Straight Edge

[MikeH]

Who says that I'm not respecting your lifestyle. If you read the OP, you'd know that I haven't done anything to bash your "way of life". And what the fuck is the dead animals thing about? Nowhere in this thread has anyone really brought up vegetarianism, nor am I a vegetarian. And you say that life's too short to care about what you drink? Makes total sense considering there's over 100,000 alcohol related deaths per year.

 

[7 Dying Trees]

Personally I've had a good giggle at a few people who claimed to be straight edge over the years, and as a concept I do find it quite silly. One of them explained to me he was straight edge. He worked in McDonalds. Hmmmm.....

If you don't drink, don't smoke, don't take chemicals, are vegan and don't fuck around, then that just makes you a person who has decided for one reason or another not to do things. Just like other people have decided to drink, to smoke, to play guitar, spend a lot of money on a holiday, you name it.

It's all choices, and everyone makes them.

However, having to label yourself in order to prove something is a bit lame in those aspects, sorry. I mean, seriously, I've done not drinking, no eating meat, a few other things here and there, and all through it people have asked me why, and the simple answer has been that i was doing it because i wanted to.

Now, that doesn't mean I have to label myself.

Just because I don't label myself as straight edge, it doesn't mean that I go off buy a hit of crack, bottle of wine and then go and fornicate the homeless for fun.

Also, if I am not drinking, i don't advertise the fact by wearing sone symbol on me, making myself look like I am in some way superior morally or on other grounds than someone else.

For the record, i smoke,drink,consume cute fluffy animals,fornicate and abuse chemicals from time to time. Hell, i really don't care too much, none of it is a barrier to me doing shit I want to do, but I'll do it when i want to do it, and if i don't want to, i won't. Simple. Just like I don't want to play a clarinet, I don't claim I am some form of musical straight edge because I have seen to many of my friends travel down the rocky road to classical music...

I call myself bent-edge.

 

[friday11]

Who says that I'm not respecting your lifestyle. If you read the OP, you'd know that I haven't done anything to bash your "way of life". And what the fuck is the dead animals thing about? Nowhere in this thread has anyone really brought up vegetarianism, nor am I a vegetarian. And you say that life's too short to care about what you drink? Makes total sense considering there's over 100,000 alcohol related deaths per year.

Yeah I don't want to say that YOU are against "my" lifestyle! I've talked about these guys on this one concert! Maybe it's typical for my country/ area, but where I live they celebrate like a cult or something...

This thing with the "dead animals"...sorry for that...I just wanna use it for an arrangement...

 

[MikeH]

Ok then dude! Sorry for the mixup!

 

[ZeroSignal]

Personally I've had a good giggle at a few people who claimed to be straight edge over the years, and as a concept I do find it quite silly. One of them explained to me he was straight edge. He worked in McDonalds. Hmmmm.....

If you don't drink, don't smoke, don't take chemicals, are vegan and don't fuck around, then that just makes you a person who has decided for one reason or another not to do things. Just like other people have decided to drink, to smoke, to play guitar, spend a lot of money on a holiday, you name it.

It's all choices, and everyone makes them.

However, having to label yourself in order to prove something is a bit lame in those aspects, sorry. I mean, seriously, I've done not drinking, no eating meat, a few other things here and there, and all through it people have asked me why, and the simple answer has been that i was doing it because i wanted to.

Now, that doesn't mean I have to label myself.

Just because I don't label myself as straight edge, it doesn't mean that I go off buy a hit of crack, bottle of wine and then go and fornicate the homeless for fun.

Also, if I am not drinking, i don't advertise the fact by wearing sone symbol on me, making myself look like I am in some way superior morally or on other grounds than someone else.

For the record, i smoke,drink,consume cute fluffy animals,fornicate and abuse chemicals from time to time. Hell, i really don't care too much, none of it is a barrier to me doing shit I want to do, but I'll do it when i want to do it, and if i don't want to, i won't. Simple. Just like I don't want to play a clarinet, I don't claim I am some form of musical straight edge because I have seen to many of my friends travel down the rocky road to classical music...

I call myself bent-edge.

x A Billion.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs and I don't screw around. I am not straight edge.

 

[Justin Bailey]

i know more of those guys like i know people who STILL are straight edge.

 

[friday11]

Ok then dude! Sorry for the mixup!

my fault too! Straight edge or not...we have one thing in common:

And that's definitly the most important thing in life

 

[MikeH]

See. Differences set aside, we all shred it up.

 

[friday11]

"Differences set aside, we all shred it up"..I will use this for a song

 

[noob_pwn]

everyone has a right to the lifestyle they choose, i love to enjoy a beer but i keep my lungs clean. I must emphasise however, illegal drugs are illegal for a reason and the money from the bag of weed or pills you buy is being used for murder and pillage, slavery and other shitty purposes so keep that in mind before your next hit. Overdoing anything in your life is bad, being addicted to drugs can be just as bad as being addicted to dota. Keep things in moderation. Personally i cant stand xxx elitists, but if you choose that lifestyle i think its great. Just dont alienate others who dont follow the same choices as you, they're entitled to that also

 

[God Hand Apostle]

Just dont alienate others who dont follow the same choices as you, they're entitled to that also

This is THE best line of this entire thread. It goes both ways. +rep for you.

