Will I be allowed to hit them in the face with a pie?

And when I say pie, I mean a pillowcase full of doorknobs.

Elvis_Bogart: Will I be allowed to hit them in the face with a pie?

And when I say pie, I mean a pillowcase full of doorknobs.

Will I be allowed to squirt him with a water pistol?

And when I say water pistol, I mean gutshoot him with my shotgun and bury him in the woods with a sack of quicklime...

a programme that is fully funded by the Starship Foundation.

We built this program...

"What's the matter, kid? Don't you like clowns? Why? Don't we make you laugh? Aren't we f*cking funny? You best come up with an answer, 'cause I'm gonna come back here and check on you and your momma and if you ain't got a reason why you hate clowns, I'm gonna kill your whole f*cking family."

yeahhhhhhhh no.

You know I once cured a case of Lou Gehrig's disease by pretending I was trapped inside a box?

/I'm just a claustrophobic clown in this tiny car of life. I can get tiny car sick.

No Pennywise yet? Fark, I am disappoint.

cockpunch those clownies with a fist full of syringes, see if they take a hint. the only thing better than stabbing a clown is shooting a mime.

/that movie blew dog

Sooo. I remember reading about this study done in hospital pediatric wards to find out which theme decorations etc. kids responded to the best and which ones they responded to the least. Clowns scored extremely low across the board, with many of the kids reporting as uncomfortable to terrified, instead of the calming, soothing, friendly environments they were trying to accomplish. They figured out that clowns were triggering the uncanny valley effect in children like whoa, to a much greater extent than they did with the adults, probably because of the environment already being unknown and scary (you know, hospitals) as it is.

I guess these people didn't get that memo?

/The adults in the study were "surprised" by the strong reactions the kids had
//Which made me go "...are you farking kidding me?"
///Hate clowns. Fark 'em. Fark 'em all with fire.

I don't hate clowns, I just don't get them
They aren't really amusing or funny or silly.
Sometimes I'm actually embarrassed for the person under the makeup, but not too much, since we now have hundreds of hours of television per week devoted to people purposefully doing idiotic things and proudly showing their mug to the world. So I give clowns some points for the dignity of anonymity.

But I don't know why all the world would love one.

They don't look scary, it's true.

CREEPY, however, yes, very much.

Indubitably: Gyrfalcon: They don't look scary, it's true.

CREEPY, however, yes, very much.

However,

This clown-hatred is based on sight and not experience, sometimes?

Here's a pertinent platitude for you: Don't judge a book by its cover...

A good, non-creepy clown is identifiable immediately in person usually. So is a creepy clown, btw. Trust yer guts, people. I think the parents are more at fault with clown fears; poor parents parent problems. 'Tis true and verifiable.

Be a good parent, and perhaps yer peeps won't fear so much, no?

Fear is the ultimate enemy.

Parent out fear, please.

Thank you.

;)

You don't need to eat a whole egg to know it's rotten; you don't need to know a creepy clown closely to know he's creepy.