Clowns - sinister or funny

[ed_blackadder_1]

Personally I can take them or leave them, but my hubby hates them, can't watch them at all.

[tintinthegingertomcat]

Same as you. Some are funny looking especially those that do children's parties but some are, as you say, quite sinister looking. I dont like the Pierrot clown

[merc1_clocks]

Sinister...every darn one of 'em

[captainbovine]

er, no not for me, I don't like that one who wears white and has a pointy hat, he speaks Italian, he's in the circus...oooooh he scares me.....weird like Victorian dolls.....

[ilove2patch]

OMG I had to scroll past him qhickly. Horrible, Evil things are clowns.

[chickengrandma-2008]

They don't bother me in the least but I'm not a fan of slap-stick anyway.

[wizilizi]

I like Pierrot & Columbine, & I don't mind clowns at all

I see them as somewhat symbolic of sadness, not evil

[ed_blackadder_1]

Clowns are comic performers who employ slapstick or similar types of physical humour, often in a pantomime style

A Clown is an artist or performer who pretends to be a fool or foolish

 comic performer, as in a circus, theatrical production, or the like, who wears an outlandish costume and makeup and entertains by pantomiming common situations or actions in exaggerated or ridiculous fashion, by juggling or tumbling, etc.

a prankster; a practical joker

a person who acts like a clown; comedian; joker; buffoon; jester

All meanings of the word Clown, they are supposed to be funny, so why do people find them scary!

[cookiecookuk]

A friend of mine is absolutely terrified of them

[twishy123]

Maybe this is why........

Today’s clowns have white faces because the first clowns centuries ago would kill children that didn’t laugh and grind up their bones. During this process the clowns face would become white with bone dust. Eventually, clowns were forced to stop killing children, but the implied inducement to laugh that the white face represented remains. 

ooooer ....

[shelly180]

My son hates them with a passion.

We had a local soft play area where all the kids had their parties, including a visit form a clown. He used to go to the toilet while the clown visited, and a couple of times he refused to go to parties .
We have talked about it and he even now doesn't know why!

[petitecalicocat]

I dont find them funny or scary & my boys wernt interested in them at all 

[chickengrandma-2008]

One of my granddaughters has a phobia of clowns.  If she sees one at a fair or fete she just trembles and shakes all over.  She's never had any sort of incident to cause it and no one else in the family is bothered my them, so it's a puzzle why really. 

[rose2008-2008]

LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,. oHHHHH The things we are talking about on here. Im lauuuugghin. I do not like that first pictue Ed its like the one in the Stephen King film am i right??????????.

I actually think now they are scary.