Never read the comments

The royals have been in the news a lot in the last month. I love going on google news and reading different articles and comments on certain stories.

While not reaching Youtube comment levels of stupidity, the average entertainment or political blog comment seems to have been written by someone between the ages of eight and twelve. Jezebel is a good exception, but I can't pretend stuff on there doesn't sometimes piss me off. Many royal blogs have the occasional intelligent comment too. I've also noticed local blogs often have more intelligent comments. Perhaps because people know where you live?

Either way, I have not been impressed over all.

There are three types of stories with comments I have seen recently that made me want to bang my head against my desk:

1. In response to the Queen's visit to Canada:
-Nasty and often sexist insults hurled at the eighty-four-year-old Queen.
-People bringing Diana into it. Some love her and some hate her. She has nothing to do with Queen Elizabeth visiting Canada.
-Rabid monarchists speaking of H.M. as though she was an other-worldly saint and getting into fights with those who disagree.

2. In response to Madonna's Wallis Simpson movie:
-"u no she was a nazi, right? i read it on wikipedia!!!"
-Assuming the commentator (who seems to generally not know what they're talking about) knows more about Wallis than Madonna does. You can say a lot of nasty things about Madonna, but when she gets into something she really gets into it. She may intentionally make the movie about her instead of about Wallis, but she's done her research. Often overlaps with the above.
-Bringing Princess Diana/Camilla into it. Seriously?

3. Will and Kate wedding rumors:
-Jokes about William's lack of hair. I can tolerate these when done with wit and some level of sympathy, but when every other person posting on the thread has made a poorly spelt bald joke you need to come up with something more original.
-Kate is a golddigging slut and her mother is a social climber. Often coupled with laments about British taxpayers having to pay for the wedding, but that's really more of an excuse for hating her.
-The general assumption that Will and Kate are engaged and planning a wedding. They're not.
-Bringing Princess Diana into it.

At least on Youtube, the bad comments are so awful they're kind of amusing. But these people just make me weep for humanity.