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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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129. It's so rare for huge mansions to be attacked during the Purge that the company selling the top-of-the-line security systems doesn't know how well they hold up under siege, even though it's apparently common knowledge among those participating in the Purge that all they need to get past is a couple of pick-up trucks and some chains.

130. Go ahead and have a glass or two of wine on the night that all crime is legal -- no need for your wits to be at their sharpest.

131. Make a grand moral statement about the sanctity of human life by refusing to sacrifice a stranger for your family, but render that decision completely moot by leaving him tied to a damn chair when the people hunting him are breaking in. (I know this one has been posted already several times, but it was just so friggin baffling it needed to be posted again.)

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132. Offer someone a plate of cookies before you kill them. That always makes it better.

133. You've got a lot of money and instead of taking a trip out of the country during the purge, just stick around and hope your crappy security system holds out.

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134. Sell security systems that you know aren't designed to fully stand up to an attack.

135. Inform those who are threatening to kill you and your family that you support their cuase becuase you sell security systems.

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135. On the day of the purge, don't try to leave work early in case there is traffic or something unexpected. Try to cut it close.

136. If your crazy neighbor gives you cookies on the eve of The Purge and hints that she basically hates you, don't eat the cookies.

137. Engage your security system SECONDS before the purge begins.

138. If you create a hiding spot several feet wide in the back of your closet, your parents won't notice that the size of your closet has shrunk and that the wall appears to be held together with tape.

139. There is nothing scarier than a guy sporting a mullet and wearing a prep school jacket.

140. When you decide not to kill your murderous neighbors, sit around the kitchen table with your gun laying on the table easily within reach of said murderous neighbors and clasp your hands in front your face so that you can't get to your gun quickly.

141. The Purge only affects one day, and at 7AM everything goes back to normal. Never mind the absolute destruction (arson, looting, property damage, theft, etc) that people would be cleaning up for months nor the severe grief that people would experiencing for even longer. There are no consequences to The Purge. Society is happier. Thank you New Founding Fathers.

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142. When you're life is in jeopardy, always follow the directions of a suspicious remote controlled vehicle with a mutilated baby head

143. When faced with a moral dilemma always choose the homeless black stranger instead of your family

144. When selling your neighbors a security system or doing home renovations, always consider the possibility that it might lead to them murdering your entire family



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142. When you're life is in jeopardy, always follow the directions of a suspicious remote controlled vehicle with a mutilated baby head

143. When faced with a moral dilemma always choose the homeless black stranger instead of your family

144. When selling your neighbors a security system or doing home renovations, always consider the possibility that it might lead to them murdering your entire family



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145: chains will latch to a flat shielded door that doesent have any connection points

146: drill sergents might want to be a little nicer to their basic trainees, or for that matter, ALL military might want to be a little nicer to their subordinates.

147: gun manufacturers would be worthy stock to invest in

148: its perfectly natural to get jealous on what the salesman bought with the money that you willingly paid him. and then want him dead.

149: it would be a good idea to let your children know that its states in your will that if you die during the purge, then they will inherit NOTHING.

150: there is no such thing as a "perfect" security system.

151: purge night is very convienent for anyone who is suicidal

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152: Hitting somebody in the head with a pool ball makes a loud noise

153: When anything can be done, everybody just go out to kill other people

154: Breaking stuff and killing people is the best way to make economy flourish

155: It's better to stay in a highly secure home than to go on vacation to another country during the purge

156: Anarchy half-day a year is the best way to save Democracy

157: It's OK for the neighbourhood to buy a lot of home protection equipment against the purge (criminality is low during other days) just to go out risking their lives during that night

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158 - If you are a top security big top who´s an expert on the purge and all, make sure you only have half a dozen small weapons and an cluncly unpractical shotgun, also, don´t teach your familly how to use them, just in case. in fact, give TWO guns to the wife, we all know thanks to mithbusters that shotting two guns at once sucks. also, don´t even think about giving the homeless guy, that ownes his life to you, at least some firepower. better yeat, don´t even release the *beep* from the chair.

