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Subscribe to commentsSerkanJun 17th 2010 6:16PM
It's irony.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony
Yeah,,,,Jun 22nd 2010 6:44AM
Sarcasm is a subset of verbal irony. Therefore, it's both. n00bs.
JeffreyJul 1st 2010 9:49AM
I don't know about the "Definition" of irony, but to ME personally, irony is when someone has been presented with a very similar set of circumstances or an outcome from an event that they themselves acknowledged or inflicted in someone else beforehand. Basically, it's form of karma? Hypocrisy is the first word to come to my mind though.
JeffreyJul 1st 2010 9:50AM
Actually, let me rephrase my personal definition of "irony":
"When the details or outcome of an event seem identical, reversed, or hypocritical to a previous events details or outcome and the object that was previously initiating the event is now being inflicted by it." My personal example, "The son or daughter of an elderly parent is now feeding them by spoon."
bbourgeois87Jul 24th 2010 5:53PM
@al schrader:
ditto. that's also ironic, considering that the only people who see those warnings are people who've bought/rented the DVD in the first place. (Unless, of course, they are borrowing the disc in order to copy it, but then I'd guess they'd rip it before watching anyway so...)