 

[MikeH]

Totally agreed. I am not here to bash anyone else's lifestyle. You choose to drink, I respect that. Atleast you're not all "Fuck you, stupid edger! Drink 'til I die! Blegh! You're Gay!". If someone chooses to live their life the way they want to, I support that. It's your lifestyle. This is the lifestyle I have chosen for myself and noone else.

 

[Vairocarnal]

So...I've been shunned by a couple of straight edge'd assholes back in the day for being born on acid, at that time I wasn't smoking, drinking, etc. Apparently the choice of a teenage girl that didn't know she was pregnant became MY choice, In their eyes.
Which brings me to my point: In my 23 years of life experience I've come to find that "straight edge" is a term that kids grasp to when ostracized by the kids that aren't "Straight Edge".
I think it's awesome that kids want to band together to practice a way of life to promote the betterment of a people(s) but it USUALLY doesn't end there.
When discrimination and pretentious attitudes come into play it reminds me of the Nazis and their "War of Blood".

In short: I'm absolutely flabbergasted at the very idea that people would take a philosophy of personal betterment and use it to discriminate and enturbulate others.
I have nothing against the straight edge philosophy or the application of it, merely the assholes that use it for their own selfish means...and now is the point where I stop before I turn this into a GIANT rant about the "unfairity" of the world.

 

[Concerto412]

^^^Solid post, that just about defines my feelings on the matter.

 

[Vairocarnal]

Personally I've had a good giggle at a few people who claimed to be straight edge over the years, and as a concept I do find it quite silly. One of them explained to me he was straight edge. He worked in McDonalds. Hmmmm.....

If you don't drink, don't smoke, don't take chemicals, are vegan and don't fuck around, then that just makes you a person who has decided for one reason or another not to do things. Just like other people have decided to drink, to smoke, to play guitar, spend a lot of money on a holiday, you name it.

It's all choices, and everyone makes them.

However, having to label yourself in order to prove something is a bit lame in those aspects, sorry. I mean, seriously, I've done not drinking, no eating meat, a few other things here and there, and all through it people have asked me why, and the simple answer has been that i was doing it because i wanted to.

Now, that doesn't mean I have to label myself.

Just because I don't label myself as straight edge, it doesn't mean that I go off buy a hit of crack, bottle of wine and then go and fornicate the homeless for fun.

Also, if I am not drinking, i don't advertise the fact by wearing sone symbol on me, making myself look like I am in some way superior morally or on other grounds than someone else.

For the record, i smoke,drink,consume cute fluffy animals,fornicate and abuse chemicals from time to time. Hell, i really don't care too much, none of it is a barrier to me doing shit I want to do, but I'll do it when i want to do it, and if i don't want to, i won't. Simple. Just like I don't want to play a clarinet, I don't claim I am some form of musical straight edge because I have seen to many of my friends travel down the rocky road to classical music...

I call myself bent-edge.

James, this post just made you my personal hero.

Wow.

 

[Sxe Represent]

im sxe(straight edge) i have been for almost 2 years now and it doesnt mean just no alcohol or drugs its a lifestlye and it means no sex unless ur in a commited realtionship!

 

[Scar Symmetry]

Personally I've had a good giggle at a few people who claimed to be straight edge over the years, and as a concept I do find it quite silly. One of them explained to me he was straight edge. He worked in McDonalds. Hmmmm.....

If you don't drink, don't smoke, don't take chemicals, are vegan and don't fuck around, then that just makes you a person who has decided for one reason or another not to do things. Just like other people have decided to drink, to smoke, to play guitar, spend a lot of money on a holiday, you name it.

It's all choices, and everyone makes them.

However, having to label yourself in order to prove something is a bit lame in those aspects, sorry. I mean, seriously, I've done not drinking, no eating meat, a few other things here and there, and all through it people have asked me why, and the simple answer has been that i was doing it because i wanted to.

Now, that doesn't mean I have to label myself.

Just because I don't label myself as straight edge, it doesn't mean that I go off buy a hit of crack, bottle of wine and then go and fornicate the homeless for fun.

Also, if I am not drinking, i don't advertise the fact by wearing sone symbol on me, making myself look like I am in some way superior morally or on other grounds than someone else.

For the record, i smoke,drink,consume cute fluffy animals,fornicate and abuse chemicals from time to time. Hell, i really don't care too much, none of it is a barrier to me doing shit I want to do, but I'll do it when i want to do it, and if i don't want to, i won't. Simple. Just like I don't want to play a clarinet, I don't claim I am some form of musical straight edge because I have seen to many of my friends travel down the rocky road to classical music...

I call myself bent-edge.

hey I like classical music!

good post dude

there are some good ideas behind straight edge, but way too many kids do it for Christmas, get XXX tattooed on their inner lip and then 3 months down the line are getting wasted with their mates again.

we all know that you are who you are, don't push it in other people's faces, they don't like that.

a wise man once said that the whisper is louder than the shout.

 

[jymellis]

im sxe(straight edge) i have been for almost 2 years now and it doesnt mean just no alcohol or drugs its a lifestlye and it means no sex unless ur in a commited realtionship!

if im commited to getting laid, does that make it a commited relationship?

 

[Tiger]

Sounds like just a convenient excuse for not being able to get any for years on end.

 

[Randy]

Sounds like just a convenient excuse for not being able to get any for years on end.

In that case, I've been a money straight edge for ages.