make an outrageous generalisation here

Kids today are fat, lazy and stupid

Welsh people are often loud, and also unconcerned with personal grooming.

Opera is just silly melodrama set to music.

the internet is the CB radio of the 1990s.

All Brits are mindless lager louts.

people who leave sinister are h8rs.

people who use this board are imbeciles

All statements are lies.

All statements are lies, apart from the previous one.

Women like money.

Taxes are theft.

Men get boners.

Kids are irritating.

Scots have an inferiority complex.

We're all normal.

potheads are unreliable.

No one in this town has a brain in their head.

All Americans are dumb narow-minded hicks.

Americans think they are the shit.

Everyone in the West Country drives a tractor.

everyone who owns a pick up truck is a racist.

Every woman I've ever been friends with has secretly harbored a death wish for me.

there are no mental kids in kelvindale.

Women are asexual and just like money which is why so many get hitched to ugly rich men.

Queen Victoria was right - lesbians don't really exist except as a lifestyle choice

Was that Victoria? I thought it was Anne or someone.

italians are mafiosi, americans are fat pig ignorants, brittons are presumptuous farts, french stinks

¡Mi asno es muy itchy!

A lot of Beatles songs sound like nursery rhymes.

By definition, all musicals are intrinsically gay.

Gay men are more aesthetic than straight men.

Everyone who is really, really into music is slightly unhinged.

For balance, I also believe who is really obsessionally into football is slightly unhinged.

Women sing better than men. They dance better too.

TV executives wonder: Is there sitcom life after Friends and Frasier?
By David Bauder
NEW YORK (AP) — This June, Fox presents rappers Method Man and Redman as stars of a new sitcom about adjusting to life in a stuffy gated community.
Sound familiar?
It should. Will Smith walked the same road in the early 1990s on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Go back even further, and you’ll find the same culture shock themes in The Beverly Hillbillies.
With the Friends finale on May 6, Frasier bowing out a week later, Sex and the City already gone and Everybody Loves Raymond on its last legs, sitcoms are at a crossroads.
Depending on how you look at it, the sitcom is either an exhausted format in need of new ideas or a time-tested but slumping genre just waiting for new personalities.
“It’s clearly a genre in desperate need of reinvention,” said Doug Herzog, Comedy Central president. “I say that as much as a viewer as a television executive.”
The success of Friends, Frasier and the rest has masked how deep TV comedy’s problems really are. So far this season, only five comedies are among Nielsen Media Research’s list of top 25 shows, compared to nine dramas and nine reality shows (60 Minutes and sports fill out the list).
One is Friends. Another is Raymond, which is most likely headed into its last season. Will & Grace, in its sixth season, is showing its age. Coupling lasted only a few weeks, this season’s punch line for bad television.
That leaves Two and a Half Men, hardly innovative and unproven without its Raymond lead-in.
ABC has tried to rebuild behind comedies the past few years. But 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teen-Aged Daughter was derailed by John Ritter’s death, and none of the others has reached a wide audience. With ABC just firing its management team, the strategy may be gone, too.
“People just don’t care about sitcoms,” said Stephen Fishler, a producer with Metropolis Entertainment who is experimenting with hybrids of reality and comedy. “Nobody is standing around the water cooler saying, ‘did you see According to Jim last night?”’
Those who believe comedy is simply in a slump point to all of the “comedy is dead” articles that appeared two decades ago just before Cosby ushered in a golden period with Cheers and Seinfeld.
“The comedy resurgence is one good sitcom away,” said Dick Wolf, executive producer of the Law & Order series. “I don’t think anyone is coming out and saying, ‘My God, nobody is watching these great new sitcoms.”’
Although Fox’s Arrested Development has critical acclaim and dedicated fans, not many people believe the next great comedy is already on the air, waiting to be discovered.
Too many new sitcoms over the past few years are stylistically no different than those produced 40 years ago, Herzog said.
“They’re just old-fashioned,” he said. “They’re all shot the same way. All have the same look, feel and tone. I feel as a viewer that they’re horribly predictable. There’s a whole generation that they don’t speak to at all.”
MTV, HBO and Comedy Central have changed the way people watch television and changed the type of humour that people enjoy, he said.
Sitcoms are a popular style for TV executives because when done right, they’re a virtual gold mine. Shows like Seinfeld and Friends can live on in perpetuity in syndication, producing revenue long after the actors have moved on.
So networks keep trying, perhaps too hard, leaving viewers disgusted.
“I just feel like we’ve been bludgeoned with too many pale imitations,” said Todd Holland, creator of Fox’s short-lived series Wonderfalls.
NBC has been particularly aggressive developing comedies this spring, both because of its lack of recent success and its high-profile losses. The efforts range from the predictable — Friends spinoff Joey — to more adventurous fare like Father of the Pride, with computer-generated animation.
CBS has a pilot with Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander portraying a Washington Post sportswriter. Jeff Goldblum, Jessica Simpson and Rob Reiner are other big names attached to projects in development.
Fox has an agreement with a comic troupe in Los Angeles, the Naked Angels Theatre Group, as a workshop to try out new ideas, said Craig Erwich, the network’s executive vice president for programming.
“We’re definitely trying to take a lot of shots because we don’t know which way it’s going,” Erwich said.
Other creators are also trying to stretch the boundaries of the form. HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, considered one of the funniest shows on the air, uses loose story structures that give actors room to improvise.
NBC is making an American version of BBC’s The Office, which puts actors in settings that viewers can recognize as real life.
Fishler believes these type of scripted reality shows represent the future. He’s making two of them: Life After Skippy, which focuses on a has-been child actor, and another set in a make-believe local TV newsroom.
He provides the setting and the situations, then sets the actors free.
“It’s a very subtle format and it’s hard to describe to someone why it’s appealing until they actually see it,” he said. “It’s a matter of creating funny, uncomfortable, subtle moments.”
Some of what is considered “reality” today, like My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, is really comedy, Erwich said. The Simple Life is as much a fish-out-of-water comedy as The Beverly Hillbillies, only with wealthy people sent to live with the commoners instead of the other way around.
Others believe in being counterintuitive.
Some of the series that rely on production gimmicks, like Scrubs, lose lustre quickly, said Robert Thompson, head of the Centre for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. And an Arrested Development requires viewers to pay closer attention than many want when watching a comedy, he said.
“You could enjoy an episode of Friends if you’re half-dead,” Thompson said. “I would defy anyone — even if they’ve never seen the show before — to watch three minutes of Friends and remain confused.”
The next great comedy will likely be very traditional in feel and form, he said.
One of television’s top reality creators, Survivor and The Apprentice producer Mark Burnett, said people shouldn’t be intimidated by the sorry state of comedy.
“I think it’s an opportunity,” Burnett said. “It’s an opportunity to take risks. Clearly, playing it safe isn’t working.”

What?

Huck is a goth.

Because all Huck's are goth, she says, realising the thread :)

I am the only Goth in Comedy.

The Huckle-Buck's Gothick Comedy Hour and Nameless Dread?

The Slavs span the spectrum of physical attractiveness more widely than other ethnic groups.

japanese people are funny when they get translated

Caucasian men have small penises.

People from Ohio are completely incapable of understanding how check cards work.

Women like a man who's into leather. English Leather.

handicapped people cant drive.
there i said it, im an ablist bastard, but i got that off my chest.

Men are just overgrown boys who will do anything if they think they're gonna get sex as a result.

Creationists should not be allowed to breed {

Japanese people are far more interested in shopping than culture and politics, and have a highly limited knowledge of world geo-politics.

White people walk faster but run slower than black people.

Americans are scared of Europeans.

Tall people are better than short people.

Straight alt-rock dudes like squeaky-voiced chick singers because it reminds them of the kind of girlish girls they so desperately want to fuck.

If you vote for Bush in the coming election, you're an idiot 

WOLF BLITZER: There is a clear difference when it comes to abortion rights between the president and his Democratic challenger, John Kerry. In your opinion, Karen, how big of an issue will this abortion rights issue be in this campaign?

KAREN HUGHES: Well, Wolf, it's always an issue. And I frankly think it's changing somewhat. I think after September 11th the American people are valuing life more and realizing that we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life. . . And I think those are the kind of policies that the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy, and really the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

all religious people are kooks
cats are cute

christianity is stupid
communism is good

women are only slightly less horny than men

ILX isn't as good as it used to be

ILX was never as good as it used to be

Women be shopping

London is the centre of the universe

All conservatives are braindead.

Oh, wait, you want outrageous generalisations?

People who belong to an organized religion are less intelligent than those who don't.

Goths are all crap and whiny.

And I am teh sex.

There is no great R & B

America has a bigger penis than Britain.

That's not really a generalization, though.

America also has bigger blisters on its hairy hands from constantly wanking its bigger penis.

But you would too.

British people are touchy about their country's penis size.

People into organised religion are less self-obsessed than those with an amorphous concept of personal spirituality. Both are slightly off-kilter and prone to strange flights of utter illogical fancy, and have aporia of reason. The latter will probably see themselves as counterculutral and somewhat left-leaning, but turn out to be excessive individualists who are far more right-wing than they believe themelsves to be.

People who agree with me are sound intelligent people.

Britain has a national penis????

i wonder whereabouts?

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I agree with Dave B

People like me and dadaismus are sound intelligent people

boys are dumb.

Athiests all have a desperate need to be acknolwedged as different.

Black people doesn't ever want to rock.

I'll borrow one of Momus's here:

Marx was right.

The gays are good at the dancing

People who keep blogs are shallow and self-absorbed.

people who keep deadjournals are cooler than people who keep livejournals

adults who get the hiccups are stupid.

(I really believe that one)