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- slahser, on 06/04/2008, -12/+448War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength - rgodfrey, on 06/04/2008, -8/+360It's like good advice... that we just didn't take.
- MikeCI, on 06/04/2008, -4/+269I've always wondered what George Orwell would have thought of ceiling cat
- FadieZ, on 06/04/2008, -9/+207If you've never read 1984, read it.
If you've read 1984, read it again. It gets better every time. - Scorch44, on 06/04/2008, -40/+183Dugg for literary reference that most Diggers are probably too young to know about.
- emceepecks, on 06/04/2008, -0/+127FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+106Some animals are more equal than others.
- bobalien, on 06/04/2008, -8/+111is that irony or coincidence?
- johndajap56, on 06/04/2008, -10/+112Big Brother is watching
- Codwhy, on 06/04/2008, -2/+97eh i consider myself pretty young (19) and we read this book sometime during the first two years of highschool.
how ***** young are people on digg? - Thrunq, on 06/04/2008, -1/+89Doubleplus Good Sign
- a1cd, on 06/04/2008, -0/+84http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6892/44cb4b9128 ...
- RSS14, on 06/04/2008, -0/+782 + 2 = 5
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -2/+68Nobody knows the difference anymore.
- vikblazin, on 06/04/2008, -0/+64a serious WTF is in order.
stop the racist articles in the comments. - frankingeneral, on 06/04/2008, -4/+56It is ironic. Because the textbook definition of irony is an incongruence between what a speaker says and what a speaker means or does. In this case, the government of this area is saying "Let's honor George Orwell," but we'll act in a manner so as to not honor him. It's a stretch, but it's definitely true irony. But the word has been so misused for such a long period of time that some dictionaries now list unfortunate coincidences as a definition for ironic.
Good example of true irony:
Hillary stating that once a nominee is selected the democratic party would unify and rally behind that nominee, while simultaneously refusing to drop out of the race even after Obama has enough delegates to win the nomination. - WarriorDragon, on 06/04/2008, -1/+45If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- chrissku, on 06/04/2008, -11/+55Big brother is watching us indeed George...
- jankind, on 06/04/2008, -2/+46It gets doubleplusgooder every time!
- jkleinfeld, on 06/04/2008, -1/+45Has anyone else noticed the white supremacists in every single comment page? This is ridiculous...
But yeah, mirror wanted - LBobRife, on 06/04/2008, -1/+44Yeah pretty much every high schooler I know of has read the book.
- AyaJulia, on 06/04/2008, -0/+41Irony is the fact that we need a mirror for an image hosted on a site with "mirror" in the address.
- Innagadadavida, on 06/04/2008, -2/+41A no smooooking sign on your cigarettes break!
- tas08, on 06/04/2008, -5/+43Yes it is irony.
And if you look up the word "ironic" you will find that one of the definitions of the word is "coincidental; unexpected"
The pic is ironic because you would not expect them to put cameras there.
The Alanis Morissette song is NOT ironic. - tas08, on 06/04/2008, -5/+38Attend school.
- xero69, on 06/04/2008, -2/+34They're just scared ***** that a man who is not white might be sitting in the white house soon.
- burketo, on 06/04/2008, -1/+33Actually it is pretty much the definition of irony. "appropriate" would be a telephone on a street named after alexander graham bell.
George Orwell spent most of his life criticizing government authority and invasion of privacy and wrote a dystopian, "worst case scenario" book where (among other things) people were watched by the government through cameras.
It seems he has a street named after him - presumably to commemorate his life's work - which has a camera that a government uses to watch people on it.
If irony could be harnessed into electricity, there would be enough juice there to spin him in his grave at 10,000rpm - Ramble, on 06/04/2008, -4/+34Unless you're 60 years or older, then you're too young as well.
- GhostRidr, on 06/04/2008, -4/+33Too many Alanis Morissette listeners have ruined the real meaning.
- numb, on 06/05/2008, -0/+29C'mon, it's so ironic I could pick it up with a magnet
- tas08, on 06/04/2008, -1/+30It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -1/+29....Members of the Junior Anti-sex League masturbate.
- levelred, on 06/04/2008, -2/+291984
- HMMcKamikaze, on 06/04/2008, -0/+27You make it sound like you invented that.
- eouw0o83hf, on 06/04/2008, -63/+88That is not irony. That is coincidence.
- kaywhy, on 06/05/2008, -2/+26it figgers!
- bgrah449, on 06/04/2008, -8/+32IRONY - an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected
Having a sign warning you that you are being watched, in a plaza named after George Orwell, is indeed ironic. - Serinus, on 06/04/2008, -0/+22It *is* ironic, because you would think that a society that honors the writing of George Orwell wouldn't allow these cameras to exist.
- SadFootSign, on 06/05/2008, -0/+21But isn't it ironic that a song about irony contains absolutely no irony
- edwartica, on 06/04/2008, -0/+19In my linguistics class, we used to joke about "Morrisetian irony."
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -1/+19cameracrime does not entail pictures: cameracrime is pictures.
- OldNumber7, on 06/04/2008, -1/+18When I was there a few years ago there was graffitti in the plaza that read: "Big Brother is watching you"
- wonderbriefs, on 06/04/2008, -0/+16I don't know why someone buried you for that. They must not have read the novel.
- logicalnoise, on 06/04/2008, -4/+19Ceiling cat thinks George Orwell was a pussy.
- Joshuarr, on 06/04/2008, -1/+16That's what makes it funny. And ironic. Like rain on your wedding day...
- cusoman, on 06/04/2008, -1/+16Ok, that's unfair, I submitted mine at the exact same time! :(
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -3/+18That would be hypocricy. Now your post on the other hand would be ironic.
- jessehadden, on 06/04/2008, -0/+14It's not ironic to have a song called "Ironic" about a bunch of situations that aren't ironic? (Ironic.)
- catkillcurious, on 06/04/2008, -2/+16Nothing like a stale, loosely-rolled cigarette after a thimbleful of victory gin. Could someone spare me a razor blade or two?
- edwartica, on 06/04/2008, -0/+14I work in television, so that quote has a certain sentiment to me. Yet, considering your comment on your own comment, I think I will digg you down.
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