Clowning around
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[mod - first few posts were jeffed from the 'Other news today' thread - PJH]
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
http://circa.com/circa-now/happening/clown-lives-matter-was-just-formed
The Telegraph channels The Onion/The Daily Mash:
On Friday, two teenage girls were arrested after being found wearing clown outfits.
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@PJH I've found some more clowns…
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@dkf where is Theresa May?
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@Arantor Not in that picture alas, and I got bored looking in GIS.
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@PJH I don't think Trump or Clinton are clowns, and if they are, they're in a different league to our set of clowns.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
I don't think Trump or Clinton are clowns
I think of Trump as more of a buffoon than a clown. I don't think there's anything humorous about Clinton, just scary.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
more of a buffoon than a clown
The contrabuffoon, or short-fingered double buffoon, is an ungainly double-long buffoon playing an octave lower, which is very long and low indeed.
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/assets/images/pages/393/10_contrabassoon_flat.jpg
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
more of a buffoon than a clown
The contrabuffoon, or short-fingered double buffoon, is an ungainly double-long buffoon playing an octave lower, which is very long and low indeed.
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/assets/images/pages/393/10_contrabassoon_flat.jpg
It's yuge!
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@flabdablet said in [In other news today...]>
The contrabuffoon, or short-fingered double buffoon, is an ungainly double-long buffoon playing an octave lower, which is very long and low indeed.
Not to be confused with the jaboon.
(Actual fun fact: Those who play the bassoon are called faggotists.)
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet said in [In other news today...]>
The contrabuffoon, or short-fingered double buffoon, is an ungainly double-long buffoon playing an octave lower, which is very long and low indeed.
Not to be confused with the jaboon.
(Actual fun fact: Those who play the bassoon are called faggotists.)
I played from 5th grade up through college. Since I hadn't played since then, I donated it to the Music In Schools program.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I played from 5th grade up through college.
Were you a Zippelfagotist?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
I played from 5th grade up through college.
Were you a Zippelfagotist?
LOL (and that post was #5 in my search)
I was actually pretty decent - I played in the All-Shore Orchestra back in NJ. Can't remember if I was 1st or 2nd chair... I sucked at practicing tho...
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
more of a buffoon than a clown
The contrabuffoon, or short-fingered double buffoon, is an ungainly double-long buffoon playing an octave lower, which is very long and low indeed.
Given what Dump is currently making headlines for, 'long' is something he seems to brag about, and 'low' certainly fits his claimed behavior.Do we really need a president? I mean, why have one if the choices are all terrible?
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
Do we really need a president? I mean, why have one if the choices are all terrible?
Constitutionally required.
Which isn't to say we couldn't amend it to always have "None of the above" as an option. (Although if we're doing constitutional electoral reform, there's a lot of other important stuff that would help even more.)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I sucked at practicing tho...
Well there's your problem.
You're supposed to blow, not suck.
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
You're supposed to blow, not suck.
So practicing blows when you suck?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
practicing blows when you suck?
No, that's me at Tae Kwon Do lessons.
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'Creepy clowns' craze: Professionals hit out at pranksters
Professional clowns hit out at pranksters who have been dressing up as "creepy clowns" to frighten people across the UK.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Professional clowns hit out at pranksters
I'm having trouble parsing this. "Hit out at"? Is this a synonym for "retaliate against"?
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@Tsaukpaetra appears to mean something more like "denounce/condemn".
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Australia this time.
Schoolchildren wearing clown masks in the same area on Monday were issued warnings by officers and "directed to move on".
"The penalty for possessing an article of disguise is up to two years imprisonment," a police spokeswoman said.
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Officers were called about 3.30am on Sunday over complaints of a man in a clown mask at a fast food outlet on the Princes Freeway.
The truly hilarious thing about that is that the only fast food outlet on the Princes Freeway at Moe is a McD's.
The World Clown Association president this week said he was totally against the current worldwide craze of people dressing up as clowns to terrorise people.
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/0513/scared-baby-ronald-mcdonald.jpg
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/0513/scared-baby-ronald-mcdonald.jpg
That guy doesn't scare me. Maybe because we have the same first name.
The one that has always made me uncomfortable is this terrorist:
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Man dressed as Batman chases 'killer clowns' in Cumbria
A "killer clown" craze is sweeping Britain, with police warning people against dressing as clowns in order to intimidate or harm people.
