Where'd all the straight-edge people go?
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Sadly, every single straight-edge person I knew (a grand total of 5 people) later became a drug addict. Two of them died of overdoses. This was two decades ago at least and I really haven't heard anyone use the term in at least 10.
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
I wasn't officially in the scene but these days I'm a lower-middle-class miserable loner so it could be worse
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
I wasn't really around when being straight-edge was an identity but honestly I think you don't hear about it as much today because its a horrible time to be sober 24/7. Can't imagine raw dogging this shit. Props to anyone who can though.
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I wasn't really around when being straight-edge was an identity but honestly I think you don't hear about it as much today because its a horrible time to be sober 24/7. Can't imagine raw dogging this shit. Props to anyone who can though.
I don't have a choice. Alcohol gives me insomnia and weed gives me super intense panic attacks. CBD stopped working so I just stopped everything.
Yes, it sucks very very much.
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I don't have a choice. Alcohol gives me insomnia and weed gives me super intense panic attacks. CBD stopped working so I just stopped everything.
Yes, it sucks very very much.
That sounds awful I'm sorry. Funny enough weed is the only thing that actually works for my DSPD with any consistancy.
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That sounds awful I'm sorry. Funny enough weed is the only thing that actually works for my DSPD with any consistancy.
Thanks! To be honest it isn't alllllll terrible, it's kinda cool having dreams again lol when I smoked I either never had them or the short term memory loss just made me forget I had them.
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
what does it mean?
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Maybe once you grow up you become first a Sober person, then a Teetotaler.
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That's wild. I lived there during that timeframe and I have never seen the tattoo, neither even heard of those metalheads.
Maybe it was a regional thing? I mean in Sweden.
It was an international thing but there was a very big sXe scene in Umeå. If you're into 1990s punk and hardcore you may be familiar with Refused.
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SSX Tricky
I think it was amped
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
They're still around. I see them at hardcore shows
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
wrote last edited by [email protected]So does straight edge strictly refer to not doing drugs? If that's the definition, then I'm a straight edged person... Hell, I don't even drink and I work for a Scottish company where all my co-workers drink like fish.
I'm not religious, it has just always seemed dumb to me that people felt they needed to be inebriated to have a good time. Maybe this is just the normal for them so they don't know any different? But doesn't that seem pretty stupid? Anyways, I was stubborn in college and resisted peer pressure and by the time I didn't care anymore, I just never saw the need to start drinking (or doing drugs). But I'm not here preach, I don't really care what you do as long as it doesn't affect me (i.e. drunk driving).
I'm a CTO for a midsized company. I have three kids and I've been happily married for over 25 years. Between my friends, there are more people who don't drink than those who do, but at work I'm definitely the oddball... But I'm also old enough that I don't really give a shit what other people think so I'm perfectly happy going along and being the guy who doesn't drink.
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Used to go to the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Davey Havok is still out there, somewhere
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
I was agreeing with you cause I haven't really seen or used my straight edge since high school. Here I am thinking I don't even have a ruler. Then I read the comments. I guess it's not the literal straight edge.
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The movement started in the early 80s by Ian Mackaye from the straight edge band Minor Threat?
Ian has always had the position it was a personal choice. Not some dogmatic bullshit. They were just kids who wanted to get into shows.
The song straight edge was just his personal opinion. Bands like SSD (Society System Decontrol) took it a little further. And then the NYHC scene in the mid to late 80's took it even further. That's how you ended up with Earth Crisis and victory records in the 90's.
He doesn't really like being tied to the straight edge movement.
The documentary "Salad Days" has a great interview with him about it
He also has a good interview in this book:
Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
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It was an international thing but there was a very big sXe scene in Umeå. If you're into 1990s punk and hardcore you may be familiar with Refused.
Södra Sverige och metal
vilket kanske förklarar det. -
Södra Sverige och metal
vilket kanske förklarar det.Jag växte upp i Stockholm och där var det straight edgare på konserter.
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Jag växte upp i Stockholm och där var det straight edgare på konserter.
Sunkiga Växjö här
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Maybe once you grow up you become first a Sober person, then a Teetotaler.
You're not allowed to be Sober if you don't have an addict phase, it's discrimination quite frankly, you have to go straight to Teetotaler
