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…
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!
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?
I took the picture… about 15 or 16 years ago
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.