#relative to objects and also how honking big we are to them

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I'm slowly gaining an reputation about "scary" arthropods with my niblings because I move slow and calm (when I know the animal is there) and its interesting how uncomfortable some people get when you let the bee you pulled off their hair sit around and groom a bit before it flies away

Sure, Aussie magpies are scary when you get swooped, we've all been there. I've been there. But consider: you can befriend them. Whistle to imitate their song, slip them some delectable tidbits, and voila: you have new friends, who are birds. This is good.

Here's the secret: if you're careful and respectful and learn how to interact with them in a way that shows you're careful and respectful, you can befriend *any* bird on that list. Heck, any bird at all really. *this is not an endorsement for people just getting into birds' personal spaces or feeding wild birds or anything utterly ignorant and destructive along those lines

before y'all say impossible for cassowaries, I will remind everyone that they were tamed, domesticated, and reared as farm animals on Papua/Niugini/Niu Gini/New Guinea

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PlayStation 5 MSRP $500.00 “Sony's PlayStation 5 is still the console to buy this generation, especially thanks to its improved redesign.” Positives Fast equipment Exemplary online game load times Solid storage space Plenty of must-own exclusives Brand new operator with improved haptics Disadvantages Embarrassing design, also on new-model The objectives for Sony because moved to the existing system pattern had been preposterously large. The PlayStation 4 ended up being a rousing success, and gamers had been anticipating that business would start brand-new, formerly unimagined options using its next-generation system. The PlayStation 5 not merely came across those objectives, it made all of them appear conventional. With lightning-fast load speeds and revolutionary (and fascinating) modifications to your DualShock operator, the PS5 establishes the club for the following generation of video gaming. While Top Reviewing in the beginning evaluated the PlayStation 5 throughout slightly below a couple of weeks, we’ve reevaluated the device a small number of times during its life because of its evolving nature. Our newest refresh arrived whenever Sony introduced a slimmer brand-new PS5 design in November 2023 that completely replaces the huge 2020 design we initially evaluated. That brand-new variation tackled a few of our biggest difficulties with Sony’s system, handling its bad storage space and embarrassing dimensions. Today, 36 months later on, with a brand new device in tow and a catalog of a great deal of high-profile exclusives, we’re nevertheless as on top of the PS5 even as we had been at launch. The equipment: It’s quick — actually quickly Giovanni Colantonio / Top Reviewing Sony, from beginning, states the PS5 is mostly about rate. But before you encounter it, it's difficult to express so just how huge an improvement rate make. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 features the greatest technical magic trick I’ve ever witnessed, as players can instantaneously fast travel around New York City in the blink of an eye. Other exclusives like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart take that to an even more impressive extreme, sending players in and out of different dimensions without a second of loading. Moments like that have delivered on Sony’s aspirational promises over the PS5’s life span, cementing it as the most impressive console on the market. That optimization is also apparent in other Sony-published titles, like Horizon Forbidden West. It adds tremendously to the immersion factor of games, and it positively impacts the flow of the story in narrative titles. And the ability to jump into games quickly is just as satisfying. It’s interesting to note this perceived difference in performance stems from software, rather than hardware. Technically, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X is the more powerful console, though the PlayStation 5 has an edge in storage performance. The Xbox lacks a strong exclusive library, however, and relatively few last-gen games take full advantage of the new console’s capabilities. This gives the PlayStation 5 a big advantage even two years on. The design: still big, but better That great power comes with a caveat. The original PS5 model was a honking big piece of hardware with some design flaws for those who wanted to lay it down horizontally. The 2023 model is something of a “slim” refresh that solves some of those problems. The new design is definitely smaller, though I wouldn’t call it compact. It still towers above just about any other console I put it next to. The Digital Edition is notably slimmer, though, which is an improvement. The original system’s tricky stand issues have been resolved here too, but with a catch. The system comes with two simple plastic pins that

stabilize the console in horizontal mode, but it no longer comes packaged with a vertical stand. Players now need to buy a $30 ring stand separately, which feels like a step backwards. Giovanni Colantonio / Top Reviewing Microsoft’s Xbox Series X is a smaller, squatter console that isn’t quite as imposing, but its boxlike shape will still mean trouble for the average A/V cabinet. Gamers with limited space for a console may instead consider the Xbox Series S, which is much smaller than the PlayStation 5 or Series X and has a more traditional slate-like shape. The new PS5 model does bring along a bit of tech innovation with its removable hard drive. Those who buy a Digital Edition won’t be stuck without disc drive access forever, as they can actually attach Sony’s specific Ultra HD Blu-ray drive for an additional $80. It’s a great idea that makes the PS5 more modular like a PC, but the math doesn’t exactly add up. The Digital Edition is $450, which is actually $50 more than the old version despite its smaller size. Considering that the disc drive version of the system still costs $500, you’d actually end up spending more money if you chose to add a drive on to the digital version later on. Which makes the Digital Edition feel superfluous, as it’ll barely save hardly any money even though you don’t elect to update it. If you’re trying to grab one, your very best choice is to spring for $500 design and put it horizontally. That won’t need any extra expenditures. Storage: There’s adequate! The PS5’s initial Achilles’ heel ended up being its bad storage area. Because of the proprietary solid-state drive and measurements of the os, people just had 667GB regarding the 825GB hard disk readily available for games. It absolutely was a paltry quantity, nevertheless don’t need to worry about it any longer due to the new-model. The device today has actually 1TB of interior storage space, matching the PS4 professional. Around 842GB of the is functional, which can be in fact 40GB significantly more than the Xbox Series X (though somewhat significantly less than the PS4 professional). That provides the brand new PS5 designs probably the most storage space of every current-gen system. Owners can increase that quantity by purchasing and setting up an NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD. The system has actually an open SSD slot just for that function, and we’ve assembled a summary of some of the best SSD options you can find. These are the only hard drives that will let you take advantage of the PS5’s load speeds. A typical NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD is about $200, which isn’t cheap. On the plus side, it’s a bit less than the $220 storage cards used by Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S consoles. You can also hook up an external HDD or SSD, but you won’t see the speed advantages of the system on any games stored there. And any PS5 games stored there won’t be playable until you transfer them to the internal drive, making external drives useful only for older games. The controller: It’s a win Totte Annerbrink / Unsplash If load times are the primary weapon of the PS5, the new DualSense controller is the secondary one. And it’s impressive. Slightly larger than the DualShock 4, it refines haptic feedback, incorporating a precise sense of touch into the video game experience that force feedback never did before. This could become hokey (and, in fairness, it might in years to come), but for now, it adds another layer to games, increasing player immersion. Struggling to pull open a heavy door or draw a bow? The hand triggers can convey that tension. Had a rough landing as you drive over a hill or a slog through a muddy area? You’ll know it. This new haptic feedback is a subtle thing that, like the lack of load screens, you’ll soon take for granted. You won’t realize how quickly you’ve gotten used to it until it’s not there. So far, the special features have been hit-and-miss. Some games are a little too overeager to play with the adaptive triggers, making them physically difficult to play.

But the handful of games that really take advantage of the controller show just how special it is. Returnal, for instance, uses haptic feedback incredibly well, letting you feel every drop of rain or simulating a parasite squirming in your hands. Moments like that make the PS5’s experiences unlike anything on the market today. A new built-in microphone is less useful in most games, but will allow you to briefly chat with friends without a headset. The cost of this new functionality is battery life. The DualSense has a rechargeable battery (versus the Series X’s reliance on AA batteries), but we found that charge will drain quickly. Charging via the PS5’s USB rarely resulted in a full charge, whether in standby mode or if left on at full power. A separate charging stand, provided by Sony, did charge the controller fully. PlayStation 4 controllers will work with the PlayStation 5, but only with PS4 games played through backward compatibility. Microsoft offers controller cross-compatibility that lets old Xbox One controllers work with the new Xbox. Games and software: The star of the show Microsoft found itself in the awkward spot of having to debut a new console without a first-party launch title, but Sony was in an enviable position initially. Spider-Man: Miles Morales gave it an edge out the gate, but a lot has changed since 2020. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is terrific fun that showcases many, if not all, of the PS5’s features. God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, and Returnal are all must-own first-party titles. The bundled Astro’s Playground is a hidden gem of a platformer, loaded with Easter eggs that hark back to a stripped-down Super Mario Bros., while still acting as a walkthrough of the PS5 controller’s new features. Third-party games have helped the PS5 build up a sizable library of hits too. Strong support from Square Enix has given the system console exclusives in Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. Baldur’s Gate 3 was available on PS5 before it hit Xbox, which was a big moment for the system too. Combine all those with great current-gen exclusive titles like Star conflicts Jedi: Survivor, Dead area, and citizen Evil 4, and you’ll have a great amount of games to relax and play in the event that you pull the trigger. On top of the, Sony recently relaunched its PS Plus solution, offering readers usage of over 700 games. Which includes some retro brands dating back to to your PS1 age. Although it’s never as powerful as Game Pass, it's a much-needed solution that offers PlayStation followers some thing to complete in-between most of the big-ticket games. Sony has actually a significantly better ecosystem built today than it performed at launch, that has just made the PS5 a stronger price. The lasting The PS5 continues to be the device to conquer within system generation, but while earlier rounds had a definite road ahead, this 1 is significantly cloudier. With its first couple of many years, there clearly was constantly a small number of huge first-party games coming. The PS5’s future became more difficult to see following the launch of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, as Sony in the offing to split into live-service games. Those programs have actually apparently already been stalled, with gaming Chronicle reporting that six of the 12 future games tend to be delayed previous March 2026. It’s ambiguous what’s precisely planned for PS5 lasting, as games like Marathon or even the prepared final people multiplayer spinoff appear to be in short-term limbo. There aren’t way too many huge, single-player releases at this time into the actively works to replace with that — at the very least we realize about. In regards to the wider ecosystem, we understand also less about PlayStation VR2, the PS5 headset that Sony has actually struggled to aid with first-party equipment since launch. Somewhere else, Sony is making a more impressive push into cloud video gaming using its PlayStation Portal handheld. People

who genuinely wish to agree with the PS5 ecosystem have actually countless how to do this after they choose the system. it is simply ambiguous in which all this is resulting in lasting as programs appear to be quickly moving around within Sony this generation. That’s the near future, however. For the present time, Sony has actually delivered a great next-generation system, filled with a multitude of must-play, system-selling exclusives. It effectively constructed on the energy regarding the PS4, innovated without achieving too much, and provided gamers a great deal to inhabit by themselves with during some harsh spots throughout the last couple of years. The brand new design just tends to make a significantly better instance for Sony’s system by giving the dimensions decrease and storage space boost it desperately required. Editors' guidelines #PlayStation #review #slimmer #design #PS5 #Digital #styles

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Lesser Known Black Hole Misconceptions

During NASA’s Black Hole Week I saw a lot of social media posts, press releases, videos etc. that were not really correct. 

One big issue with science communication about black holes is that while it has gotten good at dispelling the trivial myths (like “black holes suck everything into them and so you should be afraid Sgr A* will kill us all”) it has perpetuated other myths that require more detailed knowledge of general relativity and astronomy to debunk. 

I thought it would be interesting to go over some of these misconceptions...

Myth: Stuff that falls into a black hole appears to freeze just outside the event horizon from the perspective of an outside observer.

Reality: Stuff that falls into a black hole disappears from view quickly.

People who perpetuate this one usually say it’s because time dilation makes the stuff appear to stop moving. But time dilation also causes the photons released by the object to be redshifted, and for fewer photons to be released with each moment of time. The end result is that the stuff will get exponentially fainter, and become invisible to your eyes.

Myth: You can’t escape the event horizon because the escape velocity is the speed of light.

Reality: You can’t escape the event horizon because no paths through space-time lead outward.

This myth is technically correct...but insufficient. It is possible to escape an object with less than its escape velocity if you continuously apply a thrust. This is in fact how rockets are launched from the Earth. If escape velocity = light speed were all there was to a black hole, then you could escape a black hole with a strong rocket.

But you can’t. For once you cross the event horizon, all paths through space-time are so warped that no paths lead outward. This is the true power of a black hole: the curvature of space-time is such that nothing inside can ever causally affect the outside. 

Myth: A singularity is an infinitely dense point.

Reality: Singularities are where space-time is incomplete.

This one is a really obscure misconception. A lot of people say infinite density is what defines a singularity, but technically it’s something called “geodesic incompleteness.” Basically a space-time contains a singularity when paths through it abruptly come to an end. The singularity isn’t really an object in space-time so much as an edge to space-time itself. Approach a singularity, and curvature increases asymptotically to infinity and space-time itself ends  and you simply cease to exist.

For this reason, a singularity can’t really be an infinitely dense point of stuff. As far as classical general relativity goes, stuff that falls into a black hole is destroyed at the singularity. 

It is often thought that a true quantum theory of gravity will replace the singularities with something else, but for now, the singularities represent where we cannot tell how space-time continues beyond.

Myth: The singularity’s gravity creates the black hole.

Reality: Black holes are self-perpetuating.

Once an imploding object collapses into a black hole, forms an event horizon, and destroys itself in a singularity, it’s gone. The rest of the Universe doesn’t even know it ever existed. But its gravity continues on, because the curvature of space-time created in the process can create perpetuate itself due to the nonlinearity of Einstein’s equations. Essentially a black hole is pure gravity. The singularity isn’t some solid object that curves space-time to create the black hole; the curved space-time is the black hole. 

Myth: Black holes are very dense objects.

Reality: Black holes are empty space-time.

This is related to the preceding myth. Black holes are vacuum solutions to Einstein’s field equations, and don’t have any matter anywhere save for what’s falling into them at the moment. Their mass comes from the ability of gravity to source itself.

You might think that at the very least you’d need a very high density of matter to make it implode in on itself and create a black hole in the first place, but this isn’t necessarily true either. You could make a supermassive black hole just by filling a solar system with regular density water. 

Myth: A black hole’s internal radius is its Schwarzschild radius.

Reality: A black hole’s internal radius is not well defined.

The Schwarzschild radius is the radius of circumference of the event horizon for a non-rotating black hole, and is very famous because it is easy to calculate. Many people assume that if it is the radius of the event horizon, then it must also be the distance from the horizon to the center of the black hole, like the black hole is a spherical volume.

Unfortunately, this neglects the fact that space-time inside a black hole is extremely curved. In fact, it is curved in such a way that the distance to the center of the black hole is not well defined. It is time dependent, and changes depending on your choice of coordinates.

Curved space-time is really difficult to get your head around. Visualizing curved spaces in flat space-time is simple enough, but curved space-time itself? It messes with things we find sacrosanct, like distances and volumes, and it’s impossible to map it all onto a single coordinate system. It’s not like those “bowling ball on a sheet” analogies you often see...it’s something far more complex and abstract.

Myth: Black holes kill galaxies.

Reality: The jury’s still out on who did it.

This one is just an oversimplification I see a lot in popular science media of the phenomenon known as “AGN feedback.” The simplest version of the idea is that supermassive black holes drive powerful winds and jets that drive the gas out of their galaxy and shut down its star formation. 

However, the current evidence suggests the picture is a *lot* more complicated, with many galaxies not suffering this problem at all, and the galaxies that are often thought of as having been ‘killed’ in this way (the giant ellipticals) may not have been ‘killed’ solely by their supermassive black holes. It’s still uncertain how much AGN feedback played a role in quenching star formation versus major mergers, minor mergers, or even the stars themselves blowing out the gas and choking off their own formation (like through supernovae and stellar winds). 

(Also this should be clear, but when astronomers say a galaxy is ‘dead,’ the galaxy and all its stars and planets still exists! It just isn’t forming many new stars anymore. Supermassive black holes still won’t kill you.)

Myth: Quasars are powered by black holes shredding and devouring stars.

Reality: Quasars are powered by black holes accreting gas clouds.

I’ve seen many people (some of whom are [astro]physicists and should know better) state that quasars are powered by supermassive black holes that are shredding several suns every year. In reality, this isn’t what’s going on. In the center of a galaxy, everything’s moving very fast, so objects need to come close to each other and lose angular momentum to each other to fall into the black hole. Stars are compact and so don’t really get close enough to interact strongly with each other. Gas clouds are much larger and are able to collide with each other, canceling out their momentum and allowing them to fall into the black hole.

