Dark ironies thread

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Ancient Mesopotamia was known as the cradle of
civilisation,the cultural capital of the world.
It is now called Iraq and is probably the most dangerous place in the world to live.

The Nuclear bomb was intended to save lives and bring peace and stability. What it did was kill many people and bring about the most dangerous hostility the world has ever seen.

Disclaimer- The poster is in no way a member of the CND, and is an advocate of nuclear weaponry.

Wikipedia is full of misspellings and misinformation. I looked up information about the Olympics, and athletes' names were constantly misspelled. Of course, one has to be pretty obsessed with the Olympics to know how the names are spelled.

I overdosed on Xanax during a panic attack. That's ironic.

That was sarcasm, as I could not come up with anything.

Will this suffice however?

Last year I had a dream about one of my friends who I hadn't seen in a long time dying, but it wasn't him, at least it didn't look like him, even though the doctor said it was.

A little while later I heard back from him and found out he had totally changed, I mean he used to be nerdy and all that, got picked on a fair bit, but now he's into Drugs, and he's in and gang and stuff, I don't talk to him anymore because we ended up having a fight.

Please, and all sources of infomation ARE always right? They're completely infallible?
Wikipedia doesn't claim to be somewhere to do your research, if you think that maybe you should do a little research of your own.

That's fascinating; a lot of remote cognition/precognition is known to occur in dreams (I've had it happen numerous times, myself).

Btw, the thread topic is now broadened to include either things from your own life, or just anything you happen to have heard/read/seen somewhere.

I use Wikipedia, occasionally for school stuff, only if the subject has been checked over by my mum who is a librarian knows what to look for.

Evelyn Hernandez, a pregnant hispanic woman, went missing on May 1, 2002. Her torso was found in the San Francisco Bay a few months later. Her case received virtually no publicity.

The same year, Laci Peterson, a white pregnant woman also from California, went missing. Her body was found the next spring, and her case received worldwide, massive media coverage.

King Richard I (AKA "the Lionheart"), who led a Christian Crusade into the Holy Land, was killed by a bolt from a crossbow - a weapon that he himself had introduced into the war.

The legend of King Canute portrays him as the ultimate example of a
self-deluded person,standing on the shore and exhorting the tide to obey
him.
The irony is that he was in fact trying to prove the opposite to his subjects,that he was as mortal as everyone else and there is no way that even a King can
control things like the tides.

Roger Bannister was told by the groundskeeper at an Oxford track that he could never be a great runner because he was too tall and thin to be a good miler. At the time, the typical miler was short and muscular, like New Zealander Jack Lovelock. Roger Bannister wound up becoming the first man to break the four minute mile. John Landy, Bannister's immediate successor, was also tall and thin. (Bannister was 6-1 and 155 pounds; Landy was 5-11 and 150 pounds).

hmm.

I have precog abilities as well.

however mine don't rate much....well on a scale of psi-cog lvls, I think I'm probably somewhere (from 1 to 5,...5 being bad and 1 being true psychic) between a 2.5 and 3.

Last summer I had a neighbor named Lindiwe whom I used to periodically drink with in his apartment. He introduced me to a ton of people and was always really gregarious and willing to hang out with anyone I introduced him to. As the summer went on, he became more and more of an obnoxious drunk, complaining about people to their faces for no reason, etc. The last time I saw him he was harping on me about me tendency to be withdrawn (which in this case was mostly just a natural reaction to me drinking when I wasn't in a good mood), and we almost got into a fight. A couple weeks later, I found out that he hung himself at a friend's house after a night of drinking. The irony is either that such an outgoing, hard partying people person would turn around and hang himself out of the blue, or the fact that HE had actually been a SHE. I honestly have no idea what the whole deal with that was. Looking back on it now, I have no idea whether she had meant to convey herself as a male, or if you was just going along with me and my friends calling her a "he" in front of her for some reason. She'll forever remain an enigma to probably anyone who knew her.

Hmmm.....so is this something they figured out when they autopsied 'her'?

Kinda confused here.

Yeah, so were we. The girl who broke the news to me, who had also been unsure of Lindiwe's gender, confirmed the she had actually be female; I don't know who told her. But the first thing I did after hearing the news was go into the leasing office and as the clerk to confirm if the tenant in 3B had committed suicide, and he responded by saying "yes, unfortunately she did."