Monday, November 30, 2009

Ironically, wouldn't a person with histrionic personality disorder be just right for television?

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Ironically, wouldn't a person with histrionic personality disorder
be just right for television?


So I had to Google 'histrionic personality disorder' to see if it happened to mean, for example, a compulsive hatred of broadcast media. Nope, it's about attention-seeking. And since TV is filled with attention-seekers, I am mystified at what in the world is ironic about that...

Monday, November 23, 2009

I've been thinking about doing some defacing to a sex offender's home who ironically lives across from an

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I've been thinking about doing some defacing to a sex offender's
home who ironically lives across from an

elementary school in town here. Funny how those things happen. Can someone give me some options for retribution in a subtle, non-violent manner?

It is ironic that a sex offender lives near an elementary school? No. Sad, yes. Shocking, disturbing... sure. It can be any of those things. But it doesn't even approach ironic, unless perhaps the school trains police detectives charged with administering Megan's Law. Of course, being an elementary school, perhaps not.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Ironically, the jews included 8 things in their protocols to conquer the world?

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Ironically, the jews included 8 things in their protocols to conquer the world?

They sets things to become the richest in multinational companies industries such as musics (songs), sex, smoke (cigarettes), sports, fun, females, fashions as well as food. What say you?

I love this one. Pointless anti-Semitism based on the fraud called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" it certainly is, but even notwithstanding that, there is not even coincidence here, let alone irony. I search and in vain can find nothing: is there something quasi-ironic about Jewish people and the number eight? Or about Judaism and the specific industries listed below? I try to find a word to substitute the 'ironically' in the question, and can come up with nothing better than 'interestingly'.

And it's not even very interesting.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Why does is ironic thing always happen to us?

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Why does is ironic thing always happen to us?

Has this ironic thing ever happened to you? When you think about someone that you haven't seen a while. Then you encounter them sometime that day or the next. I find it very ironic

This masterpiece of eloquence uses the most popular misconception of irony: as a synonym for 'coincidence'. This person is, with intriguing sentence structure, talking about the coincidence of seeing a person soon after thinking about them for the first time in a while. It's amazing how remote that is from genuine irony.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Is it ironic that the Democrat primaries are less democratic than the Republican primaries?

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Is it ironic that the Democrat primaries are less democratic than the Republican primaries?

Is it ironic that the Democrat primaries, with the use of superdelegates, are less democratic than the Republican primaries?

This questioner bases the entire irony around, I believe, the fact that one major American party's name is the same word as a system of electing people. The fact that obviously both American parties are devoted to both democracy and republicanism in principle means that any discussion about their policies implied by their name is really little more than wordplay. In a country where a so-called Democratic Party actually offered democracy in its platform as an alternative to other parties, well then there might be some irony. But not here.