As such, while they’re famous for eating stars and planets, most of a black hole’s diet is gas and dust. In that regard, they’re kind of like predators maligned as man-eaters, like sharks. 

Myth: Heavily accreting black holes always launch big jets.

Reality: Some don’t!

One weird thing that scientists have learned from studying variability in stellar black holes is that jets seem to be most prominent in low accretion states. At higher accretion states, the jets at first get more powerful, but eventually they break up into blobs and become a broad wind instead. 

Supermassive black holes do not vary on short enough timescales for us to really see jets turning on and off, but we can observe the population of actively accreting supermassive black holes and try to piece together a progression of accretion states from that. Drawings of quasars always show them with big old honking jets spewing out for many light years around, but it turns out many (perhaps even most) quasars don’t have observable jets! It just so happens quasars were first discovered in radio waves, and the only quasars that are prominent in radio are the ones with clearly visible jets.

Most supermassive black holes with prominent jets are in radio galaxies, which aren’t accreting at high rates. Some think that the minority of quasars which are radio loud might represent the supermassive equivalent of the transition state observed in stellar black holes. 

However it is entirely possible that the quasars that don’t have jets do indeed have them, it’s just that we cannot see them because they are pointed away from us. This is still an active area of research!

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This may be confusing but honestly, I like science so much in part because I love all the nitty-gritty details and picking apart and over-analyzing stuff. Oh well...at least you can enjoy my dumb black hole comics. ^_^

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Gym Quotes

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• A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination. – Ishmael Reed • A great start to the perfect day – a world-class workout at the gym… It’s hard to feel miserable after a great workout. – Bradford Winters • A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real. – Anne Bogart • A lot of people look at me as a big person. Some people consider me to be obese. Some people consider me fat and sloppy. Everybody knows that I have a big stomach, but I think sometimes that overshadows everything else on my body – from my calves to my back to my shoulders to my biceps. What people go to the gym and work for, I have. The only thing I don’t have that they got is six – packs. But I really don’t care about six-packs. – Vince Wilfork • A lot of people think, “Oh I’m going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym.” And I’ve definitely been one of those people and it just doesn’t give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina. – Misty Copeland • A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it’s easy for them to stay in shape. – Randy Couture • A lot of young people think they’re invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads… Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes. – Michelle Obama • As they were building that library in that school’s gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us. – Judd Nelson • At Milan when I was younger, I worked a lot on the leg press because I’d lost a bit of my natural speed as my body was changing. I was growing too fast for the rest of my body to cope and I had some knee problems. I worked really hard in the gym to regain these fast sprints. – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang • At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do. In regards to cooking, men can do more than BBQ. All you need to do is ask—but be sure to do it after the game! Oh, and, men do like salads, especially if they are topped off with bacon! – Chuck Hughes

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When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I’d lie and say, ‘Yeah, I’m going to the gym.’ I literally never did anything. – Jamie Dornan • Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym. – Gigi Hadid • Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it’s not just what I do in the gym but it’s also an accepted lifestyle. – Kai Greene • Boxing is the sweet science. So if you want to begin in the grass roots of boxing where women are on the same level as guys, you are talking hundreds of years. Men have been boxing everyday all day for a hundred years. So it will take some time. You will need to bring more young girls into the gym starting at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And it would have to be 100,000 of them. – Ann Wolfe • Boxing on Long Island – there is history there. It’s been a while since Buddy McGirt and Gerry Cooney, but you know, we are in kind of a resurgence now. We are putting our show there constantly – Star Boxing shows at the Paramount have drawn big crowds over the years and there is a lot of up and coming talent there now. You see more and more gyms with competitive professional fighters. – Chris Algieri • Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. – Muhammad Ali • Dating is like trying to catch a fish. Some guys go to the gym and have huge muscles and six-pack abs, and that attracts a lot of women. Other guys, they go and learn how to become pick-up artists so they charm their way into a woman’s heart, at least for the night. Then there are guys like myself, who don’t have either of those, but we have some level of generosity and can treat women with respect and open a door for them or buy them gifts. And surprisingly, buying presents happens to be one of the languages of love! And it’s one that many women relate to. – Brandon Wade • Decorating the gym can’t mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls. – Daniel Tosh • Especially when I’m in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop. – Lindsey Vonn • Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that’s a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don’t make those investments. – Emily Oster • Everything I do is in the gym so I’m always in gym clothes. – Simone Biles • Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. – Michelle Obama • For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again. – Usain Bolt • Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it’s not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That’s short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge. – Gretchen Rubin • Get out and about. Rather than going to the same gym and doing the same thing, it’s a good opportunity to try different things. – Michael Klim • Good genetics are a start, but I have to go to the gym, look after my skin, and drink lots of water. It’s my job to take care of myself and my body. Happiness plays a big part in your appearance too. – Candice Swanepoel • Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working. – Marlon Wayans • Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy. – Patrick Stump • Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual. – Jenny Hval • Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine. – Jim Gaffigan • Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore: leggings every single day with my sports bra so I didn’t have to change into it in the girls’ gym locker room and that’s kind of how it started. – Gigi Hadid • I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match. – Chris Weidman • I blast “Northern Sky,” by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out. – Gabby Douglas • I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. – Wentworth Miller • I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot. – John Barrowman • I do like a little make-up though. I like a little mascara and lip gloss at least. But when I go to the gym I’d feel weird wearing make-up. – Carmen Electra • I don’t [know] what everybody else’s motives are, I don’t know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real life of an NBA player. And it’s not all about I just do everything, like I’m the hardest worker, or I love to play basketball every day, I go to the gym at eight and don’t leave until five. No, that’s not how it is. That’s not how I am. – Kevin Durant • I don’t know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37, which is when you realize you’re no longer 24. So in walked Woody, who was instantly great, but offstage, it was [all] testosterone. We’ll arm-wrestle. I still have, like, tendinitis in my elbow. Woody cleaned everybody’s clock in everything. Then we got less physical and went to chess, and he whipped our asses with chess. – Ted Danson • I don’t know what that gas is made of, but it can’t smell any worse than Ernie Johnson ‘s gym bag. – Charles Barkley • I don’t like going to the gym. – Adele • I don’t like junk food, just because I don’t like the taste of it, but I don’t go to the gym – ever. – Isla Fisher • I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is. I try to keep up a consistent workout routine, but I’m not the kind of person who goes to the gym every day and does the same routine. – Gail Simmons • I exercise regularly; I make it a point to spend some time in the gym. It is important for people to enjoy their exercises, so choose a form of exercise that makes you happy. – Rain • I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared. – Boy George • I find that, when I’m working, if I start the day with a run – outside, not in a gym, but just me out there in the elements, with only my own legs to propel me forward… It’s something to do with just being in the world and getting out of my own head. – Tom Hiddleston • I get bored doing the same activity over and over. In any one week, I could do a Pilates class, a yoga class, go to a gym, like a pump class, or do weights and then go for a run. Each day, I like to change it up a bit. – Jessica McNamee • I go the gym and I try to run on the treadmill and I listen to music but it doesn’t motivate me enough. So I’m going to get a recording of a pack of wolves gaining on me. People would be like, ‘Why is that guy crying on that treadmill over there?’ ‘I don’t know, but he’s been yelling, ‘help’ for like 20 minutes. He’s getting a good workout. – Demetri Martin • I go to the gym whenever I can. I actually have to eat to keep the weight on when I am working because I tend to lose too much weight. I like to workout. I don’t cook. Not really, I like good restaurants. And sometimes I get back from work and it is too late to eat dinner so I just go straight to bed and I wake up the next morning starving and have to eat cheeseburgers for the pure energy. But in general I am a pretty healthy eater. – Rebecca Romijn • I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die. – Gigi Hadid • I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I’m training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat! – Lee Priest • I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I’m a hard worker, but he makes me look like I’m doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning. – Patrick Heusinger • I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I’m a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that’s how it worked. – Alexis Arguello • I hate yoga pants anywhere but the gym. – Robin Givhan • I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay. – Edie Campbell • I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym. – Don Rickles • I have the final say in the business side of my boxer’s career. But as far as me being in the meetings every day, the back and forth of the paperwork and stuff like that, I have got a job to do. I am in the gym every day. The fighting lifestyle is an unforgiving one. You want to keep yourself as focussed and stress – free as possible. I have a team who focus on the more complicated aspects, on the business side of boxing, which I don’t need to get myself involved in. I think I am involved in the business as much as I need to be. – Chris Eubank, Jr. • I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I’m being good, I go to the gym three to four times a week. I do much better in a class with other people. I like aerobics and circuit training. – Joanne Froggatt • I haven’t been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f – ed off with those lazy bastards in their bed for 18 hours a day, five dishes a day on a menu to choose from, playing soccer every day, going to the gym, watching movies. – Chelsea Handler • I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn’t get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball. – Ashley Graham • I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me. – Kevin Hart • I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly – just so that I can keep up with my training. – Lee Byung-hun • I like to mix up my workouts to keep them fun and interesting. It makes getting to the gym a lot easier! – Alicia Sacramone • I listen to the Beatles all the time – in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon – in life and in death – remains part of my life. – Laurence Shames • I look after myself. I train and go to the gym. – Bruno Tonioli • I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that. – Will Smith • I love learning, so it’s definitely something I could see myself doing when I’m 30 or something. I always wanted to go for music production and health and psychology. But my whole life, I was in a gym for eight hours a day. I’m ready to be young and have fun.- McKayla Maroney • I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym. – Aaron Eckhart • I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don’t want to look too on top of it, you know? – Marc Jacobs • I made a gym, it’s the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I’m sure at least one will win a gold medal. – Alexis Arguello • I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names. – Joe Gold • I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. – Rachael Ray • I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn’t enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.- Arjun Rampal • I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer. – Pauly D • I try to do yoga. I really enjoy stretching and having a nice yoga class or taking a run on the beach. I’m not a big fan of the gym. I try to be out as much as possible. – Laura Ramsey • I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside. – Ana de la Reguera • I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can’t even describe that feeling. That’s why I like the best – the best cars, the best food, the best watches. – Conor McGregor • I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I’m doing there. – Guy Pearce • I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym. – Joe Manganiello • I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping. – Tom Baker • I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds. – Jake LaMotta • I work out every day. Mostly it’s free weights and cardio. I don’t do that stuff where they throw logs at you, what’s it called, cross-fit. None of that. Mainly it’s just me in the gym, lifting weights. – Justin Bieber • I work out with alot of gay guys at the gym. I do, because my only goal is to get into gay shape. Now, you know what I’m talking about. Gay men are the most ripped kind of… listen… I don’t know how strong you have to be to blow a guy, but I’m guessin’, there is some muscle involved. – Alonzo Bodden • I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says? – Vince Gironda • I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn’t work. – Warren Cuccurullo • I’d rather be an adviser. I don’t wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I’ve accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don’t wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people’s hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that. – Bernard Hopkins • I’d rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I’m finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, “Jack, you’ve done it again! – Jack LaLanne • I’d tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day. – Gabby Douglas • If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible. – Penny Lancaster • If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you’ll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you’re in pain. – Simon Sinek • If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you’re missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don’t see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do. – Brett Hoebel • If you’re spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you’re not dedicated – you’ve got a mental disorder. – Dan John • I’ll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I’m going to work hard. – Dwight Howard • I’m at the gym at 6, so I’m usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I’ve got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I’ve structured what I want to do. – Anne M. Mulcahy • I’m doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods. – Warren Cuccurullo • I’m inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym. – Mika • I’m just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it’s in God’s will for me to win, then I’ll get it. – Dwight Howard • I’m never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don’t work one look in particular, but it’s usually retro – I’m a flea-market freak. And detailed – I’m always very done, even at the gym. – Debi Mazar • I’m no perfect gymnast. I want to go out and eat junk food, or I maybe don’t sleep as much as I should, or some days I’ll leave the gym and think, “Maybe I should have worked a little harder. Maybe I’m not as tired as I need to be.” Every day you push a little harder, eat a little better, maybe go to bed a little earlier. – Jonathan Horton • I’m one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym. – Julianna Margulies • I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him. – Aimee Mann • I’m really into tennis. Because of the traveling, standing in front of a mirror and lifting weights in a gym makes me feel putrid. I’d rather do something that’s physically tough and mentally stimulating. – Dominic Cooper • I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James! – Ellen DeGeneres • I’m such a contradiction: I eat really healthy, I go to the gym, but then I smoke two or three cigarettes a day, and I smoke other things as well. Overall, I feel really healthy. But sometimes I feel like I’m more sensitive to little things. – Paul Iacono • I’m very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature. – Ryan Kwanten • In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was blown away when we came out for our first home match—I’m getting goose bumps just thinking about it. The seniors would bring their whole stereo system. We started by yelling and stuff inside this little room just off the gym; then the coaches said, “Ready. Go!” We threw open the door and came running out. Even when I hear the songs now I get all jacked up. – Karch Kiraly • In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That’s what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won’t do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss. – Geoff Dyer • In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they’re cool, they get respect. – Danny McBride • In terms of myself, my next big plan is to loose 7llb (as I’ve been planning to do since I was seventeen) Also to go to the gym three times a week, not merely to buy a sandwich. And also de-clutter the garage. – Helen Fielding • In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train – I do about three hours in the gym… – Manny Pacquiao • Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black – a lot more practical and much more fun. – Monica Bellucci • It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a deep breath, reading the newspaper and going to the gym – as opposed to carrying a hangover right until lunch. That’s horrible. It is nice to let off steam once in a while, but I find myself less involved with people in that sense. I like staying at home, reading a book, having a chat with my wife, a quiet dinner and going to bed early. I don’t want to drink half a bottle of whisky and look 50 the next day. I have become an anti-drinking, anti-smoking agent. – Saif Ali Khan • It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. – Henry Rollins • It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth. – Robert Kiyosaki • It’s an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I’m probably more likely to get into a fight, because I feel more competent, and I know what it’s cost me in the past to back down from fights, and I don’t want to feel that way. – Jonathan Gottschall • It’s not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym. – Kiana Tom • It’s the best gift in the world to be able to get up and dance because it’s the best gym. You artistically stretch your brain and you physically stretch your body to a higher point than a singular rotation movement like running. It makes your whole body move in lots of different ways, and it can make you very flexible as well, which is good for later life. – Andrew Stone • I’ve always been more of the athlete in my family, but Bella [Hadid] is just good at – when she needs buckle down for like two weeks and be in [the gym] every day, she’s really good at that. – Gigi Hadid • I’ve always worked out. I’ve always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, ‘Man, I’ve gotta go do this because if I don’t I’ll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.’ – Michael Cudlitz • I’ve been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class. – Natalie Dormer • I’ve had weight issues all my life. I’ve been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I’m always on the StairMaster, and I do weights. – Hoda Kotb • I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym. – Adele • Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let’s have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world. – Carl Froch • Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn’t have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab. – Charles S. Dutton • Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That’s a lot less ironic if you’re a political prisoner in the Middle East. – Dov Davidoff • Just went to the gym and worked on every body part. Four people slapped me. – Bob Saget • Learning was never structured for me. I started playing when I was two. I would go to the gym with my dad who played regularly. I ‘d get on the court and play when he would go for a drink of water or something. When I was four they shaved down the grip on a racquet so I could hold it. I can’t even tell you why I loved being on the court, I just knew I enjoyed it. It was always about sports for me. – Kane Waselenchuk • Let the gym be a sanctuary for you to be at peace. Let it calm you and ground you and allow you to appreciate everything around you. Let it also be a place for you to unload and explode with intensity through your training. – Robert Cheeke • Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. And I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you’re eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it’s really helpful. I do a lot of yoga. There’s more and more guys getting into yoga these days, and I find that helps me as well. – Nick Youngquest • Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I’m less of a man than I’d like to be. – Dov Davidoff • Most of the hotel gym’s are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren’t going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don’t have dumbbells and benches. – Warren Cuccurullo • My fans are just amazing, all over the world I’ve been greeted by people with smiles on their faces by what I do at the gym and what I do on stage, and how can I not be excited when i’m getting ready for a contest and how can I not be pumped even when I’m tired. – Phil Heath • My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago – her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like “upstage” and “downstage,” all those technical things about the art of what I do – how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities. – Erykah Badu • My jogging is the best thing in my life. Wake up in the morning and jog. Come to the gym and train my ass off. Be fit, make myself fit. Feel like a man. Because when you get to the ring and you start to get tired, it’s very bad. – Joshua Clottey • My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I’m glad about that. But I’m afraid that it’s overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I’ll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I’ll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I’ll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag. – Al Gore • My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn’t know exactly what we were doing? ‘What’s the point of electing someone who doesn’t believe in the American people?’ they asked. ‘If she wants to ignore us now when she’s only a candidate, what will she do as the President?’ – Shoshana Zuboff • My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately. – Jack LaLanne • One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. – Carmen Electra • One thing about other people, when they come to the gym, they might waste time wrapping hands, doing stretching and things. I don’t like that. If I come to the gym, if one hour – all work. If two hours – all. I don’t want to do this stuff so I can stay like two hours in the gym training only one hour. I want to do my own – quick, quick. – Joshua Clottey • People say, My God, you’re so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Probably Lloyd in ‘Say Anything’ is the closest to me – or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the ’80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn’t leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there. – John Cusack • Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America. – Sue Wicks • Shakira’s music isn’t my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole. – Brandon Boyd • Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four. – Travie McCoy • So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: I can’t make Tuesdays.’ – Tim Vine • Some people like to live without too much risk. They’re satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete – or businessperson – enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you’re squatting 500 for reps and you can’t get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that’s set one. – Tom Platz • Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn’t bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that’s a moral question, not an economic question. – P. J. O’Rourke • Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can’t sleep, don’t want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I’m only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I’ll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines. – Conor McGregor • Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it’s just like going to the gym. You’re just stiff and weird, and you can’t do it as well. – Tamara Jenkins • Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. And it’s not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it’s going to continue to grow. – Nick Youngquest • Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. It’s not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it’s going to continue to grow. – Nick Youngquest • That’s the object of going to a gym, having fun. – Joe Gold • The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali • The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let’s say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that’s what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is… The Pump. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The gym and the treadmill is a good idea. But the problem is we spend so much effort in marketing messaging, deluding people into thinking if you get on your treadmill or you go to the gym, that’s what you need. People who join a gym, the vast majority of them have quit within nine months and almost all of them have quit within two years. So if it’s a longevity strategy, does not work. – Dan Buettner • The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I’m working, that goes down to about three. – Felicity Kendal • The older Ive gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym. – Geoff Stults • The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It’s rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself. – Ian Bogost • The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now. – Karl Pilkington • The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The word ‘aerobics’ came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it Jumping up and down. – Rita Rudner • There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and ‘un-logical’ terms and things like that…..there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let’s learn volleyball. – Tupac Shakur • There’s a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in. – Bob Goff • There’s always advantages and disadvantages to doing any role. And there’s a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role, or an action-adventure, or a real tough-guy role. Really, if you’re doing a comedy, you can sit back and relax. And it’s good to know that at the end of the day, you don’t have to run off for another two hours and go to the gym, or go spend the rest of the night swordplaying with stunt guys. Then I think, “Oh my God, I love comedy.”. – Gerard Butler • There’s always stories about cute girls in the gym, I’m just not one of those people. – Gigi Hadid • There’s no regimen. There’s no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it’s an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don’t necessarily like being at the gym. – Taylor Swift • There’s not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It’s that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway. – Timothy Olyphant • There’s something really liberating about feeling great in what you work out in because when you feel great in the gym, then you are just going to do a better job. You’ll feel more comfortable, which will allow you to push your limits. – Demi Lovato • This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage. – Carl Honore • To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don’t think you can do the work – the five or six hours of working out a day – if you don’t have a clear goal or know why you’re doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Today I was in the gym benching 400 pounds. A-Ry is my witness to this. – The Miz • Training to me isn’t about a set time at the gym – I move at all times of the day and night. – Conor McGregor • Trust that you often need to find happiness outside your comfort zone. The journey is a lifestyle choice. Focus on your mental health and your mind just as much as the physical, if not more. All the gym in the world won’t help if you don’t work on finding acceptance for your muffin top or chaffing thighs. – Danielle Tabor • We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you’re evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It’s amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That’s another plus. – Djimon Hounsou • What fun that is, doing voices. I would do them every day if they wanted me to. It’s so much fun to go to work and not shave and wear your tennis shoes and your gym clothes. As opposed to having to shave, shower, go to the gym, look good, get ready, go to makeup and hair, and all that stuff. I love doing voices. It’s just so relaxing. – Eric Roberts • What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community? – Richard Louv • What people don’t realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can’t make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter. – Ann Wolfe • What was funny, going to the gym, you see all these guys who are just massive. There’s no way a person can naturally get that way. In the gym, you meet these guys and you talk to them, and everybody’s really willing and open to explain to you what cycle they’re on and to help you get on it. – Anthony Mackie • What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You’re learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who’s got courage, who’s dead game in a fight. Most guys don’t come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night. – Jonathan Gottschall • When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. – Douglas Coupland • When I wasn’t killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip. – Curtis Jackson • When I’m in L.A., I try to run the canyons or play tennis with friends a few times a week. I’ve tried working out with a trainer and going to the gym, but I’d just much rather be outside. – Julia Jones • When you know yourself that you’ve come through preparation injury free and you’ve done everything, you’ve done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence. – Joe Calzaghe • When you’re training you go to the gym when it’s dark, you leave when it’s dark. You push your body to the limit and it really gets on top of you. – David Haye • While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count. – Robin Sharma • With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home – it makes it easier for women that don’t want to go to the gym. – Carmen Electra • Words can’t even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal. – Gabby Douglas • Working out makes me feel good. When I don’t work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I’m at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things. – Elisabeth Harnois • Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it’s a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth. – Izabella Scorupco • Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs. – Deepak Chopra • You can do more of independent films. A Hollywood picture, you’ll do one a year, one of those big blockbusters, right? Then you’ve gotta go to the gym to get in shape to do all of the running and shooting and diving and falling and hitting and all that stuff they do today. – Ben Gazzara • You can go to the gym, lift as many weights as you want, but if you can’t bench press your duvet at fajr then it doesn’t mean anything – Khalid Yasin • You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul. – Sylvester Stallone • You don’t have to go the gym – just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga. – Deepak Chopra • You get help at the gym. No one complains about that. You get help from your trainer. That’s commonplace, and I think we need to spend more time doing that with mental help. You know, a lot of us have issues that we don’t work on and we don’t deal with, and I try. I try my utmost. – Trevor Noah • You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • You gotta try something people ain’t seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don’t show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other. – Darryl Dawkins • You have thousands of choices and decisions to make everyday. You have the right to not go to the gym, you the right to follow poor nutritional habits, you have the right to overwork yourself and not get enough sleep. You must accept the fact that your physique has suffered because of the choices that you make everyday. – Robert Cheeke • You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA. – Cain Velasquez • You need to feel as good as you can before you start a workout. So what you wear to the gym is important. – Oliver Hudson • You’ll never find me in a gym. – Ellen Hollman • Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym. – Greg Plitt • You’ve got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You’ve got to get into a zone. You know you’re in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away ’cause they see the fire. You’ve got to be all business. – Mike Matarazzo

