Finally, Someone gets it.

[cookiepuss]

Clowns are universally disliked by children and, well...everyone.

Bad news for Coco and Blinko -- children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them.

The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was revealed in a poll of youngsters by researchers from the University of Sheffield who were examining how to improve the decor of hospital children's wards.

The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all the 250 patients aged between four and 16 they quizzed disliked the use of clowns, with even the older ones finding them scary.

"As adults we make assumptions about what works for children," said Penny Curtis, a senior lecturer in research at the university.

"We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable."

[MC Moot]

so....who's gonna break it to Pennywise?...

[fucktopgirl]

Clowns are the devil serfdoms..

[abcdefz]

"...the 'crying on the inside' kind of clown, I guess..."

[cookiepuss]

Captain J.T. Spaulding: What's the matter, kid? Don't ya like clowns?
Jamie: [shakes head crying]
Captain J.T. Spaulding: Why? Don't we make ya laugh? Aren't we fuckin' funny? You best come up with an answer, cos 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 fucking family.

[Rock]

Captain J.T. Spaulding: What's the matter, kid? Don't ya like clowns?
Jamie: [shakes head crying]
Captain J.T. Spaulding: Why? Don't we make ya laugh? Aren't we fuckin' funny? You best come up with an answer, cos 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 fucking family.

Is that from one of those Rob Zombie movies?

[cookiepuss]

Is that from one of those Rob Zombie movies?

hee hee. I suspect this is a rethorical question..but yes. The Devils Rejects

[Rock]

hee hee. I suspect this is a rethorical question..but yes. The Devils Rejects

No, I seriously wasn't sure and was too lazy to look it up.

[Bob]

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5792/clownlookeo6.gif

[Randetica]

im not scared of clowns, i just hate them

[Yeti]

My grandmother had a huge clown collection. Faces, dolls, ventriloquist dolls, statues, paintings, etc. I was really little when she passed away. She gave them to me in her will and I have had them in a box. There are some really creepy sad clowns in the collection. My wife refuses to let me take them out of the box so they are in the attic. I would venture a guess that some are worth money. They have to be pretty old.

[Randetica]

My grandmother had a huge clown collection. Faces, dolls, ventriloquist dolls, statues, paintings, etc. I was really little when she passed away. She gave them to me in her will and I have had them in a box. There are some really creepy sad clowns in the collection. My wife refuses to let me take them out of the box so they are in the attic. I would venture a guess that some are worth money. They have to be pretty old.

cant sleep, clowns will eat me!

[Baseline]

Thank God We Cleared That Up

[easy 3]

A close friend of mine totally flipped out about clowns about 12 years or so ago - he'd been doing way too much ecstasy, marijuana and alcohol for a while and developed some kind of paranoid psychosis - one evening when we were trying to work on music he flipped out a bit and went to have a lie down, but when he went into the quiet spare bedroom he hallucinated a 'killer clown' - as he described it, with large sharp fangs lying in the bed, and was scared out of his wits - he would have been about 18 or 19 at the time (if I've figured this out right) but was shaking like a leaf and was white as a sheet - he had to get his mum to pick him up as he was basically having a bit of a melt down/panic attack and could barely move - he ended up having to go through quite a bit of therapy and rehab and distance himself from drugs for quite a while.

Anyway, years later he met Afrika Bambaattaa and that led to him rediscovering his early childhood love for breakdancing (he started when he was 7 years old in about 1984 when the very first wave of hip hop type culture reached the UK - bizarre but true!) and that has done him the world of good in terms of sorting out his life. He adopted a new hip-hop-alter-ego (i.e. a name that suited his breakdancing style and character) and he claims that one time when he tried googling his new name a picture of a really scary clown came up with the same name - and that freaked him out a bit.

My friend may have an active imagination but it's still a funky true story (I hope he doesn't mind me putting it up on here - it was a long time ago and he's a good, close friend) - basically it suggests that he has some sort of clown-related paranoia. I've always found them a bit sinister myself.

Sweet dreams kids - be careful with mind altering substances.;)

[paul jones]

'killer clown' .

Never let him watch classic B-Movie 'Killer Klowns From Outer Space' then(y)

[easy 3]

Ha ha! - Dope movie - Thanks Paul! - With the candy-floss (US- cotton-candy?) cocoon things! And the bit where a clown punches someone's head off? (did I just make that bit up?).

I wonder if there's a link? - I've mentioned that film to him in the past and he said he wasn't familiar - but subconcious memories and all that - maybe he saw it when he was quite young and impressional and simply doesn't remember? I don't know - I'm no shrink.

[Otis Driftwood]

Ronald McDonald is the very worst of those fuckers.