mizerable
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Post by mizerable on Jan 15, 2017 11:13:03 GMT -5
Well it was only a matter of time.
You take away the freak shows. You take away the animal acts. You create a stigma that clowns are scary.
What do they have left? The ariel acts? How long before someone steps in and also shuts that down?
There goes a good chunk of my childhood. I would always go when they were in town. It was a fun environment and I understand that things needed to change, but at the same time the circus had a stigma that would never be erased no matter what they did.
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Shai
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Post by Shai on Jan 15, 2017 11:17:35 GMT -5
This was one of those things we did every single year when I was a kid. Even though I'm freaked out by clowns actual circus clowns never scared me. I'm really sad I'll never get to take my kids to something that was a huge part of my childhood.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 11:47:11 GMT -5
Hoping this means the Bulls won't have to endure a long circus caused road trip next season. Goodbye circus road trip, hello Disney On Ice trip.
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Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 15, 2017 12:10:46 GMT -5
So now that we just got done with the creepy clown sightings in the fall, for winter we are going to have a bunch of clowns running around unemployed. It never ends.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jan 15, 2017 12:16:46 GMT -5
You know, I have never been to a circus before. There goes my chance now.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jan 15, 2017 12:41:39 GMT -5
The issue it sounds like they lost so much money when they had to remove the animal acts. I get feeling bad for the animals but at the same time people complaining so much about stuff these days. It's getting old that everything now someone gets offended by it and we have to "change" it which means end something. 146 yrs of entertainment now done and something we all at some point as a kid or taking kids to these shows. Can't pass it along. Yeah, nothing to get oversensitive about there, just 150 years of animal abuse people looked the other way on. Seriously though, I don't know why people are annoyed about campaigns against circus animal use.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Jan 15, 2017 12:47:59 GMT -5
Weird, my cousin almost got a job with them as a clown about 5 or 6 years ago.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 15, 2017 13:10:47 GMT -5
I wonder how long until the WWE starts crowing about being the longest running arena traveling entertainment show now.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Jan 15, 2017 13:20:42 GMT -5
Weird, my cousin almost got a job with them as a clown about 5 or 6 years ago. I had a former co-employee audition and get a job with them about 2 years ago....WELP!
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Post by edgestar on Jan 15, 2017 13:24:12 GMT -5
I've never been to one of their circuses. I feel sorry for those people that are losing jobs, but I hope they can find success, elsewhere. The animals safety needed to be considered, also.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Jan 15, 2017 13:56:57 GMT -5
The issue it sounds like they lost so much money when they had to remove the animal acts. I get feeling bad for the animals but at the same time people complaining so much about stuff these days. It's getting old that everything now someone gets offended by it and we have to "change" it which means end something. 146 yrs of entertainment now done and something we all at some point as a kid or taking kids to these shows. Can't pass it along. Yeah, nothing to get oversensitive about there, just 150 years of animal abuse people looked the other way on. Seriously though, I don't know why people are annoyed about campaigns against circus animal use. I agree they could treat the animals better. I'm sure there plenty of ways to do that and for 146 yrs is a very long time for something to end and was a big park of history and that was is bothering to me that ending of an era.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jan 15, 2017 15:30:50 GMT -5
For the sake of the animals, who do not consent to being abused, I am glad that this is happening. I hope that any business that treats animals like the circus has will shut down.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jan 15, 2017 17:46:04 GMT -5
For the sake of the animals, who do not consent to being abused, I am glad that this is happening. I hope that any business that treats animals like the circus has will shut down. Yeah, Seaworld next please?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 17:54:29 GMT -5
Without the circus, there's no Bobby Heenan story about wrestling a bear every night. One night, he and Von Raschke are traveling and pass by a trailer with two giraffes poking out the top. Baron says, "Well Bobby, looks like a tag match tonight."
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thirteen3
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Post by thirteen3 on Jan 15, 2017 18:09:23 GMT -5
For the sake of the animals, who do not consent to being abused, I am glad that this is happening. I hope that any business that treats animals like the circus has will shut down. Yeah, Seaworld next please? Keep the aquariums open. Aquariums are awesome. f*** those whale jumping through hoops bullshit though.
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StuntGranny®
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Post by StuntGranny® on Jan 15, 2017 18:11:00 GMT -5
This is great news for the animals and I was happy to hear the news. I too hope Seaworld is the next to go six-feet under.
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Post by J Lee O'Brien on Jan 15, 2017 18:19:35 GMT -5
This is great news for the animals and I was happy to hear the news. I too hope Seaworld is the next to go six-feet under. I know they've stopped the Orca breeding program, and I think the actual "shows" are ending in at least one location soon.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 15, 2017 20:37:16 GMT -5
a generation from now, Dick Grayson's origin story is going to be perplexing as hell hehe.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jan 15, 2017 22:17:57 GMT -5
They killed my grandmother in the Hartford Circus Fire, so they get no sympathy from me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 22:56:33 GMT -5
What do they have left? The ariel acts? How long before someone steps in and also shuts that down? True story; a Mexican troupe of acrobats set up a circus tent across the street from where I lived one summer a decade ago. Their favorite act was an aerial spectacular involving motorcycles & a metal ball. But everybody left when they did that. One night, they quit a show because everybody hated their marquee event & left in under an hour because they were so pissed.
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