what is it about clowns?

[Alabama]

That makes them so terrifying? They're supposed to be fun and enteraining for kids. Is it the makeup? I cannot bear them and they do still feature in my nightmares - but I blame Stephen King for that.

[????]

they are the scourge of SE22 and will soon be in the Lounge

[The Chair]

Quite right ????.

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[Alabama]

Does mentioning the word 'clown' get you automatically moved, or was my topic not intellectually weighty enough?! Genuinely asking as new to the forum!

[????]

the drawing room is new but is for weighty and serious debate.....

[Santerme]

Coulrophobia

It is caused for me by Alice Cooper's, Can't Sleep, the Clown Will Eat Me!

Or was it Pennywise?

[woofmarkthedog]

JoJo09 Wrote:

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> That makes them so terrifying? They're supposed

> to be fun and enteraining for kids. Is it the

> makeup? I cannot bear them and they do still

> feature in my nightmares - but I blame Stephen

> King for that.

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But you have a clowns name JoJo!

"Parp parp"

[The Chair]

I fear I was too hasty in banishing this thread.

Apologies JoJo09 - there is a history of silly quips regarding clowns on this forum and I put your thread in the same category without really thinking about it.

Welcome to the forum.

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[????]

another; child abduction

[????]

The Drawing room? So infact this is just a lounge for any questions?

[????]

mmmmm- don't get it to be honest. Does "Are wasps any use at all?", for example, belong in here? Now confused on the role of the drawig room

[The Chair]

If you want to have a sensible debate about wasps, then yes. The topics in here do not have to be high faluting as long as the discussions within the thread are kept relevant and germane to the OP. A sense of humour is allowed, irrelevant witticisms are not.

[????]

mmmmmm I think you've got this wrong Chair- why is Keef's guitar thread not back in here on your logic? The lounge is discussion the drawing room debate, or so it says on the tin . I think the OP only put this in here because they were new. I reckon you could have half the lounge in here on those grounds.

Of course I understand the principle of some interesting philisophical offshoots from these sorts of threads but they fit better in the lounge too.

yours a confused quids

[red devil]

In theory Chair is right, you can have a serious discussion about any subject. But I would've thought it rests with the OP to decide whether they want their thread to be discussed as a serious topic in The Drawing Room or more lightheartedly in The Lounge. Quids is right, Keef's guitar thread has every right to be in here, believe me there are some serious musos out there who are more than capable of getting all philosophical about the merits of owning a Les Paul. On the other hand, if Keef sticks in the Lounge he can't have any complaints if someone then flippantly posts a picture of George Formby with his ukelele under the caption 'turned out nice again - Fenders are for benders!'.

When I first popped into the Drawing Room I saw the 'Is there a God' thread, sighed, and hightailed in out of here. But I'm sure over time it will settle down and find it's raison d'etre...

[Mark]

As this is a discussion about clowns in the Drawing Room I would have hoped that people would respect that and stayed on topic, going off topic is something we'd like deter on discussions in the Drawing Room. I would suggest that if don't agree with the Chair's decision, PM the Chair rather than spoil other people's discussions

This topic's in The Drawing Room so the (removed) jokey comments about "they are the scourge of SE22 and will soon be in the Lounge", "parp parp" and "child abduction" made it Lounge worthy (although confusingly the actual topic itself makes it open to humour).

Anyway this new room's a learning process and Red devil's last line summed it up nicely, "...I'm sure over time it will settle down and find it's raison d'etre..."

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Clowns: I think it's the fact you can see they're not smiling under the painted on smile that alludes to their insincerity and potential hidden depths of nastiness.

[mockney piers]

I was under the impression the Gibson thread was lounged rather than not deemed suitable or worthy. Sorry offtopication.

Err, poltergeist.

[Cassius]

Clowns are frightening to some people because you cannot see their faces or their expressions - the make-up becomes a mask which could possibly hide a multitude of sins - JMO!

[Keef]

Clowns are scary, just as any masked person can be.

[Keef]

And the guitar thread was lounged from here, even though I'd intended it to be a seriousish discussion about the merits of the different makes. Anyway, no big deal.

[PeckhamRose]

I think this Drawing Room idea is crap. Most people don't know what they are if they have one in their big ED homes, and others may not know the historical significance of them.

Lounge - Drawing Room - Kitchen.

Just rooms in a House.

Chair - I would like to have an EGM about the getting rid of Drawing Room or renaming it to "Serious discussions about stuff only, no really" thread.

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[Tony.London Suburbs]

There is actual clinical validity in the fear of clowns yet laughter fills the chasm between the way things are and the way things ought to be.

Love Life, Love Culture, Love East Dulwich Forum

[Windom]

Think John Wayne Gacy may have tarnished the rep of clowns a tad.....