The Consumerist Commentors Suck Donkey Cock!

Seriously, the com­ment threads at The Consumerist are so mind-numbingly bad that they make the aver­age Slashdot thread seem eru­dite in com­par­i­son.  Want proof, read on…

Our case study in this inves­ti­ga­tion into suck will be the com­ments for this story.  The thrust of said story being that appar­ently some high schools are phas­ing out so-called “check­book math.”  That is, per­sonal finance math.  I don’t want to go into the mer­its of the story itself; although I would think that, in this age of rock­et­ing per­sonal debt and the sub-prime mort­gage melt­down, there would be lit­tle room for debate that not teach­ing the youth of America how per­sonal finance works is a bad thing.  Oh, but that asser­tion doesn’t take into account the fuck-nozzles that com­ment at The Consumerist.  Right out of the gate we get this bril­liant insight.

Is it just me, or does every­one else get annoyed when peo­ple in front of you pay by check? Thats what debit cards are for!

Gods damn it your rav­ing ass-waffle!  Nothing in the story had to do with writ­ing checks.  Continuing in that vein, a few com­ments later we get this bril­liant insight.

Yes. Who still pays with a check? It takes ages, and credit card receipts pro­vide for much bet­ter record keep­ing anyway.

Again, so not get­ting the point.  Plus this cum-dribble adds the ever so pop­u­lar meme of “just pay with every­thing using credit cards.”  Yes, dip-shit, that lit­tle rec­tan­gle of plas­tic is a magic money machine ain’t it?  This next waste of skin con­tin­ues that meme.

As far as I can remem­ber… my school never taught any of that (grad­u­ated in 91). Besides.…I never need to bal­ance my check­book. I write 2 checks a month & every­thing else is paid with a credit card (that is paid off every month). Much eas­ier than writ­ing 50 checks or using a debit card.

Goody for you, just wait until the first month you’re laid off, or face a major med­ical issue; we’ll see how soon that “paid off every month” goes out the window.

There you have it, three exam­ples of the rav­ing retar­da­tion that infests the com­ments at The Consumerist.  In part­ing, to add a mod­icum of bal­ance, here’s a com­ment that I can support.

Don’t like me pay­ing with a check? Fuck you. Most peo­ple will use this kind of math far more than alge­bra or cal­cu­lus. When was the last time you needed to work a dif­fer­en­tial equation?

Indeed my foul-mouthed friend, indeed.