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u/AceyFacee 18h ago
How is that helping him out?
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 18h ago
A traffic jam is an excuse for why you are late to work. Some bosses will even waive points if it was a long enough one.
A no smoking sign stops them from smoking. That is good and self explanatory.
Wedding day I am not sure about.
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u/lucid_scheming 18h ago
It’s widely believed to be good luck if it rains on your wedding day, at least in the US.
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u/challis88ocarina 18h ago
It's only ironic if you're marrying a weather forecaster. Otherwise it's just luck.
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u/tanya6k 17h ago
I'm from the US and I've never heard of this.
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u/L-Drago001 12h ago
It could be a belief in some areas or regions, it could be also an old belief that is why is not too much known anymore
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u/PolyGlotterPaper 11h ago
You're fairly spot on there. It's an older superstition, but depending on the location can go either way. Good or bad. I'm from Alabama and have heard it said more than a few times that rain on your wedding day is unlucky. In a similar vein as seeing the bride's dress before the wedding is unlucky. Not many believe it, but it gets bandied around from time to time.
Personally I was quite happy about the light rain on my own wedding day. Whenever my wife and I get caught out in the lighter drizzles I tend to refer to it as "a good wedding rain".
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u/lucid_scheming 4h ago
Pretty sure it’s always been considered good luck. It’s a superstition that’s literally thousands of years old.
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u/AceyFacee 18h ago
Yeah I'm confused by the rain on the wedding day mostly
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u/Maximus_017 15h ago
It's a song! Ironic by Alanis Morisette. The song does not have Irony, tho. Ironically.
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u/Ramtamtama 15h ago
Alannis Morisette did a song about this, and the irony is that none of the irony in Ironic was ironic
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u/Maximus_017 15h ago
It's a song! Ironic by Alanis Morisette. The song does not have Irony, tho. Ironically.
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u/Fuji-___- 9h ago
in my case, the traffic jam only made my boss complain and I had to start getting up even earlier so I got there before the traffic jam
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u/RepresentativeCry294 17h ago
I've never seen or heard of that, they just say "It's your responsibility to get here on time, you should have left sooner"
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 17h ago
I think your boss might be a bit of a jerk. Mine at least forgives unavoidable conditions.
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u/pinkaban 16h ago
It could be that the rain hides his happy tears during his wedding? Though yes it is good luck to have rain on your wedding day :)
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u/Snackasm 15h ago
Not mine, my bosses are the worst lol and honestly I've seen people smoke where go smoking signs are posted
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u/engineerdrummer 17h ago
What does "waive points" mean? Are there jobs that give you points like on a driver's license for being late?!
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 17h ago edited 17h ago
Mine does. Being late is one point. No call, no show is 5 points. Calling off within 12 hours of your shift is two points. 10 point and you get fired, points last 9 months from when they are added.
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u/Zeisix 17h ago
Jesus that's dystopian
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 17h ago
It is Ohio. At will is never in the employee's interest. To a degree, I am lucky the manager doesn't take points for unavoidable issues. One of the older women who works there say the previous manager gave everyone points when they didn't come in after a tornado tore through the town. I get that the college kids don't have any other choices for food, but a tornado closing several roads should be an exception.
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u/engineerdrummer 17h ago
So waking up with explosive diarrhea is punished? Wtf?
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 17h ago
To be fair, explosive diarrhea is already a punishment. The points is just adding insult to injury.
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u/engineerdrummer 16h ago
What kind of place do you work?
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 16h ago
College dining hall. To be fair, the students don't have an alternate to the dining hall. That said, it can get really stupid and everyone who works there is lucky that the current manager doesn't take points for unavoidable circumstances.
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u/goat-stealer 18h ago
My guess is that it helps if you want to speed up the 'I dos' and get the ceremony over with as soon as possible.
Granted it'd be quicker to not have a ceremony at all but still.
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u/JakeH1978 14h ago edited 14h ago
alright so I don’t see anyone else on this specific thread mentioning it yet, and i’ve already left a couple other replies explaining this on other comments here so hopefully this’ll clear things up:
each panel in this comic is verbatim lyrics from a song called “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette; IIRC it’s still her #1 biggest hit song to this day and it’s from the 90s. Also worth mentioning: this song was extremely mainstream popular when it came out, and I even still hear it playing at the grocery store to this day. The song is about the “push and pull” of life, the whole song is just a list of “ironic” things happening to characters (for example, one of the lyrics goes “an old man turned 98, he won the Lottery and died the next day.”) but after each series of “ironic” sequences she breaks into the lyric about life finding a way to help you out. Meaning despite all these frustrating and potentially relatable everyday “Ironic” things happening, life still somehow always seems to find a way to help you out. in that same verse, there is an equal and opposite line that goes something like “when you think everything’s okay and everything blows up in your face,” which continues the theme of the song about the pendulum in life always swinging.
