2008: "Irony Definition"

[Soupspoon]

TitleText: Can you stop glaring at me like that? It makes me feel really ironic.

The last time I tried to discuss the meaning of irony, we ended up having a ferrocious argument.

[qvxb]

It's understandable.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/ ... 24144.html

[Archgeek]

Oooh, that takes possession of my caprine, it does.

What'd be truly ironic would be if BHG started choking on the title text, before my hands could begin their work.

[Moose Anus]

It's ironic that the meaning of ironic is ironic.

[richP]

"Irony" and "literally" are frequent candidates for the "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" award.

[cellocgw]

"Irony" and "literally" are frequent candidates for the "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" award.

It's literally ironic that...[fill in here, best response wins something]

[pkcommando]

In what way is this comic like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife?

[Showsni]

Assuming his statement is literally ironic, BHG is sad and his friend does not know the meaning of irony.

[sotanaht]

Assuming his statement is literally ironic, BHG is sad and his friend does not know the meaning of irony.

Every detail in a phrase doesn't need to be ironic for the phrase to be or express irony. His statement in the comic is ironic enough if you take it at face value. The implication is "you would think that understanding the definition of irony would make you happier, but you are the unhappy one as a result of that understanding".

Ironically, this is an accurate application of situational irony and yet the one who supposedly understands the term is seemingly unhappy at its correct use. Perhaps he doesn't really understand at all like you said, in which case rather than situational irony BHG is using verbal irony (aka sarcasm) to poke fun at his friends misunderstanding. If his friend really did understand irony he would probably be less annoyed in this case. The sarcastic part is the first half of the sentence (you know the definition) not necessarily the second part (I'm happy). Again, every detail does not need to be ironic.

[RogueCynic]

"Irony" and "literally" are frequent candidates for the "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" award.

See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIP6EwqMEoE

[iabervon]

It's literally ironic that the best response is literally ironic. With that prompt, you had to be looking for some irritating exaggeration, but there's a perfectly good answer that unexpectedly meets the basic definitions of both words.

[zjxs]

Irony is like the tears in the rain on my wedding day. Time to die.

[somitomi]

...huh.
I literally have no idea what the joke's supposed to be.

[cellocgw]

...huh.
I literally have no idea what the joke's supposed to be.

How ironic.

[cjm]

The premise of this comic is silly. Other Guy loves being pedantic!

I know Randall tried to counter this interpretation with a squiggly-of-annoyance but I don't buy it.

[rmsgrey]

This reminds me of a conversation between Arthur Philip Dent and some guy whose name is unimportant:

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
"And are you?"
"No, that's where it all falls down, of course."

[orthogon]

Situational irony is like situational Anal Panama: you either know it when you see it, or you don't. Eebster knows it when they see it.

[Eshru]

"Irony" and "literally" are frequent candidates for the "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" award.

It's literally ironic that...[fill in here, best response wins something]

...the literal definition of literally is figuratively the same as figuratively, as well as literally being the opposite, due to people literally misusing literally sometimes ironically.

[heuristically_alone]

Irony is like the tears in the rain on my wedding day. Time to die.

Is that how wedding days are supposed to feel?