It's a chicks ride.
- Pecafan Fan

Hey. No need for misogyny young man

One of my favorite 30 Rock moments is when Jack decides to design a revolutionary microwave with corporate group-think and ends up creating the Pontiac Aztek.

But Breaking Bad did succeed in making somewhat cool, if only because you can now drive one ironically.
- Leeman4Gilmour

I hate when people say that they're doing things ironically! How can a T-shirt be ironic, it's inannimate!?!?! Thanks to that female dog Alanis, most people don't even know the proper definition of irony.

Rain on your wedding day? Unfortunate, but you deal with it.

10000 spoons when all you need is a knife? Plan your cutlery collection better!

ARGH!!!

Not really a fan of that strategy, especially when you're developing goalies. It's already the most mentally demanding job on the ice, so I don't know if it's the best idea to add to the pressure.
- Leeman4Gilmour

Agreed not a fan of the "Win and u in".....Especially when dealing with young goaltenders, a kid could have a solid game yet lose 2-1...

Hey. No need for misogyny young man
- Robin_Sparkles

My chick's ride is a Ram.

My chick's ride is a Ram.
- JIMI-JAMES

Is she Welsh???

I hate when people say that they're doing things ironically! How can a T-shirt be ironic, it's inannimate!?!?! Thanks to that female dog Alanis, most people don't even know the proper definition of irony.

Rain on your wedding day? Unfortunate, but you deal with it.

10000 spoons when all you need is a knife? Plan your cutlery collection better!

ARGH!!!
- Robin_Sparkles

I think the irony comes from the self-awareness that you are doing something just to break the mould. Ironically wearing a terrible t-shirt is like a form of sarcasm that you are literally wearing.

As for the whole "doing things ironically" trend (aka. hipsters), yeah, I absolutely hate it, too.

http://opinionator.blogs....ow-to-live-without-irony/

^ That's a pretty good breakdown of it.

Looking for you guys to help out again tonight and get the win never thought it would be you guys beating pit and bos losing to the rags lol but none the less I am a leaf fan whenever they play the atlantic division this year outside of new jersey

I hate when people say that they're doing things ironically! How can a T-shirt be ironic, it's inannimate!?!?! Thanks to that female dog Alanis, most people don't even know the proper definition of irony.

Rain on your wedding day? Unfortunate, but you deal with it.

10000 spoons when all you need is a knife? Plan your cutlery collection better!

ARGH!!!
- Robin_Sparkles

"Well isn't this nice"

My chick's ride is a Ram.
- JIMI-JAMES

My Wife drives a Cadillac DeVille STS. She Hates Small Cars.

My Wife drives a Cadillac DeVille STS. She Hates Small Cars.
- Jimmy_wiener

My wifes definition of a small car is a 4X4 Blazer...which she drives when I'm driving the Ram

My Wife drives a Cadillac DeVille STS. She Hates Small Cars.
- Jimmy_wiener

32-valve Northstar, no?

http://opinionator.blogs....ow-to-live-without-irony/

^ That's a pretty good breakdown of it.
- Leeman4Gilmour

I especially liked this part, as it relates to HB. The Canucks fans have adopted this mentality. Quite interesting...and accurate.

Take, for example, an ad that calls itself an ad, makes fun of its own format, and attempts to lure its target market to laugh at and with it. It pre-emptively acknowledges its own failure to accomplish anything meaningful. No attack can be set against it, as it has already conquered itself. The ironic frame functions as a shield against criticism. The same goes for ironic living. Irony is the most self-defensive mode, as it allows a person to dodge responsibility for his or her choices, aesthetic and otherwise. To live ironically is to hide in public. It is flagrantly indirect, a form of subterfuge, which means etymologically to “secretly flee” (subter + fuge). Somehow, directness has become unbearable to us.

I think the irony comes from the self-awareness that you are doing something just to break the mould. Ironically wearing a terrible t-shirt is like a form of sarcasm that you are literally wearing.

