The clown thing

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Mendalla

Mendalla

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Okay, this clown thing is getting nuts. Scarcely a week goes by without some city or other reporting threats or appearances by idiots in clown costumes who think it's fun to spook kids. We have even had some clown threats in London.

Some examples;

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world...eenage-girls-in-suffolk/ar-AAj22iv?li=AAggFp5

http://www.lfpress.com/2016/10/06/t...-schools-to-kidnap-students-and-kill-teachers (which was, mercifully, followed by http://www.lfpress.com/2016/10/07/no-clowns-at-london-high-schools-friday-officials-say)

http://parade.com/515982/lindsaylow...a-sweeping-the-country-what-you-need-to-know/

Now, clowns can be scary stuff. Stephen King's classic It (now being filmed for the second time), B-movie classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space, and so on prove that amply. But for people to deliberately go out and try to use clown costumes to scare people (presumably thinking that the costume will protect them from legal sanctions) is just ... nuts. You'd have to be a bit psychotic to do something like that.

Is this just some kind of psychological fallout from the other insanity going on right now, or a phenomenon unto itself? What do you think of scary clowns and the idiots who carry out these stunts?
 
Hell, I'm neither a clown nor know any and I'm disturbed by it. Taking an image that is supposed to be about fun and laughter and using it to frighten people is just flipping wrong. At least when King or others do it in fiction, it is very clearly fiction and not meant to be taken seriously. These creepy clowns seem to be getting closer and closer to committing some serious criminal, if not terrorist, acts.
 
In my young adulthood, I was a true clown. Did a few parties,and would volunteer as one.
I also never got through "It". Stephen King's books creep me out.

I have a sense it is a combination of the movie coming out, and just the current craze.
It too shall pass.
 
I never got all the way through It, either, but it wasn't creepiness. I just found it kept floundering in detail and could have done with losing a hundred or two pages of text. He went through a period where neither he nor his editors seemed inclined to remove anything, no matter how extraneous. He's gotten much tighter with his editing again in later years and his son (Joe Hill) is positively sparse in his text.
 
Mendalla said:
Hell, I'm neither a clown nor know any and I'm disturbed by it. Taking an image that is supposed to be about fun and laughter and using it to frighten people is just flipping wrong. At least when King or others do it in fiction, it is very clearly fiction and not meant to be taken seriously. These creepy clowns seem to be getting closer and closer to committing some serious criminal, if not terrorist, acts.
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True. It's almost like a violation or something to them though. It goes onto a different level with how they are affected.
 
If clown is tightened up in script does one get a down Eire ... thus lo'where humour ... a slip of kohl proportion in dark writ! Freudy?

Don't take life to seriously ... the eternal state is more immense ... even eternal ... aus finis?
 
Hi gisten - hoping you won't find it too scary around here :-) Welcome to WonderCafe.
 
But we will bring on the clowns as part of God's hu Moor ... as word plae ... stuff you can bounce off the wall!
 
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