Irony Irony

Yes, you read that right. "Irony irony" is a real category on this site - examples of irony about irony itself. If you've ever wondered whether a site about irony could be ironic, or whether the very concept of irony is somehow ironic, you're in the right place. We have 1,758 examples and we're honestly not sure what that says about us, or the English language, or the universe. Probably all three.

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  1. Is it ironic that I start working double shifts and now it gets sunny.

    88% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that A man who's sentence was changed from death by electric chair to life sentence in jail, died from electrocution as he sat on a metal chair watching his TV as a mouse also on the chair bit through the aerial wire thus killing them both?

    63% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that People were loving "change" when they voted in Obama, but people do not like changes on facebook?

    63% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that While speaking via telephone recently, a colleague asked me if I could hear him rolling his eyes.

    70% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that "We thought it had floated into the clouds, even hoped that it had traveled to Africa, but there it was slowly dying in a tree right above my head.

    58% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that Hopelessly Optimistic.

    55% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A guy on a cruise ship asked me, "What time is the midnight buffet?".

    88% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that I knew a guy who had one eye, was deaf, and had one leg, and his name was "Lucky".

    70% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that A man plays the lottery for 90 years and never wins, but when he gives ONE ticket to his grandson as his first..

    63% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that We planted two saplings and gave them names.

    57% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  11. 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 Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Someone steps into a puddle of water...

    75% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that A complimentary glass of lemonade.

    88% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that The country is rich but poor.

    58% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that I play NBA 2K11 as the Lakers, the #2 team, and refuse to play the Heat, the #1 team and say that I am good?

    58% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that The people who most commonly get ME/CFS (which is an illness that stops you dead) are those who cant stop or slow down.

    63% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that A solar powered flashlight.

    85% ironic 4 votes Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that Jorge wants to be hardcore, but his mother won't let him? http://www.

    85% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that I don't want to be officially "In A Relationship" on Facebook because I don't want the world to know my personal business, yet my profile picture is of me and my girlfriend, and my girlfriend's profile picture is that same picture of her and I.

    75% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that That...

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  21. Is it ironic that Someone states "I wish it would snow on all this people bitching about snow" because they are bitching about people bitching?

    85% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that I am on my way to a CPR(cardiopulmonary resuscitation) class in the middle of a blizzard & have a bad car accident requiring medical personal to use CPR on me to save my life.

    63% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that The question below me is amazing and the owners of this site are just jealous?

    88% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that This question is ironic.

    63% not ironic 4 votes Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that Someone accuses unnamed people of being passive-aggressive in their facebook status.

    55% not ironic 4 votes Vote →