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  1. Is it ironic that I am a local student driving 5 days to my new university, when international students are there in less than one day?

    63% ironic 6 votes School Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that People on Facebook are posting an image of a single candle flame, with the caption, "In memory of the 19 firefighters who lost their live's {sic} in Arizona.

    65% not ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that The liberal government of Australia prefer to open more coal mines and the biggest coal port in the world near the Great Barrier reef since they do not believe in global warming?

    50% ironic 1 votes Technology Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that Living is the luckiest thing that will ever happen to you but everyone does it? And then dying is the most unlucky thing to happen to you yet also, everyone does it.

    65% not ironic 2 votes Death Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that Obama got the noble peace prize and yet stated the Afghanistan war.

    54% ironic 11 votes News Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that A person boasts (in writing) how intelligent they are, and they spell it "intellegent"?

    57% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A prince kills a dragon and saves the princess and then finds out that the dragon was her best friend that was saving her from princes since she has a phobia of them.

    53% not ironic 3 votes Death Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that People on this site do not understand the meaning of ironic?

    83% ironic 3 votes Technology Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that My coin went missing and i found it in my pocket after thirty minutes of searching?

    79% not ironic 7 votes Coincidence Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that A man's birthday should fall on mothers day and the mother of his children died a month ago.

    88% not ironic 6 votes Death Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that Not going to church because you are tired or I'll.

    85% not ironic 4 votes Religion Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that A snow plow needed to be dug out of a snow drift?

    60% ironic 3 votes Technology Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that The highest scoring offense in the NFL got shutout?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that The world 'tsunami' is Japanese for "harbor wave".

    75% not ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Whilst at a loud party a man opened the front door to see if he could hear his taxi.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that When a restaurant that serves fattening, artery clogging food (fried chicken) financially supports funding for Diabetes research and treatment?

    68% ironic 4 votes Health Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that We do the opposite of what we think? Is a situation ironic wherein our actions are the opposite of our thoughts or our values?

    55% ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that A young boy tells his mother is a very loud voice that he can say the word whisper.

    52% not ironic 6 votes Literary Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Piggly Wiggly's headquarters are located in New Hampshire, instead of the southern US?

    55% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that An email account that I was intending to delete got hacked into and sent spam mail out to my friends.

    58% not ironic 6 votes Technology Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that That I have to wait until someone dies in the funeral industry to get a job in the funeral industry?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Death Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that The generation of peace, love, and injustice that is in charge of United States of America is the greediest generation in the history of our nation.

    53% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that A obese man driving a vehicle that has a sign saying, "CALL ME ON HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT!"?

    75% ironic 2 votes Health Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that Tulisa's surname is Contostavlos, which, is a bit of a mouthful.

    98% not ironic 28 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that My x husband is getting married to someone and her birthday is the same month and day that our son committed suicide? She is posting my living children as her children on facebook but not the son that died.

    81% not ironic 7 votes Death Vote →