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They want to be taken seriously. So if you have a trombone, bagpipes, a clown costume… anything that makes a mockery of their protest will hurt them more than all the facts and clever phrasing in the world.
These people are prepared to argue that aren’t prepared for a clown with a ukalalee .
White face paint is cheap. Add a couple red dots on your cheekbones and around your mouth. Boom you’re a clown. The whole time the are talking just stand next to them. Slump your shoulders and rub your hand under your eyes with the classic wrist twisting motion. So they know you’re crying with them.
Make sure they can’t get a single good picture of their protest without “that damn clown is in the way!”
Cost you about 3 bucks in supplies and would hurt than more than any megaphone.
He’ll it’s a drag show? I’m sure someone could lend you some makeup if you tell them why.
This reminds me of the surprisingly effective inflatable frog costume that was in the news recently during protests against ICE
There are droves of others in honor of the first one. Join the GFY legion of silly. 🤘🏼
Treat your body like a garbage dump the night beforehand, too. Cheap Mexican, beer , etc. Nothing illegal about ripping some nuclear grade rancid farts in proximity to other people.
Don't forget the protein powder shake. Get that gut flora overloaded but be careful not to paint your shorts. Or do, I guess. Whatever you're into. 😅🫣
Every once in a while say in a mocking voice "we demand to be taken seriously, seriously guys stop doing art, we don't like it"
Clowns don’t talk. lol if you want to have an hour long debate on the differences between clowns and mines I’ll be happy to indulge but it’s probably best if you just back away lol
I for one am all ears. Please?
Well clown don’t talk but that doesn’t mean they are “silent” more specifically the point of their jokes are not “silence”.
Clowns have different styles of jokes. There’s poor clown, the dumb clown, the bossy clown (found in clown groups ) angry clowns. So on and so forth.
Now I don’t mean to talk down on mimes, not at all, they are fun too but their jokes are all about them being silent and you figuring out what’s going on. Trapped in a box, too windy, climbing a rope. They arent falling down stairs or getting into fights with other clowns.
Mines are silent, that’s their bit. Clowns are silent but they have their own personalities.
If you watch “welcome to derry” that last episode has a good example of a kind of clown act. He’s pulling flowers but a gopher keeps taking them, then you find out the flowers are for the grave of his wife and the gopher gives him a flower. There a storyline to the jokes.
Btw pennywise the clown has great makeup. I know people see it as creepy but it does what it’s supposed to do.
Highlights his smile his cheexk movements his forehead movements.
That’s what the makeup is for. So the audience 50 feet away can see clearly when you’re smiling or frowning or crying. That’s the point of clown makeup.
I’ve always wanted to be a clown instead I’m just a retail district managers who’s fantastic at his job… I should’ve been a clown lol
Oh another example of the difference is the guy from (I think) americas got talent. The tape face guy.
He doesn’t talk but he has music and stuff in his bits.
His goth look btw is also just clown makeup in that it has the same effect. He just uses dark shadow so you can see when he’s “surprised “ vs “tired” the tape also shows face movement.
Clown are fascinating if you give them a chance.
Real professional clowns not the clown at the car dealership who makes balloon animals.
I love this. There is literally nothing in the world better than listening to someone talk about something they are passionate about. You are an awesome person on the lemmings and hope you don’t mind that I’ve tagged you as “Fucking loves Clowns in a good way”. And honestly it’s never too late to chase you passion. You should look around for some clowning classes near you.
Off topic but I feel this is what the internet is for. Once on Reddit someone was trashing the charecter “Johnny brovo” as a bad role model…
Some dude showed up with episode numbers and theories… Johnny bravo was a feminist icon it turns out. He’s just socially awkward in a world that doesn’t give him patience. He never actually puts down a woman. He’s very respectful to the women in his life (his mom and child friend) he just doesn’t know how to approach women.
That is what the internet is for. To connect you to “that one person” who studied this specific thing and has answers for you.
Instead we use the internet for pirn an AI.
Johnny Bravo and the Todd from Scrubs are low key the same guy in different stages of evolution.
I don’t know what bags are but as long as you understand clowns aren’t “just creepy” that there’s a corporate middle manager out there who has spent years thinking about clowns and dreams of leaving his life to go to clown school (btw I can attend every clown school on the planet for cheaper than an MBA) that’s all I want. I’ve looked into clowning in a real way. I know the schools. The best schools are only a few grand for the education.
Clowns aren’t a scary thing. To some of us they are amazing!
One day I will become a clown. Right now my family still gets weird when I talk about it. They want me to continue being successful in a job that makes zero people laugh. But my frozen sales are up. Third in the country before I left that job. I’m good at the boring job. It’s just never funny.
You’re good people and you will make an awesome clown someday.
Last clown fact for you. Most professional clowns start later in life 35-40. That’s where I am now lol
Oh one more thing there are people who would argue clowns can talk and that doesn’t make them less clowns…
It’s just not how my camp feels.
It’s sort of like “zombie purists “
“No zombies can’t hold guns… this is a monster movie not a zombie movie!!! No zombies can’t run or collaborate, that’s a monster not a zombie”
And there’s arguments to be made on both sides but I know where I stand.
Clown don’t talk and zombies have to be risen dead, not a rabies like disease.
That’s just my opinion.