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  1. Is it ironic that I was tagged in a post about clowns and had a timehop about clowns.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that My couisn said "wtf is an acronym?"

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that How truth commission workers who listen to stories of traumatized victims be traumatized?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that Everybody thinks they know what irony is when they really don't?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that My husband works for an environmental company dealing with petitions against oil and gas drilling yet I work for an oil and gas company that looks for places to drill?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that A weapon merchant said to his son one day that his spear can poke through anything and his shield can never be poked through.

    88% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that Phonetically isn't spelled phonetically?

    85% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that People who purport to be secularists and are opposed to the RCC, find no difficulty in another religion imposing medieval restrictions on women students.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that This site has not improved my understanding of "irony"?

    88% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that The trex said that you shouldn't kill someone with your convenience.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that In the movie lone survivor, the navy seals weren't able to make radio contact to support that was desperatly trying to help them.

    67% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that The silver house has no silver in it.

    84% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that A true story is never quite so true as an invented one.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that A policeman, trying to prevent crime, gets shot therefore causing a crime?

    57% ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that A girl makes a trifold project about Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, on a Microsoft Computer with a Microsoft Office program?

    85% not ironic 6 votes Technology Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that When folding the American flag I complained the white part will show then when handed to the other person they finish it with no white showing?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that Jane Austen wrote about love and marriage even though she was never married?

    70% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that Highways are supposed to let you drive smoothly but highways are the one that always cause traffic jam.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Reporters in Mexico are killed for investigating crime?

    65% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that In an attempt to save themselves from a threat that will bring them chaos, the villagers brought their land to chaos.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that I spent all my money, every last penny, on a new wallet?

    78% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that It takes sadness to know what happiness is?

    67% not ironic 6 votes Love Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that A blog post entitled Lost In Translation inspires a comment from someone who may have been indirectly involved in the creation of a film series called Lust In Translation?

    70% not ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that You are suppose to hate crime so much but you are one of the most wanted criminals in the world.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that Tom Cruise, an actor turned Scientologist, plays the role of a brainwashed clone in the movie Oblivion who breaks free from his brainwashing to overcome his masters?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →