Show me the irony.

[All Hail Lelouch]

Everyday we see something that is ironic in some way. What is it?

So forum, do you have any examples of irony?

Edit: Well now i feel quite dumb. I was mistaken in my definition of Irony. I shall simply remove my Doom comment and let the thread continue.

 

[Woodsey]

That's a coincidence, not irony.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

How is that Ironic? It may be numerologically significant, but isn't irony under any definition I've heard.

My Example: I run a computer repair business. I went online to set up my sparkly new website, and I couldn't do it because my router went on the fritz and I only had a slow, unreliable connection. THAT is irony.

 

[barash]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2krXq8fw90

 

[Togs]

Just spent 10 minutes trying to get the difference between irony and coincidence and still dont get it

How would you define it?

 

[barash]

Just spent 10 minutes trying to get the difference between irony and coincidence and still dont get it

How would you define it?

The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

The definition of Irony: Providing an example instead of a definition.

 

[PumpItUp]

Let's kneecap this misnomer right now.

Irony is (as stated above) when the result of a situation is the opposite of what you expected. Comes in (mostly) two major varieties:

1) Dramatic irony: When the characters or people involved in a situation expect something to happen and the opposite happens instead.
Ex.

2) Situational irony: When the audience viewing a situation (or a retelling of such)expect something to happen and the opposite happens.

It is NOT something that seems vaguely appropriate to the situation (tripping on concrete while wearing skates after stepping off a skating rink). It only works if it is the opposite of expectations.

 

[crudus]

I would expect it to. I wouldn't be surprised if that was planned.

How is that Ironic? It may be numerologically significant, but isn't irony under any definition I've heard.

My Example: I run a computer repair business. I went online to set up my sparkly new website, and I couldn't do it because my router went on the fritz and I only had a slow, unreliable connection. THAT is irony.

I would disagree. I would call it ironic if you couldn't fix it. I expect things to break every now and then. Although it is kind of hard to label irony in hindsight since it is hard to think exactly what you would expect.

Anyways you want irony? I'm an atheist and my name is Christian.

yep, that is irony.

 

[xdom125x]

I find people not knowing that they do not understand irony to be ironic in and of itself. I am not referring to anyone in this thread but to a general thing that I often see.
Also,
People that think they understand the meaning of theory(as in scientific theory which are based on evidence) and then going on about religious "theories"(based on faith(which is belief without evidence)) seems pretty ironic.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I would expect it to. I wouldn't be surprised if that was planned.

How is that Ironic? It may be numerologically significant, but isn't irony under any definition I've heard.

My Example: I run a computer repair business. I went online to set up my sparkly new website, and I couldn't do it because my router went on the fritz and I only had a slow, unreliable connection. THAT is irony.

I would disagree. I would call it ironic if you couldn't fix it. I expect things to break every now and then. Although it is kind of hard to label irony in hindsight since it is hard to think exactly what you would expect.

Perhaps. Not the greatest example I admit.

 

[crudus]

Perhaps. Not the greatest example I admit.

It is hard to think of good examples of irony since it is hard to say "Yeah, I think this is the opposite of what I would expect". Yours was pretty good, just not what I would call exactly correct.

 

[PumpItUp]

I can't really think of any ironic stories, so I'll just give y'all a link I recently found:

http://www.oddee.com/item_97032.aspx

Number 1 is ironic, Number 2 is VERY ironic (and hilarious) but none of the rest are ironic, only appropriate or unexpected.

The definition of Irony: Providing an example instead of a definition.

This is ironic. If you set out to define irony and instead don't define it, that is irony.
See also: Alanis Morrisette's "Ironic", in which none of the examples provided are ironic, making the song itself ironic.

 

[barash]

Let's kneecap this misnomer right now.

Irony is (as stated above) when the result of a situation is the opposite of what you expected. Comes in (mostly) two major varieties:

1) Dramatic irony: When the characters or people involved in a situation expect something to happen and the opposite happens instead.
Ex.

2) Situational irony: When the audience viewing a situation (or a retelling of such)expect something to happen and the opposite happens.

It is NOT something that seems vaguely appropriate to the situation (tripping on concrete while wearing skates after stepping off a skating rink). It only works if it is the opposite of expectations.

From dictionary.com

1) Dramatic: irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.

Not necessarily opposite.

2) Situational: an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does.

Not necessarily opposite.

 

[PumpItUp]

I would expect it to. I wouldn't be surprised if that was planned.

How is that Ironic? It may be numerologically significant, but isn't irony under any definition I've heard.

My Example: I run a computer repair business. I went online to set up my sparkly new website, and I couldn't do it because my router went on the fritz and I only had a slow, unreliable connection. THAT is irony.

I would disagree. I would call it ironic if you couldn't fix it. I expect things to break every now and then. Although it is kind of hard to label irony in hindsight since it is hard to think exactly what you would expect.

Anyways you want irony? I'm an atheist and my name is Christian.

yep, that is irony.

This is not irony, unless his parents named him Christian in the hopes that he would be a devout follower of Christianity. THAT would be ironic, otherwise no.

 

[PumpItUp]

Let's kneecap this misnomer right now.

Irony is (as stated above) when the result of a situation is the opposite of what you expected. Comes in (mostly) two major varieties:

1) Dramatic irony: When the characters or people involved in a situation expect something to happen and the opposite happens instead.
Ex.

2) Situational irony: When the audience viewing a situation (or a retelling of such)expect something to happen and the opposite happens.

It is NOT something that seems vaguely appropriate to the situation (tripping on concrete while wearing skates after stepping off a skating rink). It only works if it is the opposite of expectations.

From dictionary.com

1) Dramatic: irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.

Not necessarily opposite.

2) Situational: an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does.

Not necessarily opposite.

Sorry, yes that is correct. I mixed up the literary terms for ironic and the real-world application of the term. The opposite scenario only applies to real-world situations like (some) of the situations described above (but not alot).

Also, I hate it when people misuse the word ironic. Does that make me an Ironic Nazi?

 

[crudus]

This is not irony, unless his parents named him Christian in the hopes that he would be a devout follower of Christianity. THAT would be ironic, otherwise no.

I wouldn't expect an atheist to be named Christian. Although it would probably be more ironic if he came from an atheistic family.