Take note, if you are still struggling to figure out what irony is.
With the amount of other metals in cars these days it's more aluminiumy than irony. Or perhaps plasticy.
the true irony of this post is OP"s understanding of irony.
Irony:
a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
The car is not being driven by a learner. Its not ironic just because a car crashed outside a driving school, its ironic because the driver is experiencedz has a licence and should be able to drive but they have crashed outside a driving school, the place you go to learn to drive....
I thought this was pretty clear.
How can you possibly know who was driving the car? Furthermore, even if the red van wasn't being driven by a learner, how can you know the events that led to this weren't caused by a different car driven by a learner?
How can you possibly know who was driving the car?
I took the picture... about 15 or 16 years ago
Furthermore, even if the red van wasn't being driven by a learner, how can you know the events that led to this weren't caused by a different car driven by a learner?
The area that the car was is a small car park outside of a pub called the coach and horses.
Coordinates 53.3764660, -3.1237445
The driver had just come from the pub. I was across the road in the beer garden of another pub called the greave dunning (just about visible i that screenshot) when it happened and witnessed the crash. He got in his car, had it in 1st instead of reverse, and went straight through the bricks and off the edge.
Is that enough for you to understand why i find it ironic?
It's certainly context that helps paint it as ironic, yes! These are all details that are definitely lost by just posting a photo on the internet and calling it ironic.
Whilst that is fair, i dont think there is too little information in the picture to see the irony, i think you presumed a lot of details that were incorrect and thats just as bad as me unintentionally ommitting the context you needed to understand my viewpoint.
You have first hand knowledge of what happened there to make it ironic. Judging by other comments, it seems like (at least for now) the photo alone, without context, isn't very ironic. It really is your context that makes it ironic. You should add the context to the original post!
Fair enough.
That's not ironic. That's not ironic at all. Of all the places I'd expect a collision to occur, I'd be least surprised to find out one occurred near a driving instructor. The people needing a driving instructor generally aren't good at driving.
Edited to add: OP has added context to the situation here, https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18347533
Depends on your country.
Where I live you have to take 35 ( 45 min long ) driving lessons from a driving instructor and then you are able to apply for a test for a driving license.
And if you fail you have to do 5 more each failure, so getting a drviving license here costs at minimum 1.4k euro up to how many times you fail ( each failure will cost you another 175 euro )
I don't know how it is organized in your place, but here, some practice hours are neccessary for the license.
The people needing a driving instructor generally aren't good at driving.
The people needing a driving instructor generally don’t have a driving licence yet so they won’t be driving a car without an instructor next to them, who’s job it is to prevent things like this from happening.
It be more ironic if this happened in front of a private chauffeur/ hire your getaway driver joint, but ok
Yeah, or if the car had a sticker on it saying "award - safest student driver" on it, it might be ironic.
Yeah I mean a driving school is precisely where you'd expect someone to fuck up driving. The opposite of irony.
sorta like how rain on your wedding day is ironic…
I would argue that all the examples in her song (which ironically aren't very ironic), are more ironic than this.
her examples are ironic because she keeps saying they’re ironic, making you expect them to be ironic, and then defying that expectation….
Exactly
That song (which is insipid and bland) gets a bad rap for that. I'd argue that the song is indeed using irony effectively. irony is subjective: it tells you what the speaker believes to be a contradiction. the song says: these things are ironic; the implied presupposition is something like "everything turns out well like in a romance movie."
I mean, it's not a very deep conclusion, but it is logically defensible. anyway, if you're in high school and you need an English paper topic, there you go.
Greasy News lol, now that's where I'd like to be a journalist
That's real greasy Bubs
And a story like this happening right outside their door.
The picture was taking long to load and I was expecting either an E or a Y made of iron
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