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• A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination. – Ishmael Reed • A great start to the perfect day – a world-class workout at the gym… It’s hard to feel miserable after a great workout. – Bradford Winters • A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real. – Anne Bogart • A lot of people look at me as a big person. Some people consider me to be obese. Some people consider me fat and sloppy. Everybody knows that I have a big stomach, but I think sometimes that overshadows everything else on my body – from my calves to my back to my shoulders to my biceps. What people go to the gym and work for, I have. The only thing I don’t have that they got is six – packs. But I really don’t care about six-packs. – Vince Wilfork • A lot of people think, “Oh I’m going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym.” And I’ve definitely been one of those people and it just doesn’t give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina. – Misty Copeland • A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it’s easy for them to stay in shape. – Randy Couture • A lot of young people think they’re invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads… Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes. – Michelle Obama • As they were building that library in that school’s gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us. – Judd Nelson • At Milan when I was younger, I worked a lot on the leg press because I’d lost a bit of my natural speed as my body was changing. I was growing too fast for the rest of my body to cope and I had some knee problems. I worked really hard in the gym to regain these fast sprints. – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang • At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do. In regards to cooking, men can do more than BBQ. All you need to do is ask—but be sure to do it after the game! Oh, and, men do like salads, especially if they are topped off with bacon! – Chuck Hughes

