The Irony Thread

Try the "How did these objects come to the British Museum?" section for some of these.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/contested-objects-collection

Pross said:

pblakeney said:

pangolin said:

pblakeney said:

pangolin said:

pblakeney said:

Ironic?

How did the museum get lots of its items?

Not all museum items are stolen.
I'd need more background to see the irony.

The ex staff member should start displaying them at their home labelled as "contested items" that they "salvaged".

I really don't want to go down a tangent on this but the items could have simply been donated. I'm done until I know otherwise.

I think you might be taking a light hearted comment a bit seriously.

People treating it like I posted a graph.

Yer the context was pretty clear tbh...

There are a few things I love about going out on my bike, but above all else it's probably the fact that the regular exercise could very well add a good few years to my life.

However, it isn't lost on me that everytime i go out on said bike, for the obvious health reasons, I am putting myself at increased risk of dramatically reducing said life!!!

Lol.

The Telegraph is smashing it tonight.

You might have to spell out the irony in this one to me.

Robinson and the EDL are basically single issue islamophobes - if you're white, they think you're alright.

Aha. Got it.

There's the obvious irony in publicising (and being allowed to publicise) your podcast called "silenced"

Also cheering me up, but made I laugh.

Amazing how they are apparently on the case but the spam is still there. Surely as an admin it is pretty easy to identify the offending posters, block them and delete all their posts?

Thurrock council has sold its solar sites for a tidy sum which will improve its finances. The buyer? The pension funds of other councils.

Just received an email entitled "Introducing the Most Powerful Cold Email Marketing Solution for Marketing Leaders". The title itself seemed quite ironic so I took a bit of a look at the text itself and it listed the bad things that stop cold email being successful such as "poorly defined audiences" and "message overload". It was full of stuff about how brilliant their software is an indentifying markets and targetting the right like "the key to success in today’s competitive landscape is data-driven decision making and scientific precision, especially in your email marketing campaigns".

After copying the above quotes I immediately blocked the sender and any other email address using their domain, so much for the their data-driven decision making and scientific precision stopping poorly defines audiences and message overload. I don't even do marketing or have a job title that would suggest I do.

How can they claim he's on the wrong side of the road when there's no lane marking? Even if there was it wouldn't be illegal.