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Clownist bigotry in the UK:
A rock festival has been forced to drop its circus theme because many ticket-holders are scared of clowns.
It must be unpleasant over there for the naturally large-footed and red-nosed.
UPDATE. Norm Geras: “Is there anything there isn’t a fear of? Fear of garden gnomes? Fear of tea towels? Fear of Tuesdays?” As it happens, some people are so frightened of Norm that they won’t link to him.
UPDATE II. Paco: “Oh, swell. Here I am, halfway through Clown College, doing serious, ground-breaking work in the physics of airborne cream pies, and my prospective clients are going to be scared of me? It’s not like I’m going to go all Islamocrazy and ride my unicycle into the crowd, you know.”
How is the Guardian going to review the concert then?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 08 at 08:41 AM • permalinkIt’s probably a sound decision, changng the theme. I’m not at all given to phobias but clowns, while meant to be amusing, well, there is something acutely sinister, creepy and menacing about them. I’d be hard-pressed to not panic at any gathering filled with clowns, I’d have to leave, or not attend to begin with.
Sorry, but this isn’t even funny. What sort of sad, fucked up loser buys a ticket to a rock concert and then complains about clowns? And then what biger fucked up doubled-up loser gives in to them?
And who the hell makes a career decision to become a clown, anyway? All the armpit sniffing jobs were taken that day?
I’m seeing very little hear that suggests a case for letting English people of a certain ilk out of the country. I know the sensible ones want them to go, but I’m sorry - you’re just going to have to keep them…
I’ve always thought clowns were stupid, and could never understand why they were supposed to be funny, but an actual fear of clowns has always stricken me as being pathetic in a grown person. Of course, I never took drugs either.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 08 at 10:04 AM • permalinkClowns are not supposed to be funny. They are supposed to be scary.
The Federal Opposition certainly scares me…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 08 at 10:16 AM • permalinkAs the founder of the RedNose Alliance, I demand the government adopt a $100 Trauma Penalty Surcharge applied to anyone who leaves their state cubicle to watch clowns… or for any other reason.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 08 at 11:34 AM • permalinkClowns arent funny. My sister and I were raised on a healthy diet of Brothers Grimm fairy tales…
No, clowns aren’t funny. And since the whole purpose of clowning around is to be funny, they’re also pointless. As a child I was bored by them, as an adult I’m annoyed by them (they’re right up there with mimes). I can understand a fear of them, though. There’s something malevolent about a clown, something demonic (think Stephen King’s It). There’s gotta be a reason why they hide behind all that face paint and those baggy clothes. They’re up to no good.
When I was about 10, I think, my parents gave me a volume of Grimm Bros and a volume of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales. Since everything I previously knew about those stories I learned from Walt Disney, reading them in the original for the first time was quite a shock. Dark, scary, full of nasty people doing very bad things resulting in many unhappy endings—God, they were great.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 07 08 at 02:49 PM • permalink#10 Don’t bother, the Guardian editorial board is already here.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 08 at 03:56 PM • permalink“A clown is my friend. A clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement. A clown is not a big spider.”
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 07 08 at 07:35 PM • permalinkIt is a well known fact that paedophiles and child molesters dress up in clown costumes to wreak their misdeeds.
What normal Real Man would bother with this crap.
Real Men are more worried that they can’t get into a cubicle at Indooroopilly or Garden City or Carindale Shoppingtowns because all the poofs are using the cubicles for their dirty purposes.
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Clowns arent funny. My sister and I were raised on a healthy diet of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, where every bad thing was a malicous dwarf.
This subtle indoctrination went on for the first 6 years of our lives. We then got a trip to the circus where they brought out the span of Chuthulu themselves!! DWARF CLOWNS.
We had to be carried out of the tent cicking and screaming.
Clowns are evil, dwarf clowns doubly so.