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  1. Is it ironic that While unloading a truck-full of groceries onto the floor you stub your toe on a bottle of BBQ sauce called Stubb's?

    78% ironic 9 votes Food Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that When I was trying to recall the song names from an album, the only song I couldn't remember was called 'Don't Forget Me'.

    81% ironic 16 votes Music Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that Shane Warne, former spinbowler for the Australian cricket team, seems to have a thing for English women, but most Australian cricket supporters would be fiercely Anglophobic (in the stands at least)?

    70% not ironic 2 votes Sport Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that That I listened to music at a concert, and while riding back in an Uber, found out that my driver was hearing impaired?

    78% not ironic 8 votes Music Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that So this youtuber invented training zombies, they follow you and then you kill them, and he died in a real train crash.

    88% not ironic 4 votes Technology Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that A math teacher does not know how to multiply.

    94% ironic 8 votes School Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that Someone who always wanted to be in the team they admire gets accepted then injures themselves before the game?

    57% ironic 4 votes Sport Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that An ambulance drives at high speed to answer an emergency call in order to help save a life but then runs over the patient they were supposed to help and kills them instead?

    85% ironic 11 votes Death Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that The more i eat the less i get fat?

    63% ironic 7 votes Food Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that I hate tomatoes but love ketchup.

    57% not ironic 3 votes Food Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that I loved the book The Book Thief by Mark Zusak; I decided not to give it back to the owner.

    87% ironic 6 votes Literary Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Just as I turned on some Beethoven music to relax, my children started screaming in the background?

    53% not ironic 4 votes Music Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that A health teacher is too fat.

    79% ironic 14 votes Food Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that A Great Dane was named "Tinkerbell?".

    55% not ironic 13 votes Animal Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that The younger sister in Agnes Owens' short story 'The Lighthouse' says to her sibling "I hope a monster doesn't get you" and later in the story, a monster in fact, gets them both.

    75% ironic 2 votes Literary Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that There is an option for people that do not understand any english in a british census, written in english?

    65% ironic 2 votes News Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that My wife always told me that I would end up cheating on her, and then she ended up cheating on me.

    95% ironic 11 votes Love Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that We both have science on monday?

    88% not ironic 5 votes Science Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that A cardiologist dies from a heart attack?

    68% ironic 12 votes Death Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that I found my match but still looking.

    83% not ironic 4 votes Love Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that That halloween, a holday with satanic connections was celebrated on sunday a holy day.

    64% not ironic 7 votes Religion Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that I'm trying to break up with my girlfriend for a lack of communication, and when I try to call her she doesnt answer?

    59% not ironic 9 votes Love Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that A school complains about kids not eating healthy enough, yet they sell cookies and soft pretzels with cheese at lunch?

    55% not ironic 4 votes Food Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that During a conversation about the panspermia hypothesis a creationist said, "the alien seed theory simply kicks the can down the road....where...

    53% ironic 4 votes Religion Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that You meet the girl of your dreams and then meeting her husband.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Love Vote →