to die tommorow of old age and the doctor tells him he has cancer and one day to live.

    50% ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that That two couples sitting across from one another one being chinese the other being canadain, the canadians are eating chinese food with forks and the chinese people were eating Tim Hortons with chop sticks?

    57% ironic 3 votes Food Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Chinese journalists covering MH370 in Canberra a furious at they see as Australian government control of the media.

    70% ironic 2 votes News Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that On "How to Write a Resume" someone is trying to emphasis the importance of "the attention todetail", yet forgets to include a space between the words?

    75% ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that The word "queue" is just a "Q" followed by a bunch of silent letters, standing in a line?

    57% ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that I left a guy who was cruel for a guy that was nice and now that same guy who was nice is cruel.

    63% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that The question below me is amazing and the owners of this site are just jealous?

    88% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that When a person who doesn't understand irony, tells someone who understands irony, that something is ironic...when...

    85% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that The doctor of a free clinic that everyone trusts, is purposly killing his patients for money.

    66% ironic 5 votes Death Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Taylor Swift's last name is swift which means fast but when kanye west interrupted her at the VMA's she did not act very fast?

    63% ironic 4 votes Music Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that While standing in line at a hotel job fair, I called the Front Desk to have some chairs sent down.

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that To use a picture of a semi naked Barbie doll to advertise a film night for international women's day?

    50% ironic 1 votes News Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that Mrs Bennet is always telling her daughters to find a husband when she is in fact the one repelling the men away?

    60% ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →