Frothers Unite! UK

Getting ready for his clowning Mr Johnson waits for his boss to tell him what his policy is.

(Mr Cummings of course spent three years in Russia in the Wild East phase 94-97, failing to run an airline but making lots of contacts).

We have a nice word for 'Clown Phobia'

Do we have one for 'Upper Class Clown Phobia?'

Aristocoulrophobia?

Mass brawl on cruise ship that left six injured and ‘blood everywhere’ was not started by clown, police say: 'There is no truth in that,' police say over reports a row over fancy dress triggered the melee

So the clown was figurative, not literal? Drunken brawling Brits abroad can be likened to clowns and the sight of blood might've confused an onlooker.

Meanwhile...

Boris Johnson asks crowd to applaud him during rambling speech: Prime minister’s high-speed rail pledge initially met with silence

So they couldn't find a guy still walking around in his clown suit, eh? I'm surprised, I must say.

heaps of bodies wrote:We have a nice word for 'Clown Phobia'

Do we have one for 'Upper Class Clown Phobia?'

Aristocoulrophobia?

"Fear of noble legs"?

Apologies for injecting Septicism into the thread, but this reminds me of another phobia incident, when Representative "Bomber Bob" Dornan took to the floor of the House to reply to critics:

"I've been accused of homophobia. Fear of Man? Hatred of Man?"

I assume he assiduously avoided homogenized milk.

Poor old Mr Dornan -
The compound word 'homophobia' is of Greek derivation, not Latin and means 'fear of the same'
Which probably doesn't help
This further complicated because it is a synthetic (aren't they all?) word, really contracted from 'homosexual phobia'.
The complication arises because 'Homosexual' is one of those mash ups beloved of 19th and early 20th century 'experts' where we have the Greek 'Homo'=same, and
the Latin 'sexualis' = sex

so 'homosexual' means same sex, (albeit with two distinct language roots) not sex with a man.

Poor benighted colonials.

(I wonder if Mr Johnson paid sufficient attention while beating fags to remember the dual root?)

Voice From Limbo wrote:So they couldn't find a guy still walking around in his clown suit, eh? I'm surprised, I must say.

Maybe they looked through the security footage and couldn't find one...

I'd like to know more about this patriotic party: did someone dress up like this?

Voice From Limbo wrote:

heaps of bodies wrote:We have a nice word for 'Clown Phobia'

Do we have one for 'Upper Class Clown Phobia?'

Aristocoulrophobia?

"Fear of noble legs"?

Apologies for injecting Septicism into the thread, but this reminds me of another phobia incident, when Representative "Bomber Bob" Dornan took to the floor of the House to reply to critics:

"I've been accused of homophobia. Fear of Man? Hatred of Man?"

I assume he assiduously avoided homogenized milk.

Homoeroticism isn't the same as homosexuality, yet the red hatted retards here, can't tell the difference when I pointed out their hypocrisy.

Bronshtein wrote:Go on, I don't care about being obvious - that's what Condi was referring to in the first place.
You'll be telling me there's a guy in Niger selling Yellow Cake Uranium to Iraq next.

Just a little reminder -- who's being Mr. Obvious now, Bronny?

I'm just dissapointed no one noted my own neologism.

Probably me
but I was being kind of ironic.
Although I do love the way those classical purists smooshed together Greek and Latin without any compunction.

My apologies for missing the legs reference - never as good at Greek as Latin.