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Ah, British irony: "In an incident befitting his stage name, the rap artist and anti-knife campaigner DJ Ironik was stabbed near his Highgate home in the early hours of Saturday morning."
In other news: Die Antwoord are wringing their hands trying to figure out how to top this newest ironic development.
Highgate? Not very "street cred" that.
Easy now, kids- it was a butter knife.
This needs to be settled over scones.
Skewered by scones and maimed by muffins.
Does Michael Caine have an alibi?
That's Alanic
It seems to me it would be more ironic if he were pro-knives and this had happened. I mean, it's sort of just proving his point.
Sorry to be a Word Nazi, but this story is not "ironic" (or, whatever, "ironik") at all. Just like Wellthen said: it would have been ironic if the rapper had been named DJ Knife, and had often rapped about the awesomeness of knives and campaigned for their legality.
I mean, I'm in favor of everybody having health insurance … and I don't have health insurance. If I die because I don't have health insurance, does that make my death "ironic?"
Oedipus Rex is an "ironic hero" because in attempting to flee his fate, he was actually running towards it. If he'd been running from his fate but had been caught by it because he'd run away too slowly, there wouldn't have been any irony in the play.
Campaigning against a social evil and then falling victim to that evil is not ironic.