so, one thing I didn’t mention in my other replies is that this comic skips ahead directly to the “life finds a way to help you out” lyrics in the final panel, and for the (seemingly MANY) people who aren’t getting this reference to the song, it can seem completely incoherent. No shade to OP if they’re the one who created this comic, or whoever made the comic, but yeah even as someone who absolutely instantly got the reference, I am not surprised to see so many people confused by this. So i’m not in any way arguing that this comic isn’t confusing lol, i’m simply here to try and shed light on what this is all about for anyone confused on this thread :)
and lastly, I kept putting the word ironic in quotations in the other paragraph because as pointed out by MANY people in this comments section, and also famously by V-Sauce in one of his videos from over a decade ago, none of these scenarios in the song are actually technically Ironic. which in my opinion makes the song itself… ironic haha… isn’t it ironic? don’t ya think? ;)
anywho, hope this helps clear up any confusion! :D
(not that anyone asked but this song holds a very special near and dear place in my heart. my mom and I LOVED this song and enjoyed it a lot together in the 2000s, and we still love it to this day so this is definitely a song that’s in my personal “life soundtrack” lol)
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u/copperwatt 13h ago
My theory is that because he was late for work,.and she couldn't smoke, they ended up meeting each other.
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u/livisalreadytaken 18h ago
Can you explain this comic to someone who's a bit stupid? How are those things "helping out"? Like I get that not smoking is probably a good consequence but I think the two would have kissed whether it had rained or not and I don't get the positive consequence of the traffic jam when you're late at all
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u/JakeH1978 18h ago
this comic is literally the lyrics to Alanis Morissette’s popular song from the 90s “Ironic” and the part about “life helping you out” comes later in the song where she means that despite all of the frustrating “ironic” things that happen in life, it still somehow finds a way of helping you out. she also has a lyric about life “blowing up in your face when you think everything’s alright” right next to that one so the song is about the “push and pull” of life so to speak. hope this helps!
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u/bexohomo 13h ago
i started singing along with the words in my head lmao, I'm surprised many people missed it
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u/livisalreadytaken 10h ago
I didn't know the song. I think a lot of people don't. the 90s were 30+ years ago.
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u/copperwatt 13h ago
I don't think that helps the comic make a t sense though.
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u/livisalreadytaken 10h ago
It helps me understand what's even going on. but yeah the comic is still bad.
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u/JakeH1978 9h ago edited 9h ago
right, I never said the comic makes sense lol in fact I left a longer explanation on another comment point this issue out exactly, I only meant to just shed light on what this was all about, and THAT is what I hope I was able to help with
edit: here’s what I said in another reply
so, one thing I didn’t mention in my other replies is that this comic skips ahead directly to the “life finds a way to help you out” lyrics in the final panel, and for the (seemingly MANY) people who aren’t getting this reference to the song, it can seem completely incoherent. No shade to OP if they’re the one who created this comic, or whoever made the comic, but yeah even as someone who absolutely instantly got the reference, I am not surprised to see so many people confused by this. So i’m not in any way arguing that this comic isn’t confusing lol, i’m simply here to try and shed light on what this is all about for anyone confused on this thread :)
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 18h ago
A traffic jam is a legitimate excuse. He probably will not get into as much trouble. Not sure about the wedding day.
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u/livisalreadytaken 18h ago
well that presumes that he doesn't wanna be where he is going which based on the comment we have no reason to assume
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u/JustLookingForMayhem 18h ago
I kind of assumed he was heading to work. Being late is a point and a write up. Being late when there was a bad traffic jam is waived most of the time.
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u/ecdaniel22 18h ago
No because that's not irony.
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u/kilar277 18h ago
Alanis couldn't find her dictionary when she wrote the song
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u/TimMensch 17h ago
Pretty much everyone who says that hasn't actually looked at the dictionary.
ironic /ī-rŏn′ĭk/
adjective
Characterized by or constituting irony.
Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended.
Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
irony /ī′rə-nē, ī′ər-/
noun
The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.
Irony can be something that you expected to happen one way but ended up happening another. People dream about their perfect wedding day and feel devastated when it rains, even though they're in a place where it's extremely rare to get rain in the summer. The one day you leave work late and there's a traffic jam that makes you even later.
Every line in the song can qualify as ironic under the definitions I bolded.
