Alanis Morissette could learn a thing or two...

[WTFH]

Prof Van-Tam has missed the ceremony for receiving his knigthood (given for his work during the first couple of years of Covid-19) because he's got Covid.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-61491996


Isn't it ironic?
No, genuinely ironic, unlike all the example Ms Morissette gave in her song which were just plain bad luck.

[d000hg]

You beat me to it, I came here to post almost exactly the same!
Sounds like he's not unwell though, most importantly.

[vetran]

https://copyblogger.com/did-alanis-m...t-irony-right/

“For me the sweetest moment came in New York when a woman came up to me in a record store and said, ‘So all those things in ‘Ironic’ aren’t ironic.’ And then she said, ‘And that’s the irony.’ I said, ‘Yup.’”

[hugebrain]

Isn't it ironic?
No, genuinely ironic, unlike all the example Ms Morissette gave in her song which were just plain bad luck.

Yeah, but the song is asking a question about whether they are ironic or not. It would be a pretty stupid question if she chose examples that were clearly ironic. So she quite rightly mentions things that one could be unsure about their irony.