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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
ummmmm. I didn't whiff. Ty thought it ironic that the response to the Pope saying Muslims were violent was Muslims being violent. The way he structured his post it was like he thought he had made a clever observation- you know, funny. But it's not funny. It's scary.
Actually, it not even "ironic" under the definition of "unexpected" because the reaction is exactly what I would expect.
Did you hear the latest Osama and the 9/11 hijackers video claimed 9/11 was to revenge Bosnia? That's ironic too, just like Ty's joke- BUT BOTH AREN'T FUNNY.
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Clever, yes, funny, no. Perhaps you didn't whiff. Perhaps it was just an overreaction to a post, one which makes it clear you didn't really fully understand the poster's meaning. What do we call that?
Perhaps he was using "irony" in this sense:
–noun, plural -nies. 1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
