Examples of Coincidence ironies

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Ironic Questions: Coincidence

Is It Ironic That...?

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  • 75% NOT IRONIC
  • 25% IRONIC
1) ... I tell my boyfriend I love being close to him and then a song saying "i feel so close to you right now" plays on the radio?...
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  • 50% IRONIC
  • 50% NOT IRONIC
2) ... There is a game-thread in a forum, that has a poll in which you can choose who your favourite forum poster is, but none of the options are people who regularly play the forum games?...
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3) ... Is it ironic that someone would give others really good advice, but never follow it themselves?...
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  • 50% IRONIC
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4) ... I looked for a treasure but ended up finding the treasure at home, where I first started?...
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  • 83% IRONIC
  • 17% NOT IRONIC
5) ... there is a sign which reads "the procrastinator's meeting has been postponed"...? http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-is-irony-with-examples/...
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  • 55% NOT IRONIC
  • 45% IRONIC
6) ... Is it ironic that my older brother saw the band, Soft Machine play live in 1968 but didn't really care, while I was a fan of the group but never got to see them play live? My brother says this is ironic, while I say it was just a coincidence. He claims it is an ironic coincidence....
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  • 75% IRONIC
  • 25% NOT IRONIC
7) ... A hetero-romantic asexual reblogs a post on Tumblr about sex and says "WHAT NOW WORLD???!!!"...
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  • 67% IRONIC
  • 33% NOT IRONIC
8) ... I threw a bottle of No tears baby shampoo at my sister and it made her cry?...
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  • 50% IRONIC
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9) ... I threw a bottle of No tears baby shampoo at my sister and it made her cry?...
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10) ... You spend your life picking people up on their spelling, grammar, pronounciation etc. and criticising them for not proof reading their work fully while generally deriding their poor education. Only to post a comment on Facebook spectacularly misspelling your own daughter's name! Is it ironic?...
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11) ... A bald man is wearing a hairnet for work?
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  • 50% IRONIC
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12) ... Two roommates, one a wino the other a beer drinker. One random Thursday the wino comes home with a 12 pack, and the other with a box of wine. Is it ironic?...
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  • 50% IRONIC
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13) ... Someone who always follows the rules gets caught the one time they break them, while someone who never follows the rules always gets away with it?...
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  • 60% NOT IRONIC
  • 40% IRONIC
14) ... A guy morns the break up of a relationship with a girl he believes he loves by sleeping with several woman he could never love. Years later, he and the one he loves get back together but he loses her again because he's afraid of marriage....
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15) ... A persons username on a video game is 'yolo bro'?
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16) ... I missed my lecture on job interviews because I was at a job interview?...
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17) ... My friend came over to color my hair to save me some money. she broke my expensive chair....
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  • 63% NOT IRONIC
  • 37% IRONIC
18) ... There are over 30 CCTV cameras within 200 meters of the apartment in which George Orwell lived until 1950....
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19) ... on earth day(4/22/13) I limbed trees which sole purpose were to be made into paper?...
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  • 50% IRONIC
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20) ... my sister and I were talking about the actor Jeremy Irons and how pale he looks, suspecting that, because he is a vegan, he probably is anemic (lacking 'iron') and how funny it was since his last name is Irons...
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  • 63% IRONIC
  • 38% NOT IRONIC
21) ... It's a death row pardon two minutes too late.... and you got executed in an Iron Maiden and your favorite rock band is Iron Maiden and they got signed to death row records after playing "2 minutes to midnight"...
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  • 78% NOT IRONIC
  • 23% IRONIC
22) ... a girl makes a trifold project about Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, on a Microsoft Computer with a Microsoft Office program?...
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  • 75% NOT IRONIC
  • 25% IRONIC
23) ... while waiting for an interview at a competitors company, the magazine on the coffee table was the very one that featured my former company and an article with my picture from a few months prior. The next magazine in the stack featured the same ad but my picture was removed. Coincidence or Ironic?...
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  • 75% IRONIC
  • 25% NOT IRONIC
24) ... Is it ironic that water is so tasteless, everyone wants to drink it?
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  • 75% IRONIC
  • 25% NOT IRONIC
25) ... It's a black fly in your Chardonnay..... and you're an entomologist who was looking for a rare African black fly, and you're trying Chardonnay for the first time and you feel depressed that you wasted your money because you didn't like it, until out of nowhere the fly lands on your drink brightening up your day convincing you not to pour it out after all....