Irony is the opposite of wrinkly
I thought it was the opposite of anemia
Irony is e.g. writing a song about irony, and then filling it with events that aren’t ironic.
IT’S LIKE RAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAaaaAaaiiiin
“The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Now that is irony!” - Bender Bending Rodriguez
I love that bit because the things Bender keeps calling out as not being ironic, are only not ironic from his perspective. To the audience, every single example is one of dramatic irony.
This was gonna be my exact comment, I’m thrilled someone beat me too it
I like how they used actual irony here.
Now that I think about it, I’ve also spent my whole life with a very vague idea and ultimately only pretending to know what that word means.
Examples of metaphysical irony:
(objective irony)
(irony of fate - mostly tragedies)
Example of verbal irony:
We’ve misused ironic for so damn long we should probably just add it as a definition.
Ha, they misspelled iconic.