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When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I’d lie and say, ‘Yeah, I’m going to the gym.’ I literally never did anything. – Jamie Dornan • Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym. – Gigi Hadid • Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it’s not just what I do in the gym but it’s also an accepted lifestyle. – Kai Greene • Boxing is the sweet science. So if you want to begin in the grass roots of boxing where women are on the same level as guys, you are talking hundreds of years. Men have been boxing everyday all day for a hundred years. So it will take some time. You will need to bring more young girls into the gym starting at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And it would have to be 100,000 of them. – Ann Wolfe • Boxing on Long Island – there is history there. It’s been a while since Buddy McGirt and Gerry Cooney, but you know, we are in kind of a resurgence now. We are putting our show there constantly – Star Boxing shows at the Paramount have drawn big crowds over the years and there is a lot of up and coming talent there now. You see more and more gyms with competitive professional fighters. – Chris Algieri • Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. – Muhammad Ali • Dating is like trying to catch a fish. Some guys go to the gym and have huge muscles and six-pack abs, and that attracts a lot of women. Other guys, they go and learn how to become pick-up artists so they charm their way into a woman’s heart, at least for the night. Then there are guys like myself, who don’t have either of those, but we have some level of generosity and can treat women with respect and open a door for them or buy them gifts. And surprisingly, buying presents happens to be one of the languages of love! And it’s one that many women relate to. – Brandon Wade • Decorating the gym can’t mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls. – Daniel Tosh • Especially when I’m in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop. – Lindsey Vonn • Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that’s a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don’t make those investments. – Emily Oster • Everything I do is in the gym so I’m always in gym clothes. – Simone Biles • Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. – Michelle Obama • For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again. – Usain Bolt • Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it’s not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That’s short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge. – Gretchen Rubin • Get out and about. Rather than going to the same gym and doing the same thing, it’s a good opportunity to try different things. – Michael Klim • Good genetics are a start, but I have to go to the gym, look after my skin, and drink lots of water. It’s my job to take care of myself and my body. Happiness plays a big part in your appearance too. – Candice Swanepoel • Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working. – Marlon Wayans • Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy. – Patrick Stump • Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual. – Jenny Hval • Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine. – Jim Gaffigan • Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore: leggings every single day with my sports bra so I didn’t have to change into it in the girls’ gym locker room and that’s kind of how it started. – Gigi Hadid • I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match. – Chris Weidman • I blast “Northern Sky,” by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out. – Gabby Douglas • I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. – Wentworth Miller • I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot. – John Barrowman • I do like a little make-up though. I like a little mascara and lip gloss at least. But when I go to the gym I’d feel weird wearing make-up. – Carmen Electra • I don’t [know] what everybody else’s motives are, I don’t know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real life of an NBA player. And it’s not all about I just do everything, like I’m the hardest worker, or I love to play basketball every day, I go to the gym at eight and don’t leave until five. No, that’s not how it is. That’s not how I am. – Kevin Durant • I don’t know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37, which is when you realize you’re no longer 24. So in walked Woody, who was instantly great, but offstage, it was [all] testosterone. We’ll arm-wrestle. I still have, like, tendinitis in my elbow. Woody cleaned everybody’s clock in everything. Then we got less physical and went to chess, and he whipped our asses with chess. – Ted Danson • I don’t know what that gas is made of, but it can’t smell any worse than Ernie Johnson ‘s gym bag. – Charles Barkley • I don’t like going to the gym. – Adele • I don’t like junk food, just because I don’t like the taste of it, but I don’t go to the gym – ever. – Isla Fisher • I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is. I try to keep up a consistent workout routine, but I’m not the kind of person who goes to the gym every day and does the same routine. – Gail Simmons • I exercise regularly; I make it a point to spend some time in the gym. It is important for people to enjoy their exercises, so choose a form of exercise that makes you happy. – Rain • I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared. – Boy George • I find that, when I’m working, if I start the day with a run – outside, not in a gym, but just me out there in the elements, with only my own legs to propel me forward… It’s something to do with just being in the world and getting out of my own head. – Tom Hiddleston • I get bored doing the same activity over and over. In any one week, I could do a Pilates class, a yoga class, go to a gym, like a pump class, or do weights and then go for a run. Each day, I like to change it up a bit. – Jessica McNamee • I go the gym and I try to run on the treadmill and I listen to music but it doesn’t motivate me enough. So I’m going to get a recording of a pack of wolves gaining on me. People would be like, ‘Why is that guy crying on that treadmill over there?’ ‘I don’t know, but he’s been yelling, ‘help’ for like 20 minutes. He’s getting a good workout. – Demetri Martin • I go to the gym whenever I can. I actually have to eat to keep the weight on when I am working because I tend to lose too much weight. I like to workout. I don’t cook. Not really, I like good restaurants. And sometimes I get back from work and it is too late to eat dinner so I just go straight to bed and I wake up the next morning starving and have to eat cheeseburgers for the pure energy. But in general I am a pretty healthy eater. – Rebecca Romijn • I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die. – Gigi Hadid • I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I’m training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat! – Lee Priest • I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I’m a hard worker, but he makes me look like I’m doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning. – Patrick Heusinger • I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I’m a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that’s how it worked. – Alexis Arguello • I hate yoga pants anywhere but the gym. – Robin Givhan • I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay. – Edie Campbell • I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym. – Don Rickles • I have the final say in the business side of my boxer’s career. But as far as me being in the meetings every day, the back and forth of the paperwork and stuff like that, I have got a job to do. I am in the gym every day. The fighting lifestyle is an unforgiving one. You want to keep yourself as focussed and stress – free as possible. I have a team who focus on the more complicated aspects, on the business side of boxing, which I don’t need to get myself involved in. I think I am involved in the business as much as I need to be. – Chris Eubank, Jr. • I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I’m being good, I go to the gym three to four times a week. I do much better in a class with other people. I like aerobics and circuit training. – Joanne Froggatt • I haven’t been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f – ed off with those lazy bastards in their bed for 18 hours a day, five dishes a day on a menu to choose from, playing soccer every day, going to the gym, watching movies. – Chelsea Handler • I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn’t get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball. – Ashley Graham • I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me. – Kevin Hart • I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly – just so that I can keep up with my training. – Lee Byung-hun • I like to mix up my workouts to keep them fun and interesting. It makes getting to the gym a lot easier! – Alicia Sacramone • I listen to the Beatles all the time – in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon – in life and in death – remains part of my life. – Laurence Shames • I look after myself. I train and go to the gym. – Bruno Tonioli • I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that. – Will Smith • I love learning, so it’s definitely something I could see myself doing when I’m 30 or something. I always wanted to go for music production and health and psychology. But my whole life, I was in a gym for eight hours a day. I’m ready to be young and have fun.- McKayla Maroney • I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym. – Aaron Eckhart • I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don’t want to look too on top of it, you know? – Marc Jacobs • I made a gym, it’s the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I’m sure at least one will win a gold medal. – Alexis Arguello • I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names. – Joe Gold • I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. – Rachael Ray • I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn’t enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.- Arjun Rampal • I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer. – Pauly D • I try to do yoga. I really enjoy stretching and having a nice yoga class or taking a run on the beach. I’m not a big fan of the gym. I try to be out as much as possible. – Laura Ramsey • I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside. – Ana de la Reguera • I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can’t even describe that feeling. That’s why I like the best – the best cars, the best food, the best watches. – Conor McGregor • I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I’m doing there. – Guy Pearce • I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym. – Joe Manganiello • I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping. – Tom Baker • I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds. – Jake LaMotta • I work out every day. Mostly it’s free weights and cardio. I don’t do that stuff where they throw logs at you, what’s it called, cross-fit. None of that. Mainly it’s just me in the gym, lifting weights. – Justin Bieber • I work out with alot of gay guys at the gym. I do, because my only goal is to get into gay shape. Now, you know what I’m talking about. Gay men are the most ripped kind of… listen… I don’t know how strong you have to be to blow a guy, but I’m guessin’, there is some muscle involved. – Alonzo Bodden • I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says? – Vince Gironda • I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn’t work. – Warren Cuccurullo • I’d rather be an adviser. I don’t wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I’ve accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don’t wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people’s hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that. – Bernard Hopkins • I’d rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I’m finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, “Jack, you’ve done it again! – Jack LaLanne • I’d tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day. – Gabby Douglas • If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible. – Penny Lancaster • If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you’ll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you’re in pain. – Simon Sinek • If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you’re missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don’t see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do. – Brett Hoebel • If you’re spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you’re not dedicated – you’ve got a mental disorder. – Dan John • I’ll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I’m going to work hard. – Dwight Howard • I’m at the gym at 6, so I’m usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I’ve got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I’ve structured what I want to do. – Anne M. Mulcahy • I’m doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods. – Warren Cuccurullo • I’m inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym. – Mika • I’m just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it’s in God’s will for me to win, then I’ll get it. – Dwight Howard • I’m never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don’t work one look in particular, but it’s usually retro – I’m a flea-market freak. And detailed – I’m always very done, even at the gym. – Debi Mazar • I’m no perfect gymnast. I want to go out and eat junk food, or I maybe don’t sleep as much as I should, or some days I’ll leave the gym and think, “Maybe I should have worked a little harder. Maybe I’m not as tired as I need to be.” Every day you push a little harder, eat a little better, maybe go to bed a little earlier. – Jonathan Horton • I’m one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym. – Julianna Margulies • I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him. – Aimee Mann • I’m really into tennis. Because of the traveling, standing in front of a mirror and lifting weights in a gym makes me feel putrid. I’d rather do something that’s physically tough and mentally stimulating. – Dominic Cooper • I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James! – Ellen DeGeneres • I’m such a contradiction: I eat really healthy, I go to the gym, but then I smoke two or three cigarettes a day, and I smoke other things as well. Overall, I feel really healthy. But sometimes I feel like I’m more sensitive to little things. – Paul Iacono • I’m very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature. – Ryan Kwanten • In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was blown away when we came out for our first home match—I’m getting goose bumps just thinking about it. The seniors would bring their whole stereo system. We started by yelling and stuff inside this little room just off the gym; then the coaches said, “Ready. Go!” We threw open the door and came running out. Even when I hear the songs now I get all jacked up. – Karch Kiraly • In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That’s what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won’t do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss. – Geoff Dyer • In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they’re cool, they get respect. – Danny McBride • In terms of myself, my next big plan is to loose 7llb (as I’ve been planning to do since I was seventeen) Also to go to the gym three times a week, not merely to buy a sandwich. And also de-clutter the garage. – Helen Fielding • In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train – I do about three hours in the gym… – Manny Pacquiao • Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black – a lot more practical and much more fun. – Monica Bellucci • It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a deep breath, reading the newspaper and going to the gym – as opposed to carrying a hangover right until lunch. That’s horrible. It is nice to let off steam once in a while, but I find myself less involved with people in that sense. I like staying at home, reading a book, having a chat with my wife, a quiet dinner and going to bed early. I don’t want to drink half a bottle of whisky and look 50 the next day. I have become an anti-drinking, anti-smoking agent. – Saif Ali Khan • It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. – Henry Rollins • It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth. – Robert Kiyosaki • It’s an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I’m probably more likely to get into a fight, because I feel more competent, and I know what it’s cost me in the past to back down from fights, and I don’t want to feel that way. – Jonathan Gottschall • It’s not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym. – Kiana Tom • It’s the best gift in the world to be able to get up and dance because it’s the best gym. You artistically stretch your brain and you physically stretch your body to a higher point than a singular rotation movement like running. It makes your whole body move in lots of different ways, and it can make you very flexible as well, which is good for later life. – Andrew Stone • I’ve always been more of the athlete in my family, but Bella [Hadid] is just good at – when she needs buckle down for like two weeks and be in [the gym] every day, she’s really good at that. – Gigi Hadid • I’ve always worked out. I’ve always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, ‘Man, I’ve gotta go do this because if I don’t I’ll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.’ – Michael Cudlitz • I’ve been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class. – Natalie Dormer • I’ve had weight issues all my life. I’ve been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I’m always on the StairMaster, and I do weights. – Hoda Kotb • I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym. – Adele • Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let’s have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world. – Carl Froch • Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn’t have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab. – Charles S. Dutton • Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That’s a lot less ironic if you’re a political prisoner in the Middle East. – Dov Davidoff • Just went to the gym and worked on every body part. Four people slapped me. – Bob Saget • Learning was never structured for me. I started playing when I was two. I would go to the gym with my dad who played regularly. I ‘d get on the court and play when he would go for a drink of water or something. When I was four they shaved down the grip on a racquet so I could hold it. I can’t even tell you why I loved being on the court, I just knew I enjoyed it. It was always about sports for me. – Kane Waselenchuk • Let the gym be a sanctuary for you to be at peace. Let it calm you and ground you and allow you to appreciate everything around you. Let it also be a place for you to unload and explode with intensity through your training. – Robert Cheeke • Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. And I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you’re eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it’s really helpful. I do a lot of yoga. There’s more and more guys getting into yoga these days, and I find that helps me as well. – Nick Youngquest • Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I’m less of a man than I’d like to be. – Dov Davidoff • Most of the hotel gym’s are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren’t going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don’t have dumbbells and benches. – Warren Cuccurullo • My fans are just amazing, all over the world I’ve been greeted by people with smiles on their faces by what I do at the gym and what I do on stage, and how can I not be excited when i’m getting ready for a contest and how can I not be pumped even when I’m tired. – Phil Heath • My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago – her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like “upstage” and “downstage,” all those technical things about the art of what I do – how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities. – Erykah Badu • My jogging is the best thing in my life. Wake up in the morning and jog. Come to the gym and train my ass off. Be fit, make myself fit. Feel like a man. Because when you get to the ring and you start to get tired, it’s very bad. – Joshua Clottey • My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I’m glad about that. But I’m afraid that it’s overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I’ll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I’ll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I’ll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag. – Al Gore • My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn’t know exactly what we were doing? ‘What’s the point of electing someone who doesn’t believe in the American people?’ they asked. ‘If she wants to ignore us now when she’s only a candidate, what will she do as the President?’ – Shoshana Zuboff • My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately. – Jack LaLanne • One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. – Carmen Electra • One thing about other people, when they come to the gym, they might waste time wrapping hands, doing stretching and things. I don’t like that. If I come to the gym, if one hour – all work. If two hours – all. I don’t want to do this stuff so I can stay like two hours in the gym training only one hour. I want to do my own – quick, quick. – Joshua Clottey • People say, My God, you’re so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Probably Lloyd in ‘Say Anything’ is the closest to me – or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the ’80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn’t leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there. – John Cusack • Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America. – Sue Wicks • Shakira’s music isn’t my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole. – Brandon Boyd • Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four. – Travie McCoy • So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: I can’t make Tuesdays.’ – Tim Vine • Some people like to live without too much risk. They’re satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete – or businessperson – enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you’re squatting 500 for reps and you can’t get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that’s set one. – Tom Platz • Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn’t bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that’s a moral question, not an economic question. – P. J. O’Rourke • Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can’t sleep, don’t want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I’m only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I’ll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines. – Conor McGregor • Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it’s just like going to the gym. You’re just stiff and weird, and you can’t do it as well. – Tamara Jenkins • Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. And it’s not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it’s going to continue to grow. – Nick Youngquest • Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. It’s not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it’s going to continue to grow. – Nick Youngquest • That’s the object of going to a gym, having fun. – Joe Gold • The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali • The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let’s say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that’s what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is… The Pump. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The gym and the treadmill is a good idea. But the problem is we spend so much effort in marketing messaging, deluding people into thinking if you get on your treadmill or you go to the gym, that’s what you need. People who join a gym, the vast majority of them have quit within nine months and almost all of them have quit within two years. So if it’s a longevity strategy, does not work. – Dan Buettner • The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I’m working, that goes down to about three. – Felicity Kendal • The older Ive gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym. – Geoff Stults • The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It’s rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself. – Ian Bogost • The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now. – Karl Pilkington • The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The word ‘aerobics’ came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it Jumping up and down. – Rita Rudner • There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and ‘un-logical’ terms and things like that…..there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let’s learn volleyball. – Tupac Shakur • There’s a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in. – Bob Goff • There’s always advantages and disadvantages to doing any role. And there’s a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role, or an action-adventure, or a real tough-guy role. Really, if you’re doing a comedy, you can sit back and relax. And it’s good to know that at the end of the day, you don’t have to run off for another two hours and go to the gym, or go spend the rest of the night swordplaying with stunt guys. Then I think, “Oh my God, I love comedy.”. – Gerard Butler • There’s always stories about cute girls in the gym, I’m just not one of those people. – Gigi Hadid • There’s no regimen. There’s no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it’s an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don’t necessarily like being at the gym. – Taylor Swift • There’s not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It’s that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway. – Timothy Olyphant • There’s something really liberating about feeling great in what you work out in because when you feel great in the gym, then you are just going to do a better job. You’ll feel more comfortable, which will allow you to push your limits. – Demi Lovato • This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage. – Carl Honore • To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don’t think you can do the work – the five or six hours of working out a day – if you don’t have a clear goal or know why you’re doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Today I was in the gym benching 400 pounds. A-Ry is my witness to this. – The Miz • Training to me isn’t about a set time at the gym – I move at all times of the day and night. – Conor McGregor • Trust that you often need to find happiness outside your comfort zone. The journey is a lifestyle choice. Focus on your mental health and your mind just as much as the physical, if not more. All the gym in the world won’t help if you don’t work on finding acceptance for your muffin top or chaffing thighs. – Danielle Tabor • We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you’re evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It’s amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That’s another plus. – Djimon Hounsou • What fun that is, doing voices. I would do them every day if they wanted me to. It’s so much fun to go to work and not shave and wear your tennis shoes and your gym clothes. As opposed to having to shave, shower, go to the gym, look good, get ready, go to makeup and hair, and all that stuff. I love doing voices. It’s just so relaxing. – Eric Roberts • What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community? – Richard Louv • What people don’t realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can’t make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter. – Ann Wolfe • What was funny, going to the gym, you see all these guys who are just massive. There’s no way a person can naturally get that way. In the gym, you meet these guys and you talk to them, and everybody’s really willing and open to explain to you what cycle they’re on and to help you get on it. – Anthony Mackie • What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You’re learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who’s got courage, who’s dead game in a fight. Most guys don’t come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night. – Jonathan Gottschall • When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. – Douglas Coupland • When I wasn’t killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip. – Curtis Jackson • When I’m in L.A., I try to run the canyons or play tennis with friends a few times a week. I’ve tried working out with a trainer and going to the gym, but I’d just much rather be outside. – Julia Jones • When you know yourself that you’ve come through preparation injury free and you’ve done everything, you’ve done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence. – Joe Calzaghe • When you’re training you go to the gym when it’s dark, you leave when it’s dark. You push your body to the limit and it really gets on top of you. – David Haye • While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count. – Robin Sharma • With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home – it makes it easier for women that don’t want to go to the gym. – Carmen Electra • Words can’t even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal. – Gabby Douglas • Working out makes me feel good. When I don’t work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I’m at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things. – Elisabeth Harnois • Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it’s a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth. – Izabella Scorupco • Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs. – Deepak Chopra • You can do more of independent films. A Hollywood picture, you’ll do one a year, one of those big blockbusters, right? Then you’ve gotta go to the gym to get in shape to do all of the running and shooting and diving and falling and hitting and all that stuff they do today. – Ben Gazzara • You can go to the gym, lift as many weights as you want, but if you can’t bench press your duvet at fajr then it doesn’t mean anything – Khalid Yasin • You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul. – Sylvester Stallone • You don’t have to go the gym – just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga. – Deepak Chopra • You get help at the gym. No one complains about that. You get help from your trainer. That’s commonplace, and I think we need to spend more time doing that with mental help. You know, a lot of us have issues that we don’t work on and we don’t deal with, and I try. I try my utmost. – Trevor Noah • You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • You gotta try something people ain’t seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don’t show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other. – Darryl Dawkins • You have thousands of choices and decisions to make everyday. You have the right to not go to the gym, you the right to follow poor nutritional habits, you have the right to overwork yourself and not get enough sleep. You must accept the fact that your physique has suffered because of the choices that you make everyday. – Robert Cheeke • You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA. – Cain Velasquez • You need to feel as good as you can before you start a workout. So what you wear to the gym is important. – Oliver Hudson • You’ll never find me in a gym. – Ellen Hollman • Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym. – Greg Plitt • You’ve got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You’ve got to get into a zone. You know you’re in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away ’cause they see the fire. You’ve got to be all business. – Mike Matarazzo

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Review: Before They Are Hanged

by Wardog

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

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of Joe Abercrombie's first book, The Blade Itself, I recently embarked upon part two of the trilogy, Before They Are Hanged. If nothing else, it's an object lesson in why one shouldn't bandy the phrase "the best fantasy I've read" about without due care and attention. In short, then, the bad news is that The First Law Trilogy is not going to be the, ahem, fantasy masterpiece I thought it was; nor is it a cunning subversion of the genre or a profound meditation on the nature of the violence or any of the other silly silly things I tried to claim it was. In good, news, however, it's still okay. Well, better than average at least.

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Following on at a fair pace from the events of the first book, Before They Are Hanged basically devolves into three probably connected but currently non-overlapping plot threads: you have Inquisitor Glokta fortifying Dagoska against the impending Gurkish Invasion, you have Colonel West on the frontlines of the war between the Union Forces and the Northmen and you have Bayez The Probably Batshit First Of Magi and his adventuring party (including the feckless swordsman Jezel and the thinking man's barbarian Logen Ninefingers) off on a quest for Generic Fantasy Artefact TM. All of Abercrombie's strengths are present: solidly drawn, generally morally interesting characters, crisp, sharp dialogue, exceptionally clear and vivid action sequences and a reasonable command of plotting and pacing (I was genuinely impressed when the war actually kicked off on page 187). Unfortunately, his weaknesses are also more apparent in this second outing.

Specifically, what seemed intriguingly and comfortingly generic the first time round now seems merely generically generic - the Traditional Fantasy Quest Plot, for example. It's engagingly written but it's still by far and away the least interesting third of the book. Subtleties of morality and characterisation also seem to have been lost: Jezel's redemption arc via a mace in the face is both abrupt and unconvincing; Colonel West, who was a minor player in the first book takes a more central role here but his self-disgust and his lack of self-awareness are portrayed rather clumsily, and Logen seems to have become the book's moral mouthpiece, a role which doesn't suit him and actually makes him come across as the oddest Mary Sue ever to grace the pages of fantasy fiction. Whereas all the other characters are just as much the sum of their flaws as their virtues, in Before They Are Hanged, it rapidly becomes apparent (and without giving too much away) that Logen's flaws, like his capacity for violence and destruction, are external to him rather than integral: this unbalances his character when set against the others, as well as making him significantly less interesting.

At least the crippled inquisitor, Glokta, remains as cool as ever. He's such a wonderful character that the book is worth reading for him alone.

