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I hate clowns...

Gikoku

Gikoku

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Yes.. I have coulrophobia.. and I was once again reminded why I hate clowns when I had went to the air show yesterday. Minding my own business at the show with my sister and her kids, we head over to the children's play area for my little nephew and lo and behold.. there's a god damn clown there. Now I have never seen a clown at an air show before, so I guess he was a freelance. Decked in clown apparel, fat and bald, my nephew's face lit up with joy and he shouted, naturally grabbing the maniac's attention. Just my luck! So he waddles over and at this point my body has frozen up and my heart has sunken into my stomach, this is horrible.

He starts making whacky faces and asking my nephew goofy questions, and then for a split second his eyes locked with mine.. and it felt like an eternity. Now I'm no fool, behind all that happy makeup is a lie, a mad man that wants to bash my skull in with a plastic hammer and tap dance on my dead body. I'm suddenly getting these awful flashbacks that started it all as a child on my 5th birthday. My dad wanted to surprise me so he got me this big Bozo the Clown doll from a local pawn shop and placed it on the end of my bed so I could wake up to it (thanks for that..). I woke up early in the morning and I see this big creepy doll just staring at me in the darkness, I'm terrified, I have no idea what the hell it is and I assume this is all a really bad dream.. so I try to go back to sleep and I wake up later and it's still there. All I am left to do is scream and cry, the rest is history.

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^^Seriously, how can you wake up in the middle of the night and see this doll at the end of your bed and not get traumatized??? Please tell me I'm not the only one here who can't stand these creeps.
 
I remember one time, when I was about 4 or 5, I was having a birthday party. I have having a blast, laughing all the time, until suddenly this "figure" appeared in the room. The imposter was wearing white and red makeup on his face, like a screwed up mass murderer with blood on his face. He wore these MASSIVE shoes, big enough to stomp on any of my friends. In his hands, he held a red balloon that was shaped like a sword. I instantly thought, "THATS A LIGHT SABRE!"

Convinced he was Darth Vader's replacement, I went over to him and kicked him in the shins and kicked him and kicked him and kicked him. He ran outside and I was like

I SAVED US ALL.


yeah.... I hate clowns, too... Still have the urge to shoot them whenever I see one.
 
I guess the clown culture was never big here in Estonia so I don't have any memories involving clowns. And the clown-murderer theme never got me either (unlike the killer babydoll, now that was some nasty ****).

Though I can pretty much say I hate clowns as well because they are unfunny and annoying, and always have been. With this I mean the full fledged clown, not some random dude sporting a red bubble nose.
 
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Clowns and scarecrows are two of my biggest fears (present company excepted, Scarecrow).

They're just wrong on so many levels. I get really creeped out by both of them and I can't even come up with a rational explanation as to why.
 
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I was always indifferent. In a word, I guess I just found them stupid.

Have to say though, it seems like there are a lot of people who at least hate clowns and/or are phobic. You have to wonder whether there should be some responsibility to a venue to maybe not hire one if it's so likely that someone will freeze up in fear.

Especially at something as unrelated to clowns as an air show.
 
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ScareCrowReturn said:
When I was young I saw the stephen king movie, IT, I had nightmares for a very long time.. I mean have
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I can't watch any clown movies like that at all, too much for me. And it never helped that my family would love to do a movie night in the living room where my dad would love to pick horror films with my siblings and aunt often voting yes for horror... Killer Clowns from Outer Space is not something you should ever expose your fragile phobic child to.
TRA Rotid said:
I guess the clown culture was never big here in Estonia so I don't have any memories involving clowns. And the clown-murderer theme never got me either (unlike the killer babydoll, now that was some nasty s***).

Though I can pretty much say I hate clowns as well because they are unfunny and annoying, and always have been. With this I mean the full fledged clown, not some random dude sporting a red bubble nose.
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It was the evil clown concept in the 80s that often got to me (halloween wasn't much fun), bad dreams, and my older sister picking on me telling me that if I do this or that the killer clowns will get me.. the big doll on the bed was the coupe de grace for me, it being nearly the same height as me did not help at all. Not to mention.. John Wayne Gacy.

I can handle it if it's just a random goof with a rubber ball nose, but when they start putting on the makeup, extremely baggy overalls and those ridiculous shoes, it's over for me. I have it really bad, I couldn't stand going to McDonald's for years because of that dumb Ronald plastered everywhere and the occasional mascot dressed as him back in the day. Thank goodness he's not popular anymore.
Angel said:
Clowns and scarecrows are two of my biggest fears (present company excepted, Scarecrow).

They're just wrong on so many levels. I get really creeped out by both of them and I can't even come up with a rational explanation as to why.
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I don't like scarecrows either (present company again excluded), especially when it's the really sloppy looking ones that don't have a mouth and look like Leather Face from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But if it's like the one from Wizard of Oz, then I'm okay with it.

I can't really explain it either, the damn shoes.. those big shoes really freak me out.. probably cause I'm afraid they'll stomp on me. Whacky neon colored hair, huge clothes, overly happy/sad makeup, always feeling the need to get up close in your face. The ones that scare me the most are the attention hungry mime-type clowns, because you almost can't get rid of them.
 
cheezMcNASTY said:
Especially at something as unrelated to clowns as an air show.
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Who knows? Maybe he was a clown-pilot.

Which would be pretty lulzy. Not sure how Scotty would react to flying clowns.
 
Tsuyu said:
What about actual mimes? Y'know, those steretypical French ones?
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Naaah they don't bother me, makeup and outfit for the most part is different enough for me. But with the full traditional clown getup, I simply can't handle it.. but nowadays it's only if it's in person. I can look at pictures and such and not be affected.
Dark Intellect said:
So you want me to ditch the clown for your birthday party?
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You can do better than that, you can tie his butt to a cement block and throw him down a river.
queenofdisco said:
Who knows? Maybe he was a clown-pilot.

Which would be pretty lulzy. Not sure how Scotty would react to flying clowns.
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Hyperventilate. Pass out. I know they have a clown plane and a clown helicopter at other air shows out there but not sure about any pilots... last thing I need to see are clowns raining from the sky with freakin' parachutes..
 
Used to be uncomfortable around clowns as a child, but now I just see them as ordinary men who are just getting by in doing a job not many others are willing to do.

Sorry to be a buzz kill and not go along with the whole OMG! TEH FECKING CLOWNZ!!! vibe lol. But In the end of it all they're just people doing their jobs at the end of the day. To be honest though I've never personally known a person to find them amusing or funny either. They're just people in make up who ridicule themselves for money, if it puts bread on their table then so be it.
 
I literally cannot see anything that is in the least bit remotely appealing about clowns.

The very idea is terrifying, I mean, a man dressed up in extravagent, disproportionate (implying his own body is deformed) clothes, jumping in your face, laughing hysterically... how can anyone like that.

How.
 
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