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Title: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 13, 2010, 12:21:46 PM
Saw a group that looked like they had never bathed or worked their bodies leaving Bath & Body Works.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: ObliviousObi on November 13, 2010, 01:08:24 PM
You should have seen the people they were Christmas shopping for. /shudder
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on November 19, 2010, 03:04:51 PM
License plate with pink ribbon.
Driver's arm hanging out the window, holding a cigarette.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Friday on November 19, 2010, 03:19:23 PM
Heh, that reminds me of the time I saw a bumper sticker with "Keep Tahoe Blue" on it (it's a large lake in the area, I see the sticker quite commonly) and shortly thereafter the guy (or girl, never saw) threw a Burger King bag out the window.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Büge on November 19, 2010, 03:34:34 PM
Are you sure it wasn't referring to Democrats?
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Friday on November 19, 2010, 03:52:16 PM
Unsure if you're joking or not with that question, but yeah. I'm sure. "Keep Tahoe Blue" is an environmental movement to stop the pollution of the lake.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Rosencrantz on November 19, 2010, 11:16:23 PM
Are you sure it wasn't the "Drink Tahoe Brew" pardoy/ad? I think I've seen that one more often than the original.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Friday on November 19, 2010, 11:41:42 PM
I am 100% sure it's not Lupus
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: McDohl on November 20, 2010, 07:52:13 AM
I live in Texas.

I saw an Alaska plate that said "TXBEST".

Not sure what to make of it.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: François on November 20, 2010, 09:16:12 AM
texas-born alaskan coming home
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 20, 2011, 05:43:05 AM
The championships for LoL are taking place in Cologne.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Ted Belmont on August 20, 2011, 05:47:41 AM
Wait, how is that-

:oic:
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Lottel on January 22, 2012, 07:28:31 PM
Two out of the three people I know with the name Walker have limps.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on May 24, 2012, 06:58:19 AM
User's signature:

5 lines of whitespace
Oversized graphic of the words "Thank You" written in a fancy font against an ornate background
Name
Title
Boss's name and title
Row of dots
Name of office
Street Address
City, State, Zip
Voice line
Fax
Vapid inspirational quote
"Please consider the environment before printing this message."
7 lines of a little ASCII angel
Another line of whitespace
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Mongrel on May 24, 2012, 07:08:39 AM
How many font colours did they use?
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on May 24, 2012, 08:25:48 AM
The "Thank You" graphic is in a blue pretty similar to the color Outlook makes the rest of the signatures.  The "Consider the environment" message was, of course, green.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Shinra on May 24, 2012, 11:26:03 AM
And let me guess, it had a little wingding green tree on it, right?

My favorite part is when they put that on an email and the additional line of 'please think of the environment' is exactly enough to push it onto page 2.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Beat Bandit on May 31, 2012, 07:18:25 AM
So in this article (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-25-sony-patents-method-to-interrupt-your-gaming-with-an-ad) about why Sony's game-interrupting ads are horrible the slideshow of Sony's diagrams is... interrupted with an ad.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on October 03, 2012, 01:56:55 PM
Monday: Sorry, we can't afford to keep you on.

Wednesday: Hey, do you think you can get these out priority overnight for all the new employees we just hired?
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on October 04, 2012, 07:43:18 AM
It's not ironic, but I was reminded of this.. It's been a while since I saw this, but there was a truck in front of me with the word SECEDE in giant letters (covering the entire back window) and a Texas flag.  But they had an Oklahoma license plate.  So, is the guy saying that he loves Texas so much that we should secede and be awesome by ourselves? Or does he hate Texas so much that he wants it to secede and leave the USA.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on October 04, 2012, 10:05:42 AM
It's like that hybrid I used to walk past that had an "Annoy a Liberal" bumper sticker.  I wouldn't say I was so much annoyed as bemused.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Mongrel on October 04, 2012, 11:35:15 AM
It's not ironic, but I was reminded of this.. It's been a while since I saw this, but there was a truck in front of me with the word SECEDE in giant letters (covering the entire back window) and a Texas flag.  But they had an Oklahoma license plate.  So, is the guy saying that he loves Texas so much that we should secede and be awesome by ourselves? Or does he hate Texas so much that he wants it to secede and leave the USA.

Maybe he just lives in the panhandle and has an average texan/okie's level of JOGRAFEE.  :whoops:
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Sharkey on October 04, 2012, 12:50:34 PM
Community college students bitching about socialism. If we could harness irony as a power source we'd be energy independent just from the number of times I've overheard that this month. If we could use all the times someone incorrectly corrects someone on the definition of irony we could finally destroy the horrible, horrible sun.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Büge on October 04, 2012, 01:01:16 PM
That would be a black fly in our chardonnay.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: R^2 on October 05, 2012, 01:44:58 PM
Only if you're marrying the weatherman, and he picked the Chardonnay.




