Senors, do you enjoy reading the comments beneath the news stories?

I did for awhile, but after reading all that rot, just felt awful and it's no wonder the world is depressed. Sometimes I'll be drawn in, but the headline has misled me and I'm disgusted that I wasted my time on it at all.

If it's a really off-the-wall, Man-Bites-Dog type of news story, then I sometimes look to see what the Peanut Gallery will have to say about it. You're right: The back and forth name calling is a lot like the dialogue in a Three Stooges short. But, after spending a great deal of my time among the luddy-duddles on Yahoo Seniors, where everything that does not meet the "guidelines" of the Yamster's Smiley-Face idea of propriety, it is exhilarating to once again see something close to real freedom of speech in action. Frankly, I wish we were allowed to say insulting things like that here. Not that I personally would, of course. I am always as pleasant as can be. But I'd like to be allowed to.

And once in a while, in that land of real free speech, there are truly interesting comments, made by people who would never dream of wasting their time coming to an insipid Happy-Face website like Yahoo Seniors.

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The BEST part is reading the comments! They make anything into an excuse to go on a political rampage. Check out the politics section on Y!Answers.. it's scary bad.

All we can do is laugh. If you're making an arguement through a computer screen it's kind of hard to take you seriously.

Yes, I do. Often I put up a comment if I'm interested in the story. I have not had any bad results from others reading my comment. Right now I have 12 TU on one.

I enjoy reading the comments and posting a few myself. Now that I am retired, I still fill many of my hours with more worthwhile pursuits, but I sleep less and have to fill an extra three or so hours a day that didn't exist when I was working for the man.

The comments are more entertaining, especially the ones written later in the evening after some of the "authors" have had a few.

Yup, the comments are ususally the best part of the story. When I do make a comment, I do not read the later updates, because people can be meaner than a sack of rattlesnakes.

It's rare I comment, but last night there was a story on the woman in Georgia who was belittled for using her EBT card, formerly called Food Stamps. I read each comment to see if anybody agreed with me. Nobody did, so I left mine.

I had been for awhile but when I finally realized how crazy the comments were becoming, it saddened me too much to see how dumbed down the public has become. The comments were worded so poorly by people in a rage that it was virtually impossible to understand what they were raging about.