05-23-2017, 03:15 PM
If that's what he was doing, fair enough, I guess. I thought it was something a bit more serious.
I don't want to be picky, but I reckon the use of ironic was correct. Consider this definition of irony: "A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result". Forget the amusing part, but Nicky Hayden's death on a bicycle rather than the track could well be described as an "event ... contrary to what one expects ..."
I don't want to be picky, but I reckon the use of ironic was correct. Consider this definition of irony: "A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result". Forget the amusing part, but Nicky Hayden's death on a bicycle rather than the track could well be described as an "event ... contrary to what one expects ..."