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Old 10-01-2021, 05:45 PM
 
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I am not creeped out by dolls and clowns.

I am, however, creeped out by people who collect dolls and clowns.
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Old 10-01-2021, 10:07 PM
 
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Dolls, some, especially if they look like Chucky, regular looking dolls not really. Now clowns, someone mentioned that they seemed sad, that was my feeling in the early days, I wasn't a fan them, but, more so thought most seemed sad. Now, I think of them like in the following even though its a funny take on a horror movie clown. BTW, I love Chocho's videos period.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m4oSJjcyeU
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Old 10-01-2021, 11:21 PM
 
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I'm glad I'm not alone in not liking mimes. I had one follow me in Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco a long time ago. Ugh.
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Old 10-02-2021, 05:17 AM
 
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Even as a little kid, I found both creepy and never wanted a doll, or a clown, real or toy.

My toys were model horses and Tinker-toys.

I don't think I am alone in this....(note all the horror movies featuring dolls and/or clowns)
When I was growing up my grandmother made porcelain dolls, and she was a fantastic artist the paint looks like skin I don't know what she did to get that hair just right but the eyes always creeped me out. Some boxes of disembodied adult horses and arms and legs and their bottom neck it was the dead eyes.
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Old 10-02-2021, 06:38 AM
 
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I am not creeped out by dolls, or clowns.

Dolls are simply playthings to me. Clowns are simply people dressed in funny costumes.
Same here. As long as the doll/clown/mannequin/dummy/mime doesn't look creepy. If they are, I'm not intimidated, just turned off.

I guess the original "It" movie made creepy clowns "cool", which to me has ruined the institution of the clown/mime.

All that said, I've always enjoyed the antics (on and off the "Krusty Show" set) of Krusty on "The Simpsons".
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Old 10-02-2021, 09:23 AM
 
Location: equator
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If I had a problem with dolls and clowns, I would have to find a new line of work.
Why? Do you work at ToyRUs?
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Old 10-02-2021, 09:25 AM
 
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I'm glad I'm not alone in not liking mimes. I had one follow me in Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco a long time ago. Ugh.
I don't find mimes "creepy" like clowns, but I sure don't like them.
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Old 10-02-2021, 09:26 AM
 
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When I was in college, I took my girlfriend to a mansion that had been turned into a museum. We were walking along, checking out the various displays, but when she stepped into a room, she immediately screamed and ran back out. The room was filled with the extensive doll collection of someone who had once lived there, and it turned out that my girlfriend was deathly afraid of dolls. I had not known that before that moment. She never told me why she was afraid of them, and in fact she did not want to talk about it at all. But I learned to never give her a doll as a present or even take her somewhere where she was likely to see them.
Now this is quite a story. It would be fascinating to know what set her off about dolls. What the history was.

How could you know when you might come across a random doll???
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Old 10-02-2021, 09:29 AM
 
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"Apparently France is facing a bizarre crisis of fake clowns terrorizing its citizens. Pranksters dressed up as scary clowns have been causing problems on the streets, scaring children and the general population, sometimes while armed with pistols, knives, or bats, and sometimes beating people up. As a result, the village of Vendargues in southern France has put into place a ban on anyone wearing a clown costume"
Oh, maybe that is the story on clown-banning that I read. Good for that French town.
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Old 10-02-2021, 02:20 PM
 
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Oh, maybe that is the story on clown-banning that I read. Good for that French town.
Is this happening ago, as I remember it was some 7 or 8 years ago that happened. Hope those clown head fools haven't come out into the streets again. The US had issues as well some years ago.
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