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Post by layton on Mar 21, 2010 12:21:10 GMT -5
My dad is 80. He doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs. Is he considered straight edge? Adolf Hitler didn't drink, smoke, do drugs, have sex or eat meat. Is he considered straight edge as well? I'm a vegetarian, too...am I straight edge? ...or a Nazi...?
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Post by Kliquid on Mar 21, 2010 13:14:38 GMT -5
There is no reason that people should be walking around with pot leaf t shirts or straight edge t shirts. You are all a bunch of posers who are drawing attention to yourselves and I can't stand any of it. It's sort of like (if for whatever ungodly reason people collecting wrestling figures became some sort of separatist group) you wear a t shirt with a gigantic Elite Randy Orton figure on it that has a tagline like "Don't be a punk, get 'em all!!!!" or some terrible garbage like that. LMFAO, I couldn't agree more.
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Post by ville on Mar 21, 2010 13:29:34 GMT -5
Hold on... are you saying AdamBomb is straight edge? cos i know for a fact he isn't... or do you mean he knows about the history of straight edge? I know he isn't either, he said he has a few beers once in awhile. I ment he knows what it really means and the history about it, wich is why I put most people here are only CM Punk fans doing it.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Mar 21, 2010 14:17:58 GMT -5
Your main problem with him being straight edge is that he's only a teenager and doesn't have access to alcohol...but you're 15 and apparently have access to marijuana. I see a problem.
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Post by Johnny on Mar 21, 2010 14:30:38 GMT -5
He's 15, he can't legally do anything anyways, so of course he's straight edge. We've had this fight before and I don't care to have it again, but that's my thoughts. Ok, I just got to say this. You don't have to be legal age to be straightedge, that's a stupid thought. If I can go down and buy some weed, cigarettes, or alcohol on the streets, I can smoke it. If I choose not to because I call myself straightedge, I'm straightedge. (I'm not Straightedge btw)
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Post by CMJ on Mar 21, 2010 14:32:44 GMT -5
I am Straight Edge but listen saying your Straight Edge at 15 is fine
so Is it like saying i cant be catholic if i don't go to Church every Sunday or I'm not a priest?
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Post by captain master talbot on Mar 21, 2010 14:35:43 GMT -5
You realize how easy it is to get alcohol as a teen, right...let alone pot.
I'm split. I drink, occasionally smoke (never will smoke a cigarette, however), but I'll never wear a Coors Light shirt or a pot leaf shirt. It's my business, and as long as I'm not harming the people around me, I don't see why you should bother to lecture me. It's a personal choice.
That said, I've found a lot of straight edges' are kids who never got invited to parties and what not. So they use the "sXe" label as a cloak the reason why they really don't drink/smoke. Of course, there are legitimate straight edges, and I respect that 100%. Just don't talk down to me because I drink.
But I don't think you should be wearing a pot leaf shirt around at the age of 15 if you want to give off a good message about yourself. You were asking for it.
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Post by Jimmy on Mar 21, 2010 14:36:06 GMT -5
I dislike people who flaunt their drinking/smoking/drugs just as much as I dislike those who flaunt or put down those who do drink/smoke/drugs.
I don't do any of that stuff, but I don't feel as though I'm better then anyone for that reason. I just live my life, man.
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Mar 21, 2010 14:42:25 GMT -5
I don't drink, smoke or do any drugs. I'm 25 years old, and it has nothing to do with being straight edge and I don't consider myself straight edge. I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs because those are toxins that are not supposed to be in a persons body and they do damage to your body and mind.
I don't drink, smoke or do drugs strictly because it's not healthy. It has nothing to do with straight edge or me thinking I'm better than anybody or having to do with CM Punk like most kids on here.
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Post by noir on Mar 21, 2010 14:42:57 GMT -5
That said, I've found a lot of straight edges' are kids who never got invited to parties and what not. So they use the "sXe" label as a cloak the reason why they really don't drink/smoke. excellent point. I see it as a way of almost legitimating the fact that someone is a social outcast. Of course I'm absolutely stereotyping, but this is often the case from my experience.
