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By *ea monkey OP Man
over a year ago
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Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks? |
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks? "
A death row pardon two minutes too late? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks?
A death row pardon two minutes too late? "
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The most ironic thing for me recently was being asked to play mistress to a strapping body builder.
Tbh I have no experience but thoroughly enjoyed playing I was surprised at how naturally it came. Got to love fab and the experiences that are available to us.
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks? "
When he messages me and he’s really smoking hot...... but he hasn’t read my profile and he’s specifically said in his that he won’t meet girls like me.  |
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks?
When he messages me and he’s really smoking hot...... but he hasn’t read my profile and he’s specifically said in his that he won’t meet girls like me. "
Good example  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks?
When he messages me and he’s really smoking hot...... but he hasn’t read my profile and he’s specifically said in his that he won’t meet girls like me.
Good example "
Thanks 
It was a bit disappointing though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks?
When he messages me and he’s really smoking hot...... but he hasn’t read my profile and he’s specifically said in his that he won’t meet girls like me.
Good example
Thanks
It was a bit disappointing though. "
irony often is |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks?
When he messages me and he’s really smoking hot...... but he hasn’t read my profile and he’s specifically said in his that he won’t meet girls like me.
Good example
Thanks
It was a bit disappointing though. irony often is"
It’s ironic.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This really got me thinking and I’ve been trying to think of something! A traffic warden getting a ticket? Is that ironic?"
The fire brigade rescuing a cat stuck in a tree then running it over when they leave? |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
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A song called Ironic written by someone with no apparent sense of irony. Unless they were being doubly ironic about that.. 
Or after the Exxon Valdez oil slick, after they cleaned it up, they called all the press to show them release a seal that they had spent thousands of dollars treating after it had been affected. It got killed by an orca almost immediately.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"in 2002 a tree was planted in Los Angeles in memory of the Beatle George Harrison.
The tree died from beetle infestation"
Walter... you crack me up sometimes!!  |
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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago
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"Which do you want; Socratic irony, dramatic/tragic/Shakespearean irony, situational irony, or postmodern irony?
Whatcha got? "
Socratic irony is the feigning of ignorance in order to gain advantage from it (for example, playing the fool).
Dramatic irony most associates itself with situations in which there is a key feature of a story, often a surprise which will undo the primary character, which the audience or at least another member of the story knows about. Shakespeare used it a lot.
Postmodern irony or metafiction is when authors purposefully and consciously draw the readers' attention to the fact that you're reading fiction, reading a story, that the author knows you are there and addresses you directly, pointing out the fiction. The simplest examples of this are found in the interjections of an author as narrator, giving you little tidbits of information or ideas about what's going on in the author's mind, or beyond the written story.
Cosmic or situational irony is summed up effectively by describing a kind of pre-destined fate, often best illustrated by situations which we call Sod's law, or sometimes Murphy's law. Language evolves naturally and through misuse. So, whilst according to standard definitions, this is not an ironic situation but more unfortunate, increasingly this misuse of irony is becoming accepted as a genuine secondary explanation of irony, which is not necessarily something to be abhorred but it is important to be aware of it. However, since the term is misused so often, a form of irony called "Situational Irony" to name it exists. This is ultimately the case with Alanis’ song albeit who knows her thinking at the time.
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
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"Which do you want; Socratic irony, dramatic/tragic/Shakespearean irony, situational irony, or postmodern irony?
Whatcha got?
Socratic irony is the feigning of ignorance in order to gain advantage from it (for example, playing the fool).
Dramatic irony most associates itself with situations in which there is a key feature of a story, often a surprise which will undo the primary character, which the audience or at least another member of the story knows about. Shakespeare used it a lot.
Postmodern irony or metafiction is when authors purposefully and consciously draw the readers' attention to the fact that you're reading fiction, reading a story, that the author knows you are there and addresses you directly, pointing out the fiction. The simplest examples of this are found in the interjections of an author as narrator, giving you little tidbits of information or ideas about what's going on in the author's mind, or beyond the written story.
Cosmic or situational irony is summed up effectively by describing a kind of pre-destined fate, often best illustrated by situations which we call Sod's law, or sometimes Murphy's law. Language evolves naturally and through misuse. So, whilst according to standard definitions, this is not an ironic situation but more unfortunate, increasingly this misuse of irony is becoming accepted as a genuine secondary explanation of irony, which is not necessarily something to be abhorred but it is important to be aware of it. However, since the term is misused so often, a form of irony called "Situational Irony" to name it exists. This is ultimately the case with Alanis’ song albeit who knows her thinking at the time.
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By *ea monkey OP Man
over a year ago
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"Which do you want; Socratic irony, dramatic/tragic/Shakespearean irony, situational irony, or postmodern irony?
Whatcha got?
Socratic irony is the feigning of ignorance in order to gain advantage from it (for example, playing the fool).
Dramatic irony most associates itself with situations in which there is a key feature of a story, often a surprise which will undo the primary character, which the audience or at least another member of the story knows about. Shakespeare used it a lot.
Postmodern irony or metafiction is when authors purposefully and consciously draw the readers' attention to the fact that you're reading fiction, reading a story, that the author knows you are there and addresses you directly, pointing out the fiction. The simplest examples of this are found in the interjections of an author as narrator, giving you little tidbits of information or ideas about what's going on in the author's mind, or beyond the written story.
Cosmic or situational irony is summed up effectively by describing a kind of pre-destined fate, often best illustrated by situations which we call Sod's law, or sometimes Murphy's law. Language evolves naturally and through misuse. So, whilst according to standard definitions, this is not an ironic situation but more unfortunate, increasingly this misuse of irony is becoming accepted as a genuine secondary explanation of irony, which is not necessarily something to be abhorred but it is important to be aware of it. However, since the term is misused so often, a form of irony called "Situational Irony" to name it exists. This is ultimately the case with Alanis’ song albeit who knows her thinking at the time.
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The irony in this situation is that I didn't read it |
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks? "
A song called ironic consisting of a list of things that are not ironic at all? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Arthur dent house was being knocked down to make way for a bypass, but ironically there was a bypass being put through the Milky Way by the Vogons at the same time! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"People saying "Its you're loss"
a) its "your"
And b) I am pretty sure I can live with it!"
I hate when people use bad grammar while stating bad grammar like
“If your to lazy to get grammar right why would I want to see you?”
It’s like no Susan it’s
“If YOU’RE too lazy to get grammar right, why would I want to see you?”
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"Is it a black fly in your chardonnay, a free ride when you've already paid or is it the fact that none of the things in the song are actually ironic at all?
What do you think defines irony folks?
A song called ironic consisting of a list of things that are not ironic at all?"
Do you think she was being deliberately ironic? |
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Alanis.
Nothing more to add at this moment!
