Sunday…..I shall spend the day in the garden then the orchard and then end it in the vineyard…..Spring and beautiful weather and I will put my research aside and enjoy a little slice of life……strolling around the property gives me a perspective….kinda like recharging the batteries……
One of my fave jokes is…..2 cannibals eating a clown….one cannibal turns to the other and says…”Does this taste funny?” (rip shot)
Moving on….we all have things that creeps us out….some it is snakes, my daughter it is snails, my granddaughter it is spiders and me…..it is clowns….just the sight of one makes me feel like hitting them between the eyes…..to say that I do not like them would be an understatement…..all are just plain creepy!
I know that it may seem irrational……. but maybe it is not so irrational……after all…….
As Slate puts it: “Creepy is a state of being that’s easy to identify but hard to pin down.” That is, until two social psychologists at Knox College conducted the first-ever empirical study of “creepiness,” publishing their findings in New Ideas in Psychology. The researchers surveyed more than 1,300 people around the world about people and things that creeped them out. Here are some of the results: Clowns, taxidermists, and funeral directors are creepy. So is repeated lip licking, violating personal space, laughing at the wrong times, and steering conversations toward sex. Also creepy: bulging eyes, long fingers, greasy hair, and pale skin. According to Business Insider, 95% of respondents believe creepy people are more likely to be men. And women are more likely to see creepy people as a sexual threat.
Researchers concluded that unpredictability is a big reason why things and people get labeled as creepy. As the study puts it, being creeped out is an evolved response that “enables us to maintain vigilance during times of uncertainty.” Researcher Francis McAndrew tells Business Insider their research shows a creepy trait is “anything that would make you unsure of what the person would do next.” But sociologist Lisa Wade says the research appears to show an inherent bias against things or people that aren’t conventionally attractive. “There’s a bias toward attractive people that’s reinforced by mass media,” she says. “Even when a movie casts a bad guy they cast someone who’s objectively unattractive, unless the intention is to have the audience be surprised that the bad guy is bad.”
I knew it! I knew I was not crazy….well not because of that…..I mean if I am in a spot where there is a black guy in baggy pants and a person that appears to be Middle Eastern and a clown…..my money is on the clown as the person most suspicious….I am keeping my attention of the twat in the funny nose…..
What creeps you out?
What creeps you out?
Reptiles in human form…..
Psychopaths do think they’re more rational than other people, that this isn’t a deficit,” says Hare. “I met one offender who was certainly a psychopath who said ‘My problem is that according to psychiatrists I think more with my head than my heart. What am I supposed to do about that? Am I supposed to get all teary-eyed?’ ” Another, asked if he had any regrets about stabbing a robbery victim, replied: “Get real! He spends a few months in hospital and I rot here. If I wanted to kill him I would have slit his throat. That’s the kind of guy I am; I gave him a break.”
Hahaha….
I can smell them a mile off….
Corporations love them…..
grin.
Though I have to agree with Lady P. on psychopaths, I tend to regard them like snakes, as possibly dangerous, but, not all that creepy. Probably from working with them so long; I got past the creepy part.
But, there is one type of personality that not only creeps me out, but, actively stimulates my aggressiveness, to wit: Pedophiles….
For 17.5 years, I worked with mental patients, many of whom were pedophiles. I found that, before even knowing their predilection for children as sex objects, when I would meet them for the first time, my hands curled, and began to move of their own accord toward the man’s throat…. I had to exert quite a bit of will power to NOT strangle him where he stood.
There seems to be something in their demeanor, or maybe it’s a smell I’m picking up unconsciously, but, my sub-conscious mind recognizes them, and makes a unilateral decision they need to die, slowly and painfully. To this day, if one of them enters my awareness, it’s all I can do not to ace them; I seem to be able to pick them out unconsciously, for there are times in public when someone enters the room I am in, and it’s all I can do not to take them aside to ascertain their status, then leave them in a dumpster if my suspicion is borne out as true.
They make my skin crawl….
I’ve always thought clowns were a bit strange; my son also thinks they’re creepy….
Good post.
gigoid
Anybody that wears that much make-up has something to hide…chuq
LOL!… Okay, I can see that…
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I was not going to go there gigoid the dubious…..but ditto.
Smell them a mile off….still reptilian…and the oiliness of a snake.
The word ‘oleaginous’ comes to mind..
grin
*grin* Good word for them; gives the proper slimy feel….
I have a feeling, when we humans lived in caves. we had a very efficient, swift way of dealing with such perverts; they got used as bait for killing tigers & predator beasts, but, nobody killed the animal that took the bait….
The only fate they deserve is the swiftest removal from life that can be arranged, preferably with some pain involved.
Sick bastards…
gigoid