Talk:Irony

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This is a good article. A+ --girlvinyl 23:46, 21 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Probably my favorite "article of the day" in a long time.

Great article. --David

No no no no no. Textbook irony is not a discrepancy between what "might be expected" and what actually occurs. That is the same thing as Alanis irony, if you think about it. Real textbook irony is a dissembling, or lie, that is _meant to be seen as such_. For example, if it is hurricaning outside and I say "Nice weather," I am lying, but I expect my auditor to understand that I am lying and thereby experience a type of amusement from this understanding. My lie is thus irony. --Gruff

• What? --Jacknstock 04:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Gruff, what you described was sarcasm, which is seem by some as a form of irony, is traditionally separated from it. To make your situation ironic, the character would have to say, "We are having nice weather today," only to open a curtain to see it pouring rain, it is hailing, there is a tornado or some such other bullshit. Reven 21:51, 30 September 2007 (CDT)

Hipster irony as described in the article is not irony because the viewer might not have expected that the hipster would wear a Zelda shirt. It is irony because the hipster does not actually love Zelda. His wearing of the shirt is a lie nobody believes in: "I love Zelda (I don't really, and you know I don't)". This is what irony actually is.

[edit] Existential Doubt

So... when one is recurring to hipster irony, and then acknowledges he is indeed making use of it - is the latter also hipster irony, and as such we get an infinite cycle? Coisoetal 22:31, 25 March 2008 (CDT)

[edit] Where is the third form of Irony?

I see Textbook Irony, then Coincidental Irony. Hipster Irony claims to be the fourth irony.