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  1. Is it ironic that A person can say there isn't a God and they can have sex as much as they want to, without the consequences, and that there is nothing God can do about...

    92% not ironic 6 votes Religion Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that A man who was obsessed with his health and only ate nutritious food, choked to death while eating a healthy meal?

    70% ironic 7 votes Food Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that The inventor of the stop sign died when he failed to stop at an intersection?

    90% ironic 10 votes Death Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that There is a chinese guy in Thor and it is Norse mythology.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that My sister gives me parenting advice while neglecting her own children.

    52% not ironic 6 votes Love Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that I asked a question about the irony of something and never got a rating on a website called Is It Ironic?, meant do tell you how ironic something is?

    50% ironic 2 votes Technology Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that My teacher said to do a project about Fahrenheit 451, a book about books being illegal, where we made a robot that will help the censors burn books more efficiently, and I made a reference to Charlotte's Web.

    50% ironic 1 votes Literary Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that A mechanic's car breaks down and a passerby fixes the problem with the car?

    60% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that I dropped out of school, then dropped out of university and have now wound up working as the editor of a careers magazine.

    64% not ironic 5 votes School Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that Someone is jokingly making fun of how disgusting their food is but it is actually disgusting?

    75% ironic 2 votes Food Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that 737 houses have been earmarked at a site next to an airport?

    50% ironic 1 votes News Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that My ex husbands grandmother died of natural causes on my birthday? She had 364 other days to choose from.

    70% not ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that That grisly crimes happen everyday, but are handled in a neat and efficient manner?

    67% not ironic 3 votes Death Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that During history class the teacher says hes going to ask a question & someone from each group will answer ones standing in front of a wall the teacher asks the other if they had an answer they all say no he asks the one standing in front of the wall he says the correct answer the teacher says turn around look eye level & there was the answer that he couldn't see but everyone else could!

    73% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that A book on how to read.

    93% ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that That...

    56% not ironic 8 votes Health Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that Silence is more rythmic than sound.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Music Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that You spend say $13 on two half gallons of orange juice when there is a sale of two gallons for $13.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Food Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Nothing in Alanis Morissette's song about irony is actually ironic?

    57% ironic 4 votes Music Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that My neighbor fought in and survived a war but is now missing three limbs due to the car wreck on the way home?

    80% ironic 3 votes Health Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that People are creating AI machines (CAPTCHA, etc.

    87% ironic 7 votes Technology Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that We drive on parkways and park on driveways?

    56% ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that I get called a geek for constantly surfing the web on my smart phone, by friends who are watching a Big Bang Theory marathon?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Technology Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that The fictitious novel's plot was the constant surveillance of computer comments by employees and non-employees.

    75% not ironic 6 votes Literary Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that A class of students complains about a teachers way of teaching, amount of homework and deadlines in general, but the students gets recordbreakingly high grades?

    77% not ironic 3 votes School Vote →