Anon asked (via my Tumblr): hey brah, do you consider straight edge beta?
The short answer is YES, but not for the reasons you might expect. Let me explain…
As much as I personally love being drunk and/or high, there are plenty of good reasons not to drink or use drugs. In fact, I was straightedge until I was 21, and it was probably for the best– I mean, I did so many retarded, embarrassing and dangerous things sober that I can only imagine what might have happened if I was drinking! For example, when I was 19 and had never even consumed a drop of alcohol, I found myself in Passaic, NJ at 3AM writing graffiti with some people I had never met. We ended up getting chased by random ghetto people two or three times that night, and I’d say that if we were drunk/high, there’s a good chance we would have ended up catching a beating or possibly even getting shot if we got mouthy (as drunk people often do).
This tattoo will be awesome when he is like 28, drunk off his ass at the bar and his friends are like “Dude, show us your tattoo again!! I’ll buy you a shot!” and they all high five him and laugh about how stupid they were 10 years ago
So yeah, there are many, many good reasons to be sober, especially if you are in high school and your brain is already under the influence of teenage hormones (which should be enough to have you classified as functional retarded IMO). What’s beta is making a huge deal out of it and being an annoying shithead who won’t shut up about your gay little “crew.” If you don’t drink, that’s cool- I mean, obviously it will make it way harder for you to get laid and everybody’s going to think you’re a pussy, but whatever, that’s your choice. But why make such a fucking production out of it?? I don’t like cashews, but you don’t see me running around in a t-shirt with a drawing of a cashew on it with a knife stuck through that says “FUCK YOUR VILE NUTS” on a banner underneath. Basically, it’s beta as fuck to have excessively strong opinions about anything, especially if your whole identity revolves around making a huge deal about NOT doing something.
The only awesome thing to come out of stupid kids making a big deal out of not getting high is the Project X 7″, which is easily one of the top 10 hardcore records ever recorded in addition to having some of the lulziest lyrics of all time. From the first track, “Straight Edge Revenge”: “I’m as straight as the line that you sniff up your nose / And I’m as hard as the booze that you swill down your throat/ I’m as bad as the shit you breathe into your lungs / And I’ll fuck you up as bad as the pill on your tongue!!”
You don’t like cashews???
They’re not real nuts, you know?
they’re disgusting- I PLEDGE MY LIFE TO ERADICATING THIS FILTH INFILTRATING OUR SOCIETY! FUCK CASHEWS AND FUCK YOU!!!
I so pro-cashew I’m gonna start writing slutwave music about getting fucked up on cashews.
HATERS GONNA HATE.
I really want that cashew shirt to be real. I mean, sure I like cashews but y’know. Actually make one for ketchup. I hate ketchup.
Something like this?
http://i.imgur.com/wStsq.jpg
lololol exactly! and you put WAY too much effort into that haha
“So yeah, there are many, many good reasons to be sober, especially if you are in high school and your brain is already under the influence of teenage hormones”
I have to disagree strongly !! drinking is way more fun when youre 14 to 18… after that it gets kind of boring
Well like I said, I didn’t drink at that age so I guess I have no frame of reference- you could be right! I’m sure it’s way easier to recover from hangovers at that age.
yeah, idk it could be that the first years are awesome at any age because its something new, that why ex-straight edgers go nuts
Agreed. I smoked weed when I was 12-13, then got bored with it. Same with drinking. Started drinking heavily at 15 and stopped at 19. I feel like I got my fill.
Simple. If it makes it harder to get laid, it can’t possibly be alpha.
“FUCK YOUR VILE NUTS!”
That’s what she said?8D
I’ve never had problems getting pussy. Maybe I’m just the Alpha-Beta but I’ve been calling myself straight edge for over 15 years and Its just not an issue. Guilt tripping girls into being sober and then fucking their asses is more fun anyway, drunk girls take punishment too lightly.
“FUCK YOUR VILE NUTS” brought tears of laughter to my face. Clearest analogy ever.
