Brutal Irony

[Disaster Button]

Escapists, I want to hear about your experiences with brutally ironic moments. These moments can be from games, movies, whatever but I am hoping for more real life examples. My tale goes like this.

I know a guy at school who's response to anything said to him was "So's yer mum." Someone tried to insult him by telling him he had cancer so he responded with "Yer mum has cancer" a few weeks later his mum was actually diagnosed with cancer.

Edit: Oh I guess I should probably mention that his mother is fine now.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

 

[Disaster Button]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

No, but it's only irony if someone told him "You have cancer."
Then he says "Your Mom has cancer"
If it turns out his Mom has a tapeworm, then that is ironic, if perhaps extremely morbid and it's making me depressed already.

If someone told him "You have a tapeworm."
Then he says "Your Mom has a tapeworm."
If it turns out his Mom has cancer, that is not ironic, simply a misdiagnosis.

Wait a second, how old is this kid? Saying Your Mom yaddayaddayadda... Jesus.

Also, this thread is depressing. A stamp of deppresing is needed.

 

[Blueruler182]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

Then it's not ironic.

OT: I tend to call people idiots and I dropped out of High School. Does that count? To be fair, I can blame it almost squarely on Depression.

 

[Disaster Button]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

No, but it's only irony if someone told him "You have cancer."
Then he says "Your Mom has cancer"
If it turns out his Mom has a tapeworm, then that is ironic, if perhaps extremely morbid and it's making me depressed already.

If someone told him "You have a tapeworm."
Then he says "Your Mom has a tapeworm."
If it turns out his Mom has cancer, that is not ironic, simply a misdiagnosis.

Wait a second, how old is this kid? Saying Your Mom yaddayaddayadda... Jesus.

Also, this thread is depressing. A stamp of deppresing is needed.

Actually, the first example is pretty much how the conversation went, not that there's much room for variation with "Your Mom etc" I probably should have mentioned that being that its kind of important to the irony. I make a habbit of omitting important information in situations like these leaving everyone else confused as to what I find amusing about it, apparently I do that on the internet now too.

If it makes you feel better she is okay now.

 

[Pegghead]

I'm a big fan of believe it or not and susequently I've heard about a case where a bloke with the last name Lawless became a policemen.

 

[Disaster Button]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

Then it's not ironic.

OT: I tend to call people idiots and I dropped out of High School. Does that count? To be fair, I can blame it almost squarely on Depression.

That's just hypocritical humour.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Actually, the first example is pretty much how the conversation went, not that there's much room for variation with "Your Mom etc" I probably should have mentioned that being that its kind of important to the irony. I make a habbit of omitting important information in situations like these leaving everyone else confused as to what I find amusing about it, apparently I do that on the internet now too.

If it makes you feel better she is okay now.

It makes a bit more sense, though I still find it depressing.

 

[Blue Musician]

I cannot really remember any worthwhile ironic things, although I love irony.

 

[Blueruler182]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

Then it's not ironic.

OT: I tend to call people idiots and I dropped out of High School. Does that count? To be fair, I can blame it almost squarely on Depression.

That's just hypocritical humour.

I'm pretty sure that's one definition of irony. At least, when it's used on yourself.

And it's not hypocritical. Depression affected my ability to focus on things like math, science, accounting, because if my thoughts drifted at all they drifted to something very bad, and then the symptoms would kick in and I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it. I had a year of high school where I was in such a deep state that I was barely conscious from day to day, no matter how much sleep I got. I can't really remember much of it beyond being exhausted. Exhaustion got so bad at a point that I was losing my ability to think. I've honestly never been so terrified as when I first realized that was happening.

The Amazing Tea Alligator is right, this is a depressing thread...

 

[Disaster Button]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

Then it's not ironic.

OT: I tend to call people idiots and I dropped out of High School. Does that count? To be fair, I can blame it almost squarely on Depression.

That's just hypocritical humour.

I'm pretty sure that's one definition of irony. At least, when it's used on yourself.

And it's not hypocritical. Depression affected my ability to focus on things like math, science, accounting, because if my thoughts drifted at all they drifted to something very bad, and then the symptoms would kick in and I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it. I had a year of high school where I was in such a deep state that I was barely conscious from day to day, no matter how much sleep I got. I can't really remember much of it beyond being exhausted. Exhaustion got so bad at a point that I was losing my ability to think. I've honestly never been so terrified as when I first realized that was happening.

The Amazing Tea Alligator is right, this is a depressing thread...

I'm really sorry I didn't mean it to sound as though I was calling you a hypocrite if I were I would also be calling myself a hypocrite as I left college for the exact same reason as you. I meant hypocritcal humour by this deffinition.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypocriticalHumor

But as it turns out I misread your post, I thought you said you call people idiots for dropping out of highschool like you which isn't what you said at all.

Sadly this thread is depressing, not what I'd hoped for at all. Sincere apologies.

 

[Kortney]

It's like rain on your wedding day!

Right? Right!?!

 

[Macheteswordgun]

Assassint principle told my friend suavelle that she hoped he got cancer cause he smoked and of course was a sterotypical black person. Well she got cancer 2 years later

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

That's just hypocritical humour.

It doesn't have to be though. Im a dropout myself (although our schoolsystem is a bit different here so it's hard to translate into "high school"-terms), and I tend to be more intelligent and educated than most university graduates for some reason.

I guess it stems from the fact that I actually enjoy learning and researching, something that other people usually consider to be a pain that they have to suffer through to get their diploma.

And also, it is pretty ironic.

 

[Krion_Vark]

It's like rain on your wedding day!

Right? Right!?!

What if the wedding is indoors?

 

[Blueruler182]

Was he ever told he had cancer? Otherwise, that's not irony.
Magnets are very iro..... no. I won't.

He wasn't the one with cancer.

Then it's not ironic.

OT: I tend to call people idiots and I dropped out of High School. Does that count? To be fair, I can blame it almost squarely on Depression.

That's just hypocritical humour.

I'm pretty sure that's one definition of irony. At least, when it's used on yourself.

And it's not hypocritical. Depression affected my ability to focus on things like math, science, accounting, because if my thoughts drifted at all they drifted to something very bad, and then the symptoms would kick in and I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it. I had a year of high school where I was in such a deep state that I was barely conscious from day to day, no matter how much sleep I got. I can't really remember much of it beyond being exhausted. Exhaustion got so bad at a point that I was losing my ability to think. I've honestly never been so terrified as when I first realized that was happening.

The Amazing Tea Alligator is right, this is a depressing thread...

I'm really sorry I didn't mean it to sound as though I was calling you a hypocrite if I were I would also be calling myself a hypocrite as I left college for the exact same reason as you. I meant hypocritcal humour by this deffinition.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypocriticalHumor

But as it turns out I misread your post, I thought you said you call people idiots for dropping out of highschool like you which isn't what you said at all.

Sadly this thread is depressing, not what I'd hoped for at all. Sincere apologies.

No biggy, about the misreading thing. I get that all the time. Apparently I don't have very good written humor. And no biggy on the depressing factor, I didn't think you went into this trying to make a sad thread.

It's like rain on your wedding day!

Right? Right!?!

That's not ironic. That's just unfortunate.

Cookie for the reference.

 

[Serioli]

I like the irony in Benders life.

'That's not ironic, that's just coincidental'
'That's not ironic, that's just mean'

EDIT: Beaten but simultaneous reference. Ah, how deliciously ironic....

 

[Dags90]

That sounds more like a Funny Aneurysm Moment [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunnyAneurysmMoment] than irony.