I think you mean the exact opposite. Irony is saying the opposite of what you mean in such a way that your more educated hearers get it, Mark Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar being the classical English example, though there are excellent ones in Euripides.
I think you actually mean “similarly”. And I agree. I don’t know quite how but with all the madness around BB seems to remain a sane oasis (and, if you are an IT person, The Register, but the sense of humour there is extremely British.).
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