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Clown sightings: Ronald McDonald keeps low profile amid creepy craze
Corporation says it’s being ‘thoughtful’ in respect to mascot’s participation in community events
Creepy-clown hysteria is forcing McDonald’s to hide its iconic mascot
Ronald McDonald has long been the face of McDonald's. But a recent rash of creepy clown sightings has forced McDonald's to reassess his role in company events.
"McDonald's and franchisees in the local markets are mindful of the current climate around clown sightings in communities and as such are being thoughtful in respect to Ronald McDonald's participation in community events for the time being," McDonald's spokeswoman Terri Hickey told Business Insider.
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This makes me think of:
The New Ronald McDonald – 03:41
— Studio C
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The original Ronald McDonald - not creepy at all.
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@Boner
so, this is how watchmen begins
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@Boner I'm honestly surprised we don't see more Batmans around. You'd think the idea of dressing up and going around punching bad people would be more popular.
I guess the threat of just getting shot by one of those bad people is too much.
I'm also surprised no one has ever tried to build a "real" Batsuit (i.e. bulletproof, actually usable for combat). There must be plenty of millionaire geeks who would love to own one just for the "cool" factor.
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@anonymous234 said in Clowning around:
@Boner I'm honestly surprised we don't see more Batmans around. You'd think the idea of dressing up and going around punching bad people would be more popular.
It's certainly popular in fiction/dramas:
Hero to Zero | CSI | Fandom
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@anonymous234 said in Clowning around:
I'm honestly surprised we don't see more Batmans around. You'd think the idea of dressing up and going around punching bad people would be more popular.
That's not the only perk of the job:
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@anonymous234 said in Clowning around:
I'm honestly surprised we don't see more Batmans around. You'd think the idea of dressing up and going around punching bad people would be more popular.
I guess the threat of just getting shot by one of those bad people is too much.
Eh...even getting punched back is pretty risky.
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@anonymous234 said in Clowning around:
I'm also surprised no one has ever tried to build a "real" Batsuit (i.e. bulletproof, actually usable for combat). There must be plenty of millionaire geeks who would love to own one just for the "cool" factor.
How do you know they haven't? Just because some built one just to have it doesn't mean it would be publicized or used.
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@abarker said in Clowning around:
doesn't mean it would be publicized or used
Well what's the point of having it then?
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@anonymous234 said in Clowning around:
@abarker said in Clowning around:
doesn't mean it would be publicized or used
Well what's the point of having it then?
Knowing you're prepared for the apocalypse?
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@abarker said in Clowning around:
@anonymous234 said in Clowning around:
I'm also surprised no one has ever tried to build a "real" Batsuit (i.e. bulletproof, actually usable for combat). There must be plenty of millionaire geeks who would love to own one just for the "cool" factor.
How do you know they haven't? Just because some built one just to have it doesn't mean it would be publicized or used.
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@dkf said in Clowning around:
I got bored looking in GIS
Then you're not typing in the right search terms!
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@dkf said in Clowning around:
@error said in Clowning around:
Then you're not typing in the right search terms!
Or I'm at work.
You have a mobile device, right? Disconnect from company wifi, job done.
This is how I am posting from work today :)
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@Boner said in Clowning around:
. http://circa.com/circa-now/happening/clown-lives-matter-was-just-formed
wtf is up with that "news" page? It's like 4 short paragraphs, a couple of huge but unrelated images and tons of whitespace.
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@cvi it is a bit weird. There's the hero image then the content looks like it's been done in powerpoint.
I'm pretty sure these clickbait pages are generated without any human interaction anyway.
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@Arantor said in Clowning around:
You have a mobile device, right? Disconnect from company wifi, job done.
It's the shoulder-surfing that I worry about.
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@dkf said in Clowning around:
It's the shoulder-surfing that I worry about.
A prolonged visit to the porcelain throne then?
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@Luhmann said in Clowning around:
A prolonged visit to the porcelain throne then?
Alas, that's got awful-to-none Wifi reception, nor any mobile signal. The building must have a lot of structural steel in the vicinity.
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@dkf said in Clowning around:
Alas, that's got awful-to-none Wifi reception, nor any mobile signal.
Yeah ... one wonders if this is by design ...
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@Luhmann said in Clowning around:
Yeah ... one wonders if this is by design ...
Actually, I know it wasn't by design. The building (and its plumbing) predates wifi and mobile phones. It also predates ethernet (this building was completed in 1970, whereas ethernet was from research done about 3–4 years later).
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@Luhmann said in Clowning around:
Stop throwing up
to jokes and wifi!The
to wifi was in place before I was born!
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