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Irony

  • 28-02-2007 2:12pm
    #1
    Drax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭


    Saw this today on the unison.ie and thought it was quite amusing...


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  • #2
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    You're right, that is quite amusing.


  • #3
    OfflerCrocGod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,334 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    Get Firefox and adblock and never see ironic ads ever again.


  • #4
    Crucifix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭Crucifix


    God, I could murder a Big Mac right now.


  • #5
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Unpossible


    rather stupidly I thought that the McDonalds picture was part of the story


  • #6
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    I have yet to try a McFeast.

    Are those ads random or was somebody taking the pi$$?


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  • #7
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Unpossible wrote:
    rather stupidly I thought that the McDonalds picture was part of the story
    That's what I thought too.
    I was looking for the ironic part.


  • #8
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    I remember, when that plane crashed in new york, shortly after 9/11, the page for that story on I think it was CNN, had a banner advertising cheap flights to New York.


  • #9
    senordingdong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    Ohhhh.....I get jokes!


  • #10
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Unpossible


    Terry wrote:
    That's what I thought too.
    I was looking for the ironic part.
    yeah, only I was going to complain that there was no irony in the page :o


  • #11
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    Unpossible wrote:
    yeah, only I was going to complain that there was no irony in the page :o


    Which is why the thread is called irony.. the fact that there is none causes it to become a self proving item.

    Alanis Morrisette would be proud.


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  • #12
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    mawk wrote:
    Alanis Morrisette would be proud.
    If only she had understood what irony was...


  • #13
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    If only she had understood what irony was...

    Yeah, somebody should have told her the meaning of coincidence.


  • #14
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    We're not going to have to go through that Ed Byrne joke from 1997, are we?


  • #15
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    there was a story before where a bus eireann bus crashed and the ad at the top was for bus eireann. i don't think its random. i think the ads are targeted based on whatever's in the story and the program isn't smart enough to know its negative


  • #16
    Drax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Drax


    Hahaha... laughing at these responses... maybe I should have called the thread 'coincidence' in fairness :)

    And no its no a doctored pic!


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