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  1. Is it ironic that If you've put in two weeks notice to quit your job, the person who is supposed to take your place actually ends up quitting before you?

    60% not ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that My last name is West but I am terrible with directions, always confusing east and west?

    75% not ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that A police officer opens a donut shop?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that People type to other people "your a idiot".

    57% not ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that Reading the novel "the stand" while sitting.

    75% not ironic 6 votes Literary Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game, a celebrated hunter with little respect for the animals he kills for sport, later becomes the hunted?

    50% ironic 1 votes Literary Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A stone has written on it "nothing is set in stone"

    55% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that The designers of a website that is dedicated to helping people develop their English writing skills (as well a their understanding of irony) have forgotten to capitalize the word "English" in one of the boxes at the top of their homepage? Hey, typos happen =).

    70% ironic 5 votes Literary Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that That the one character designed to be a side-character became the protagonist in its environment (in a video game) and the protagonist in other movie in the end escaped from this environment (he was trapped in a tV series) because he did not wanted to be protagonist anymore? They are characters from the two movies Free Guy and The Truman Show.

    55% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that I work around kids and am constantly having them lysol everything in the room to keep the germs away and the only person who keeps getting sick is ME!

    75% ironic 2 votes Health Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that Isn't it ironic that my radiation therapy starts on the anniversary of my daughters death?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Death Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that My cat saw a mouse and ran away from it.

    70% ironic 2 votes Animal Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that A hospital ad is featured in a ice-skating rink?

    50% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that My boyfriend is the one who pointed out that I was actually gay and attracted to women?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Love Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that I'd give my right arm to be Ambidextrous.

    83% ironic 3 votes Health Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that A person with adhd drives a ford focus?

    62% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that Your new set of markers arrives exactly one month after Christmas?

    76% not ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that The best tools get more blunt the more you use them?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that I leave my brothers room a mess only to later find that my baby sister has destroyed mine.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Is this an example of Irony? "Running with scissors in the traffic, trying to cut straight to the chase.

    91% not ironic 14 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that There is a shop near me called "top pizza" and when I went in the other day the guy Woking there said sorry we have no pizza?

    50% ironic 1 votes Food Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that An inventor decides to stop inventing, because he is bad at...

    68% not ironic 4 votes School Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that A man gave his baby girl up for adoption.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Love Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that A doctor became ill?

    60% ironic 3 votes Health Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that A Piggly Wiggly has become a Planet Fitness?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →