American Humour is Terrible

[Jaime_Wolf]

National Generalizations Based On a Handful of Things You Don't Like are Fucking Idiotic

You are only meant to use capitals for the first word of each sentence, proper nouns and the word 'I', including of course I'm, since it is just a contracted 'I am'.

But back on topic, yes. Generalizations are bad if you present them as fact.

I was parodying the title of the thread - thus the title case. If any criticism could be leveled, it would be that the capitalization was inconsistent among the short/function words. Though on the other hand, opinions on proper title casing remain largely divided with no universal standard in virtually any major dialect of written English.

Also, you forgot adjectives derived from proper nouns, numerous brands, days, months, languages, taxa, some common species names, nouns used to denote a class of things when they more commonly refer to a single entity (the Church when refering to all churches at once for instance), acronyms, honorifics, legal terms, and likely a number of other words too.

And certainly you must have better things to do than making unthinking comments about the capitalization of forum posts.

TL;DR: Your attempts at grammar trolling are cute.

I have actually posted on this thread.

Commenting on your grammar, I assumed to be for your own benefit, obviously not if you wrote that way on purpose. I do tend to try to correct people if they have issues with spelling or grammar. Why? Because I think it's silly not to try to educate them. If I have made mistakes in my posts, which I have, I would want them corrected. I also don't particularly understand people wanting to remain ignorant or taking some sort of offence when they are corrected rather than saying "thank you" if they actually learned something.

(PS: Capitalization counts as grammar? I'm never sure of these things)

I imagine it might have something to do with the self-righteous tone and implicit assumption that the mistake was from ignorance rather than carelessness.

Moreover, there are a lot of people who would rather "remain ignorant" of the rules of grammar, which makes a lot of sense seeing as how they're mostly already fluent speakers of the language and know all of its actual grammar (in fact, know it more completely and more deeply than any expert is presently capable of understanding). And as you seem to suggest, what you purported to "educate" me on here isn't really grammar so much as it is writing etiquette. And etiquette is very much tied to social groups, so assuming that others should universally hold to the same rules of etiquette is a pretty silly notion. You're not really to blame for that though - people only really get these notions because English grammar instruction is (and popular notions of how language works in general are) so hopelessly outdated.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

some american humour is funny and some is not

please remove the word "american" from the above line to get an equally valid statement

 

[RabbiiFrystofsk]

The only reason i can't stand American comedy much is because they're all sitcoms with the laughing put in the background for the jokes. Friend's was genuinely funny so that can be dismissed out of the equation but i watched about a minute of some old sitcom that Ryan Reynolds was in and turned over in anger because there was about 4 of those recorded laughs in less than a minute.

EDIT: I realised that i said 'they're all sitcoms with laughing put in the background for the jokes'. I retract this and re-clarify that i mean i can't stand these sort of American sitcoms. The one's that are able to stand on their own feet without the need for this are the best comedies, see Malcolm in the Middle and 30 Rock to name a couple.

 

[mountie218]

I like South Park (I know it's Canadian) for it's witty commentary of current affairs. It actually takes issues of the day and makes some good jokes at them. Family Guy is just ok - I wouldn't watch it often, but it can be funny. The kind of American humour I really don't like is shows like the Big Bang Theory. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmLQaTcViOA

It just isn't funny. Not because it isn't my sense of humour, but there is no intelligence to the jokes involved. America has scrounged genuinely good British TV series such as Shameless and The Office, and ruined them in an effort to bring them to the American market.

My point is American humour is unintelligent and boring to watch. It is juvenile, and I find it actually almost painful to see shows like Two and a Half Men doing well when they are so full of utter crap.

South Park is not Canadian. It was created by two gentlemen from Colorado.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Absolute fucking heresy... I'm surprised no-one called you out on this:

Let me just leave this here, it explains my thoughts.

It depends what the limits are! If it's between 0 and 1/3*the cubed root of pi, all's good!
[/mathematical pedantry]

Uh, there's no integral variable i.e. 'dx' is not in the expression so it doesn't make sense. [/mathematical douchebaggery]

That's actually all I wanted to post here, but I've thought of something else.

I... crap, you're right. My bad. Evidently I suck at maths.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I... crap, you're right. My bad. Evidently I suck at maths.

No sweat, and I suck at maths too (I'm a biologist...(!)). That was just one of the things I remember from pure maths lessons about... thirteen years ago... *depressing facepalm* *sob* I'm... old...(!)

 

[squeeble69]

Firstly, South Park isn't Canadian; both of it's creators are American. Secondly, you're arguing that American comedy is generally less intelligent than English comedy, which is bullshit; watch any episode of Not Going Out or Grownups and then tell me they're more intelligent than Arrested Development or Boondocks. I do agree, however, that there is a greater number of 'unintelligent' shows (that also reach a higher level of popularity) in America than Britain, but that can be attributed to the fact that there are simply way more people in America, meaning there is inevitably a) a greater number of stupid people (due to proportions of the population, not bashing America) and b) more shows being produced. So, in short, I thoroughly disagree with you.

 

[Duskwaith]

Fraiser. Quite simply one of the best shows ive ever watched.

And its American so they do have some brilliant shows

 

[xchurchx]

its true, i find american humour not that funny, especialy the stand ups, just no
there are certain things i laugh at like family guy and american comedy films, but i watched this one show where it was like a news programe but instead they took the piss out of stories (and no it wasn't fox news), the entire audience were wetting them selves with laughter, i however was starting to worry about humanity

Do you mean the Daily show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report?

no idea coz i watched it in france as it was the only thing on the telly that was in english

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

You spelled humor wrong.

 

[Jazoni89]

What's with all you snobby Brits with an internet connection thinking your more intelligent that us Americans? We could argue all day about what is wrong with America. But what I really want to know is what makes you think your country is so much more awesome? Oh god, you got me seething!

It's not snobbery, it's just opinions. I can't help it if I don't enjoy American humour, sorry. (With love from a concerned Brit ).

American comedy realises on slap stick, and low brow humour too much.

Something I'm not a fan of.

(Also, why is it that the only comedy Americans like in British comedy is Monty Python. There are tons of others that are far more superior, take Red Dwarf for example. Oh... I didn't just go there, oh yes I did.)

Isn't Monty Python largely slap stick?

Also: Could someone PLEASE tell me how Red Dwarf is funny? I saw the first episode, and only finished it because one of my friends was enjoying it. I found the entire premise completely boring. Oh look, some idiot wanted to take a cat to Earth and retire in New Zealand, but then he was frozen for 2 million years and the cat became what is quite possibly the single most annoying character without being Peter Griffin.

Just watch this, hilarious stuff.


The series itself gets better by series 3, when Kryten join's the Red Dwarf cast, he makes the show IMHO.

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

You Brits love us and you know it.

 

[Jazoni89]

You spelled humor wrong.

Nope, you american's are just allergic to you're U's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

Armo(u)r, colo(u)r, M(u)m, Ga(u)ntlet.

 

[amiz4eva]

Meh. Every country has it's good comedy and it's bad comedy. I'm from Australia and we often get people saying "Australian comedy is childish", but that's because crap like Hey Hey it's Saturday and The Wedge got aired on the main channels during primetime and with lots of advertising, while genuinely clever and funny stuff like Shaun Micallef's old shows...



...didn't get any recognition at all.

 

[Jazoni89]

You spelled humor wrong.

Nope, you american's are just allergic to you're U's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

Armo(u)r, colo(u)r, M(u)m, Ga(u)ntlet.

I think that U Brits have a love affair with Urselves.

Yes, U better believe it Matey.

U mad bro?

Nah, I love you crazy guys really. We are just one big happy family after all (well except for Korea...).