I think I told that wrong.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 05, 2012, 03:58:52 PM
How ironic! :wakka:
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on October 05, 2012, 09:25:58 PM
The verse about the guy who finally overcomes his irrational fear of flying only to die in a plane crash IS a great example of irony, though.

And "a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break" is pretty much the very definition of irony.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Sharkey on October 05, 2012, 10:01:30 PM
And all the parts that don't satisfy whatever definition of irony you happen to be fixated on at the moment are at the very least meta-ironic!
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on October 06, 2012, 12:35:30 PM
Yep!  It's win-win!
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 08, 2013, 09:57:14 AM
The last holdout Blockbuster shell near where I live finally finished conversion by the new land owner. Just how obsolete did digital media make movie rental?

It was replaced by a library.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Royal☭ on September 08, 2013, 01:38:39 PM
There you have it. Paper beats Block...buster.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on January 07, 2014, 02:55:42 PM
Went to an adoption orientation tonight.

About an hour in, they got around to telling us they won't accept families with pit bulls.

Of all the organizations to prejudge my adopted family member based on her background...
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: R^2 on January 07, 2014, 03:38:45 PM
Yep. Welcome to pit bull ownership. Everyone in the world either hates your dog or wants to breed your dog, and you generally don't want much to do with either group.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 07, 2014, 03:50:27 PM
Went to an adoption orientation tonight.

wait what

You're adopting?

A child?
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Lottel on January 07, 2014, 04:11:17 PM
I say compromise and dress your dog like a child.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Joxam on January 07, 2014, 05:44:15 PM
Went to an adoption orientation tonight.

wait what

You're adopting?

A child?

... and? If I wasn't living with and taking care of my sister and mother, despite being a single male I'd have already adopted or fostered kids. Kids are great and there are tons out there that need good homes.

Aside from that moral reason for adoption I also refuse to subject any child of mine to my family's shitty shitty genetic problems, from kidney failure to diabetes and heart disease we have basically a perfect storm of dying in your fifties going on in my family.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Lottel on January 07, 2014, 05:48:09 PM
I think he was more implying he was unaware that Thad was planning on adopting a child than he was passing judgement there, Joxy.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on January 07, 2014, 06:04:18 PM
Also kids are shit but otherwise I don't disagree with your stance regarding adoption.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 07, 2014, 10:15:00 PM
I think he was more implying he was unaware that Thad was planning on adopting a child than he was passing judgement there, Joxy.

Yeah, this. I'm all for adoption, but it's a major process, and revealing that you had plans and hopes for it and were shot down before you even had a chance in a benign thread like "Everyday Ironies" seems like you're really underselling how shitty that was.

I'm sorry to hear that happened, Thad.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Classic on January 08, 2014, 05:22:44 AM
a perfect storm of dying in your fifties going on in my family
But you and your children will leave such pretty corpses! Net plus, right?
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on January 08, 2014, 12:32:38 PM
Well, we're not planning on adopting, like, tomorrow.  It could be years.  We just want to get the ball rolling.

I'm annoyed -- mostly by the fact that the nice lady (and she DID seem like a very nice lady, don't get me wrong) waited until she was an hour into her presentation before bringing up the pit bull thing -- but nah, I'm not devastated.  There are other agencies.  I wouldn't even rule out convincing someone at this agency to work with us.

We knew the risks going in when we got a pit.  We expected it would make it more difficult to adopt a human.  We'll keep trying, and, more, this is an opportunity to do some advocacy and try and change some minds.  We're already planning on trying to get her trained and certified as a Good Citizen (http://www.akc.org/events/cgc/program.cfm).  And we've got photographic evidence of her playing with our two-year-old nephew and him seeming pretty happy and still in possession of all four limbs.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 08, 2014, 12:52:42 PM
Oh, okay. Well, I'm happy for you.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Classic on January 08, 2014, 03:18:57 PM
For adopting a sweetie of a dog.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Thad on January 13, 2014, 05:12:48 PM
And then a few days later we have our two-year-old nephew over and he decides to jam his thumb into the dog's eye.  She just sits there; not a peep or a movement.

I wish one of the people from that agency could have seen it.  I think I can safely say I am unconcerned that my dog is ever going to bite a child.
Title: Re: Everyday Ironies
Post by: Classic on January 14, 2014, 03:27:59 AM
Did that vicious human blind your poor baby!?