The Irony Thread

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  • nickice
    nickice Posts: 2,439
    shortfall said:

    Banks insisting on people wearing masks before they can go in.

    People who want to ban the burqa have gone quiet!
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,946
    I've just driven past the local army ordnance depot.

    The soldier on the gate was wearing full camo fatigues, but has on a hi-vis belt.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    nickice said:

    shortfall said:

    The Johnny Depp court case to save his reputation.

    It's a car crash isn't it though? Neither of them comes out of it very well but Amber Heard seems positively vile. Be interesting to see the verdict.
    Johnny Depp is doing a public service for all the men out there who've been victims of women like that.
    Court finds Depp is indeed a wife beater. So he’s not the victim here.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    edited July 2020

    nickice said:

    shortfall said:

    The Johnny Depp court case to save his reputation.

    It's a car crash isn't it though? Neither of them comes out of it very well but Amber Heard seems positively vile. Be interesting to see the verdict.
    Johnny Depp is doing a public service for all the men out there who've been victims of women like that.
    Court finds Depp is indeed a wife beater. So he’s not the victim here.
    Huh?

    After weeks of revelations and accusations in court about his personal relationships, actor Johnny Depp's mammoth legal action against The Sun for libel has come to an end - with a judgement expected at the end of the summer.

    That's the latest I can see.
    Irony, not so much.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    Ah I must have misheard the news!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812

    Ah I must have misheard the news!

    I thought so!
    Would have been the fastest decision in history. :D
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • nickice
    nickice Posts: 2,439

    Ah I must have misheard the news!

    I thought so!
    Would have been the fastest decision in history. :D
    Whatever the result, I admire his balls in having his troubled personal life described in court and consequently the media. If I were him, and even if I weren't a wife beater, I probably would have just left it.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    nickice said:

    Ah I must have misheard the news!

    I thought so!
    Would have been the fastest decision in history. :D
    Whatever the result, I admire his balls in having his troubled personal life described in court and consequently the media. If I were him, and even if I weren't a wife beater, I probably would have just left it.
    Have you stopped beating your wife? ;)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,750
    nickice said:

    Ah I must have misheard the news!

    I thought so!
    Would have been the fastest decision in history. :D
    Whatever the result, I admire his balls in having his troubled personal life described in court and consequently the media. If I were him, and even if I weren't a wife beater, I probably would have just left it.
    You do realise that reads as if you are a wife beater?
    Time for an edit methinks.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • nickice
    nickice Posts: 2,439
    pblakeney said:

    nickice said:

    Ah I must have misheard the news!

    I thought so!
    Would have been the fastest decision in history. :D
    Whatever the result, I admire his balls in having his troubled personal life described in court and consequently the media. If I were him, and even if I weren't a wife beater, I probably would have just left it.
    You do realise that reads as if you are a wife beater?
    Time for an edit methinks.
    Haha! Just to confirm, I am not a wife beater!
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    edited July 2020
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12142926/african-american-museum-whiteness-chart-protestant-values/

    image

    Hard working black people appropriating my culture, how dare you! ;)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    Therein lies a caveat though - The title includes the word 'assumptions'.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,921
    Do you not see any irony in the African American Museum making assumptions about race? Particularly some of the aspects that they highlight as being 'white'
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,750
    Have to say that while I see the irony I cannot see a single aspect that was not evident while over there.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    Oh I did, don't get me wrong.
    Skewed perceptions on both sides methinks.

    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490

    Do you not see any irony in the African American Museum making assumptions about race? Particularly some of the aspects that they highlight as being 'white'

    What I couldn't work out, due to lack of context, is whether it is them making the assumption or if it is part of a display saying and is based on something previously published. Either way it seems to have gone over the head of the person who made the Tweet.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    Eoin Morgan speaking in a broad Irish accent after having just beaten Ireland.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno said:

    Eoin Morgan speaking in a broad Irish accent after having just beaten Ireland.

    I don't blame the individuals but England signing up foreigners is not good for the future of international cricket.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    edited August 2020

    pinno said:

    Eoin Morgan speaking in a broad Irish accent after having just beaten Ireland.

    I don't blame the individuals but England signing up foreigners is not good for the future of international cricket.
    There's Irony in there: If you come from a smaller nation, the better you are, the more likely you'll switch allegiances.

    I'm going to go all out to find a relative in the Solomon Islands and see if I can't get a ride in the World's.



    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,230
    Iain Duncan Smith wanting a second vote on the Withdrawal Agreement.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,932
    Charlie Mullins from Pimlico Plumbers arguing that employees can't work from home.

    Live from his villa in Marbella.

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    Walmart have an in house bike brand called SNAFU

    (Photo from FB "Solitary Cyclists" group)

  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    mrfpb said:

    Walmart have an in house bike brand called SNAFU

    (Photo from FB "Solitary Cyclists" group)

    That’s a new shape of chain ring.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    It maximises efficiency by the chain skipping teeth thereby reducing friction.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490
    BA staff threatening to strike when the lack of flights is the reason they are facing redundancy or pay cuts.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,480
    Pross said:

    BA staff threatening to strike when the lack of flights is the reason they are facing redundancy or pay cuts.

    Let them strike: good way of selecting who to chop in the near future. You don't want employees with a bad attitude when clearly this is down to exceptional circumstances.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490
    Record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the Channel now we've left the EU despite lack of border controls being one of the Brexiteer's cases for leaving.