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  1. Is it ironic that Is it true, illiterate students get the worse of the pick of quality teachers due to bad act scores?

    65% ironic 4 votes School Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that You wear a "we love you Las Vegas" t-shirt and argue against gun control laws.

    50% ironic 1 votes News Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that A police station gets robbed.

    73% ironic 7 votes Coincidence Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that In a book, a thief is dating a cop?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that When I have time for my boyfriend, he is busy?

    83% not ironic 4 votes Love Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that Once Oedipus saw the truth of his circumstances, he blinded himself.

    63% ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that Isn't it ironic, that a person I call an ignorant troll on internet, responds by writing: "Man you wouldn't know a troll if it bit you in the ass, fanboy.",...

    75% not ironic 2 votes Technology Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that When someone accused of murder gets acquitted for lack of evidence but then gets a lawyer to fire off a letter saying that posts on the internet about how they got away with murder made them feel "physically and psychologically threatened.

    53% ironic 3 votes Death Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that The author of the departmental newsletter writing about the news that she quit the newsletter team in a drunken rage.

    83% not ironic 12 votes Literary Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that The more I try to understand what irony is, the less I actually do?

    66% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that After getting caught in a storm out at sea and almost capsizing in the boat (which drowning is one of my biggest fears) that upon making it to shore my dad had tagged me in a cartoon post of death holding a tooth brush with a caption saying "Relax its just a brush with death?"

    50% ironic 3 votes Death Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Osama bin Laden's death was declared on the same day as Hitler - or is it just a coincidence?

    59% not ironic 11 votes Coincidence Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that You need to get into your car to get your keys for the car but you can't get in without your car keys.

    73% ironic 3 votes Technology Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that Someone rubs in the election victory but then telling someone to calm down when they start to get heated about politics?

    75% not ironic 2 votes News Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that The author of the departmental newsletter had to write about the news that she was quitting the comms team and the writing of the newsletter.

    50% ironic 1 votes News Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that Is is ironic that - I've just looked up the word tautology, and it pretty much repeats the same definition four times.

    70% not ironic 5 votes Literary Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that Those that are sexually objectified show an increase in sexual dysfunction?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Love Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that When asking about the correct spelling of a word, one is often referred to a dictionary?

    55% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that A robber tries to rob a gun store with a knife?

    75% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that My friend has phobophobia (fear of fears).

    95% ironic 25 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that A man who makes people choose between two stories as to which one is the truth, believes in 3 religions.

    96% ironic 12 votes Religion Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that I smoke but love life.

    72% not ironic 10 votes Death Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that A jail warden is sentenced to a life in prison?

    66% ironic 7 votes Death Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that On their anniversary, my uncle sold his watch to buy my auntie a new sim card for her camera.

    87% ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that If a white guy from Australia who is a real Sinophile ends up having a bad relationship with someone who is of at least part Chinese heritage, and eventually goes on to marry a white woman from the United States?

    75% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →