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100 Things I Learned From The Purge


1. Whenever you have your house under lockdown during an annual massacre event, it is okay to disarm your alarm system and let a complete stranger in your house.

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36. Eat dinner at your table like nothing is unusual right up until three minutes before the purge begins.

37. Do not fortify your house with a panic room that exists even in our current world which should generally be much stronger than the gate that got yanked off the front door with a truck.

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38. Even though you have not trained your family members how to use firearms, you should have way more guns then a single person could ever use. However, you should not have any holsters to properly carry even one of them. (Hawke was carrying his revolver "Plaxico Burress style", loose in his waistband with no holster).

39. Even on a night filled with large gangs of roving murderers, a small revolver is the only gun you'll want to have ready for instant use. You also don't need to carry any spare ammo.

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4. Don't offer any financial help or any type of provisions to the homeless person who just SAVED YOU AND YOUR FAMILY'S LIVES. A simple thank you will do.

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41. If you are a homeless man who just saved a family even after they badly wounded you and threatened to throw you to the wolves, don't bother asking for any provisions or any financial aid before leaving. A simple thank you from them will prevent you from starving to death in a gutter.

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Good point. Could've asked if anyone was hiring or had any connections. No, he just walked out. Didn't even get anything to eat.

On another note, I wonder if he got wood when the daughter's soft booty was pressed up against him when he had her hostage. :-)

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Yes, because when you're bleeding, under severe stress and the threat of death, you still manage to have enough blood and mental energy to have a hard-on. Because that's obviously the first priority.

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...correct.

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To a man it's their first priority .. sad , but true .

"A man that wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough".



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42. When your husband tells you to guard one side of the house, it's a better idea to walk slowly and aimlessly through the halls than to find a safe position in a room and point the gun at the door.

43. Everyone in the country apparently has a deep desire to not only kill when they are allowed to, but to terrorize their prey before killing them. Everyone also likes to use knives for the longer and messier kill that results, and everyone is happy to kill children in front of their families. The fact that humans fight in wars in order to gain assets is clearly an indication that all humans also enjoy murdering other humans and doing it in a disturbing and psychopathic manner.

44. When your neighbors, who live mere houses away from you, try to kill you and your children and then fail in the process because a homeless man comes to the rescue, you should just hang out with them at the dinner table until the purge is over. The safety of your family is not important enough to kill them in order to keep them from trying to kill you and your children anytime in the future. And for good measure, throw in a deep and well thought out line like "I just want to have some fu**ing peace!"

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For your last point, I think that's kind of the point of the movie: How crazy it is to have an experience like that and then go on living near these people like nothing happened. It would be great if they had a sequel that shows how their ordinary everyday interactions go after the purge is over.

45. When your boyfriend gets killed while trying to murder your father, the best response is to spend the rest of the night trying to avoid your family, even though your father knows it's not your fault and doesn't blame you for it. After all, everyone knows when you experience something traumatic and heartbreaking, the best thing to do is to totally reject any support from your loved ones.

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46. They brought back the Emergency Broadcast System in 2020. The Emergency Alert System was not cutting it anymore...

47. The new founding fathers saved "America."

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48. A single young boy is the only person on the planet with any moral objections to the very concept of the purge in general.

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Yeah, that was kinda lame how at 6:56 or so, they're just now winding down dinner for the purge.

Who comes up with this crap? My house would be locked down TIGHT, NO LATER THAN a half hour before kickoff. It just seemed lame to wait until exactly 7:00 to lock things down, like it was against to law to act early.

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#46. Homeless people, while smelly and generally unpleasant to the senses, still can serve some purpose in the America of the future...

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#49. Everytime you are about to die, random people show up to save your ass after being absent for ridiculous periods of time.

#50. When you decide to let a homeless man go to save his life, don't untie him from the chair or anything.. he'll be just fine

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#51. When your neighbors are about to slaughter your family, don't panic. You still have a chance because they still have to do a needless long ritualistic chant first in which they leave themselves wide open to attack. The fact that they could do this after they kill you, or even after the purge is over when its perfectly safe, won't prevent them from making themselves sitting ducks by doing it while you're still alive.

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#52: If you aren't invited to the annual neighborhood Purge Party, it's time to lock and load.

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#53: If you build an addition onto your house, your neighbors will (literally) want to kill you.

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#54 When you're in your own home in the pitch black dark, you are the one to fear people entering. They know the layout of your own home better than you do...Also, the middle of a night of legal terror is the best time to let your children run around the house in the dark with a bloody stranger loose and have their temper tantrums and/or exert their individuality.

