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anyone here straight edge?

#22
Chris2112 said:
Drugs I can do without, illegality and addiction does not bode well with me. Booze though, why not?
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Why not to booze? It is addicting although not in the ways most people think of the term as far as drugs. It doesn't do a thing for me, doesn't taste good at all to me (beers, liquors, etc..) and I have plenty of damn fun without it. Plus someone has to drive people around and actually remember the funny stuff that goes on.

I also wasn't aware straightedge meant the whole vegan scene too. Around here the term is mostly used for people who stay away from just drugs and alcohol.
 
#23
I don't catogorise myself to being 'straight edge' but i don't smoke, drink or do drugs. I've done enough of all that in my life allready and im still not even legal to drink!

It won't be a life comminment for me, i just want to prove to myself i can say no and people cannot persuade me to do things i don't want too! once i prove this to myself, im going to start drinking again, but knowing im 'strong' enough to say no to everything else! Also it's a rest for the liver and kidneys!



Being straight edge doesn't include the sex and veganism crap for me though! Straight edge to me, represents the drugs, alcohol and smoking really!
 
#27
Sonic_Death said:
Why not to booze? It is addicting although not in the ways most people think of the term as far as drugs. It doesn't do a thing for me, doesn't taste good at all to me (beers, liquors, etc..) and I have plenty of damn fun without it. Plus someone has to drive people around and actually remember the funny stuff that goes on.

I also wasn't aware straightedge meant the whole vegan scene too. Around here the term is mostly used for people who stay away from just drugs and alcohol.
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I have a level of self control, I don't need booze to have fun but it's a good social lubrication. I know people who on heroine and such, people who lives have been ruined by drugs. I've got a decent level of self control, but even I wouldn't try my luck with anything like that.

Of course, in newcastle at least, all these sXe crew kids can't really party. Drink, girls and a degree of smoke are unavoidable on a night out. I guess thats why they are so angsty and stand offish. Certainly, at my school, the ruling class of chavs, of which I was and am quite happy to associate with, bullied them mercilessly. Perhaps a tad cruel for entertainments sake, but thats people for you.
 
#30
Chris2112 said:
I have a level of self control, I don't need booze to have fun but it's a good social lubrication. I know people who on heroine and such, people who lives have been ruined by drugs. I've got a decent level of self control, but even I wouldn't try my luck with anything like that...
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Well heroine is just flat out dangerous... IMO. I'm a firm believer in listening to warning signs. How may heros have been slain by heroine? Or movies been made about people deteriorating on heroine? SO I don't need to try that for myself...

Now I don't need alcohol, or even a Newcastle beer for that matter, but I want one. In fact, I want one right now.... Right 'o - whose buying? :D
 
#31
vindy500 said:
ha so you are a chav! mayhem was right :ninja:
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I hung round with them, I was sociable with some of the lads, I listen to dance and drum and bass music and club (though I detest rave), I am not averse to wearing trackies, football tops and trainers, I can swear for England and I am perhaps a bit of a rogue. Not a chav per se but I got along with them, canny lads.

And Maki- The Broon Ales are on me! :D (Of the "dogs" as some Geordies call them)
 
#32
nad said:
Might have to do something with the ban on premarital sex in a lot of corners, pockets, areas, memberships, hordes, etc.

Seriously. L O effing L at straight edge. Life is too dumb to live without vice.
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Meh.. I am not this perception of it that a lot of people seem to have around here. Where I grew up being a straightedge was not a big deal and just meant that you stayed away from alcohol or drugs. It didn't really carry many other connotations and definitely wasn't a segregate group. Most straightedges I know hang around people who drink and do drugs all the time and help them and such.

We all have ours vices, I just see no benefit to alcohol and drugs. I weigh everything in benefit and detriment. My time and money is better spent elsewhere.
 
#33
MakiSupaStar said:
Well heroine is just flat out dangerous... IMO. I'm a firm believer in listening to warning signs. How may heros have been slain by heroine? Or movies been made about people deteriorating on heroine? SO I don't need to try that for myself...

Now I don't need alcohol, or even a Newcastle beer for that matter, but I want one. In fact, I want one right now.... Right 'o - whose buying? :D
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I don't need that stuff either. I get high on life.

Let's meet at the pub for one to discuss.

But first...Where'd I put my bong?
 
#34
Chris2112 said:
I hung round with them, I was sociable with some of the lads, I listen to dance and drum and bass music and club (though I detest rave), I am not averse to wearing trackies, football tops and trainers, I can swear for England and I am perhaps a bit of a rogue. Not a chav per se but I got along with them, canny lads.

And Maki- The Broon Ales are on me! :D (Of the "dogs" as some Geordies call them)
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SWEEET. CHRIS IS BUYING!!!!:hyper: :hyper: :hyper:
 
#35
I drink at parties, occasionally smoke a Captain Black (again, usually at parties) but don't do any drugs (used to, but stopped almost three years ago).

Everyone can do whatever they want though, I don't care.

Graeme
 
#37
Why are people saying it's dumb if you don't want to drink?

I choose not to drink because I'm just not interested. It's not something I want to be involved with. Does that make me weird? Should I be ridiculed, beat up, or outcast for the simple fact that I just don't really want to drink?

By that logic, everyone who just doesn't like to drink coffee should suffer the same fate.
 
#38
Kibuddy said:
Why are people saying it's dumb if you don't want to drink?

I choose not to drink because I'm just not interested. It's not something I want to be involved with. Does that make me weird? Should I be ridiculed, beat up, or outcast for the simple fact that I just don't really want to drink?

By that logic, everyone who just doesn't like to drink coffee should suffer the same fate.
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I think we should go down to the pub and discuss this over a drink.
 

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