159 - purge parties envolve weird blonde babes in nightgowns slow-mo dancing around corridors, even if there may be a home owner waiting for it with a cluncky ass shotgun.

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160 - When Grace is making her "reasons why we want to kill you speech" I will stop listening and look at the glitter on her lips instead.

161 - Prep school boys have a lot of repressed anger.

162 - You will most certainly make bank being a carpet cleaner in that neighborhood the next day.

As Long as You're Mine

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163. Make sure not to have any blue flowers on display outside unless you support the purge.

164. Should you want to kill someone and can't wait for the purge, just kill them anyway. When questioned by the police, tell them you thought today was the Purge, sorry!

165. Even though you wasted 85 minutes of your life on this poorly written movie, find solace in the fact that this movie is a prime candidate for a "100 things I learned" message thread on IMDB!

- Your karma ran over my dogma

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160. Ethan Hawke is broke which is the only reasonable explanation as to why he took this role.

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161. They still make racist movies

162. You're the best security system seller yet you have no security for your own except 2 revolvers one shotgun

163. On the Purge day, there will be no black men fighting for their own people.

164. The best security system seller doesn't have any idea who is entering his house. (The chick's boyfriend)

165. A black man who was tortured by a white family will voluntarily save them.


"Friends are dangerous things" ~ John Cavil

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166. When your husband is shot by home invaders, make sure you call the rest of the family over so you can all be killed together.

167. When people are about to break into your house, don’t ambush them. Instead, just start wandering through the corridors until you bump into one of them.

168. When people are about to kill you on a night when every crime is legal, don’t defend yourself. Just cry and beg to call to their humane side.

169. It’s perfectly OK to say ‘no more killing TONIGHT’ when it’s very clearly 7 AM.

170. IF one of your friends is being too loud, just put a bullet in his head and your other friends will clean it up.

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171. When using a flashlight and a handgun be sure you hold the flashlight so you primarily illuminate your hand holding the gun. It's much better to cast a cool looking shadow then to hold the flashlight so, you know, you actually cast light in the distance and whatever you might want to actually see there.

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o) Cersei Lannister really loves her wine, and I mean REALLY.
o) Maybe that boat with a car garage would have been a wise purchase for Purge night, than expanding your house.
o) This film was pitched to Ethan Hawke under the name, Purge Before Sunrise.


 ~love is all we need~ 

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172) When a bum is in your home all of a sudden, be carefull, he has a military background

173) They should have hired Clint Eastwood to support the family.

174) Blow up the homes of the neighbors next year.

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Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe!

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175 : if the time became 7 and 1 minute ... the police will know it is 7 and not 7 and 1 , so you cant kill loool

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176) Hope that your birthday isn't on the day of the Purge. That would make for a poor birthday.

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177. Staring at people really hard can make them feel guilty and regain the good conscious, thus sparing your life.

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Don't put an addition on your house, that really pisses off your neighbours.

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204. It sucks to be a government employee levels one through nine.

*Here's a ****in' spoiler: Everybody dies.*

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I thought I had just throw away an hour and a half of my life I would never get back, but instead, I learned over 100 things.

> 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

As funny as that seems, it is surprising how many real stories of kids doing exactly that. It is frightening the number who get their boyfriends or girlfriends to kill their parents and then escape into the world.



> 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.

That is another movie, a remake in fact, called "Red Dawn".


> 136. If your crazy neighbor gives you cookies on the eve of The Purge and hints that she basically hates you, don't eat the cookies.

I was instantly suspicious of the cookies. I was waiting for her to walk in the house and dump them into the trash can.


205. Obviously, the government hasn't banned and confiscated all guns in 2022.

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178. Boys under the age of 14 with long hair are inherently stupid and their stupidity will cause great pain to their loved ones.

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205. You can't shoot people congregating at your front door through an upper level window.

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