Everything that is wrong with YouTube comments in one screenshot

September 18, 2008 6:21 PM

mattbootry: you could sell oil to the arabs with an ad like that; frilloz4: the arabs are the ones with the oil stupid

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I used to think that comments on YouTube were horrible, but now I only read them when I want to laugh, because they are often as funny as this example. I would challenge you to find a site with funnier comments.

LMAO. Brilliant and yet so completely typical of YouTube.

So true, but I think xkcd hit the nail on the head a while back: http://xkcd.com/202/.

I suspect this is an eternal, unchanging part of human discourse. Perhaps if we look hard enough we may find a washroom stall somewhere with the following exchange scratched into the enamel:

...coals to Newcastle...

What a berk! Everyone knows you get coal from Newcastle

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