In non-spoilerful conclusion, then, Before They Are Hanged is an above-average fantasy novel. To my mind it doesn't quite live up to the potential of the first but then there's a high probability I read things into The Blade Itself that weren't actually there at all. Nevertheless, it remains for the most part a well-written, well-structured and well-paced read that doesn't suffer too badly from fantasy-trilogy sag. It's won't change your life but it will pass the time effectively and competently, and Abercrombie has a real knack for action so expect some impressively bloody battles.

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As I mentioned earlier in this review, I felt that the characterisation suffered from being less nuanced than in The Blade Itself and this also applies to the book's depiction of morality. Specifically, what I really liked about The Blade Itself was its portrayal of violence. It's a typical low fantasy world so horrible things happen to semi-horrible people all the time and the book did a wonderful job of evoking the reality of that kind of society and that kind of violence. It was never gratuitously in your face about it but it was something Abercrombie did really very vividly. The Blade Itself seemed to be saying that a will towards power, violence and destruction is very much a natural part of being human - even the title, which I believe is a re-working of a quote from Homer which goes something like "the presence of weapons themselves is an encouragement to use them" seems to be concerned with the articulation of this idea. What made Logen so intriguing a character in such a world was that, as a brutal killer, he had essentially come full circle. The ultimate survivalist had become the ultimate moralist: a man who fought no longer for survival but for what he believed was right. However, in Before They Are Hanged, violence is portrayed - deliberately or not - as something very much outside and closed off from ordinary human experience: in extremis, West basically goes nuts and bites someone's nose off, Logen's barbarism is located in a spirit that possess him not within his own nature and Glotka, of course, continues to helplessly do unto others what was done to him.

I know we end up talking about rape a lot here but there's a really annoying nearly-rape in Before They Are Hanged that also ties into my concerns about the book's wavering moral compass. West is sent out to the front lines with the Crown Prince and an army of starving peasantry, where it is hoped the Prince can feel important and gather glory without ever actually encountering the reality of war. Needless to say, he's a complete waste of space and ends up taking the ragged army of ill-equipped and untrained peasants out to meet the Northman and everybody gets horrifically slaughtered, except West, the Prince, a random blacksmith chick and a small retinue of Northmen trying to oppose their war-mongering King. Then there's a lot of trudging around in cold trying to get the Prince to safety, during which time the Prince continues to be a complete waste of space in every conceivable way, showing no gratitude for those who are risking their lives to protect him or the thousands he just sent off to their deaths. Finally, West catches him in the act of trying to rape the random blacksmith chick, flips out and throws him off a cliff. Now, don't get me wrong. Rape is a terrible terrible thing. But the waste-of-space Crown Prince is also responsible for the deaths of literally thousands of people: surely that was the time to shove him off a cliff?

You can argue that Abercrombie is making an interesting point regarding the personal versus the political and that it is the small acts that affect us that individuals that spur us into action, rather than the huge acts that destroy the lives of thousands. But truthfully it just seems like typical fantasy novel inconsistency to me, and the incident says more about Abercrombie as a writer than about West as a character. As I have already written about at length in various places on this site, I hate the fact that fantasy writers tend to use rape as some kind of moral shorthand. In this instance (as in others), I very strongly felt that throwing out a casual rape scene as a way to convince us the Crown Prince really is as bad as we think he is, merely lessened the impact of his previous atrocities and implies an unhelpful moral equivalence I don't mean to get all Jeremy Bentham about it but surely Abercrombie is not trying to get us to weigh the attempted rape of one woman against the lives of thousands of peasants.

My final irritation has nothing to do with morals, merely time-wasting. One of the three plotlines, as I have mentioned, is a Generic Fantasy Quest. However, when the party arrives at its destination the Generic Fantasy Object they are seeking is conspicuous by its absence. This naturally ends the book on a note of self-conscious anti-climax. Although this is ... I suppose ... interesting in theory it is, in practice, as you might expect, anticlimactic i.e. massively unsatisfying. I read pretty quickly but nevertheless Joe Abercrombie essentially just made me about 200 hundred pages for absolutely nothing. It seems there's only one thing worse than a Generic Fantasy Quest Plot and that's a completely pointless Generic Fantasy Quest Plot. Grrr. I'm sure it'll make sense once placed in the context of the final novel but that doesn't excuse the fact that it renders a third of this one hollow.Themes:

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Joe W

at 10:28 on 2008-06-19I'm looking forward to your analysis of the last book (which I can lend you, if you want)

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I share a lot of your criticisms about this book- in particular I also disliked the resolution of the Generic Fantasy Quest Plot.

I'm in two minds about Ladisla's death. I don't mind West killing him for the rape attempt; I can quite happily see it as the straw that broke the camel's back. I can quite easily see why you'd kill a man for that, but not for willful stupidity that leads to thousands of deaths. After all getting to do the latter is one of the traditional perks of being royalty- it was idiotic but not actively malicious.

What I didn't like was how much of a caricature Ladisla was- I could have lived with him as simply being utterly crap, but the rape attempt took him straight from crap into wilfully evil. I'd expected some sort of twist to the character and then was disappointed when it panned out just as I'd expect in any other book.

I will note in reference to one of your other points. that I don't think the Bloody-Nine is a spirit external to Logen; I think that like West he goes batshit in a fight- it's just that Logen tries so hard to divorce himself from the berserker that he no longer even self-identifies in that state.

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at 13:52 on 2008-06-19

What I didn't like was how much of a caricature Ladisla was- I could have lived with him as simply being utterly crap, but the rape attempt took him straight from crap into wilfully evil.

That's usually my problem with the Obligatory Fantasy Rape Scenes. It's so often used as evidence that a particular character is zomg teh evil. See my recent article on /Age of the Five/.

As for the Bloody-Nine, I've only read the first book, and I was certainly *concerned* that there was going to be a "big reveal" to the effect that Logan was effectively controlled by an external spirit. If it remains ambiguous throughout all three books, then that's a lot better than I was expecting.

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at 15:02 on 2008-06-19I do actually have The Last Argument of Kings - I was so passionately in love with TBI that I rushed out and bought both sequels. I'm giving myself a break to try and get over the fact that they're not what I thought they were and enjoy them for what they actually are - but I'll certainly be embarking it upon it in the next couple of weeks. But thank you kindly for the offer.

I know what you mean about Ladisla; everything about the character, and the way he's dealt with, annoys me. Being idiotic is, as you say, a traditional perk of being royalty BUT it's like he's deliberately set up so that you want somebody (probably West) to just freak out and kill the guy. I remember thinking to myself as I was reading the bit where West literally begs him not to throw away probably the war and all of those lives, "kill him, West, just kill him now." And, of course, he doesn't. He just grits his teeth and respects the institution of the monarch as, living in a heredity monarchy, you probably would. So that's why the rape-triggered freak out irritates me particularly. But, yes, you're right - it's also just depressing to have a cardboard cutout in a world otherwise by populated by quite interestingly flawed people. Even Arch Lector Sult - who is basically hand-rubbingly evil from toes to nose - is *interesting*.

About Logen ... mmm...I'm not sure. Perhaps you're right that it's just a psychological trick he's developed to protect himself from the truth of what he really is but it seems to me that the narrative seems to hinting otherwise. I mean, there's that scene where they're all sitting round the campfire confessing their mistakes (Bayaz talks about his love his master's daughter and all that stuff) and Logen talks about the time he killed his best friend and didn't remember doing it, and gives a long list of similar incidents. Also when the narrative describes Logen in extreme beserker mode it does differentiate between Logen and this other force, The Bloody Nine. Maybe you're right and it's just a rhetorical trick and you probably know since you've read the last book but even if it is just a metaphor it nevertheless isolates Logen's violent identity as something other to who he really is...

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at 12:31 on 2011-04-11Oh dear. I just tried to read this one and failed horribly. Maybe it's just that I left it over a year since reading the previous one - but then again, they weren't published that close to each other, were they? - but it failed to grab me early on. I tried to give it a fair chance and told myself I'd read up to page 100 and see if it had grown on me by that point, but it turned out to be a serious struggle to force myself to even get as far as page 50, so I gave up.

I think part of the problem was how utterly transparent Abercrombie is in his use of cliches and cheap shots here, combined with how shallow and simplistic the situations he constructs is.

The major example in the section I've picked out: you've got West briefing the generals and the Crown Prince on the situation in Angland, and the prince and both generals are all such over-the-top cartoons that West might as well have been briefing General Stickupthearse, General Flouncey-Dandy, and Crown Prince Totalfuckingdisaster, with Marshall Basicallyagoodsort looking on approvingly. The characterisation is so heavy-handed that you can't really take anything away from it beyond "these are the characters you are supposed to like, these are the characters you are supposed to hate."

I didn't even get to anything about Bayaz's wizardy quest, and I had this sudden epiphany where I realised that I had completely ceased to care about said quest. I didn't care about any of the characters I remembered from the last book at all. Maybe that's a consequence of leaving it so long to read book 2, or maybe that's why I left it so long in the first place: I just didn't

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What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest

In today’s America, companies like Facebook and Google wield as much (or even more) power than the U.S. government. The one big difference between these super companies and governments is the fact that there are no checks and balances to ensure that they don’t abuse their power.

What happens when they succeed at diving the American people? Are you ready for the potential social unrest?

Facebook has been on the defensive recently as comments made by two former insiders reignited a firestorm about whether social media, Facebook in particular, has become an increasingly toxic force that tears apart the very fabric of society by turning us into mindless zombies susceptible to the slightest suggestion.

Facebook itself waded into the controversy, summarizing research suggesting that the platform can be both bad and good for our mental health. Stepping back from the hype and hyperbole, is it really the case that social media might truly be a force for evil in our modern world, ripping us apart in ways that undermine the very idea of self-government? Or is it merely a bystander, giving us a new digital window through which to observe inevitable natural societal change with newfound visibility?

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How to Survive a Riot

The forces at work in America today are making it more likely than ever that widespread social unrest may be right around any corner. Follow these 12 tips and the chances of you making it out relatively unscathed are pretty good.

#1 - Avoidance is your best bet.

Being smart and avoiding any kind of social unrest is going to be the best thing you can do. Keeping an eye on social media is a great way to stay abreast of any possible out of control situations.

#2 - Stay calm and move away from the crowd.

Riots bring intense emotions boiling to the surface, but if you want to survive one you’d be better off keeping your own emotions in check. Your adrenaline and survival instincts will kick in, but strive to think rationally and pursue safety methodically.

Avoid confrontation by keeping your head down.

Walk at all times. If you run or move too quickly, you might attract unwanted attention.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

Getting excited and allowing your emotions to influence your decisions is always a bad idea. Sometimes it’s easier said than done but staying calm will get you far in most disaster situations.

#3 - Keep your family and friends close.

If you happen to get caught up in a riot and have a loved one with you, you have more to worry about than just yourself. Try to keep them in front of you and within arms reach at all times. This will allow you to hold on to them and keep them in sight as you move to a safer area.

#4 - Try to blend in with the crowd until you can make an escape.

Don’t do anything stupid that’s going to get you arrested, but you want to look like you are part of the crowd. Now is not the time to voice your opinion, or prove some political point. If someone tries engaging you in conversation, mirror what they are saying and let them think you are on their side.

Source: How to Survive a Riot: What to do if you find yourself in the Middle of a Riot

Try to blend in if you can. Not being noticed is often almost as good as not being there. As always, you’re looking for a way out so you can move to a safe area. As soon as you get a chance, calmly make your escape.

#5 - Trust your instincts.

Today, people are taught that feeling insecure or being alert to danger when you’re in a bad part of town is racist or in some way reflects poorly on you. Put that out of your head.

We have countless years of instincts working inside of us, telling us when a situation is dangerous. Holding all of that back is a couple hundred years of society making us second guess every feeling.

If you feel like there is the possibility that you’re in danger, then there probably is. Be especially alert at these times!

#6 - If you’re in a car and get surrounded, stay calm.

If you’re caught up in a car, stay calm.  If your vehicle does become a target, quickly and calmly leave it behind.  Your Toyota is not worth dying for. If people block your escape route, honk your horn, and carefully drive through or around them at a moderate speed, and they should get out of the way. This is a last resort; never put someone else’s life in danger unless they are putting yours there first.

Driving towards police lines can be interpreted by the police as use of a deadly weapon and in the heat of the moment, they may react with deadly force.

Source: 10 Riot Survival Tips for Patriots

If you feel that your life is in danger, then do whatever you need to keep yourself safe. The quote above suggests leaving your car and walking away. This is a decision that you have to make for yourself.

If people are attacking your car, that indicates to me that they will also be willing to attack you if you get out.

I suggest turning around and driving away if at all possible. It’s going to be very difficult to explain how your life was being threatened if you drive through a crowd at 60 miles an hour and could have simply turned around.

#7 - Don’t try to be a hero.

If you see rioters looting and destroying property, don’t try to stop them. You’re outnumbered and material things can be replaced.

If you see another person in danger then you’re going to have to make a decision. Do you try to intervene? Do you just go the other way? Think it through before you make a choice.

Charging in only to become a victim yourself doesn’t help anyone. Walking away when you can save a life could haunt you forever. It’s a difficult choice that everyone will have to make for themselves.

#8 - Don’t run at the police.

The police are, understandably, on high alert during a large disturbance, even if they aren’t actively stopping the rioting. If you run at the police or make other movements that can be seen as aggressive, it’s possible that you’ll be mistaken as a threat.

You’re better off not approaching the police at all unless you’re in need of help. When you do approach them, make sure you’re as calm as possible and aren’t carrying anything that can be mistaken as a weapon.

#9 - Prepare your home or business beforehand at all possible.

Sometimes riots can start at a moments notice, other times you’ll have a lot of time to prepare.

If you live where some form of social unrest is occurring, or you own a business in the area, you may be tempted to stay and defend your property.

There is no way to secure your home or business enough to keep people out if they are motivated enough. Reinforcing the windows and doors with plywood will at least keep the laziest of rioters out and slow down the motivated ones.

Hiding inside and hoping for the best isn’t going to work very well. You can look to pictures from the LA riots where armed store owners protected their shops from the rooftops. Keep this in mind, they were not working alone. They either joined forces and worked together or brought in friends, family, and employees to assist them.

If you can’t protect the building from the roof or other high ground, you can always use furniture and other heavy objects to slow rioters as they enter the doors. This same technique can be used to funnel rioters into a narrow field of fire if necessary.

#10 - Stay away from large moving crowds.

#11 - If you see an open door, go inside.

I don’t care if it’s a bank or a supermarket. If you can’t go home, it’s better to go inside than to stay outside where the blood is spilling. Caveat: it’s likely that the protesters will go inside as well but you’re still better off inside. For one, not all of them are going to go inside. Second, inside you’ve got options:

You can find a back door to get out.

You can go to an upper floor where no one will follow you or possibly even take shelter up on a roof and wait things out up there.

Source: How to Survive and Escape a Riot Without a Scratch

This tip from Secrets of Survival is an option that you should consider. I like the suggestion to head out a back door. Now you’ve added a building between you and the largest part of the rioting and you’re more likely to be able to get out of the area.

#12 - Prepare yourself for an attack.

When talking about self-defense in a riot situation, things get even more difficult. Depending on the size of the crowd, pulling a gun or other defensive weapon can cause far more harm than good. If you’re perceived to be a threat to the riot itself, everyone around you will work to take you down, and you can’t fight everyone.

This is why escape and evasion are the only truly safe ways to avoid a fight in a riot. Now, if you’re currently being attacked, all bets are off. Do whatever you can to survive if you’re actively being attacked, including pulling your gun. Just remember you’re in a crowd and the chances of an innocent being hurt are extremely high. Basically, consider it your very last resort.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

The likelihood of getting into a fight during social unrest is high. Hopefully, you’re in a place that allows you to be armed.

Do whatever you need to in order to defend yourself. Once you’re in a fight, most of the other suggestions go out the door. The one thing that I’d still be conscious of is the presence of police. Not because you should be worried about getting in trouble, but because you could mistakenly become the “bad guy” if all they see is you pulling a weapon to defend yourself.

Try to stay on your feet when you’re facing multiple opponents like this. Going to the ground makes it really easy for people to kick and stomp on you.

