Irony Corner

[DRT]

I'm also not adept at British colloquialisms, but to me "rubbish people" doesn't sound all that spiteful especially when she's including her (former) self. Would that be similar to "redneck" and "trailer trash" in the US?

I think she is referring to people who live a lifestyle or have personal traits that either did not encourage her to change her ways or positively encouraged her not to.

[KillerB]

"I'm not spiteful but those ba****ds are" is hardly irony, just hypocrisy. "I used to be a ba****d and I mixed with ba****ds but now I'm trying to change my life" is contrite and self-aware.

I don't even think that calling them 'Rubbish' is even particularly spiteful. It's not nice but spite indicates vindictiveness and I don't think she is being vindictive.

[DRT]

A real life example, but is it ironic?

I boarded the 07:30 National Express East Coast Line train from Doncaster to London on Tuesday this week and made my way to my usual seat in the Quiet Coach, the published rules of which are:

1. No making or receiving mobile phone calls in this coach. Please go to the vestibule at the end of the coach to talk on the phone.
2. Use all electrical equipment in silent mode.
3. If chatting with fellow passengers, please do so quietly and with consideration
   for others.

The coach was around 30% occupied so I managed to secure a table and four seats all to myself. Result! On the opposite side of the carriage were two ladies of advanced age sitting opposite one another in total silence. As the train pulled out the announcement was made reminding all passangers where the train was going, what catering was available and, most importantly, emphasising the purpose and rules of the Quiet Coach. My BlackBerry was in silent mode, as were those of many others on business trips. I took out my laptop, which is always in silent mode, and booted up for some time. Many others were doing similar things in complete silence.

For the next 30 minutes the only sound I could hear was the very loud conversation of the two elderly ladies discussing how inconsiderate it was that I and many others in the coach were breaking the rules by having our phones and laptops with us

Does this qualify?

Derek

Yes

Can I please have confirmation from KironymasterB?

[KillerB]

A real life example, but is it ironic?

I boarded the 07:30 National Express East Coast Line train from Doncaster to London on Tuesday this week and made my way to my usual seat in the Quiet Coach, the published rules of which are:

1. No making or receiving mobile phone calls in this coach. Please go to the vestibule at the end of the coach to talk on the phone.
2. Use all electrical equipment in silent mode.
3. If chatting with fellow passengers, please do so quietly and with consideration
   for others.

The coach was around 30% occupied so I managed to secure a table and four seats all to myself. Result! On the opposite side of the carriage were two ladies of advanced age sitting opposite one another in total silence. As the train pulled out the announcement was made reminding all passangers where the train was going, what catering was available and, most importantly, emphasising the purpose and rules of the Quiet Coach. My BlackBerry was in silent mode, as were those of many others on business trips. I took out my laptop, which is always in silent mode, and booted up for some time. Many others were doing similar things in complete silence.

For the next 30 minutes the only sound I could hear was the very loud conversation of the two elderly ladies discussing how inconsiderate it was that I and many others in the coach were breaking the rules by having our phones and laptops with us

Does this qualify?

Derek

Yes

Can I please have confirmation from KironymasterB?

Yes - but little old ladies are normally exempt from irony-meters. An exception applies here just so that we can have another case, albeit a mild one.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Is this ironic?

A man who loves port moves to a place where it is difficult to find good port. He manages to acquire a handful of bottles, but struggles to create even a small cellar.

He invites a friend to visit him, on condition the friend brings 6 bottles of port to add to his cellar. His friend visits and dutifully brings the 6 promised bottles.

Unfortunately, his friend also loves port so that by the end of the weekend they have drunk 8 bottles and the man's cellar is now smaller than it was before the visit.

Is this ironic?

[KillerB]

Is this ironic?

A man who loves port moves to a place where it is difficult to find good port. He manages to acquire a handful of bottles, but struggles to create even a small cellar.

He invites a friend to visit him, on condition the friend brings 6 bottles of port to add to his cellar. His friend visits and dutifully brings the 6 promised bottles.

Unfortunately, his friend also loves port so that by the end of the weekend they have drunk 8 bottles and the man's cellar is now smaller than it was before the visit.

Is this ironic?

I would say that was inevitable

[g-man]

Is this ironic?

A man who loves port moves to a place where it is difficult to find good port. He manages to acquire a handful of bottles, but struggles to create even a small cellar.

He invites a friend to visit him, on condition the friend brings 6 bottles of port to add to his cellar. His friend visits and dutifully brings the 6 promised bottles.

Unfortunately, his friend also loves port so that by the end of the weekend they have drunk 8 bottles and the man's cellar is now smaller than it was before the visit.

Is this ironic?

I would say that was inevitable

is it ironic that it's inevitable?

[KillerB]

Jumping the Shark was a phrase used to give the defining moment when a TV Show went from being good to being bad. It comes from when Fonzie water-jumped a shark in Happy Days. Other JumpThe Shark moments include Scrappy-Doo ruining the wonderful Sccoby-Doo, which is why I went looking for it. The phrase led to a website jumptheshark.com by John Hein, who was there when the phrase was coined, which charted the downfall of telly programmes or left some as 'Never Jumped'. It was a simple site with opinions from the masses and was great. He sold the website in 2006 and it is now a TV listings site with only vague reference to jumping the shark which is based on current programmes determined by paid contributors, it's crap.

Jumptheshark jumped the shark.