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  1. Is it ironic that An Atheist wears crosses?

    75% not ironic 4 votes Religion Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that Someone would spend the entirety of this actual life obsessed with the prospect of an afterlife?

    81% ironic 8 votes Religion Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that A woman driving and texting posts "The happy song makes me HAPPY!" just seconds before she crashes and dies in a car accident.

    80% ironic 7 votes Death Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that A developer told us that no update or change had occurred that should cause the error to the website forms we were experiencing.

    73% ironic 4 votes Technology Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and was adamant against enhanced Interrogation via water Boarding yet approves Drone strikes against unseen targets and maintains a Kill List of World Characters that are considered Enemies.

    75% not ironic 2 votes News Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that A boy shows he likes a girl by pulling her pigtails?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Love Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that I have a house inspection today so I have to hide my valuables, I opt to wear my diamond friendship ring given to me by my ex-boyfriend.

    67% not ironic 3 votes Love Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that A dumb student tells a topper student to study.

    88% not ironic 4 votes School Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Kevin Spacey's career is collapsing like a House of Cards?

    77% not ironic 3 votes News Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that I have been diagnosed with fomo "fear of missing out disease" and that I sit on Facebook all night checking I'm not missing out on anything, and yet the only person who I actually want to see what they're up to is my ex girlfriend who I am not friends with on the social media site.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Love Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that A young 20y.

    66% not ironic 7 votes Death Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that My maths teacher is called...

    55% ironic 4 votes School Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that My PS3 controller holder is in a shape of Mario from Super Marios?

    57% ironic 8 votes Technology Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that A web site that offers a free course on editing and proof reading has three glaring typos.

    85% ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that The more a needy person pushes to be your friend the less you want to do with them?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Love Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that My teacher said to do a project about Fahrenheit 451, a book about books being illegal, where we made a robot that will help the censors burn books more efficiently, and I made a reference to Charlotte's Web.

    50% ironic 1 votes Literary Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that A blind man "witnesses" a murder.

    91% ironic 21 votes Death Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that People are creating AI machines (CAPTCHA, etc.

    87% ironic 7 votes Technology Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that When someone wants to kill someone, but the intended victim commits suicide.

    83% ironic 6 votes Death Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Elvis Presley competed in an Elvis Presley look-alike contest and lost.

    72% ironic 6 votes Music Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that A woman demonstrating for English to be made the official language of the USA carried a sign misspelling "official" as "offical"?

    83% ironic 4 votes News Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Alaniss Morissette's song about irony isn't ironic?

    66% ironic 5 votes Music Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that On Halloween someone impersonating a cop is arrested?

    53% not ironic 3 votes News Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that In Hamlet, is it ironic when Polonius suggests Claudius should, "to England send [Hamlet]; or confine him where your wisdom best shall think.

    70% ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that His interest was a mere sniff.

    50% ironic 1 votes Literary Vote →