BS in mechanical engineering, specializing in energy systems
BS in geography, MS in natural resources.
The irony here is if I'm the most educated and the starter of the most retarded threads.
Folks started offering to pay me to do what I love, so I chose that path.
Like Nuclear Power plants?
The irony here is if I'm the most educated and the starter of the most retarded threads.
Not irony--that is either happenstance or just coincidence.
People misuse the word irony all the time--I'm guilt of it myself.
Just like how people misuse the words "could care less" when the actual phrase should be "couldn't care less."
I've also noticed that all of the sudden people are really overusing the word LITERALLY, at least around me. People are all of the sudden using "literally" when they're already descibing literal things.
Should have been an English major.
BS in Geography... isn't that redundant??
Actually, I think this is the correct use if "irony". Something is ironic if is the opposite of what would be expected. BMF is highly educated so the expectation would be that his posts would be about cells and mitosis and shit. However since most of his posts are self-described as "retarded" that would be ironic based on the expectations of someone with his education.
Up in the air on this one. It is pretty loose.
Irony is usually conveyed in the literal since in either bad or opposites based on chracters expectations.
MacBeth murders the King to become the king and the IRONY of it is that he is himself killed for killing the king. That is dramatic Irony. Also, dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters in the drama don't.
Here is a good example, compliments of George Carlin:
If you're a diabetic and you get hit and killed by an Inulin delivery truck, this is just coincidence, not irony. It is irony if you are diabetic and the insulin truck hits and kills you WHILE on your way to get more insulin.