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  1. Is it ironic that I'm trying to get over an obsession of a guy to find out that my new guy friend is now obsessed with me?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that People using the word "ignorant" who dont know what the word actually means.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that The guy who championed the use of medical marijuana in California, dies of lung cancer?

    60% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that If you're playing an online game and the worst performer tells the best performer that they are bad?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that I work for a company that makes a product that treats four different autoimmune diseases but that my child, who has one of these diseases, can't take it because it's not indicated for pediatric use, and that I can't take it either, despite having previously been a participant in a clinical trial of the drug, because it's not yet FDA approved for my condition?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that Breweries demand consumers to "drink responsibly"?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that Facebook is useless, but people post videos on how usless it is on Facebook?

    50% ironic 1 votes Technology Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that Conservationists ended up accidentally killing a rhino at an anti-poaching demonstration?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Someone hit my car while they were parking and while my car was in for repairs, I reversed my hire car into a pole?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that My friend came over to color my hair to save me some money.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that I know a young boy who's birthday I didn't know was coming up and I was in the store looking at items and a tattoo book triggered to me that I should get this for the young boy.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that The last name of the chairperson for the diabetes foundation is "Sugar.

    88% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that I need my SS card and birth certificate to renew my driver's license (even though I've had a DL in this state for 30 years and I've lived in the same place for 11 years), and in order to get a copy of my SS card from the gov't I need to show them my driver's license and my birth certificate? If it's not irony, what is it, because it seems odd in some way.

    77% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that (if) Hannibal Lecter wore a YOLO (you only live once) t-shirt?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that The events in a post-apocalyptic work of fiction starts to mirror what's happening in reality?

    70% not ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he expected.

    60% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that I lost my keys which was inside the house[and i locked it}.

    55% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that A firefighters house burns down because they did not have working smoke alarms.

    80% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that A backpacker hiking in the woods with bear spray gets eaten by a bear.

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that My doctor had the swine flu.

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that I am writing a paper on technology, but had to quit midway, because I couldn't get my wifi to work.

    66% ironic 7 votes Technology Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that I left for my summer holiday when it was beautiful whether at home and raining when I arrived at the destination?

    70% not ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that This guy said he doesn't look old, yet he looks like my 50 year old dad?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that I'm spending way too much time organizing my calendar and tasks lists as well as trying to find different calendars and to-do-list apps?

    82% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that As an overweight person i went out running wearing a hat with a fast food logo on it?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →