Even the most humble of statements will very often lead on to further talk, through opinion, disagreement, comment, adding to, agreeing and so on. Married people are boring. Footballers are not intelligent. You can't be friends with your boss. Old people have no fun.
Men are bad at languages.
Young girls are brighter than young boys. Engineers and accountants are very rational people. Mathematics are for intelligent people. All politicians are corrupt. Rich people have a great life.