Where is the irony? Or are we eschewing Oxford and Webster's definition and using Alanis Morrisette's?
I'm talking trash about BB while using BB for testing.
Granted, it's not the most scintillating use of irony - but it fits the British definition quite adequately.
Of course, the ironic thing about Alanis Morrisette's song is that it contains no irony. Which makes it paradoxically ironic.
I never realized that the British definition of irony included acting in a manner contrary to one's stated preferences.
I have heard the "paradoxically ironic" bit from other people before and it never made any sense to me. A lack of irony is not the same thing as the opposite of irony. I have also never been able to understand the difference between "ironic" and "paradoxically ironic."
See, for example, http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/the-19-most-ironic-fact...
Thanks for the info.