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If another guy told me this it would definitely deserve a punch or two
Are you a clown? No? Then get over it.
It's people like this, acting ratchet and you getting upset about it enough to resort to physical violence that gets people killed. Just don't hang out with her again. Grow up. Jeez.
Since when has being called a clown a bad thing. This must be a new thing.
Besides, the OP is not talking about an English-speaking situation. There are probably language and cultural differences that are lost in translation for us on this site.
I would take it as an insult. Maybe it is a New York thing, but being called a clown is exactly like being called a fool or a jester, a deformed sub-human only allowed to be present with the rest of the company a source of entertainment, someone who is laughed at, not with. It really is a serious insult.
Now, I would have given her the benefit of the doubt since she is "new to the group", maybe she doesn't realize the gravity of the insult. Easier to let it slide than give her an opening to call you a baby, too.
Something must be getting lost in translation, or maybe some folks are just a bit too full of themselves.
If I'm clowning around and then get called a clown just what the heck is the big freakin' deal?
OP didn't say he was clowning around, He said he was making people laugh and telling jokes. 'Clowning around' assumes that the joke on 'on the clown'. The clown serves a foil for other's amusement and has the implication of deprecation, the lowering of status among the group.
There is a difference between being a 'wit' and being witty versus being a 'clown' and being a joke.
Bitey, we must be on the same wave length because I immediately thought of this scene in Good Fellas too, especially before he realized that Tommy was just messing with him.
OP didn't say he was clowning around, He said he was making people laugh and telling jokes. 'Clowning around' assumes that the joke on 'on the clown'. The clown serves a foil for other's amusement and has the implication of deprecation, the lowering of status among the group.
There is a difference between being a 'wit' and being witty versus being a 'clown' and being a joke.
Well ok. It's certainly not a battle I would fight, life's too short to be running around butthurt all the time.
At least she didn't say a$$clown. That is not a compliment.
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