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The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). “It’s the kind of thing you can say to a friend, to yourself, but also to a stranger.”, And while clowns can be menacing, they also lend themselves easily to self-deprecating humor. Copyright Clown World News © All rights reserved. If you are researching your own story, we can put you in touch with some of the University's many academics who are regarded as experts in their fields. Live REACTION after Trump and Biden tear into each other in final debate. 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When is the US 2020 presidential election? The model Bella Hadid recently swanned down the Moschino runway in a sparkling clown suit. The creepy clown craze spooking the nation reached a fevered pitch last month with at least a dozen people arrested for taking part in the menacing stunt or for making false reports, according to police. Caulrophobia - fear of clowns - is a common phobia and a series of creepy clown incidents have spread across America and now to the UK. - Creepy clown map of Britain   - What is the creepy clown craze? 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Clown masks are displayed at a costume store. Rush described as a “veiled” obscenity, depending on the context. Outrageous Clown News You May Have Missed . When someone calls themselves a clown, he said, it usually means “there’s an awareness that you’ve done something dumb, you’re immediately hit with karma and you’re acknowledging it.”. "It is sad to say but as in anything today, you will almost have some form of a copycat. “Now they’re just us.”, Julio Cesar Aguilar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images, fired a few days after being named to the “S.N.L.” cast. In the spring of 2007, the comedian and actress Mo’Nique uttered 11 words that would change the course of history. It’s a term that’s gleefully used by people who also like to call themselves “trash.”, On social media, clowns and clown imagery are used in the spirit of the Mo’Nique clip, said Ira Madison III, a TV writer and podcaster. When people are acting the fool, they say that they’re putting on their clown makeup or that they’ve got their clown outfits on (a riff off a line from a 2013 episode of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta”). To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. "There's a natural phobia of clowns," Sgt. News. Instead of putting in the energy of writing a paragraph to point out all the ways a person’s actions are wrong on social media, he said, “you can just send a picture, get 800 likes on it, and accomplish the same thing.”. Organised crime gangs may have pocketed £2bn intended for furloughed workers, Two men accused of plotting to kill US presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Nato creates war room amid fears of China & Russia using anti-satellite weapons, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Committed to bringing you the funniest, and clown filled news from the greatest show on earth.

", Reports of costumed characters sprung up like urban folklore. Login ... clowns. THE creepy figure, believed to be in his 20s, is currently being hunted by police in Sweden after he was seen holding “something sharp”.
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$5 says the entire #creepyclown thing is BS. A ‘tyrant-clown’ has destroyed my love affair with America ... this was a polemical interpretation that set cultivated New Yorkers at odds with the culture warriors of Fox News… "Our citizens are frustrated with everything going on in society and this is another issue to address," Christopher Nacco, the sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, told NBC News in an email Saturday following a spate of claimed sightings.

In other words, “clown” shames someone swiftly (and without profanity — a rare feat on the internet). Rush also has several clown memes saved on his phone for future use, and one of his friends is listed in his contacts as “Clown.” The phrase can be understood as a term of endearment, or what Mr. The Long Island, New York, community of Lindenhurst wasn't taking any chances this past week, saying it was keeping elementary school children inside during recess after a threatening message was posted to Twitter.

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Mr. Gillis posted a note on Twitter attempting to justify his actions. It’s like putting the Class Clowns against each other in The Hunger Games. NEW Hillingdon Council leader to stand down after 20 years. Suffolk County Police Chief Stu Cameron acknowledged that these are likely pranks, but said in a statement that they take it "quite seriously for all calls involving intentional harassment, trespassing and disturbing of peace.". Demi Adejuyigbe, a comedian and TV writer who coined the phrase “clown boy autumn” in a recent tweet, called the word a “Swiss Army knife.”, “Calling someone a clown isn’t supercruel,” he said. suburban Cincinnati town having installed extra police, Clowns Send Threatening Messages to School, children reported spotting multiple clowns creeping in the woods, FROM AUG. 4: Creepy Clown Terrorizes Green Bay, FROM SEPT.1: Creepy Clown Sightings Continue in South Carolina. They’re in headlines, movies and memes. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Local news stories from Kingston, New Malden, Chessington, Surbiton, Norbiton, Raynes Park, Tolworth, Hampton, Thames Ditton and Hook.

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Sightings and hoaxes have spread to more than a dozen states, including New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania in September and have led to elementary, middle schools and high schools being shut down in Ohio and added police patrols in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Even the fashion world has gone to clown town. But Mr. Subscribe to Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror newspapers, Who is Wrinkles? Killer Clowns are trending as people share viral videos on TikTok and elsewhere that purportedly show creepy clowns in 2020. “You’re being stupid, stop being dumb — that’s the message that comes with it.”. Clowns are comic performers who employ slapstick or similar types of physical comedy, often in a mime style.

“It instantaneously had the effect of like, ‘You’re a clown, you’re a joke, look at you, Boo Boo the fool,’” he said.