As for the whole "doing things ironically" trend (aka. hipsters), yeah, I absolutely hate it, too.

http://opinionator.blogs....ow-to-live-without-irony/

^ That's a pretty good breakdown of it.
- Leeman4Gilmour

But the true (and perhaps only) irony here is of course that the more people strive for individuality as hipsters, the more they mold together into one cardigan-clad mass of bland, indistinguishable togetherness.

My hope is that as more and more people become hipsters, there will eventually be a critical point reached where the whole idea of "hipsterism" can no longer be allowed to exist by the universe. This will result in one collosal implosion after which, hipsters will cease to be.

Remember, I drank my coffee BEFORE it was cool

32-valve Northstar, no?
- Tee-Dot

hey you know your cars! Sure is the Northstar. I drive it friggin hard and put it away wet when I take it.

Looking for you guys to help out again tonight and get the win never thought it would be you guys beating pit and bos losing to the rags lol but none the less I am a leaf fan whenever they play the atlantic division this year outside of new jersey
- blizzzard

Hey, we're doing our part so far. You just make sure you take care of the Habs and Sens. You dont have to pound the Bruins and Sabres. Just beat them without OT.

I hate when people say that they're doing things ironically! How can a T-shirt be ironic, it's inannimate!?!?! Thanks to that female dog Alanis, most people don't even know the proper definition of irony.

Rain on your wedding day? Unfortunate, but you deal with it.

10000 spoons when all you need is a knife? Plan your cutlery collection better!

ARGH!!!
- Robin_Sparkles

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 to be 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 runaway 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 an irony.

If a Kurd, after surviving 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.

Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now Darryl Stingley’s son plays football, and if the son should become paralyzed while playing, it will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If Darryl Stingley’s son paralyzes someone else, that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes Jack Tatum’s son that will be precisely ironic.

Is she Welsh???
- Robin_Sparkles

My Wife drives a Cadillac DeVille STS. She Hates Small Cars.
- Jimmy_wiener

I used to own a 1979 Sedan De Ville...7.0L 425 big block..you could sleep in the 4 barrel ....nice ride for the summer...I miss that car...sold it to Sales manager of City Pontiac Buick Cadillac who bought it for his son

"Well isn't this nice"
- JIMI-JAMES

hey you know your cars! Sure is the Northstar. I drive it friggin hard and put it away wet when I take it.
- Jimmy_wiener

Of course know my cars... It's in my genetic code as being male.

Hey, we're doing our part so far. You just make sure you take care of the Habs and Sens. You dont have to pound the Bruins and Sabres. Just beat them without OT.
- systemtool

Haha if Marty keeps this up we got a good chance of doing that

I used to own a 1979 Sedan De Ville...7.0L 425 big block..you could sleep in the 4 barrel ....nice ride for the summer...I miss that car...sold it to Sales manager of City Pontiac Buick Cadillac who bought it for his son
- JIMI-JAMES

Beauty of them engines is you can do all the work yourself.

I used to own a 1979 Sedan De Ville...7.0L 425 big block..you could sleep in the 4 barrel ....nice ride for the summer...I miss that car...sold it to Sales manager of City Pontiac Buick Cadillac who bought it for his son
- JIMI-JAMES

Nice, Shoulda kept it! I kept my old AMC, still love it!

Is she Welsh???
- Robin_Sparkles

No she's Canadian....and if she could ride her horse to work, she would

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 to be 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 runaway 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 an irony.

If a Kurd, after surviving 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.

Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now Darryl Stingley’s son plays football, and if the son should become paralyzed while playing, it will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If Darryl Stingley’s son paralyzes someone else, that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes Jack Tatum’s son that will be precisely ironic.
- Two_For_Truth

I would say that not only does irony deal with opposites, but also where the outcome is directly contrary to what would normally be expected.

The best example that I can come up with to explain true irony is telling people to imagine somebody who is knocked unconscious by a falling hard hat

Though I do like your humanitarian aid example