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Do you know someone who "likes something ironically"?

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fish across face:

--- Quote from: Skibas_clavicle on 25 May 2009, 10:59 ---I know this is gonna sound weird, but I still am not sure what liking something ironically means. Maybe I'm bad at being a hipster douche, but I still don't get it...If you like something that's cheesy, isn't that you just recognizing it has some sort of pop appeal? Someone explain this to me in a way that hasn't been spouted before...and try to remember who I am.

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Um, hence the whole point of me starting the thread.  No one's been able to answer really, closest so far is P-Frank essentially saying it's when you know what your friends really think better than they do.

I had a hunch it was like "politically correct" and, well, "hipster" - phrases that point to some kind of tendency, are always used as a negative, and are impossible to pin down when you try to get someone to define it.  That's why I was trying to push for real life examples...

SlainteGal:
Co-workers who hate 80's films...but enjoy the Breakfast Club, ironically. A sister-in-law who hates the thought of "gender stereotyping" her kids...and yet, ironically, buys the boys cap guns and the girls barbies. She says it's that she is nostalgic for the toys her and her siblings grew up with.

I know plenty of people who love to hate on Michael Jackson and yet they know all the words AND dance moves to Thriller...which they will bust out in almost every party.

Those examples seemed to fit the question, and although this post was first created two years ago...I just felt the urge to reply.
:)

Melodic:
just saw guitar wolf
my love is not ironic
but this haiku is

Akima:

--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 04 May 2009, 12:42 ---Because deep down, we're all Catholics
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I'm not.

The Duke:
My understanding of it is pretending something is enjoyable only in a "so bad it's funny" sense while secretly enjoying it sincerely. 

It's a coward hiding his guilty pleasure.

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