Predicto Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Clowns armed with spiders Armageddon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share Posted September 26, 2016 6 hours ago, Predicto said: Clowns armed with spiders Armageddon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 On 9/24/2016 at 7:46 AM, Bang said: so to be clear, everyone on the internet is afraid of spiders and clowns. Collectively, we are 4 year olds constantly at the edge of hysterics.. ****ing ridiculous. I'm sorry bang, I didn't realize until now that clowns meant so much to you. Funny how easy it is to miss things that later seem so obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Circus-Americans, thank you. ~Bobo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 On 9/24/2016 at 4:15 PM, s0crates said: Thanks a lot @Predicto, that video just ruined one of my favorite songs for me. But damn, Puddles can sing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 On September 23, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Spaceman Spiff said: Odd, when I was a kid I never thought clowns were creepy. Now that I'm older, they are ****ing terrifying. It's a good thing that guy wasn't near my apartment, I'd be swinging on him like Muhammad Ali in '74. Mistake #1. but you wouldn't have known it was a mistake until you made contact. And realized it wasn't human flesh you just hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Dan T. said: But damn, Puddles can sing. Yeah, I thought that was a pretty damn nice rendition of that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 What? I'm just recruiting? Go Duke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 I learned a new word: coulrophobia, the irrational fear of clowns. The psychology behind why clowns creep us out For the past several months, creepy clowns have been terrorizing America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10 different states. These fiendish clowns have reportedly tried to lure women and children into the woods, chased people with knives and machetes, and yelled at people from cars. They’ve been spotted hanging out in cemeteries and they have been caught in the headlights of cars as they appear alongside desolate country roads in the dead of night. This isn’t the first time there has been a wave of clown sightings in the United States. After eerily similar events occurred in the Boston area in the 1980s, Loren Coleman, a cryptozoologist who studies the folklore behind mythical beasts such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, came up with something called “The Phantom Clown Theory,” which attributes the proliferation of clown sightings to mass hysteria (usually sparked by incidents witnessed only by children). It’s impossible to determine which of these incidents are hoaxes and which are bona fide tales of clowning around taken to the extreme. Nonetheless, the perpetrators seem to be capitalizing on our longstanding love-hate relationship with clowns, tapping into the primal dread that so many children (and more than a few adults) experience in their presence. In fact, a 2008 study conducted in England revealed that very few children actually like clowns. It also concluded that the common practice of decorating children’s wards in hospitals with pictures of clowns may create the exact opposite of a nurturing environment. It’s no wonder so many people hate Ronald McDonald. But as a psychologist, I’m not just interested in pointing out that clowns give us the creeps; I’m also interested in why we find them so disturbing. Earlier this year I published a study entitled “On the Nature of Creepiness” with one of my students, Sara Koehnke, in the journal New Ideas in Psychology. While the study was not specifically looking at the creepiness of clowns, much of what we discovered can help explain this intriguing phenomenon. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Spoiler you know.... the "common internet parlance" use of the term BBC, coupled with my general ability to ignore punctuation, leads to a very very different interpretation of the thread headline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Sooo...this "crazy clown" **** has decided to come to my area...and they decided to do bomb threats to schools on social media one of them being my daughter's school.... People have no ****ing lives if they do this for fun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 3 minutes ago, Xameil said: People have no ****ing lives if they do this for fun... Wouldn't feel bad if they lost them, though. Painfully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 3 minutes ago, Mr. Sinister said: Wouldn't feel bad if they lost them, though. Painfully On a semi related note... There was a pic of a "crazy clown" up here surrounded by children. Some paranoid person decided to call police because she saw the pic on facebook. Turns out it was a guy who was wearing his clown costume for a bunch of neighborhood kids, and the parents were all aware of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazel-Ra Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Prolly all a hoax for that stupid ass Purge Sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Seriously doubt it would have anything to do with that movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 It's strange that people haven't found where the motivation for this is coming from yet. Obviously people aren't coming to the same original idea of weird clown costumes. I really expected a 4chan link or a viral marketing gimmick to be exposed by now. Maybe it's a lesser known creepy message board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 It's the Devil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogofWar1 Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Okay, 2016, enough is enough. You took tons of great people, you got Donald Trump as a major party nominee, and now clowns? CLOWN!? **** this year, man. Also, this video is scary without the sound, less scary with it because the guy keeps saying "bruh." https://www.facebook.com/javaris.kelly/posts/1072720762776596 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinz4Life12 Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 "Can I shoot or take action against someone that is dressed up like a clown" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 In all seriousness, I truly wonder if whoever these people are have death wishes. Scaring someone or running up on them and threatening them with a blunt instrument or whatever... You're just asking for it. And the more people that join in, the more likely one of them runs into the wrong person and gets lit up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 45 minutes ago, Skinz4Life12 said: "Can I shoot or take action against someone that is dressed up like a clown" That line really jumps off the screen doesn't it? Incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogofWar1 Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 The real question is "is there any jury out there that would convict you?" No. No there is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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