See also:, read (somebody) the ˈRiot Act ( British English) tell somebody forcefully and angrily that you will punish them if they do not stop behaving badly; be angry with somebody who has behaved badly: The headmaster came in and read the Riot Act. He said he would keep us in after school if there was one more complaint about us.In 1715 the Riot Act was passed in Parliament. Groups of more than twelve people were not allowed to meet in public. If they did, an official came to read them the Riot Act, which ordered them to stop the meeting. To issue a severe reprimand. The term comes from a British law, the Riot Act of 1714, which required literally reading aloud a proclamation in order to disperse a crowd (defined as a gathering of twelve or more persons). The proclamation stated, “Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves and peaceably to depart to their habitations.” Whoever did not obey within an hour was guilty of a felony punishable by law.

By the mid-nineteenth century reading the riot act was used figuratively for a vigorous scolding, as Dickens used it in Barnaby Rudge (1840): “The Riot Act was read.”.

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For Eddie Vedder, rock radio must seem like a fun-house mirror, a medium in which the most easily caricatured aspects of his vexed bellow are distorted by the Scott Stapps of the world into messianic bombast. You can’t blame the guy for feeling the need to chill out. On Riot Act, Vedder cautiously mutters his vocals as though a baby is asleep in the next room. Even when he takes a swipe at the “Bush Leaguer” in the Oval Office, he sounds too weary to work up the contempt he finds the president so far beneath.Despite some clever sonic choices — Stone Gossard’s guitar imitates a malfunctioning modem on “Wanted to Get Right,” and Achtung Baby delay effects are sprinkled throughout — the band has eschewed the experimental tweaks producer Tchad Blake brought to 2000’s Binaural. The familiarity of this straightforward tumble sounds tired — the musicians struggle to put their backs and hearts into the Mudhoney-ish rocker “Save You.” But like Neil Young at his most deliberately despondent, sound purposefully tired. Songs such as “Can’t Keep” fall subtly into their choruses rather than explode into anthems because Vedder and his mates are too honest to indulge in the showboating of today’s power balladeers.

Anyone can fake a heroic stand in the studio. It’s more challenging to quietly voice your need to take a step back. Facebook simcity social.