If you do go to the ground, get up as soon as possible and make sure you cover your head. If someone manages to knock you out, you’ll be at the mercy of the mob.

Check out our other defense and tactical articles and gear reviews.

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“First I would like to say that I like the enthusiasm that Yohann has about teaching the course. I was really looking forward to viewing some of his other video course but after viewing this one I do not think that I will be purchasing any of them. There is a couple of reasons that the score is so low. For some of the info that Yohann was teaching was incorrect. An example of this is in the Display/UI section of the course. He talks about why the text is disappearing when he makes the text too big in the Game Over Menu video. He states that the font Arial can only handle a certain size of texts and you have to use different textures (I think that he means fonts.) to make it bigger. In a later video (Working on the Score video) he shows how to change the bounding box of a text object in the inspector to make it bigger to allow a bigger font size. He could have avoided all of this by just modifying the text object in the Scene view window. You can see the bounding box and make it much easier to show why the text is disappearing when it gets too big for the box. You can also resize the box in the Scene view. The other reason is the poor information/teaching on the iPhone and Android sections of the course. Yohann goes over the registration on getting an account for Apple and that is fine. Yohann does not go over the process of testing out the iPhone app that he creates. He does not explain why the UI has changed position and size. He does not explain how to test the app on an iPhone or even the iPhone simulator from XCode. For the Android section Yohann keeps referring back to the iPhone section so you have to watch both even if you are just interested in the Android.” (Ray Jolliff)

“It is a very good course overall. the only reason it isn’t 5 stars is that in the course, you load the game to the android/apple store before adding more enemies and adds. Other than that, it is a great course. I highly recommend.” (Matt Silverman)

“This was a wonderful course that filled in a lot of gaps in my Unity knowledge, specifically Raycasting and how it can be applied. The instructor was knowledgeable and likeable. I think the code could be a little cleaner, but that is just my opinion. I really enjoyed working through this.” (Christopher Cummins)

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Yohann Taieb

Yohann holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from FIU University. He has been a College instructor for over 7 years, teaching iPhone Development, iOS 10, Apple Watch development, Swift 3, Unity 3D, Pixel Art, Photoshop for programmers, and Android. Yohann also has plenty of ideas which naturally turned him into an entrepreneur, where he owns over 100 mobile apps and games in both the Apple app store and the Android store. Yohann is one of the leading experts in mobile game programming, app flipping and reskinning. His teaching style is unique, hands on and very detailed. Yohann has enabled more than 20000 students to publish their own apps and reach the top spots in iTunes App Stores, which has been picked up by blogs and medias like WIRED magazine, Yahoo News, and Forbes Online. Thanks to him, thousands of students now make a living using iOS 9, Swift 2, Objective C ( ObjC ), Android, Apple Watch ( watchOS ), Apple TV ( TVOS ), Unity 3D, and Pixel art animation

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What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest

In today’s America, companies like Facebook and Google wield as much (or even more) power than the U.S. government. The one big difference between these super companies and governments is the fact that there are no checks and balances to ensure that they don’t abuse their power.

What happens when they succeed at diving the American people? Are you ready for the potential social unrest?

Facebook has been on the defensive recently as comments made by two former insiders reignited a firestorm about whether social media, Facebook in particular, has become an increasingly toxic force that tears apart the very fabric of society by turning us into mindless zombies susceptible to the slightest suggestion.

Facebook itself waded into the controversy, summarizing research suggesting that the platform can be both bad and good for our mental health. Stepping back from the hype and hyperbole, is it really the case that social media might truly be a force for evil in our modern world, ripping us apart in ways that undermine the very idea of self-government? Or is it merely a bystander, giving us a new digital window through which to observe inevitable natural societal change with newfound visibility?

Source: Is Facebook Driving Our Country Apart?

How to Survive a Riot

The forces at work in America today are making it more likely than ever that widespread social unrest may be right around any corner. Follow these 12 tips and the chances of you making it out relatively unscathed are pretty good.

#1 - Avoidance is your best bet.

Being smart and avoiding any kind of social unrest is going to be the best thing you can do. Keeping an eye on social media is a great way to stay abreast of any possible out of control situations.

#2 - Stay calm and move away from the crowd.

Riots bring intense emotions boiling to the surface, but if you want to survive one you’d be better off keeping your own emotions in check. Your adrenaline and survival instincts will kick in, but strive to think rationally and pursue safety methodically.

Avoid confrontation by keeping your head down.

Walk at all times. If you run or move too quickly, you might attract unwanted attention.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

Getting excited and allowing your emotions to influence your decisions is always a bad idea. Sometimes it’s easier said than done but staying calm will get you far in most disaster situations.

#3 - Keep your family and friends close.

If you happen to get caught up in a riot and have a loved one with you, you have more to worry about than just yourself. Try to keep them in front of you and within arms reach at all times. This will allow you to hold on to them and keep them in sight as you move to a safer area.

#4 - Try to blend in with the crowd until you can make an escape.

Don’t do anything stupid that’s going to get you arrested, but you want to look like you are part of the crowd. Now is not the time to voice your opinion, or prove some political point. If someone tries engaging you in conversation, mirror what they are saying and let them think you are on their side.

Source: How to Survive a Riot: What to do if you find yourself in the Middle of a Riot

Try to blend in if you can. Not being noticed is often almost as good as not being there. As always, you’re looking for a way out so you can move to a safe area. As soon as you get a chance, calmly make your escape.

#5 - Trust your instincts.

Today, people are taught that feeling insecure or being alert to danger when you’re in a bad part of town is racist or in some way reflects poorly on you. Put that out of your head.

We have countless years of instincts working inside of us, telling us when a situation is dangerous. Holding all of that back is a couple hundred years of society making us second guess every feeling.

If you feel like there is the possibility that you’re in danger, then there probably is. Be especially alert at these times!

#6 - If you’re in a car and get surrounded, stay calm.

If you’re caught up in a car, stay calm.  If your vehicle does become a target, quickly and calmly leave it behind.  Your Toyota is not worth dying for. If people block your escape route, honk your horn, and carefully drive through or around them at a moderate speed, and they should get out of the way. This is a last resort; never put someone else’s life in danger unless they are putting yours there first.

Driving towards police lines can be interpreted by the police as use of a deadly weapon and in the heat of the moment, they may react with deadly force.

Source: 10 Riot Survival Tips for Patriots

If you feel that your life is in danger, then do whatever you need to keep yourself safe. The quote above suggests leaving your car and walking away. This is a decision that you have to make for yourself.

If people are attacking your car, that indicates to me that they will also be willing to attack you if you get out.

I suggest turning around and driving away if at all possible. It’s going to be very difficult to explain how your life was being threatened if you drive through a crowd at 60 miles an hour and could have simply turned around.

#7 - Don’t try to be a hero.

If you see rioters looting and destroying property, don’t try to stop them. You’re outnumbered and material things can be replaced.

If you see another person in danger then you’re going to have to make a decision. Do you try to intervene? Do you just go the other way? Think it through before you make a choice.

Charging in only to become a victim yourself doesn’t help anyone. Walking away when you can save a life could haunt you forever. It’s a difficult choice that everyone will have to make for themselves.

#8 - Don’t run at the police.

The police are, understandably, on high alert during a large disturbance, even if they aren’t actively stopping the rioting. If you run at the police or make other movements that can be seen as aggressive, it’s possible that you’ll be mistaken as a threat.

You’re better off not approaching the police at all unless you’re in need of help. When you do approach them, make sure you’re as calm as possible and aren’t carrying anything that can be mistaken as a weapon.

#9 - Prepare your home or business beforehand at all possible.

Sometimes riots can start at a moments notice, other times you’ll have a lot of time to prepare.

If you live where some form of social unrest is occurring, or you own a business in the area, you may be tempted to stay and defend your property.

There is no way to secure your home or business enough to keep people out if they are motivated enough. Reinforcing the windows and doors with plywood will at least keep the laziest of rioters out and slow down the motivated ones.

Hiding inside and hoping for the best isn’t going to work very well. You can look to pictures from the LA riots where armed store owners protected their shops from the rooftops. Keep this in mind, they were not working alone. They either joined forces and worked together or brought in friends, family, and employees to assist them.

If you can’t protect the building from the roof or other high ground, you can always use furniture and other heavy objects to slow rioters as they enter the doors. This same technique can be used to funnel rioters into a narrow field of fire if necessary.

#10 - Stay away from large moving crowds.

#11 - If you see an open door, go inside.

I don’t care if it’s a bank or a supermarket. If you can’t go home, it’s better to go inside than to stay outside where the blood is spilling. Caveat: it’s likely that the protesters will go inside as well but you’re still better off inside. For one, not all of them are going to go inside. Second, inside you’ve got options:

You can find a back door to get out.

You can go to an upper floor where no one will follow you or possibly even take shelter up on a roof and wait things out up there.

Source: How to Survive and Escape a Riot Without a Scratch

This tip from Secrets of Survival is an option that you should consider. I like the suggestion to head out a back door. Now you’ve added a building between you and the largest part of the rioting and you’re more likely to be able to get out of the area.

#12 - Prepare yourself for an attack.

When talking about self-defense in a riot situation, things get even more difficult. Depending on the size of the crowd, pulling a gun or other defensive weapon can cause far more harm than good. If you’re perceived to be a threat to the riot itself, everyone around you will work to take you down, and you can’t fight everyone.

This is why escape and evasion are the only truly safe ways to avoid a fight in a riot. Now, if you’re currently being attacked, all bets are off. Do whatever you can to survive if you’re actively being attacked, including pulling your gun. Just remember you’re in a crowd and the chances of an innocent being hurt are extremely high. Basically, consider it your very last resort.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

The likelihood of getting into a fight during social unrest is high. Hopefully, you’re in a place that allows you to be armed.

Do whatever you need to in order to defend yourself. Once you’re in a fight, most of the other suggestions go out the door. The one thing that I’d still be conscious of is the presence of police. Not because you should be worried about getting in trouble, but because you could mistakenly become the “bad guy” if all they see is you pulling a weapon to defend yourself.

Try to stay on your feet when you’re facing multiple opponents like this. Going to the ground makes it really easy for people to kick and stomp on you.

If you do go to the ground, get up as soon as possible and make sure you cover your head. If someone manages to knock you out, you’ll be at the mercy of the mob.

Check out our other defense and tactical articles and gear reviews.

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What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest

In today’s America, companies like Facebook and Google wield as much (or even more) power than the U.S. government. The one big difference between these super companies and governments is the fact that there are no checks and balances to ensure that they don’t abuse their power.

What happens when they succeed at diving the American people? Are you ready for the potential social unrest?

Facebook has been on the defensive recently as comments made by two former insiders reignited a firestorm about whether social media, Facebook in particular, has become an increasingly toxic force that tears apart the very fabric of society by turning us into mindless zombies susceptible to the slightest suggestion.

Facebook itself waded into the controversy, summarizing research suggesting that the platform can be both bad and good for our mental health. Stepping back from the hype and hyperbole, is it really the case that social media might truly be a force for evil in our modern world, ripping us apart in ways that undermine the very idea of self-government? Or is it merely a bystander, giving us a new digital window through which to observe inevitable natural societal change with newfound visibility?

Source: Is Facebook Driving Our Country Apart?

How to Survive a Riot

The forces at work in America today are making it more likely than ever that widespread social unrest may be right around any corner. Follow these 12 tips and the chances of you making it out relatively unscathed are pretty good.

#1 - Avoidance is your best bet.

Being smart and avoiding any kind of social unrest is going to be the best thing you can do. Keeping an eye on social media is a great way to stay abreast of any possible out of control situations.

#2 - Stay calm and move away from the crowd.

Riots bring intense emotions boiling to the surface, but if you want to survive one you’d be better off keeping your own emotions in check. Your adrenaline and survival instincts will kick in, but strive to think rationally and pursue safety methodically.

Avoid confrontation by keeping your head down.

Walk at all times. If you run or move too quickly, you might attract unwanted attention.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

Getting excited and allowing your emotions to influence your decisions is always a bad idea. Sometimes it’s easier said than done but staying calm will get you far in most disaster situations.

#3 - Keep your family and friends close.

If you happen to get caught up in a riot and have a loved one with you, you have more to worry about than just yourself. Try to keep them in front of you and within arms reach at all times. This will allow you to hold on to them and keep them in sight as you move to a safer area.

#4 - Try to blend in with the crowd until you can make an escape.

Don’t do anything stupid that’s going to get you arrested, but you want to look like you are part of the crowd. Now is not the time to voice your opinion, or prove some political point. If someone tries engaging you in conversation, mirror what they are saying and let them think you are on their side.

Source: How to Survive a Riot: What to do if you find yourself in the Middle of a Riot

Try to blend in if you can. Not being noticed is often almost as good as not being there. As always, you’re looking for a way out so you can move to a safe area. As soon as you get a chance, calmly make your escape.

#5 - Trust your instincts.

Today, people are taught that feeling insecure or being alert to danger when you’re in a bad part of town is racist or in some way reflects poorly on you. Put that out of your head.

We have countless years of instincts working inside of us, telling us when a situation is dangerous. Holding all of that back is a couple hundred years of society making us second guess every feeling.

If you feel like there is the possibility that you’re in danger, then there probably is. Be especially alert at these times!

#6 - If you’re in a car and get surrounded, stay calm.

If you’re caught up in a car, stay calm.  If your vehicle does become a target, quickly and calmly leave it behind.  Your Toyota is not worth dying for. If people block your escape route, honk your horn, and carefully drive through or around them at a moderate speed, and they should get out of the way. This is a last resort; never put someone else’s life in danger unless they are putting yours there first.

Driving towards police lines can be interpreted by the police as use of a deadly weapon and in the heat of the moment, they may react with deadly force.

Source: 10 Riot Survival Tips for Patriots

If you feel that your life is in danger, then do whatever you need to keep yourself safe. The quote above suggests leaving your car and walking away. This is a decision that you have to make for yourself.

If people are attacking your car, that indicates to me that they will also be willing to attack you if you get out.

I suggest turning around and driving away if at all possible. It’s going to be very difficult to explain how your life was being threatened if you drive through a crowd at 60 miles an hour and could have simply turned around.

#7 - Don’t try to be a hero.

If you see rioters looting and destroying property, don’t try to stop them. You’re outnumbered and material things can be replaced.

If you see another person in danger then you’re going to have to make a decision. Do you try to intervene? Do you just go the other way? Think it through before you make a choice.

Charging in only to become a victim yourself doesn’t help anyone. Walking away when you can save a life could haunt you forever. It’s a difficult choice that everyone will have to make for themselves.

#8 - Don’t run at the police.

The police are, understandably, on high alert during a large disturbance, even if they aren’t actively stopping the rioting. If you run at the police or make other movements that can be seen as aggressive, it’s possible that you’ll be mistaken as a threat.

You’re better off not approaching the police at all unless you’re in need of help. When you do approach them, make sure you’re as calm as possible and aren’t carrying anything that can be mistaken as a weapon.

#9 - Prepare your home or business beforehand at all possible.

Sometimes riots can start at a moments notice, other times you’ll have a lot of time to prepare.

If you live where some form of social unrest is occurring, or you own a business in the area, you may be tempted to stay and defend your property.

There is no way to secure your home or business enough to keep people out if they are motivated enough. Reinforcing the windows and doors with plywood will at least keep the laziest of rioters out and slow down the motivated ones.

Hiding inside and hoping for the best isn’t going to work very well. You can look to pictures from the LA riots where armed store owners protected their shops from the rooftops. Keep this in mind, they were not working alone. They either joined forces and worked together or brought in friends, family, and employees to assist them.

If you can’t protect the building from the roof or other high ground, you can always use furniture and other heavy objects to slow rioters as they enter the doors. This same technique can be used to funnel rioters into a narrow field of fire if necessary.

#10 - Stay away from large moving crowds.

#11 - If you see an open door, go inside.

