• Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It would do a lot to correct the public’s understanding of irony. Ever since Alanis Morisette came out with her hit Ironic everyone’s been using it wrong

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      1 year ago

      My wife complained that I don’t understand the meaning of “ironic”, which was pretty ironic considering we were at a bus stop!

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      I had something real witty all planned out as a response to your irony comment, but before I can click the “reply” link, out of nowhere IT’S LIKE RAAAIIIIIIAAAAAIIIIINN ON YOUR WEDDING DAAY steamrolls into my head like Yoko Ono on a goddamn bullhorn and I get lost in the song and completely forget everything I was going to say. And I was so proud, too. Damn you, Alanis!

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      A song named “Ironic” filled with a bunch of scenarios but not a single one is ironic is… a little bit ironic, don’t ya think?