Ironically, watching the grief stricken faces Aqsa Mahmood's parents, begging their daughter to come home was also anguishing in its own way.
I also stopped ironically watching Lindsay Lohan flicks and started seriously scrutinizing Matt Damon movies, refused to wash my towels or bedsheets, used my bookcase to store empty liquor bottles, read Tracy Morgan's autobiography, only ate meals that took less than 20 minutes to cook in the microwave, drank protein shakes and beers, and took part in a soccer game "with the lads".
So she rolled her eyes, and let me hack through their system and surf the net while she, ironically watched the surfers on the beautiful ocean in front of us.
Your nights are spent in a drunken stupor, punishing your body with piss-weak American macrobrews and sucrose-laden foodstuffs while you ironically watch Home Alone 2: Lost in New York on Netflix.
Ironically, Smith was watching last night's game from the stands.
Ironically, some voters watching the event on television thought that he was saying "panda bear" failing to understand why he was calling Bill Clinton a "panda bear".
Over time, our watching it ironically turned into my watching it in earnest, alone.
Do some fans watch ironically, while others enjoy the chance to hear someone "telling it like it was"?
Rick Weidman, 55, the director of government relations for the Vietnam Veterans of America, says he is "ironically amused" to watch grown men, who know nothing of war, "reliving adolescent urges".
(Ironically, if you watch at least 10 seconds of those six minutes, an advertisement for Magna Carta Holy Grail is likely to pop up on your screen).
And it draws a steady sub-audience of fans who watch ironically or satirically, eagle-eyed for those long meaningful pauses, murdery double-entendres, weak male leads and instantly recognisable narrative shorthand.
