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To: albie

I guess it’s just my problem. I cannot even stand to look at clowns or ber near them. It really creeps me out. It bugs me to to accidentally get a mark from my ink pen on my hand. This photograph disgusts me. Grown men don’t need to do this.


5 posted on 10/16/2019 12:46:07 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister

You sir, have issues. They were doing something nice to calm a scared child. To see it in nany other light is weird. It’s polish, not a tattoo. It comes off.


7 posted on 10/16/2019 12:54:43 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: higgmeister

What does this or even markings on your hand have to do with clowns?

Clowns aren’t known for ink pen marks or for fingernail polish.

So ...I am not sure if you have coulrophobia, fear of clowns, or chirophobia, a fear of hands, or tatouazophobia the fear of tattoos, or transphobia, fear of transvestites... or a combination. Maybe you were punished, taunted or humiliated -or merely just laughed at by a person who really didn’t mean you ill but thought it was cute- for getting into fingerpaint or your mom’s makeup when you were very, very young and so, deep down, anything that reminds your subconscious of that causes discomfort. I think it may also be a more primal survival instinct of not wanting to draw attention from predators that may be at the root of these kinds of phobias in people, too. After all, long ago humans were the favored prey of beautifully camouflaged spotted leopards. In some parts of the world people still have to fear leopards [pardalophobia ], so it really isn’t an irrational fear.


10 posted on 10/16/2019 1:57:24 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: higgmeister

And there’s a thing called nail polish remover.

You need to relax some.

Well, a lot.


11 posted on 10/16/2019 2:45:34 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: higgmeister

That is really strange


16 posted on 10/16/2019 6:14:18 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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