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I just finished watching "Pearl Harbor" with my grandmother, she had never seen it so I put it on so she could watch it. It finished about 20 minutes ago.
I was looking at my calendar to write down my finals dates and realized that today is Sunday December 7. The attack happened on Sunday December 7, 1941, 61 years ago today.
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That's not irony, it's coincidence! It bothers me when people don't know the difference.
Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father’s, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence. Irony is “a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result.” For instance:
If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runnaway truck, he is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of irony.
If a Krud, after surviving a bloody battle with Saddam Hussein’s army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.
Sorry, I did not mean to sound like a pr*ck but there are certain attributes of the English Language that bother me when people don't get them right! English is my second language and I still manage to learn the rules. I think people who started speaking it since they could talk should at least, by practice if nothing else, learn the meaning of some of the words they use.
Also worth mentioning about irony is the song "Ironic," by Alanis Morisette <sp>. None of the examples she mentions in her song are actually examples of irony. But then again, maybe that was her intention.
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Originally posted by silverdevil That's not irony, it's coincidence! It bothers me when people don't know the difference.
Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father’s, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence. Irony is “a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result.” For instance:
If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runnaway truck, he is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of irony.
If a Krud, after surviving a bloody battle with Saddam Hussein’s army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.
THANK YOU! I bitch to ppl all the time about that. *lol*
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THANK YOU! I bitch to ppl all the time about that. *lol* 
