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Default Sep 04, 2019 at 05:26 PM
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Or do they scare you? I don’t particularly mind clowns. I know a guy dressed as Ronald McDonald scared me when I was real little though. I guess I just haven’t encountered too many in my life.

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Clowns don't scare me although I also haven't encountered many in my life. I believe somewhere in the area where I live there is a clown club... where members dress up as clowns & visit kids in hospitals & such. I've mused a few times about possibly looking into it to see if in fact there actually is such a thing & if it would be something I could do. But I haven't done it. Somehow the fantasy of these sorts of things is a lot more attractive than the reality. (Too bad we don't have a clown smilie…)

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Default Sep 04, 2019 at 08:55 PM
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I don't care for them but they don't scare me either. Nothing scares me except BIG spiders.

I just don't care for things made up to look unnatural. Never have, never will.

Interesting because I was friends with a guy in college who's dad was an artist & painted clowns. Never got one of his paintings though they were quite good for clown faces.

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Default Sep 07, 2019 at 05:02 PM
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I like clowns such as Ronald McDonald, but some of them look scary to me.
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Default Sep 07, 2019 at 05:28 PM
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I suppose it depends on the clown. Clowns certainly suffer from a horrible rap these days. Especially since Gacy dressed up as one. The Steven King novel It , the sequel give Clowns a bad name too. Fellini made a film about Clowns emphasizing their humor and charm several decades ago. My how times changed.
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I have a family story about Gacy. Back in the 70’s my uncle was hitchhiking in Chicago and that was before people knew how dangerous hitchhiking was. He got in the car with a man and the man said
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my uncle was able to escape but he never told anyone about this for decades. It really traumatized him. He’s not 100% sure it was him but he’s pretty sure. It was the same time and area.

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I never understood clowns acting and it didn't make me laugh, so, nay
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Not fussy on the orange-y political ones...but I can tolerate the creepy, old-school, painted face, circus variety.
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Do you like clowns?
I do not like clowns. Its not a fear I just think they are weird. Someone in my town is putting red balloons in the sewer grates. I guess they like the movie "It". I think its really funny. Here is one pic.

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I’m pretty impartial. Don’t mind them don’t hate them either.
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the scary people with the weird outfits and the scary voices?

don't like them

if that's their voice in real life, (which I hope it really isn't), then I am terrified
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I am ambivalent towards them. However, a best friend is terrified. For some strange reason, when I worked at IKEA, people would come to the store in costume. Yeah, makes no sense. Often, it was a clown costume. Why? I dunno. But those at the front department would give us in the last a warning call in order to have time to get this friend off the floor so as to save him from a meltdown. Balloons were also a problem. Obviously something has happened in his past.
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I'd sooner see a pantomime horse along the pavement than meet a clown. Clowns give me the shudders.
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I am ambivalent towards them. However, a best friend is terrified. For some strange reason, when I worked at IKEA, people would come to the store in costume. Yeah, makes no sense. Often, it was a clown costume. Why? I dunno. But those at the front department would give us in the last a warning call in order to have time to get this friend off the floor so as to save him from a meltdown. Balloons were also a problem. Obviously something has happened in his past.


I don't like baloons

if they are floating in the air harmless, i'm okay.

if they start deflating (or pop), or do anything else that isn't harmless floating, I worry
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I think clowns are cool. Always trying to impress you and make you laugh. Making weird noises and running amok, heh.
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I don't find clowns scary. Not even either of the IT clowns scary, though I do see the scare factor in the IT clowns. The scariest clown I've ever seen was the American Horror Story clown...one Halloween, a guy dressed as that clown showed up at the drive through of my job and scared the crap out of me because I wasn't expecting it.
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I am ambivalent towards them. However, a best friend is terrified. For some strange reason, when I worked at IKEA, people would come to the store in costume. Yeah, makes no sense. Often, it was a clown costume. Why? I dunno. But those at the front department would give us in the last a warning call in order to have time to get this friend off the floor so as to save him from a meltdown. Balloons were also a problem. Obviously something has happened in his past.
He must have seen IT..."They all float down here!"
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I'm indifferent to clowns. I don't feel scared of them but don't love them either.
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