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  1. Is it ironic that I post a selfie to my girlfriend pouting because she pouts in every picture?

    83% not ironic 9 votes Love Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that Isn't it ironic that dictionaries do not agree on the definition of irony?

    73% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that A professional lumberjack says " all work and no play makes me what to chop trees.

    55% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that A town planner is late for a meeting to discuss the problem of traffic congestion because he is stuck in traffic.

    87% ironic 12 votes Irony Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that We forbid the Navajo to speak there native language and that language helped save our ass in WWII.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that The last safe city isn't safe.

    83% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that A whole town of people are ignorant of the meaning of the word \'ignorant\'.

    50% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that A girl who is on a strike against global animal cruelty is wearing a leather belt or bag.

    90% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Intentionally using the word "poetic," to rhyme with the words "exotic, erotic, quixotic, neurotic," thus breaking a rhythmic pattern?

    70% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that That...you...

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that I studied really hard for the exam but still managed to fail?

    71% not ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that My wife wants me to stay at my job because they give me great health insurance, but the stress from my job is actually what's making me sick.

    81% ironic 7 votes Health Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that A pregnant woman told me I was getting fat?

    78% not ironic 4 votes Health Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that I spent my whole pregnancy researching, planning for, and anticipating a natural home-birth and in the end winded up in the hospital with an emergency c-section?

    68% ironic 4 votes Health Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that A man with stickers of little boys peeing on things on his car is infuriated to discover a drunk peeing on his car.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that Pres Obama made the that he finds it interesting that the press asks about pulling all ground troops from Iraq "as if it was my decision".

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that It's ironic that a website dedicated to explaining irony by examples does not have a prominently featured way to sort all the submitted examples by "most ironic"

    92% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that Che guevara spent his whole life fighting capitalism just to have his picture on a shirt sold at the gap?

    75% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that You have to watch a commercial for a skin product in order to read an article about a man catching fire from a skin product?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that The chocolates I received from the dollar store were better than the gourmet Belgian chocolates given to me.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that New Hampshire license plates with the slogan "Live Free or Die" are manufactured by state prison inmates.

    77% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Luffness New Golf Club is called as such when it was founded in 1894, making it older than over 99% of the world\'s golf clubs.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that The Boston Marathon bomber was brought to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

    50% ironic 1 votes Health Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that A Gang member is shot and killed,his fellow gang members celebrate his life after he's been shot and killed but not while he's alive so he can at least appreciate it.

    60% not ironic 2 votes Death Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that My digital camera was made years ago while my brand new camera is fashioned from a camera made in the 60's?

    75% ironic 2 votes Technology Vote →