Life Ironies

exCrumlinBoyo

I was watching a comedy show which I had not seen is years last night, The Royal Family. Cracking show by the way. Anyway since I have not seen it in about 5 years, everyone had grown that much older. What caught my eye was “Na-Na” and how old she was. It got me thinking about Life’s Irony’s and thinking about the following.

My daughter is 7 months old and get praised and lots of attention for doing the smallest of things. The exact same happens to the elderly if you think about it. My point is we start of as helpless babies and end up as helpless elderly people who get praised for doing something as simple as going to the bathroom. If that is not one of life’s biggest Ironies (you end up where you started in life) I don’t know what is?

What other Ironies would you like to mention and discuss?

kittenkiller

Ashes to ashes.
Dust to dust.

Needing a bib at dinner time
And a nappy at bed time.

Full circle baby!

tbh

"Every Rose has it's thorn. Just like every night has it's dawwwn. Just like ev'ry cowboy, sings a sad, sad song. Every rose has it's thorn".


think about it.

phantom_lord

it's not really that ironic, spoons when u need a knife, now that's ironic.

petes

phantom_lord wrote:

spoons when u need a knife, now that's ironic.

Thats just awkward.

bluto63

You know what I always found ironic? The word phonetically isn't spelled phonetically...

CathyMoran

That you always find what you are looking for in the last place that you look.

Hydroquinone

That's not ironic, that's just common sense, of course it's in the last place you look - because you finish looking for it once you've found it. Why would you look in another place once you'd found it?

Even if you find it in the first place you look, it's still the last place, isn't it?

CathyMoran

I was talking about a person in this case!

For me it is ironic that my life was suddenly becoming extremely happy when I get diagnosed with a serious illness...having said that, my illness is not stopping me from staying happy.

Heisenberg.

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fish-head

The Scientist wrote:

a free ride when you've already paid.

Nothing in that song is ironic..

Sofaspud

fish-head wrote:

Nothing in that song is ironic..

Which, in itself, is ironic.

singingstranger

Rain on your wedding day...

monkey tennis

Sofaspud wrote:

Which, in itself, is ironic.

Precisely the genius behind the song!

Ahem.

biko

How you don't miss something until it's gone.

Dun laoire

Just as i arrived home with my viagara the wife leaves me for another woman

Kolodny

fish-head wrote:

Nothing in that song is ironic..

It really should have been called 'Murphy's Law'.

Pigman II

It's everytime I say 'I love you'

fish-head

Kolodny wrote:

It really should have been called 'Murphy's Law'.

'Isn't it Murphy's Law, dontcha think?'

Haha, doesn't quite scan.

muletide

'a little bit too murphys law yea I really do think'


Its a catchy little number

L31mr0d

my favourite kind of irony is the poetic justice kind. Like when you're playing a game of poker and the guy whos boasting he's going to wipe the floor with everyone there gets knocked out first on a stupid hand. I don't believe in Karma, but I believe good things happen to me when I don't expect them to... maybe its all about perspective?

themire

In Italy the film "Lost in Translation" is called "Amore tradotto" which means "Love translated".
So the original title is literally lost in translation.
That's ironic.

nlgbbbblth

This is ironic.

People who spend loads of money on a massive plasma television complete with home theatre system.

and are happy to watch a pirate DVD of a film RECORDED IN A F*CKING CINEMA.

Dyr

nlgbbbblth wrote:

This is ironic.

People who spend loads of money on a massive plasma television complete with home theatre system.

and are happy to watch a pirate DVD of a film RECORDED IN A F*CKING CINEMA.

what? you mean Mystery science theater 3000

nlgbbbblth

Bambi wrote:

what? you mean Mystery science theater 3000

No.

I mean a crappy pirate DVD of say, Walk The Line [insert any recent film], recorded in a cinema with a camcorder. That cost €2 from some dodgy dude. Usually it's the c*nts who know least about films that engage in this particularly irritating form of one-upmanship.

faceman

Ironic - sounds like an ingredient in my multivitamins...

Being in school and you cant wait for you school days to finish. But when we all start workin we wish we could go back!

mloc

im thinking people have a very misconstrued understanding of the word ironic. many of the things that people think are "ironic", including most in the Alanis Morissette song, are not ironic but merely coincidental, unfortunate or just plain unrelated.

iguana

faceman wrote:

Being in school and you cant wait for you school days to finish. But when we all start workin we wish we could go back!

The only thing I miss about school is the holidays. I hated school it was awful. Constantly being told what to do. Being punished for forming an independant thought. Homework. Being bitched at for refusing to pray. And the kicker.......
......even at 17 you have to ask permission to use the toilet, yet might be told no because your teacher is in a bad mood!:mad:

I dread the thought of reincarnation if it means I have to go back to school, I would rather be eaten by worms, pooed out by worms and eaten by more worms.

faceman

iguana wrote:

I dread the thought of reincarnation if it means I have to go back to school, I would rather be eaten by worms, pooed out by worms and eaten by more worms.

See that ironic, you wouldnt eat dead worms!

Dooom

Please...no more Alanis Morsette (or however the fup her name's spelt) lines.

Demetrius

People that laugh openly in the cinema at some laboured piece of irony, fully exhibiting how much they get "irony".

Black Swan

Recorded laughs for Sit-coms without a live audience.

stipey

i have always found it strange that the word irony is never used to describe the taste of cannonballs!

iguana

Bart Simpsoon appreciating some irony; "Oh the ironing!"

BlueSpiral

When the soothers you get for your throat only make you sound more like you're coughing up a lung.

Or getting the flu in sunny weather. Bah humbug.

CloverOne

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Usually it's the c*nts who know least about films that engage in this particularly irritating form of one-upmanship.

It's only oneupmanship if anyone else actually cares. Which you clearly do, so, joke's on you.

padi89

BlueSpiral wrote:

When the soothers you get for your throat only make you sound more like you're coughing up a lung.

Or getting the flu in sunny weather. Bah humbug.

Dont mean to burst your bubble there mate but the weather has feck all to do with the flu or common cold its a virus.

BlueSpiral

padi89 wrote:

Dont mean to burst your bubble there mate but the weather has feck all to do with the flu or common cold its a virus.

What bubble? I have a bubble? Yeeeeeah I just wanted to complain, but the throat one is true. Fecking lying throat sweets.

padi89

BlueSpiral wrote:

What bubble? I have a bubble? Yeeeeeah I just wanted to complain, but the throat one is true. Fecking lying throat sweets.

Ah well , you learn something new everyday.