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#55: If you see two of your neighbors trotting off into the night to kill people with high-powered assault rifles, the most obvious thing to say is, "Gee, I didn't know those two guys were friends."

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This is soooo funny. Right on.

The circle song made me think about the song they sing at Walmart before starting a shift.

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56. Make a big profit off of government programs. Become the #1 sales guy in the company. Support the purge with the appropriate flower arrangements throughout your front yard. Teach your children to both fear and enjoy the purge at the same time. Use the purge to get rid of that pesky boyfriend. Then lose the respect of your family and get yourself killed.

57. Get some motion sensor Gatling Guns built into your sprinkler system, your roof, your ceiling, your floor, your front gate, your toilet, and your daughter's underwear. This way when college kids come over to play with your swing set and your daughter without your permission you can proudly display the highest body count in the neighborhood the next morning and easily sell even more crap to your neighbors over the next year.

58. Get a government job and make sure you get promoted to level '10' or above, whatever it takes.

59. If you're looking for seasonal work, work at the morgue.

60. Take a vacation once a year to anywhere outside America.

61. If you missed your chance to become a Founding Father, become a New Founding Father, because that makes sense semantically.

62. Committing suicide during the purge would just be plain lazy.

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*beep* YOU LOSERS.!

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70.
Be polite at all times....

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71. Try to seal off your entire house although you just need only one room or two to sleep or kill time.

72. Private Security Guards are not allowed in the Suburbs. There are no gated communities too.

73. Don't kill your enemies (neighbours), so they have another chance next year.

74. Nobody until now tried to test any security system to a higher attack level, so all the money you earned selling this system to anybody is not well deserved

75. Rich spoiled kids are killing homeless people instead the other way around.

76. Let your kid grow up not understanding the purge and do not educate them about it so they will one day question the whole system

77. Trust your boyfriend at all times - more than your family

78. Killing people is way more fun than sex
78b. Killing your girlfriend's Dad will make her love you more
78c. Killing your girlfriend's Dad will make your mother-in-law accept you

79. Fear of death is not a strong as boredom of the usual family quality time

80. The purge must be held at night because the new founding fathers doesn't like you to sleep although you are up for work the next day

81. Live feeds from the purge are the new Jersey Shore

82. There are no bulletproof glass or vests in the future for the people because these things would prevend them for being purged.

83. You can't order pizza on a purge night.

84. Curfew would be prohibited during purge night. Understandable yet people go out so suicide rates must be high.

85. After a killing spree you will be back to normal behaviour the next day.

86. There are no banks in the future to rob.

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87. An annual kill fest makes for a much better, healthier economy.

88. During a Purge, psychopaths and criminals use this golden opportunity to hunt down and kill the homeless and innocent homeowners instead of the police force, politicians or any VIP.

89. The Purge doesn't make for a dysfunctional society the following day.

90. Employees in the future prefer killing their boss in lieu of suing them.

91. Policy makers of the future have no conscience / morals / brains.

92. People of the future become utterly desensitized to the sanctity of life, don't mind disregarding the rule of Law for a night. Meh, might as well; a few hours won't hurt, right?

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Reduce the population = reduced overall crime.
Crime RATE? Maybe, maybe not.
If most crimes being committed were crimes of "poverty" then purging the poor would certainly reduce this rate.

Not defending this ridiculous premise; just speaking statistically.

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(93) when your neighbours hate you were going to kill you and you broke one their noses it is a smart idea to keep them alive because they will defiantly not try really hard to kill you next year

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94. Dont get sick, hurt yourself badly, have a stroke, or heart attack or a baby during the purge because you are screwed for the next 12 hours.

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95. If you hear a commotion going on, make sure you dramatically jump through a glass window to join the fun!

96. Make sure when protecting your house/family, tell your family to split up and wander around your dark hallways with your gun stretched out as far away from you as possible.

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97)Moats filled with Hippo's, piranhas or alligators are prohibited from surrounding your homes.

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97)Moats filled with Hippo's, piranhas or alligators are prohibited from surrounding your homes.

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97. Some people just prefer to use machetes over firearms.

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That when u have the most sophisticated Alarm and security system but your kids can do worse things . right. !!

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98. The govt., Behavioral scientists, Sociologists, and Psychologists in the future are dumb. They think a 12 hour time frame that happens annually will help society cleanse itself. hahaha!

99. Movie writers for the purge are completely lazy
and gave every character in their movie no common sense.
Stupid movie: complete!
decent movie concept: fail!