I don’t care if it’s a bank or a supermarket. If you can’t go home, it’s better to go inside than to stay outside where the blood is spilling. Caveat: it’s likely that the protesters will go inside as well but you’re still better off inside. For one, not all of them are going to go inside. Second, inside you’ve got options:

You can find a back door to get out.

You can go to an upper floor where no one will follow you or possibly even take shelter up on a roof and wait things out up there.

Source: How to Survive and Escape a Riot Without a Scratch

This tip from Secrets of Survival is an option that you should consider. I like the suggestion to head out a back door. Now you’ve added a building between you and the largest part of the rioting and you’re more likely to be able to get out of the area.

#12 - Prepare yourself for an attack.

When talking about self-defense in a riot situation, things get even more difficult. Depending on the size of the crowd, pulling a gun or other defensive weapon can cause far more harm than good. If you’re perceived to be a threat to the riot itself, everyone around you will work to take you down, and you can’t fight everyone.

This is why escape and evasion are the only truly safe ways to avoid a fight in a riot. Now, if you’re currently being attacked, all bets are off. Do whatever you can to survive if you’re actively being attacked, including pulling your gun. Just remember you’re in a crowd and the chances of an innocent being hurt are extremely high. Basically, consider it your very last resort.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

The likelihood of getting into a fight during social unrest is high. Hopefully, you’re in a place that allows you to be armed.

Do whatever you need to in order to defend yourself. Once you’re in a fight, most of the other suggestions go out the door. The one thing that I’d still be conscious of is the presence of police. Not because you should be worried about getting in trouble, but because you could mistakenly become the “bad guy” if all they see is you pulling a weapon to defend yourself.

Try to stay on your feet when you’re facing multiple opponents like this. Going to the ground makes it really easy for people to kick and stomp on you.

If you do go to the ground, get up as soon as possible and make sure you cover your head. If someone manages to knock you out, you’ll be at the mercy of the mob.

Check out our other defense and tactical articles and gear reviews.

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What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest

In today’s America, companies like Facebook and Google wield as much (or even more) power than the U.S. government. The one big difference between these super companies and governments is the fact that there are no checks and balances to ensure that they don’t abuse their power.

What happens when they succeed at diving the American people? Are you ready for the potential social unrest?

Facebook has been on the defensive recently as comments made by two former insiders reignited a firestorm about whether social media, Facebook in particular, has become an increasingly toxic force that tears apart the very fabric of society by turning us into mindless zombies susceptible to the slightest suggestion.

Facebook itself waded into the controversy, summarizing research suggesting that the platform can be both bad and good for our mental health. Stepping back from the hype and hyperbole, is it really the case that social media might truly be a force for evil in our modern world, ripping us apart in ways that undermine the very idea of self-government? Or is it merely a bystander, giving us a new digital window through which to observe inevitable natural societal change with newfound visibility?

Source: Is Facebook Driving Our Country Apart?

How to Survive a Riot

The forces at work in America today are making it more likely than ever that widespread social unrest may be right around any corner. Follow these 12 tips and the chances of you making it out relatively unscathed are pretty good.

#1 - Avoidance is your best bet.

Being smart and avoiding any kind of social unrest is going to be the best thing you can do. Keeping an eye on social media is a great way to stay abreast of any possible out of control situations.

#2 - Stay calm and move away from the crowd.

Riots bring intense emotions boiling to the surface, but if you want to survive one you’d be better off keeping your own emotions in check. Your adrenaline and survival instincts will kick in, but strive to think rationally and pursue safety methodically.

Avoid confrontation by keeping your head down.

Walk at all times. If you run or move too quickly, you might attract unwanted attention.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

Getting excited and allowing your emotions to influence your decisions is always a bad idea. Sometimes it’s easier said than done but staying calm will get you far in most disaster situations.

#3 - Keep your family and friends close.

If you happen to get caught up in a riot and have a loved one with you, you have more to worry about than just yourself. Try to keep them in front of you and within arms reach at all times. This will allow you to hold on to them and keep them in sight as you move to a safer area.

#4 - Try to blend in with the crowd until you can make an escape.

Don’t do anything stupid that’s going to get you arrested, but you want to look like you are part of the crowd. Now is not the time to voice your opinion, or prove some political point. If someone tries engaging you in conversation, mirror what they are saying and let them think you are on their side.

Source: How to Survive a Riot: What to do if you find yourself in the Middle of a Riot

Try to blend in if you can. Not being noticed is often almost as good as not being there. As always, you’re looking for a way out so you can move to a safe area. As soon as you get a chance, calmly make your escape.

#5 - Trust your instincts.

Today, people are taught that feeling insecure or being alert to danger when you’re in a bad part of town is racist or in some way reflects poorly on you. Put that out of your head.

We have countless years of instincts working inside of us, telling us when a situation is dangerous. Holding all of that back is a couple hundred years of society making us second guess every feeling.

If you feel like there is the possibility that you’re in danger, then there probably is. Be especially alert at these times!

#6 - If you’re in a car and get surrounded, stay calm.

If you’re caught up in a car, stay calm.  If your vehicle does become a target, quickly and calmly leave it behind.  Your Toyota is not worth dying for. If people block your escape route, honk your horn, and carefully drive through or around them at a moderate speed, and they should get out of the way. This is a last resort; never put someone else’s life in danger unless they are putting yours there first.

Driving towards police lines can be interpreted by the police as use of a deadly weapon and in the heat of the moment, they may react with deadly force.

Source: 10 Riot Survival Tips for Patriots

If you feel that your life is in danger, then do whatever you need to keep yourself safe. The quote above suggests leaving your car and walking away. This is a decision that you have to make for yourself.

If people are attacking your car, that indicates to me that they will also be willing to attack you if you get out.

I suggest turning around and driving away if at all possible. It’s going to be very difficult to explain how your life was being threatened if you drive through a crowd at 60 miles an hour and could have simply turned around.

#7 - Don’t try to be a hero.

If you see rioters looting and destroying property, don’t try to stop them. You’re outnumbered and material things can be replaced.

If you see another person in danger then you’re going to have to make a decision. Do you try to intervene? Do you just go the other way? Think it through before you make a choice.

Charging in only to become a victim yourself doesn’t help anyone. Walking away when you can save a life could haunt you forever. It’s a difficult choice that everyone will have to make for themselves.

#8 - Don’t run at the police.

The police are, understandably, on high alert during a large disturbance, even if they aren’t actively stopping the rioting. If you run at the police or make other movements that can be seen as aggressive, it’s possible that you’ll be mistaken as a threat.

You’re better off not approaching the police at all unless you’re in need of help. When you do approach them, make sure you’re as calm as possible and aren’t carrying anything that can be mistaken as a weapon.

#9 - Prepare your home or business beforehand at all possible.

Sometimes riots can start at a moments notice, other times you’ll have a lot of time to prepare.

If you live where some form of social unrest is occurring, or you own a business in the area, you may be tempted to stay and defend your property.

There is no way to secure your home or business enough to keep people out if they are motivated enough. Reinforcing the windows and doors with plywood will at least keep the laziest of rioters out and slow down the motivated ones.

Hiding inside and hoping for the best isn’t going to work very well. You can look to pictures from the LA riots where armed store owners protected their shops from the rooftops. Keep this in mind, they were not working alone. They either joined forces and worked together or brought in friends, family, and employees to assist them.

If you can’t protect the building from the roof or other high ground, you can always use furniture and other heavy objects to slow rioters as they enter the doors. This same technique can be used to funnel rioters into a narrow field of fire if necessary.

#10 - Stay away from large moving crowds.

#11 - If you see an open door, go inside.

I don’t care if it’s a bank or a supermarket. If you can’t go home, it’s better to go inside than to stay outside where the blood is spilling. Caveat: it’s likely that the protesters will go inside as well but you’re still better off inside. For one, not all of them are going to go inside. Second, inside you’ve got options:

You can find a back door to get out.

You can go to an upper floor where no one will follow you or possibly even take shelter up on a roof and wait things out up there.

Source: How to Survive and Escape a Riot Without a Scratch

This tip from Secrets of Survival is an option that you should consider. I like the suggestion to head out a back door. Now you’ve added a building between you and the largest part of the rioting and you’re more likely to be able to get out of the area.

#12 - Prepare yourself for an attack.

When talking about self-defense in a riot situation, things get even more difficult. Depending on the size of the crowd, pulling a gun or other defensive weapon can cause far more harm than good. If you’re perceived to be a threat to the riot itself, everyone around you will work to take you down, and you can’t fight everyone.

This is why escape and evasion are the only truly safe ways to avoid a fight in a riot. Now, if you’re currently being attacked, all bets are off. Do whatever you can to survive if you’re actively being attacked, including pulling your gun. Just remember you’re in a crowd and the chances of an innocent being hurt are extremely high. Basically, consider it your very last resort.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

The likelihood of getting into a fight during social unrest is high. Hopefully, you’re in a place that allows you to be armed.

Do whatever you need to in order to defend yourself. Once you’re in a fight, most of the other suggestions go out the door. The one thing that I’d still be conscious of is the presence of police. Not because you should be worried about getting in trouble, but because you could mistakenly become the “bad guy” if all they see is you pulling a weapon to defend yourself.

Try to stay on your feet when you’re facing multiple opponents like this. Going to the ground makes it really easy for people to kick and stomp on you.

If you do go to the ground, get up as soon as possible and make sure you cover your head. If someone manages to knock you out, you’ll be at the mercy of the mob.

Check out our other defense and tactical articles and gear reviews.

The article What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest was first seen on: www.readylifestyle.com

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What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest

In today’s America, companies like Facebook and Google wield as much (or even more) power than the U.S. government. The one big difference between these super companies and governments is the fact that there are no checks and balances to ensure that they don’t abuse their power.

What happens when they succeed at diving the American people? Are you ready for the potential social unrest?

Facebook has been on the defensive recently as comments made by two former insiders reignited a firestorm about whether social media, Facebook in particular, has become an increasingly toxic force that tears apart the very fabric of society by turning us into mindless zombies susceptible to the slightest suggestion.

Facebook itself waded into the controversy, summarizing research suggesting that the platform can be both bad and good for our mental health. Stepping back from the hype and hyperbole, is it really the case that social media might truly be a force for evil in our modern world, ripping us apart in ways that undermine the very idea of self-government? Or is it merely a bystander, giving us a new digital window through which to observe inevitable natural societal change with newfound visibility?

Source: Is Facebook Driving Our Country Apart?

How to Survive a Riot

The forces at work in America today are making it more likely than ever that widespread social unrest may be right around any corner. Follow these 12 tips and the chances of you making it out relatively unscathed are pretty good.

#1 - Avoidance is your best bet.

Being smart and avoiding any kind of social unrest is going to be the best thing you can do. Keeping an eye on social media is a great way to stay abreast of any possible out of control situations.

#2 - Stay calm and move away from the crowd.

Riots bring intense emotions boiling to the surface, but if you want to survive one you’d be better off keeping your own emotions in check. Your adrenaline and survival instincts will kick in, but strive to think rationally and pursue safety methodically.

Avoid confrontation by keeping your head down.

Walk at all times. If you run or move too quickly, you might attract unwanted attention.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

Getting excited and allowing your emotions to influence your decisions is always a bad idea. Sometimes it’s easier said than done but staying calm will get you far in most disaster situations.

#3 - Keep your family and friends close.

If you happen to get caught up in a riot and have a loved one with you, you have more to worry about than just yourself. Try to keep them in front of you and within arms reach at all times. This will allow you to hold on to them and keep them in sight as you move to a safer area.

#4 - Try to blend in with the crowd until you can make an escape.

Don’t do anything stupid that’s going to get you arrested, but you want to look like you are part of the crowd. Now is not the time to voice your opinion, or prove some political point. If someone tries engaging you in conversation, mirror what they are saying and let them think you are on their side.

Source: How to Survive a Riot: What to do if you find yourself in the Middle of a Riot

Try to blend in if you can. Not being noticed is often almost as good as not being there. As always, you’re looking for a way out so you can move to a safe area. As soon as you get a chance, calmly make your escape.

#5 - Trust your instincts.

Today, people are taught that feeling insecure or being alert to danger when you’re in a bad part of town is racist or in some way reflects poorly on you. Put that out of your head.

We have countless years of instincts working inside of us, telling us when a situation is dangerous. Holding all of that back is a couple hundred years of society making us second guess every feeling.

If you feel like there is the possibility that you’re in danger, then there probably is. Be especially alert at these times!

#6 - If you’re in a car and get surrounded, stay calm.

If you’re caught up in a car, stay calm.  If your vehicle does become a target, quickly and calmly leave it behind.  Your Toyota is not worth dying for. If people block your escape route, honk your horn, and carefully drive through or around them at a moderate speed, and they should get out of the way. This is a last resort; never put someone else’s life in danger unless they are putting yours there first.

Driving towards police lines can be interpreted by the police as use of a deadly weapon and in the heat of the moment, they may react with deadly force.

Source: 10 Riot Survival Tips for Patriots

If you feel that your life is in danger, then do whatever you need to keep yourself safe. The quote above suggests leaving your car and walking away. This is a decision that you have to make for yourself.

If people are attacking your car, that indicates to me that they will also be willing to attack you if you get out.

I suggest turning around and driving away if at all possible. It’s going to be very difficult to explain how your life was being threatened if you drive through a crowd at 60 miles an hour and could have simply turned around.

#7 - Don’t try to be a hero.

If you see rioters looting and destroying property, don’t try to stop them. You’re outnumbered and material things can be replaced.

If you see another person in danger then you’re going to have to make a decision. Do you try to intervene? Do you just go the other way? Think it through before you make a choice.

Charging in only to become a victim yourself doesn’t help anyone. Walking away when you can save a life could haunt you forever. It’s a difficult choice that everyone will have to make for themselves.

#8 - Don’t run at the police.

The police are, understandably, on high alert during a large disturbance, even if they aren’t actively stopping the rioting. If you run at the police or make other movements that can be seen as aggressive, it’s possible that you’ll be mistaken as a threat.

You’re better off not approaching the police at all unless you’re in need of help. When you do approach them, make sure you’re as calm as possible and aren’t carrying anything that can be mistaken as a weapon.

#9 - Prepare your home or business beforehand at all possible.

Sometimes riots can start at a moments notice, other times you’ll have a lot of time to prepare.

If you live where some form of social unrest is occurring, or you own a business in the area, you may be tempted to stay and defend your property.

There is no way to secure your home or business enough to keep people out if they are motivated enough. Reinforcing the windows and doors with plywood will at least keep the laziest of rioters out and slow down the motivated ones.

Hiding inside and hoping for the best isn’t going to work very well. You can look to pictures from the LA riots where armed store owners protected their shops from the rooftops. Keep this in mind, they were not working alone. They either joined forces and worked together or brought in friends, family, and employees to assist them.

If you can’t protect the building from the roof or other high ground, you can always use furniture and other heavy objects to slow rioters as they enter the doors. This same technique can be used to funnel rioters into a narrow field of fire if necessary.

#10 - Stay away from large moving crowds.

#11 - If you see an open door, go inside.

I don’t care if it’s a bank or a supermarket. If you can’t go home, it’s better to go inside than to stay outside where the blood is spilling. Caveat: it’s likely that the protesters will go inside as well but you’re still better off inside. For one, not all of them are going to go inside. Second, inside you’ve got options:

You can find a back door to get out.

You can go to an upper floor where no one will follow you or possibly even take shelter up on a roof and wait things out up there.

Source: How to Survive and Escape a Riot Without a Scratch

This tip from Secrets of Survival is an option that you should consider. I like the suggestion to head out a back door. Now you’ve added a building between you and the largest part of the rioting and you’re more likely to be able to get out of the area.

#12 - Prepare yourself for an attack.

When talking about self-defense in a riot situation, things get even more difficult. Depending on the size of the crowd, pulling a gun or other defensive weapon can cause far more harm than good. If you’re perceived to be a threat to the riot itself, everyone around you will work to take you down, and you can’t fight everyone.

