Don’t get mad get gladiatorial.

What does that even mean? Solve your problems with violence? Eat your problems away? Don’t get mad, get even madder? When life gets you down, shove people into an arena and make them fight each other for your amusement? Face obstacles bravely and defy the odds against you? Yeah, that one. That’s what I mean.

This phrase just popped into my head one day and here we are. Gladiatorial combat- a real life Hunger Games but without all the waiting around – was a popular sport for many centuries. Popular with the people in the seats, of course. Probably not so popular with the people who were thrown into combat against their will so that their gruesome deaths could be cheered by a crowd. But those people wouldn’t know good entertainment if it bit them in the face.