If letters to the editor are the royal road to madness, online comment sections are the dumbwaiter.

[commodorified]

But sometimes I can't resist.

To be called a racist now is worse then being a paedophile.

Wow. HM prisons are obviously INCREDIBLY generous with the internet access.

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[legionseagle]

As you have probably guessed, I make a point of not reading below the line in online publications.

The wisdom of this course is proved yet again.

[jae]

Don't read the bottom half of the internet!!!!

-J

[gramina]

1. Is there a context in which this statement might even verge on comprehensible?

2. Being called X is worse than being Y is not a construction that seems very useful to me.

[sara]

What I really don't like dealing with are racist pedophiles.

(I just wish I were joking about this one, too. And yet I am not. Wow, it has been a long year.)

[commodorified]

Homophobic racist pedophiles. Who just don't feel the same about it all if they find out the kid has a disability.

(Yes. Yes it has, and I am going to Hell)