This is why escape and evasion are the only truly safe ways to avoid a fight in a riot. Now, if you’re currently being attacked, all bets are off. Do whatever you can to survive if you’re actively being attacked, including pulling your gun. Just remember you’re in a crowd and the chances of an innocent being hurt are extremely high. Basically, consider it your very last resort.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

The likelihood of getting into a fight during social unrest is high. Hopefully, you’re in a place that allows you to be armed.

Do whatever you need to in order to defend yourself. Once you’re in a fight, most of the other suggestions go out the door. The one thing that I’d still be conscious of is the presence of police. Not because you should be worried about getting in trouble, but because you could mistakenly become the “bad guy” if all they see is you pulling a weapon to defend yourself.

Try to stay on your feet when you’re facing multiple opponents like this. Going to the ground makes it really easy for people to kick and stomp on you.

If you do go to the ground, get up as soon as possible and make sure you cover your head. If someone manages to knock you out, you’ll be at the mercy of the mob.

Check out our other defense and tactical articles and gear reviews.

The previous article What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest is courtesy of: http://readylifestyle.com

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What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest

In today’s America, companies like Facebook and Google wield as much (or even more) power than the U.S. government. The one big difference between these super companies and governments is the fact that there are no checks and balances to ensure that they don’t abuse their power.

What happens when they succeed at diving the American people? Are you ready for the potential social unrest?

Facebook has been on the defensive recently as comments made by two former insiders reignited a firestorm about whether social media, Facebook in particular, has become an increasingly toxic force that tears apart the very fabric of society by turning us into mindless zombies susceptible to the slightest suggestion.

Facebook itself waded into the controversy, summarizing research suggesting that the platform can be both bad and good for our mental health. Stepping back from the hype and hyperbole, is it really the case that social media might truly be a force for evil in our modern world, ripping us apart in ways that undermine the very idea of self-government? Or is it merely a bystander, giving us a new digital window through which to observe inevitable natural societal change with newfound visibility?

Source: Is Facebook Driving Our Country Apart?

How to Survive a Riot

The forces at work in America today are making it more likely than ever that widespread social unrest may be right around any corner. Follow these 12 tips and the chances of you making it out relatively unscathed are pretty good.

#1 - Avoidance is your best bet.

Being smart and avoiding any kind of social unrest is going to be the best thing you can do. Keeping an eye on social media is a great way to stay abreast of any possible out of control situations.

#2 - Stay calm and move away from the crowd.

Riots bring intense emotions boiling to the surface, but if you want to survive one you’d be better off keeping your own emotions in check. Your adrenaline and survival instincts will kick in, but strive to think rationally and pursue safety methodically.

Avoid confrontation by keeping your head down.

Walk at all times. If you run or move too quickly, you might attract unwanted attention.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

Getting excited and allowing your emotions to influence your decisions is always a bad idea. Sometimes it’s easier said than done but staying calm will get you far in most disaster situations.

#3 - Keep your family and friends close.

If you happen to get caught up in a riot and have a loved one with you, you have more to worry about than just yourself. Try to keep them in front of you and within arms reach at all times. This will allow you to hold on to them and keep them in sight as you move to a safer area.

#4 - Try to blend in with the crowd until you can make an escape.

Don’t do anything stupid that’s going to get you arrested, but you want to look like you are part of the crowd. Now is not the time to voice your opinion, or prove some political point. If someone tries engaging you in conversation, mirror what they are saying and let them think you are on their side.

Source: How to Survive a Riot: What to do if you find yourself in the Middle of a Riot

Try to blend in if you can. Not being noticed is often almost as good as not being there. As always, you’re looking for a way out so you can move to a safe area. As soon as you get a chance, calmly make your escape.

#5 - Trust your instincts.

Today, people are taught that feeling insecure or being alert to danger when you’re in a bad part of town is racist or in some way reflects poorly on you. Put that out of your head.

We have countless years of instincts working inside of us, telling us when a situation is dangerous. Holding all of that back is a couple hundred years of society making us second guess every feeling.

If you feel like there is the possibility that you’re in danger, then there probably is. Be especially alert at these times!

#6 - If you’re in a car and get surrounded, stay calm.

If you’re caught up in a car, stay calm.  If your vehicle does become a target, quickly and calmly leave it behind.  Your Toyota is not worth dying for. If people block your escape route, honk your horn, and carefully drive through or around them at a moderate speed, and they should get out of the way. This is a last resort; never put someone else’s life in danger unless they are putting yours there first.

Driving towards police lines can be interpreted by the police as use of a deadly weapon and in the heat of the moment, they may react with deadly force.

Source: 10 Riot Survival Tips for Patriots

If you feel that your life is in danger, then do whatever you need to keep yourself safe. The quote above suggests leaving your car and walking away. This is a decision that you have to make for yourself.

If people are attacking your car, that indicates to me that they will also be willing to attack you if you get out.

I suggest turning around and driving away if at all possible. It’s going to be very difficult to explain how your life was being threatened if you drive through a crowd at 60 miles an hour and could have simply turned around.

#7 - Don’t try to be a hero.

If you see rioters looting and destroying property, don’t try to stop them. You’re outnumbered and material things can be replaced.

If you see another person in danger then you’re going to have to make a decision. Do you try to intervene? Do you just go the other way? Think it through before you make a choice.

Charging in only to become a victim yourself doesn’t help anyone. Walking away when you can save a life could haunt you forever. It’s a difficult choice that everyone will have to make for themselves.

#8 - Don’t run at the police.

The police are, understandably, on high alert during a large disturbance, even if they aren’t actively stopping the rioting. If you run at the police or make other movements that can be seen as aggressive, it’s possible that you’ll be mistaken as a threat.

You’re better off not approaching the police at all unless you’re in need of help. When you do approach them, make sure you’re as calm as possible and aren’t carrying anything that can be mistaken as a weapon.

#9 - Prepare your home or business beforehand at all possible.

Sometimes riots can start at a moments notice, other times you’ll have a lot of time to prepare.

If you live where some form of social unrest is occurring, or you own a business in the area, you may be tempted to stay and defend your property.

There is no way to secure your home or business enough to keep people out if they are motivated enough. Reinforcing the windows and doors with plywood will at least keep the laziest of rioters out and slow down the motivated ones.

Hiding inside and hoping for the best isn’t going to work very well. You can look to pictures from the LA riots where armed store owners protected their shops from the rooftops. Keep this in mind, they were not working alone. They either joined forces and worked together or brought in friends, family, and employees to assist them.

If you can’t protect the building from the roof or other high ground, you can always use furniture and other heavy objects to slow rioters as they enter the doors. This same technique can be used to funnel rioters into a narrow field of fire if necessary.

#10 - Stay away from large moving crowds.

#11 - If you see an open door, go inside.

I don’t care if it’s a bank or a supermarket. If you can’t go home, it’s better to go inside than to stay outside where the blood is spilling. Caveat: it’s likely that the protesters will go inside as well but you’re still better off inside. For one, not all of them are going to go inside. Second, inside you’ve got options:

You can find a back door to get out.

You can go to an upper floor where no one will follow you or possibly even take shelter up on a roof and wait things out up there.

Source: How to Survive and Escape a Riot Without a Scratch

This tip from Secrets of Survival is an option that you should consider. I like the suggestion to head out a back door. Now you’ve added a building between you and the largest part of the rioting and you’re more likely to be able to get out of the area.

#12 - Prepare yourself for an attack.

When talking about self-defense in a riot situation, things get even more difficult. Depending on the size of the crowd, pulling a gun or other defensive weapon can cause far more harm than good. If you’re perceived to be a threat to the riot itself, everyone around you will work to take you down, and you can’t fight everyone.

This is why escape and evasion are the only truly safe ways to avoid a fight in a riot. Now, if you’re currently being attacked, all bets are off. Do whatever you can to survive if you’re actively being attacked, including pulling your gun. Just remember you’re in a crowd and the chances of an innocent being hurt are extremely high. Basically, consider it your very last resort.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

The likelihood of getting into a fight during social unrest is high. Hopefully, you’re in a place that allows you to be armed.

Do whatever you need to in order to defend yourself. Once you’re in a fight, most of the other suggestions go out the door. The one thing that I’d still be conscious of is the presence of police. Not because you should be worried about getting in trouble, but because you could mistakenly become the “bad guy” if all they see is you pulling a weapon to defend yourself.

Try to stay on your feet when you’re facing multiple opponents like this. Going to the ground makes it really easy for people to kick and stomp on you.

If you do go to the ground, get up as soon as possible and make sure you cover your head. If someone manages to knock you out, you’ll be at the mercy of the mob.

Check out our other defense and tactical articles and gear reviews.

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What Do You Do If You’re Caught In a Riot? – 12 Tips to Survive Social Unrest

In today’s America, companies like Facebook and Google wield as much (or even more) power than the U.S. government. The one big difference between these super companies and governments is the fact that there are no checks and balances to ensure that they don’t abuse their power.

What happens when they succeed at diving the American people? Are you ready for the potential social unrest?

Facebook has been on the defensive recently as comments made by two former insiders reignited a firestorm about whether social media, Facebook in particular, has become an increasingly toxic force that tears apart the very fabric of society by turning us into mindless zombies susceptible to the slightest suggestion.

Facebook itself waded into the controversy, summarizing research suggesting that the platform can be both bad and good for our mental health. Stepping back from the hype and hyperbole, is it really the case that social media might truly be a force for evil in our modern world, ripping us apart in ways that undermine the very idea of self-government? Or is it merely a bystander, giving us a new digital window through which to observe inevitable natural societal change with newfound visibility?

Source: Is Facebook Driving Our Country Apart?

How to Survive a Riot

The forces at work in America today are making it more likely than ever that widespread social unrest may be right around any corner. Follow these 12 tips and the chances of you making it out relatively unscathed are pretty good.

#1 - Avoidance is your best bet.

Being smart and avoiding any kind of social unrest is going to be the best thing you can do. Keeping an eye on social media is a great way to stay abreast of any possible out of control situations.

#2 - Stay calm and move away from the crowd.

Riots bring intense emotions boiling to the surface, but if you want to survive one you’d be better off keeping your own emotions in check. Your adrenaline and survival instincts will kick in, but strive to think rationally and pursue safety methodically.

Avoid confrontation by keeping your head down.

Walk at all times. If you run or move too quickly, you might attract unwanted attention.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

Getting excited and allowing your emotions to influence your decisions is always a bad idea. Sometimes it’s easier said than done but staying calm will get you far in most disaster situations.

#3 - Keep your family and friends close.

If you happen to get caught up in a riot and have a loved one with you, you have more to worry about than just yourself. Try to keep them in front of you and within arms reach at all times. This will allow you to hold on to them and keep them in sight as you move to a safer area.

#4 - Try to blend in with the crowd until you can make an escape.

Don’t do anything stupid that’s going to get you arrested, but you want to look like you are part of the crowd. Now is not the time to voice your opinion, or prove some political point. If someone tries engaging you in conversation, mirror what they are saying and let them think you are on their side.

Source: How to Survive a Riot: What to do if you find yourself in the Middle of a Riot

Try to blend in if you can. Not being noticed is often almost as good as not being there. As always, you’re looking for a way out so you can move to a safe area. As soon as you get a chance, calmly make your escape.

#5 - Trust your instincts.

Today, people are taught that feeling insecure or being alert to danger when you’re in a bad part of town is racist or in some way reflects poorly on you. Put that out of your head.

We have countless years of instincts working inside of us, telling us when a situation is dangerous. Holding all of that back is a couple hundred years of society making us second guess every feeling.

If you feel like there is the possibility that you’re in danger, then there probably is. Be especially alert at these times!

#6 - If you’re in a car and get surrounded, stay calm.

If you’re caught up in a car, stay calm.  If your vehicle does become a target, quickly and calmly leave it behind.  Your Toyota is not worth dying for. If people block your escape route, honk your horn, and carefully drive through or around them at a moderate speed, and they should get out of the way. This is a last resort; never put someone else’s life in danger unless they are putting yours there first.

Driving towards police lines can be interpreted by the police as use of a deadly weapon and in the heat of the moment, they may react with deadly force.

Source: 10 Riot Survival Tips for Patriots

If you feel that your life is in danger, then do whatever you need to keep yourself safe. The quote above suggests leaving your car and walking away. This is a decision that you have to make for yourself.

If people are attacking your car, that indicates to me that they will also be willing to attack you if you get out.

I suggest turning around and driving away if at all possible. It’s going to be very difficult to explain how your life was being threatened if you drive through a crowd at 60 miles an hour and could have simply turned around.

#7 - Don’t try to be a hero.

If you see rioters looting and destroying property, don’t try to stop them. You’re outnumbered and material things can be replaced.

If you see another person in danger then you’re going to have to make a decision. Do you try to intervene? Do you just go the other way? Think it through before you make a choice.

Charging in only to become a victim yourself doesn’t help anyone. Walking away when you can save a life could haunt you forever. It’s a difficult choice that everyone will have to make for themselves.

#8 - Don’t run at the police.

The police are, understandably, on high alert during a large disturbance, even if they aren’t actively stopping the rioting. If you run at the police or make other movements that can be seen as aggressive, it’s possible that you’ll be mistaken as a threat.

You’re better off not approaching the police at all unless you’re in need of help. When you do approach them, make sure you’re as calm as possible and aren’t carrying anything that can be mistaken as a weapon.

#9 - Prepare your home or business beforehand at all possible.

Sometimes riots can start at a moments notice, other times you’ll have a lot of time to prepare.

If you live where some form of social unrest is occurring, or you own a business in the area, you may be tempted to stay and defend your property.

There is no way to secure your home or business enough to keep people out if they are motivated enough. Reinforcing the windows and doors with plywood will at least keep the laziest of rioters out and slow down the motivated ones.

Hiding inside and hoping for the best isn’t going to work very well. You can look to pictures from the LA riots where armed store owners protected their shops from the rooftops. Keep this in mind, they were not working alone. They either joined forces and worked together or brought in friends, family, and employees to assist them.

If you can’t protect the building from the roof or other high ground, you can always use furniture and other heavy objects to slow rioters as they enter the doors. This same technique can be used to funnel rioters into a narrow field of fire if necessary.

#10 - Stay away from large moving crowds.

#11 - If you see an open door, go inside.

I don’t care if it’s a bank or a supermarket. If you can’t go home, it’s better to go inside than to stay outside where the blood is spilling. Caveat: it’s likely that the protesters will go inside as well but you’re still better off inside. For one, not all of them are going to go inside. Second, inside you’ve got options:

You can find a back door to get out.

You can go to an upper floor where no one will follow you or possibly even take shelter up on a roof and wait things out up there.

Source: How to Survive and Escape a Riot Without a Scratch

This tip from Secrets of Survival is an option that you should consider. I like the suggestion to head out a back door. Now you’ve added a building between you and the largest part of the rioting and you’re more likely to be able to get out of the area.

#12 - Prepare yourself for an attack.

When talking about self-defense in a riot situation, things get even more difficult. Depending on the size of the crowd, pulling a gun or other defensive weapon can cause far more harm than good. If you’re perceived to be a threat to the riot itself, everyone around you will work to take you down, and you can’t fight everyone.

This is why escape and evasion are the only truly safe ways to avoid a fight in a riot. Now, if you’re currently being attacked, all bets are off. Do whatever you can to survive if you’re actively being attacked, including pulling your gun. Just remember you’re in a crowd and the chances of an innocent being hurt are extremely high. Basically, consider it your very last resort.

Source: How to Survive a Riot

The likelihood of getting into a fight during social unrest is high. Hopefully, you’re in a place that allows you to be armed.

Do whatever you need to in order to defend yourself. Once you’re in a fight, most of the other suggestions go out the door. The one thing that I’d still be conscious of is the presence of police. Not because you should be worried about getting in trouble, but because you could mistakenly become the “bad guy” if all they see is you pulling a weapon to defend yourself.

Try to stay on your feet when you’re facing multiple opponents like this. Going to the ground makes it really easy for people to kick and stomp on you.

If you do go to the ground, get up as soon as possible and make sure you cover your head. If someone manages to knock you out, you’ll be at the mercy of the mob.

Check out our other defense and tactical articles and gear reviews.

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