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Now this is ironic (are you listening Alanis?)

  • 08-06-2015 8:44am
    #1
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,224 ✭✭✭✭


    A plane was forced to land due to a bee becoming lodged in one of the instruments

    The airlines name was 'Flybe'

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0608/706583-bee-flybe/

    who would have thought it, it figures.

    I wonder if Mr Playitsafe was involved?


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  • #2
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    More of a very crap, unfunny pun than irony


  • #3
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,224 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    If you name your airline Flybe, the last thing you expect is for a bee to stop one of your planes from flying.


  • #4
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Akrasia wrote: »
    If you name your airline Flybe, the last thing you expect is for a bee to stop one of your planes from flying.

    If you called your airline Aer Lingus the last thing you expect is for a bee to stop your plane from flying.


  • #5
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Sorry. I just hate puns and it's Monday. Nothing personal 😉


  • #6
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,224 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Collie D wrote: »
    If you called your airline Aer Lingus the last thing you expect is for a bee to stop your plane from flying.

    I should have expected this, but it looks like I'm gonna have to define irony
    the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

    The name of the airline makes the particular incident involving a bee ironic

    It's also quite ironic that someone would come onto a thread about Irony to declare something not to be ironic without actually knowing what the word Irony means.


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  • #7
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,224 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Collie D wrote: »
    Sorry. I just hate puns and it's Monday. Nothing personal 😉

    It's ok, I'm a sucker for Pun-ishment :)


  • #8
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Collie D wrote: »
    More of a very crap, unfunny pun than irony

    Would ya feck of Eddie.


  • #9
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,943 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Anything passes for news these days. The internet has a lot to answer for.


  • #10
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Collie D wrote: »
    Sorry. I just hate puns and it's Monday. Nothing personal 😉

    Don't you mean punday?


  • #11
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Akrasia wrote: »
    I should have expected this, but it looks like I'm gonna have to define irony


    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

    The name of the airline makes the particular incident involving a bee ironic

    It's also quite ironic that someone would come onto a thread about Irony to declare something not to be ironic without actually knowing what the word Irony means.

    But bee and be are different words. This is not irony


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  • #12
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,294 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Don't you mean punday?

    You're dead to me


  • #13
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yesterday was Sunday and I had an ice cream sundae.


  • #14
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,224 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Collie D wrote: »
    But bee and be are different words. This is not irony
    Admittedly you have to squint a little..


  • #15
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Did I sense puns?


  • #16
    jay-me
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭jay-me


    A punderful start to the day!


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