Ironic things you've done recently

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I've tried the generic and it tastes even worse.

I drank some energy drink to wake up and then took some diphenhydramine to help go to sleep in the same hour.

"..coming to a poll near you soon".

What the heck does ironic mean?

Don't, whatever you do, ask Alanis Morisette

Huh? You just confused me even more.

involving irony: relating to, characterized by, using, or containing irony
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Hmmmm how helpful Microsoft. Let's try again....

irony [rəni] (plural ironies)
n
1. humour based on opposites: a type of humour based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning
2. something humorous based on contradiction: something said or written that uses sardonic humour
3. incongruity: incongruity between what actually happens and what might be expected to happen, especially when this disparity seems absurd or laughable
4. incongruous thing: something that happens that is incongruous with what might be expected to happen, especially when this seems absurd or laughable

Ugh, that doesn't make any sense to me!

Okay, here's a sample of irony. A ,an is walking through the desert and finds an oasis. He sees in the distance a town. He passes the opportunity to drink from the oasis to go to the town. On the way there, he dies of thirst.

Get it now?

My English teacher last year said that irony is humor bases on prior knowledge. In this case, the prior knowledge is the fact that he passed up an oasis. The ironic humor is how he dies of thirst, which could've been prevented had he drunk from the oasis.

And no, the oasis wasn't a mirage.

Ah, now I think I understand!

You can use almost any kind of cough syrup to get high off of. As long as the cough syrup has DXM (dextromethorphan). Rubotussin comes without that ingredient and one with it. Robutussin is a rip off if you're trying to get a high off of it. Nyquil is cheaper.

I used to use shrooms back in my highschool years. I also was into taking acid and ecstasy. Sometimes I would candy flip (taking e and acid at same time). I stopped doing that s**t though, I think the acid messed up my brain.

It's ironic that some members of a support site think it's a good idea to support drug abuse.

It depends on what you consider drug abuse is. If this girl drinks a bottle of cough syrup a day, well ya, that could be considered drug abuse or just crazy, cough syrup ain't cheap. People that use drugs in the privacy of their own home are not hurting anyone. Maybe themselves.

I remember a comedian once talking about Alanis Morisettes (mis)use of ironic. She said most of what A.M. was describing was unfortunate, which is true.

The irony in the song titled "ironic" is that it contains no ironry whatsoever.