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Post by HugoOne on Mar 21, 2010 14:53:16 GMT -5
Not gonna lie, I've started yelling out to my friends that I can save them...when I'm out drinking at a bar with them.
I just want to shave some heads, man.
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Post by captain master talbot on Mar 21, 2010 14:54:14 GMT -5
That said, I've found a lot of straight edges' are kids who never got invited to parties and what not. So they use the "sXe" label as a cloak the reason why they really don't drink/smoke. excellent point. I see it as a way of almost legitimating the fact that someone is a social outcast. Of course I'm absolutely stereotyping, but this is often the case from my experience. I do feel bad for stereotyping as well, but I've really found it to be the case. Almost all of the straight edge kids that I've talked to have always been loners, didn't go out, etc.
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Mar 21, 2010 15:02:16 GMT -5
Thank God for straight edgers! Now there's more alcohol and drugs for me!
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Post by The Sexy Psychotic on Mar 21, 2010 15:48:31 GMT -5
Me, I'm 17, and Straight-Edge, and no, not because of Punk, because of personal happenings, and I came across the term and stuff from music, and thats how I found out what Punk meant by 'Straight-Edge', but being 15 or so, its easy to say that your SE, until you have the oppertunity to actually do it, your really just talking poop
Oh, and by S-E, I mean no drink or drugs, I'm all for banging, lol
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Mar 21, 2010 15:53:02 GMT -5
Being Straight Edge is overrated.
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Mar 21, 2010 16:01:45 GMT -5
Oh, and by S-E, I mean no drink or drugs, I'm all for banging, lol So a part of being "straight edge" is picking and choosing what aspects of it you want to believe in? Hmmm, that's interesting.
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Post by chris1awesome on Mar 21, 2010 16:28:35 GMT -5
I am genrally one of those kids who doesn't have a 'label'
not a chav/ghetto wannabe not a emo/punk not a goth not straight edge (althought I don't smoke, drink or do drugs) I genrally see this as plain stupid. WWE is fake and shitty cm punk has obviously taken pain killers to numb the pain of injurys which is a drug resulting in him not being straight edge nobody can say they haven't taken medecine (unless your a new born) which means nobody is straight edge
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Post by Yeezy's Mullet: Team X Blades on Mar 21, 2010 16:38:15 GMT -5
I am genrally one of those kids who doesn't have a 'label' not a chav/ghetto wannabe not a emo/punk not a goth not straight edge (althought I don't smoke, drink or do drugs) I genrally see this as plain stupid. WWE is fake and poopty cm punk has obviously taken pain killers to numb the pain of injurys which is a drug resulting in him not being straight edge nobody can say they haven't taken medecine (unless your a new born) which means nobody is straight edge Oh lord. The idea of the "no drugs" part would be abstaining from recreational or addictve drugs. How does one not get that? I'm not SE, nor do I see the point in it, this is more in defense against foolish arguments and accusations to things that should otherwise be common sense.
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Post by slappy on Mar 21, 2010 16:39:55 GMT -5
He's 15, he can't legally do anything anyways, so of course he's straight edge. We've had this fight before and I don't care to have it again, but that's my thoughts. Ok, I just got to say this. You don't have to be legal age to be straightedge, that's a stupid thought. If I can go down and buy some weed, cigarettes, or alcohol on the streets, I can smoke it. If I choose not to because I call myself straightedge, I'm straightedge. (I'm not Straightedge btw) No you're not, you're just being a good kid. I'm done now.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Mar 21, 2010 16:50:04 GMT -5
I applaud anyone for doing what they feel is best, including remaining free of alcohol or other drugs. If that's how you want to live, then bravo for making your own choices.
HOWEVER, I do think that you'll look back on this in 10 years or so, and realize how silly it sounded to argue with people about the merits of being "straight edge." Not because it's a bad way to live, but because it's a catch phrase that will someday be very dated.
I can't help but think that 12 years ago, people were arguing online about who was more "jiggy."
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