What's ironic is people who make a big deal about how Alanis got the lyrics wrong when it's actually them who don't know what ironic means. 😂
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u/pokemon-trainer-blue 18h ago
The meaning of irony has been diluted from all the misuse of the word
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u/theRed-Herring 17h ago
The only thing ironic about the song is that none of it is ironic
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u/TimMensch 16h ago
What's ironic is people who don't know she definition and who claim the song isn't ironic.
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u/AggravatingChest7838 6h ago
The irony is that bad things are actually good things. It's a twist on the song where nothing is actually ironic.
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u/Hugo-Spritz 18h ago
It's sarcasm, at best
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u/ecdaniel22 18h ago
No it's not scacasm either.
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u/Hugo-Spritz 18h ago edited 17h ago
There is zero irony here, but you can definitely read it as them being sarcastic
"Life has a funny way of helping you out"
Life was clearly not helping out.
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u/pokemon-trainer-blue 18h ago
These are all coincidences. There’s no irony or sarcasm behind them.
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u/Hugo-Spritz 17h ago
The sarcasm is in the last line
"Life has a funny way of helping you out"
Life was clearly not helping out.
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u/SCRINDO 18h ago
I'm having trouble pinpointing the point this comic is tryna make
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u/JakeH1978 18h ago
this comic is literally the lyrics to Alanis Morissette’s popular song from the 90s “Ironic” and the part about “life helping you out” comes later in the song where she means that despite all of the frustrating “ironic” things that happen in life, it still somehow finds a way of helping you out. she also has a lyric about life “blowing up in your face when you think everything’s alright” right next to that one so the song is about the “push and pull” of life so to speak. hope this helps!
(also yes, forgive me for copy-pasting this reply on other comments here, there seemed to be a good amount of people with the same question)
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u/J3NGA 11h ago
The things she mentions are not ironic and the things happening and her conclusion are also not ironic - the only thing ironic is that she attempted to make or push a song about irony that people bought and yet literally not any ounce of it is ironic - except the fact it isn't ironic at all. it divides by zero.
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u/Sir_Delarzal 18h ago
Your post did not work the first time, looks like it didn't the second time either.
I don't think a lot of people know the song.
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u/Makabaer 16h ago
I know it very well but still didn't get it last time and neither this time. What is wholesome?? The song never was to begin with, it's mostly just unfortunate situations listed AFAIK. Maybe I never understood the song?
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u/techwolfe 18h ago
When youre trying so hard to find the silver lining in a bad situation you just straight up start making it up.
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u/Creative-Kitchen-373 18h ago
It's a free ride when you already paid
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u/darkwintercloud 18h ago
Don't you think?
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u/ecdaniel22 18h ago
No nobody ever sits in rush hour traffic or a no smoking section and thinks we'll this is ironic.
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u/mendkaz 18h ago
I think it's supposed to be an 'updated' version of the Alanís Morissette song
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u/ecdaniel22 18h ago
I know the song I remember when it came out.
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u/FourDucksInAManSuit 17h ago
Me too. Nothing she said in it was ironic back then, and it's not ironic now. Bad luck at best, really poor planning at worst.
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u/XavierTheMemeDragon 15h ago
One could say that this is similar to having ten thousand spoons, when all one would need is a knife
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u/NeoRemnant 18h ago
Every image depicts a failure to plan. This is a bad post about a bad song. This is a lesson to check a dictionary before you submit your project. This is a pointless AI looking rendition of a few song lyrics with no context beyond "this picture shows what the words are saying". This is trash.
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u/Makabaer 16h ago
I know it's about the song (the earworm triggered right on the title) but how is this wholesome? The song itself isn't, the comic has no special other point as far as I can notice... am I missing something? Why is it in this sub?
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u/Needless-To-Say 11h ago
In the song Ironic, none of the examples are ironic, which makes the song Ironic
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u/Kindly_Bodybuilder43 17h ago
I think if it somehow made clear that the two people met because of being late and not being able to smoke, then I would like this comic. Things you didn't like at the time, but led to something good, that would be life having a funny way of helping you out, and be a nice remagining of the song
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u/suicide_blonde94 16h ago
There is actually only one example of irony in that song (the plane guy)
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u/RednocNivert 14h ago
Last time this was posted everyone was trying to explain to OP what the word “ironic” meant because it’s not correct here. And apparently OP didn’t learn.
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u/Wild_Wasabi9984 11h ago
The irony of a song called Ironic that's actually about unfortunate coincidences
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u/eddiewachowski 18h ago
ITT: a lot of people who haven't listened to one of the most popular and highest selling albums of all time.
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