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100. The kid you thought seemed like a psycho serial killer, actually turns out to be a decent human being with enough morals to save a stranger. (yet stupid enough to risk the lives of him and his family)

We live in a world filled with deception. It's hard to pick out the truth.

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101. If an unknown possibly armed man, is sneaking around in your house.. You should search for him barefoot(the wife).

102. Still after deciding to fight the armed psychopaths, there's no reason at all to put on some damn shoes..


This isn't Die Hard.

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103. I know Ethan hawke is a bad*ss, because his shotgun has a training wheels on it because it is usually so hard to pump and keep remotely level.

104. When there are killers out there, bring your girlfriend to go play on the swing

105. Killing your friend for talking crap (no reason really) makes people want to help you even more.

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106:It s a good idea to train and monkey to use a machete, then, subsequently, train the said monkey to ride a wolverine to patrol your house during a purge.

DO NOT SUBSTITUTE MACHETE FOR NUNCHAKUS AS THE MONKEY CANNOT SWING THE WEAPON EFFICIENTLY AND COULD POTENTIALLY KNOCK HIMSELF OR THE WOLVERINE OUT!!!!

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107: Don´t mind if even your smallest kids know not only the security code for the whole lockdown, let them even watch you typing in the code for the place where you store your arms.

108: As someone highly involved with security systems, get the worst arms for inhouse self defense like a shotgun with a giant door breaking handle etc.

109: In the future and after several purges, one of the best selling security systems consists out of some cameras and several easy to pull of metal sheets. No active traps around the garden, no panic room, no watchtower or something to fight off people trying to get in,...

109b: Even by selling such crap you can get soo rich that even in the wealthiest neighborhood people get jealous enough to have the urge to kill you.

110: Everytime Lena Headey plays the role of a mother there is a certain point where you with that the kids get killed off.

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did you ever think he got the security code by spying with his robot?

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111. When the Purge comes, stay home and do not cross into Canada or Mexico.
112. Continuing the tradition of March Madness will be hard to do when the Purge takes place every March 21-22.
113. The president after Obama must have been high or something to start this Purge tradition (first one started yr 2017 in movie).
114. All emergency personnel are off during the 12 hour Purge...foreign countries that hate the USA do not think to come and attack us at that time I guess.
115. If there happens to be an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, etc during the Purge then that would be awkward.

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116. After making the decision to give up the homeless man, make sure you waste time taping his legs/arms THEN taping his body to a chair so that the door will have to be wide open instead of taping his arms and legs, rolling him under a smaller amount of space of the garage door.

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset!

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117. Make sure you keep a "Baby Alive" baby doll from the 80s to use with your inventions in the year 2020. Even with computers, laptops, gameboys, etc, that baby doll is still in high demand in the stores.

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset!

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118. Make sure you have a "Blair Witch" moment in front of your dad (flashlight) and then run off to save yourself!

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset!

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119) By the year 2020 schoolgirls have realized they look sexier in their uniforms and relax at home still wearing them.
120) Again it's proven it's a myth no one empties their bowel or bladder during the height of danger.
121) Never pay to watch a movie which sounds dubious

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122. A Bench Grinder goes in the middle of the back yard.

123. A house with a state of the art alarm system will not have a generator.

124. The Purge ended gang warfare. Now it is the young rich white people against poor homless black people.

125. Kids need to learn that protecting their family is the most important thing that they will ever do.

126. Movie makers can take an awesome concept and a good leading man and good cast and still royally F it up.

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127. Ethan Hawke usually dies in his movies.

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When your safe and sound in locked down house it's a better idea to try and kill your GF dad instead of having a night of sex with your GF

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Rats. Someone just mentioned the boat. I was gonna add: "If you're going to buy a boat, do it BEFORE Purge night."

That being said…

176. Neighbors will sell you out to the mob in a heartbeat. (Wait, we all already knew that.)

177. After 4am is the safest time for a Suburban Purge newbie to decide to take part in The Purge. With or without an armed posse.

178. Don't get homicidal over your neighbor flaunting his wealth with a new addition built on the proceeds of selling you a security system. Get homicidal over your neighbor flaunting his wealth with a new addition built on the proceeds of selling you A LOUSY security system.

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179. Purge Night must be an airline blackout date with other major price gouging on international travel.

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This is SOOOO fun in hindsight :D

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That's the funniest thing I've read in a LONG time!!!!

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128. Bring your knife (or machete) to a gun fight.

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