this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
87 points (88.5% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

31284 readers
4058 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Take note, if you are still struggling to figure out what irony is.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If You have problem with understanding what irony is, just think of Alanis' Morissettes "Ironic". The lyrics list examples of irony, while none of them actually are ironic, which makes the whole song a great example of irony.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 8 points 2 days ago

This is what Weird Al has to say about that song's iconic line "It's like rain on your wedding day":

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The examples in the song are ironic, she just does not include enough details to clarify it. For example, an old man was afraid to fly so he took the train instead. And an unrelated plane crashed into it, killing him. He died on a plane crash due to avoiding planes. Ironic as fuck.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I don't think that is how the song went, the guy who was afraid to fly ended up getting on a plane, which crashed just like he was afraid it would.

Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down
He thought, "Well, isn't this nice?"

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago

Perhaps it's supposed to be ironic that the one time he took the risk was the time it crashed

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 2 days ago

Ah, shit, I forgot she actually specified "take that flight" in it.

(my comment was supposed to be only a joke, but yeah it doesn't work as I had intended)

[–] essell@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Just because he waited his whole life for the flights doesn't mean he didn't chicken out at the last minute and take a train.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 days ago

Nah she's just using the 4th American definition

  1. marked by coincidence or by a curious or striking juxtaposition of events regarded by many as a loose usage

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ironic