Irony

seriously though?

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Outside of my posts to Ask A Drunk, it's north of 90%, but def less than 100%.

It's probably a 50/50 split for me

70%. You may take this post at face value if you like.

poll is discriminatory against irony purists (me)

ironically all my posts are serious

voted 80% but it's probably higher tbh

There are the intermediate posts too—where you make a claim that isn’t quite what you mean, but not quite not what you mean. Like, a suspension of qualifiers, a calculated risk to push the conversation forward. There is maybe a mischievous humor in such posts.

irony is way too often portrayed as being the opposite of or mutually exclusive with seriousness and sincerity, which has had devastating consequences for our collective understanding of the phenomenon. it is or should be far more interesting than that

there are so many layers

70, like I like my

There's only surface

50% completely serious
50% stupid jokes

Similar but more slanted towards stupid jokes.

I reject the premise and i think left is otm

Intent isnt a switch and nothing has any one meaning

the way nerds have spent decades making fun of alanis for her perfectly fine use of the word because they can't see past their own stunted definition is extemely ironic don't you think

inferring irony due to one's limited and mistaken perceptions can certainly be seen as ironic, but given sufficient thought a trickle of irony can be squeezed from virtually any utterance.

how ironic

ironic how

It's like shiiiiiiit

yesterday I made an obscure but v juvenile joke in response to a pomenitul post that he took at face value and I felt bad

Was it about Tricky? If so, don’t explain it, let the mystery speak for itself.

*remains silent*

But perhaps my own po-faced reply was just for a laugh. Who can tell?

po-menitul

heh now that I did assume was intentional

That actually works in Romanian.

xp

I don't understand the question

assuming irony has an on/off switch, what % of your posts is it turned on for?

assuming every post contains some % irony, what is your average?

I'm going to answer this later, but I think everyone answering in this thread should provide an examples of themselves being earnest or ironic so we can tell the difference going forward.

all my posts in this thread have been earnest and ironic

Now I can tell the difference!

All ILXors are liars.

I'm Nude Spock

Looks as though the one school we need around here is School of Irony

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) March 2, 2013

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it me

love irony

5% black fly, 95% Chardonnay

everyone answering in this thread should provide an examples of themselves being earnest or ironic so we can tell the difference going forward.

Being ironic:

what many people fail to understand is that when critical thinking skills erode, they do not disappear. rather, the eroded particles of critical thinking are blown or washed away to other locations, where they collect in loose agglomerations, such as critical thinking skill dunes or the deltas of critical thinking skills deposited at the effluence of rivers.

― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Monday, May 3, 2021

Also ironic:

Yes. Children should especially learn how to pick our crops. Since they are already low to the ground they are ideal for picking lettuce, strawberries, cucumbers and similar edibles. Their job site would be open air, they'll get lots of exercise, and they'll learn every day what it feels like to be devalued, exploited and abused. Invaluable lessons to carry them through their miserable lives.

― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Monday, June 7, 2021

Not ironic:

If you liked to eat fish every Friday, would you feel the need to claim you were converting to Catholicism when you weren't? It might raise some embarrassing questions about why you never seem to attend mass, or confession, or take communion, or even learn the catechism. Why not just say you want to eat fish?

― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Saturday, June 5, 2021

The last one is a humorous analogy. I don’t know the contexf but there is likely hyperbole at work, whatever you’re complaining about is not exactly like converting to catholicism to eat fish. Seems ironic and droll.

Subtle irony—not sarcasm—but not a face value post either.

My posts should be taken whichever way casts them in a more favorable light.

They need all the help they can get, really.

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Only one "mostly honest" then.