I was under the impression being edge included no promiscuous sex.
Yeah, not supposed to be sleep around if you’re edge. There are bros out there who think edge is just about not drinking or doings, but run around fucking every edge slut ever. The original SXE slogan was “don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t fuck”
^you forgot an X, brah
Basically, it’s beta as fuck to have excessively strong opinions about anything, especially if your whole identity revolves around making a huge deal about NOT doing something.
A+ – this is basically the point of the last two weeks of posts here on SYWH!
DIMOND CUT BRO!
Doesn’t matter if you straightedge, KLVT or BROOTAL, the moment you start to disrespect and judge others based on their lifestyle and choices, you just look like an uptight whiny little bitch. Its not beta to like or believe in something, but that doesn’t mean you have to preach and bitch about it all the time. We should all be like good guy greg ” Doesn’t do drugs or alcohol, makes sure friends who are shit faced get home safely”.
^ backed hard
+1. And not just because I’m that guy, either.
no one who is straight edge follows the no sex “rule”. the best part about being edge is that girls trust you and dont think you are just after their pussy. but you are. and then they get drunk and you are sober enough to seal the deal and perform to the max.
OH WOW
This is what beta-edgers actually believe.
Lololol boom
Never had a problem fuckin’ your mom while I was drunk off Hypnotiq
Haha fuck that dude. If i were completely sober, I would not try to smash a drunk girl. Drunk chicks are pretty annoying when your not intoxicated.
+1, I cannot fucking stand being around drunk people when I’m sober, ESPECIALLY attractive girls who are drunk
+2
+ 3, such shit to see perfectly attractive chicks become empty-headed (even more so than usual in most cases) parodies of themselves.
Somehow, at the age of 31, I still have a shit load of “Straight Edge” friends. Of course, as Sarge pointed out, what makes them cool is that they don’t actually use that stupid term. I am ridiculously attracted to dudes that don’t drink or do drugs. Most of them are still hella awesome. The problem is when they are all butt hurt about YOU drinking. A wise friend of mine (who doesn’t drink, but still likes to hang at bars like an adult) once wondered why our mutual friend had a problem with girls who drink because “they get way sluttier when they’ve had a few”. This is fact and it’s ok. Date rape isn’t cool, but there is nothing wrong with getting a little raw with a sober (or equally wasted) dude you trust after you’ve had too many Straubs. It’s fun. (I once dated a dude straight out of a sober house who would say “get drunk so I can take advantage of you”. I thought it was cute.)
I was edge from 14-23 and I am so fucking glad. I 100% agree with Sarge once again because I am pretty confident that I escaped normal teenage girl shit like getting raped or having my stomach pumped by being nailed to the X during these years which is a-ok with me.
I want to say that dudes who have X swatches, actively get sxe tattoos, hate bars, and listen to youth crew are lame, but they are so fucking adorable and pure that I want to smash them. Unfortunately, they’d never have me.
My final answer is that sxe oldes (youngs don’t get it yet) can be sweet if they are the cool relaxed ones, but even if they are hardline, they are probably still nice to look at from a far.
groce
Getting raped and having your stomach pumped is “normal teenage girl shit” now?
kinda is tho :/
Having spent a lot of time at colleges, that’s not entirely true, there’s a lot of mnstrm normals who are not ever going to have someone finger their asshole much less rage/get raped.
i guess you are right, i was defining “normal” as “raging party slut,” which is really only a small segment of the college girl population.
At my local university (and my high school for that matter) basically every chick was a raging party slut. I never took a shot at one, because there was this one dude in my class who looked like he had a pair of socks in his pants that fucked all of them.
It seems like most straight edge kids drank too hard one night, threw up, hated it, and instead saying they didn’t like it and looking like a bitch; they become straight edge and look like a bigger bitch.
But seriously the straight edge crew around my local area is so edge they don’t drink mountain dew. Shit is hilarious. