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Good comments on the internet are like excellent supporting actors. Sometimes they can make such a difference, they'll steal the show. You may have clicked on a YouTube video by theneedledrop, but you're giving a like to one of his subscribers joking about the guy's bald head.

So it comes as no surprise that there's an entire Instagram account dedicated to this art. Called Comment Awards, it shares the most creative and funniest observations people have made online. Continue scrolling to check out its top posts! And, of course, don't forget to comment on them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also sweet that saving someone's life and therefore missing a job interview (which was probably hard to get in the first place because of his background) and have that called SKIPPING. Eff you very much, CBS

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When folks at FiveThirtyEight asked 8,500 internet commenters why do they do what they do, the answers, people gave a wide range of answers.

"Our respondents' reasons for commenting mirror the results of a recent survey of 600 news commenters by Talia Jomini Stroud and her colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin's Engaging News Project," Christie Aschwanden wrote in FiveThirtyEight. "In their survey, the top three reasons that people gave for commenting were 'to express an emotion or opinion,' 'to add information' or 'to correct inaccuracies or misinformation.'"

Certain stories, however, generate a disproportionate number of comments, and after years of being on the receiving end of comments, Aschwanden has formed a theory: the subjects most likely to elicit impassioned responses are those that feel personal to the reader (a real-life experience with the subject has made them feel like an expert) and those that hit on identity in some way.

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"[My insight is] based on something a newspaper reporter in Boulder told me many years ago," Aschwanden explained. "Back then, readers were still mailing letters to the editor, and they had a seemingly endless appetite to debate two things: who was at fault in conflicts between cars and bikes and whether dogs should be allowed to run unleashed on city trails."

To test this theory, Aschwanden asked the people who took the survey about the circumstances that made them most likely to comment.

"The answers lent at least some support to the bikes-and-dogs theory. But respondents’ reasons were more complex than my one, unified theory; commenters were also driven by a desire to provide their own information or to argue against an idea they disagreed with."

At the end of the day, commenters want the same thing as us publishers — to be heard. So if they have something to say, we're glad they can do so on our platform.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen this one before and it made me smile again. Little English, Big heart!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Publisher's AGM: "Now let's not forget everybody, those academic texts all need minuscule revisions before the start of the university year, so that we can brand them as a new edition. We don't want to loose out on any sales at $300 per copy to other students selling the copies the no longer use!"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh WOW, the last response is just great. It's sweet to try and raise awareness but this might not be the way.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And even without the fashion line worth $200 million, I'm sure Magic would rather have him as his son and not someone like the original poster.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope, your hair must have the root intact to obtain DNA for hair, hair alone has no DNA

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I wear a human hair wig and I commit a crime...Shhh, don't tell anyone.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is an answer above. It says that the root must be attached to the hair strand. Locks of Love deals in hair that has been cut from the donor, not hair that has been pulled out by the roots.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The niece is OK, but I would suggest finding a more honorable organization than Locks of Love to donate hair.

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Karis Ravenhill
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, first, the horror of your daughter's question is actually freaking me out, because it's so damn valid. Secondly, get that girl into private education pronto! She's got a hell of a brain and ability to really evaluate the world around her before she's even a damn teenager. What an amazing kid. I'd actually like a twitter feed of more of the stuff coming out of her mouth.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

DNA is mostly found in the root bulb so while they could get mitochondrial DNA they can't definitely connect it to the daughter plus a couple hairs on the scene aren't enough to convict that's called circumstantial evidence and needs something else to back it so No.

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Quentin ingulfumble
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. Donations to charity are lengths of hair cut away without removing the follicle. The dna is in the follocle only as its the only part that is actually alive

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Jill Bussey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, because the DNA is in the root/follicle, which are not used.

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JD Lee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was 12 my deepest thought was am I too old to sleep on the floor at church, or can I still get away with it?

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Jo Iverson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was a custom picture framer. I have fingerprints and blood from glass cuts in hundreds of homes. Be in trouble if there is a big art heist in my town.

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Thomas Turnbull
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No it’s only the root that has the DNA and that is not on donated hair.

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Kelly Hartle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s scary that kids this young have to think about things like this.

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Niall Mac Iomera
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would assume that this child's DNA is not in any database, and she is most likely not connected to the crim in any way, so no

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Mark Johansen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good point. Fortunately for me, as a bald men this is not a problem.

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Emi Willen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It potentially can, but more than likely not. Hair matching is substantial evidence, as in they can only match it based on how it appears; unless you have the root. The roof contain the mitochondrial DNA which you can match to specific people. Even then, you'd need a suspect or a DNA sample on file.

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Amaree Matthews
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've also wondered that. My DH donated bone marrow twice, and years later his dad (my FIL) found out he had an 83 yo daughter he never knew about when he took a DNA test 🤣. My FIL is 74!

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A Jones
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She probably debate this with donating blood too. >_>'

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Susan Severson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Locks of Love sell their wigs and hair pieces to those who really need them. Go figure.

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Yakisoba
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i used to donate my hair and now i’m questioning this

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Annika Postler
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, because the DNA is not in the hair itself but in cells that are not transmitted with the hair by donation

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Jill Bussey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, because the roots are not used and the DNA is in the roots/follicles.

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Dorothy Parker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing could happen with regular hair from a haircut saved from the floor. No DNA without the root, I believe. And this is how Howard Hughes got started saving nail clippings and urine.

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Only if she ripes the hairs out with the roots...otherwise she should be okay.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just keep it out of the Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Applause to those gals, because I expect they had to put up with a lot. At least at first.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... but your dad has a big extended family that's really adorable!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OUCH! Scotty is right, that bloody racket is not what we want when at the beach.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bullies never remember the s**t they put their victims through, asking them is giving them too much credit just to start with

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a follow-up comment to this along the lines of "Yo mama so ugly your dad had to go get another husband" or something like that. It was in a post on this website

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I wondered if it was indeed improv and not scripted coz they did so well on the fly. Especially Ryan.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My aunt caught covid from the pastor at a small church meeting. Less than two months later, she, her husband and her youngest daughter were dead. And people don't understand why I don't go anywhere.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kid (about 14yr old) said to me after first lock down 'in the future, there will be no snow days, only work from home days'. I had a little cry

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