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13 August 2006

AskMeCha: Should I be concerned if someone told me "Ah, I see you've got an ironic t-shirt on", but I wasn't wearing the t-shirt ironically at all?

post by: agropyron at: 14:14 | 13 comments

I'm worried that you'd be worried,
but if it's Winger or something, I'm far more worried.

posted by ethylene 13 August | 14:18

Depends on the shirt. Can you tell us what it was?

posted by PinkStainlessTail 13 August | 14:24

I'm worried that irony itself is worrisome now - who knows who's being ironic and who's not? So hard for the average multi-media hipster to keep their inner book of references straight anymore.

Someone should start a clinic.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 13 August | 14:25

Ethylene, I'm not worried. But I'm asking if I should be worried. So I guess I'm worried about the fact that I'm not worried about the comment. You know?

Wait, is that worse?

LT: Precisely!

posted by agropyron 13 August | 14:39

"Are you being sarcastic?"
"Dude, I don't even know anymore."

posted by court siem 13 August | 15:45

You should be sweatily waking up in the middle of the night.

posted by flopsy 13 August | 16:19

It's the very sincerity of your T-shirt that's so ironic, agro. That's what that lame-ass guy will never understand.

posted by Miko 13 August | 16:28

Miko.... you just blew my mind.

posted by agropyron 13 August | 16:58

but... but... I thought 911 killed irony in America!!! Oh the humanity!

posted by edgeways 13 August | 16:59

Just smile and say 'I'm not being ironic, you hipster twit,' and you'll feel better.

posted by jonmc 13 August | 17:05

Agropyron's question blew my mind, but Miko put it back together agin.

posted by rainbaby 13 August | 17:06

Miko puts me back together again, often.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 13 August | 18:04

Wow. I just wrote a blog entry about Irony and other things...

posted by wendell 13 August | 22:32

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