1w ago

This is a photo of irony.

Take note, if you are still struggling to figure out what irony is.

You can't park there, mate @feddit.uk

Zip2 @feddit.uk

1w ago

I don't care if you think it's ironic or not, but you still can't park there.

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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
- 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.
- 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 )
  
  Sounds awful
- I don't know how it is organized in your place, but here, some practice hours are neccessary for the license.
- I have to disagree. Granted, those learning to drive are likely less skilled than those who have passed their tests already. However, the majority of crashes involve people who have already passed. Learners tend to be more careful and drive more slowly than more experienced drivers. Learners also have an instructor present who can use the dual pedal controls in the instructor car to stop something like this from happening.
  So whilst you might think a more experienced driver would be less likely to crash, remember, this car was not being driven by a learner and more experienced drivers are less likely to pass driving tests, since they develop bad habits like not using indicators, becoming overconfident and bending or breaking rules, more likely to speed and as stated beforez are far more likely to crash or be caught in one than a learner.

It be more ironic if this happened in front of a private chauffeur/ hire your getaway driver joint, but ok
- Yeah I mean a driving school is precisely where you'd expect someone to fuck up driving. The opposite of irony.
- Yeah, or if the car had a sticker on it saying "award - safest student driver" on it, it might be ironic.

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?

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….
  
  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."
  STATEMENT: rain on your wedding day is ironic
  PRESUPPOSITION: it should not rain on your wedding day bc that is a magical time
  CONCLUSION: life is not ideal
  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.