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Anyone here straightedge? I'm just interested. I'm not by the way. |
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I use them to shave my face. |
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is that what that is |
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If you don't know what it is, it's like where you become clean and straight and don't do any drugs, drink, smoke, or have casual/promiscuous sex. |
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That'd be me. |
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..and me only. |
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and me. but me is only 14, so yeah. |
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thats what you think |
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Kidding? I'm 15. It's a young world. |
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im 14 also .. not straight edge though :-/ |
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actually i just realized im 15 in 22 days! |
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the only toxins i put in my body is massive amounts of caffeine... sometimes i have a beer after work... dont do promiscuious sex either, been with my lady for nearly a year now... so i guess i am straightedge... |
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ugh, what is this, a nerd-o-thon? Who coined this awful term anyway? I'm it though, I'm straightedge. Good lord, reducing my lifes choices to one word..........in which case it could be two words with some proper punctuation |
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i was. |
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i tried it for a few months in highschool. Just wanted to live clean for a bit. And now that thats over, I drink, smoke, smoke up, and fuck like a rabbit. Well, not as much as id like with the latter :'( |
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I am now but i never used to be, i did way too much and got jaded so i don't do drugs any more, and i've never been promiscuous...so yeah i guess i am for the want of another word straightedge. |
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Nerd-o-thon?? What the fucking hell? |
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read my post man, it's pretty tounge in cheek |
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straightedge means something very different where I live when I was a kid (yes, I was a lil punk rocker) straightedgers used to beat up my friends with brass knucks and chains and such. because my friends would swear or smoke cigarettes or something equally damnable see, 'cause around here a lot of religious fundamentalists use 'straightedge' as a lifestyle to justify senseless violence that is the result of emotional isolation and repressed feelings, etc they also beat up my gay friends sometimes when I lived in the south, on the other hand, I had many a good straightedge friend. god, I just wrote practically a chapter. sorry for such a long un |
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Quiet at the back and keep down in front....flim nanou is trying to finish his speech!! |
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her speech damnit just 'cause I am articulate you all always think I am a boy |
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I should have known by all that whittering on... 8 ) |
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WHITTERING? hee hee is that really a word?? |
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It is where I come from but then again so is maungy. |
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that makes terrible sense |
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Why, thank you. |
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xxx it's a cult xxx |
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eeeek |
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Alrighty, thanks for the responses. I think it's a bit more than just becoming clean though. You have to "claim edge" or some shit and make a commitment for life. Some straightedgers go vegetarians aswell and cut out all drugs like even aspirin and caffeine etc and have NO sex at all. There's a good article here if you're interested, and it shares the same views as me, and probably any outsider to it: Anyway, i don't think i want to "claim edge" or whatever, but i've been pretty clean for a while now, except for the stupid sex part. I don't see what's wrong with sex aslong as you use protection or whatever. It's natural and healthy, unlike most drugs and smoking etc. Haven't smoked, smoked weed or done any drugs for a while, or been drunk in ages, so i dunno.. it seems like a positive choice, and i think uplifting and confidence boosting if you can hold it together. Uni's (college for you yanks :) gonna be hard next year. :/ |
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Minor Threat are cool. I'm not straight edge, I don't think many true straight edgers exist any more, or if they ever did, i've never met one. |
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Isn't straight edge somthing to do with being an emo kid and u have to hae a big black 'x' on ur hand to show others thats what u r ??? or maybe im wrong... |
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The x on the hand is because in the US if u are too young to drink, on the door they put an x on your hand so they won't serve you. This became a symbol for straight edge. All quite gay really. sorry did i say that? I meant an understandable backlash against the annoying drunken punk cliche, that brought a new energy to the DC punk scene. |
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This thing has facist undertones |
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as stated, straightedge is more extreme than just "not doing drugs" ... it's proudly exclaiming that you don't "poison yourself" and berating or even violently assaulting those who do. It's the only cult I've ever heard of based on NOT doing things. It's fucking ridiculous. If you don't do drugs/sex/alcohol you are not straightedge, you are just a person who doesn't do drugs/sex/alcohol. Now, if you shove this down my throat, you are straightedge, and a detriment to society and my freedom of choice. |
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wrong diablo.. in new york or in new jersey these fucking nerdy wannabe punk kids will do the straightedge "X" and put an "N" up top, a "Y" or a "J" (depending on which state you're from) and "S" and "E" in the left and right sections, respectively. what's so goddamn punk about that? it's so BOoorrriiiing.. loosen up kids.. fuck your bodies up a little bit |
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They may do that, but Diablo is right, the straightedge X thing did spawn from the X on the hand symbolizing that the person is too young to drink. |
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The straight edgers that beat people up are known as hardliners. Reeeally stupid. |
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i think striaghtedge is stupid. not that it's stupid to be straightedge, but the straightedge scene in general. from a propaghandi song "fuck off, who cares, about your stupid zines, your shitty scenes". something something. i don't think you should be particularly proud of either choice. it's not a big deal. most people are just straightedge (x's on hands, etc) so that they can say they are. |
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haha naw. I don't think I ever will be, really. |
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that link is bullshit, straight-edge has nothing to do with shoving it down peoples throats, ian mackaye coined the fucking term and he himself said that he is straight edge but that he never tells people to stop smoking or stop drinking, where the idea that to be straight edge you have to enforce it on others is a mystery to me. the straight edge stuff is discussed a little more in a song by embrace(also fronted by mackaye) called "no more pain", he says, "no more alcohol, its a koolaid substitute, no more heroin, death is not glamorous...no more suicide, it kills everyone, no more petty love, no more petty hate, no more pettiness, no more pain" personally, i guess im straight edge but i certainly dont force it upon others(which is not a part of the meaning anyways) |
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The link i posted? I take it you didn't read the whole article? The guy talks about hardliners are the ones who try to enforce it on others. |
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Im straight. No drugs, alcohol, cigs or animals. And no juice. |
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