Your Famous English Ironism

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You think you're smarter than "us", don't you? Just 'cause in the UK every lout with a TV set knows what irony is, or at least that it's a thing, & the basic principle of how to do it. But if say, a Canadian or something uses Irony on you, I bet 9 times out of 10 the average intelligent English(wo)man probably won't even get it. So do you think that maybe that Famous British Ironism is sometimes somewhat overestimated as a, you know, a thing?

― duane, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh shit i just remembered that dooompatrol is a canadian of some sort, isn't he? well i wasn't talking about him (if you thought that, i don't know if anyone would've)

― duane, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, I certainly don't think that 'we' are smarter than 'you'. I don't know where you got that idea.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ever try to get an English person to admit that they didn't 'get' something?

― dave q, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Ironism" = properties related to metallic element Fe, no? (Alternately, issues surrounding practice of ironing, eg. steam vs dry?)

― AP, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinefox - I didn't literally mean that I think "you" really think "you're" smarter than "us", jeez. But, I don't know, maybe you could tell that but you were being ironic.

― duane, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ever try to get an English person to admit that they didn't 'get' something?

Hey don't you think it'd be ironic if someone claimed they didn't get what you were saying.

And don't you think i'd be doubly ironic if instead of someone just claiming they didn't get what you were saying they pointed out how ironic it'd be to do so.

etc

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Irn Bru. But that's Scottish, isn't it?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We say we're good at irony because we've got to be good at something.

― jel, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

ha ha , look at these stupid americans...

― duane, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

I'm doing a Dastoor.

How's this for irony, our health and safety officer is currently off work, as he chopped his thumb off with a circular saw while woodwroking at home.

― chris, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You see an American would never have done that because they don't understand irony.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was Duane being ironic in his use of the word "Ironism"? I think we should be told.

― Trevor, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No he wasn't.

― maryann, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OR WAS I?

― unknown or illegal user, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no she's right, i was being totally sincere.

― unknown or illegal user, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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