Irony

[1010011010]

Originally Posted by corduroyboy

bittersweet contradiction....

That's probably about right there I reckon. Les' comment about telling the boss he didn't need paid so much then running out of credit seems more ironic. But then it kind of suggests that the amount of money you have is directly linked to the credit in your phone, and that's not always true.

But it's more ironic than the initial situation.

But that didn't happen.

So............

blah.

[corduroyboy]

Originally Posted by 1010011010

and that's not always true.

You're always true, baby.

[1010011010]

Oh yeah - I just remembered from Othello that there's irony in there.
Especially when Othello refers to Iago as "honest Iago".

That's "dramatic irony" - where the audience knows but the character doesn't.

I think.

[corduroyboy]

Originally Posted by 1010011010

Oh yeah - I just remembered from Othello that there's irony in there.
Especially when Othello refers to Iago as "honest Iago".

That's "dramatic irony" - where the audience knows but the character doesn't.

I think.

"I know you love me, here's the irony: you're going to walk away intact."

The irony here is the implication that Stuart Murdoch, or the character he is singing in first person, thinks he does not need the girl, and she loves him and thus will be broken when he leaves, but actually is fine, whereby the man will somehow be incomplete: shattered.

Belle & Sebastian have all the answers.

And Smarties.


Have answers.


Not Belle & Sebastian have all the Smarties.

[1010011010]

Is this whole thread a lesson in irony?

That is to say the thread entitled "Irony" started with a post detailing a supposed ironic situation which was never ironic in the first place.

Or was it just wrong?

Originally Posted by coduroyboy

You're always true, baby.

But only for you baby.

[Rich]

You are both right..........or wrong?



I got the raise in the end anyway.

[Hecate]

Originally Posted by Rich

You are both right..........or wrong?



I got the raise in the end anyway.

Good one

[Rich]

Originally Posted by freakonaleash

Good one

Cheers.

[Chunder]

Originally Posted by corduroyboy

I think.

Dontcha think? Would have got you muyo repos from me... But maybe I'm just cheesy like that

[corduroyboy]

Originally Posted by 1010011010

Is Ferris Bueller ironing?

Nah, I presume he concocted some madcap scheme involving 1980s household appliances to get out of it..

[NoWave]

Originally Posted by corduroyboy

In short, being a smoker and dying of lung cancer is not ironic, just what is expected really.

Being anti-smoking and dying of lung cancer contracted through passive smoking is kind of ironic.

I think.

But only if you were really in your face about being a non smoker. Otherwise it's just a bit shit.

Alternately, giving up smoking cause you're scared of cancer and then being diagnosed with it next week would be ironic.

[Rich]

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