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Topic: I've finally figured out the song 'Ironic'!

Green started this discussion 11 years ago #39,592

Nothing in the song is ironic. Rain on your wedding day is just bad luck. The irony is that a song about irony contains nothing ironic.

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The cat joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later[^] [v] #526,868

Rain on my wedding day I'd kinda like

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,869

Only one thing in that song is truly ironic, by definition, and that is 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,871

@previous (C)
How the fuck is that ironic??

Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,872

@previous (D)
It is the opposite of what is expected.

Anonymous D replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 17 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,874

@previous (C)
How is that any different from the other scenarios in the song? At a minimum, I think Mr. Play It Safe's plane crashing is also unexpected. Possibly also a late death row pardon. Or a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break.

Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,876

@previous (D)
No, not "unexpected". Irony refers to the very opposite of what one would expect, not merely the unexpected.

Anonymous D replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 27 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #526,878

@previous (C)
Kill yourself

netscape joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #526,889

@526,869 (C)

> Only one thing in that song is truly ironic, by definition, and that is 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.

what about meeting the man of your dreams
and then meeting his beautiful wife...
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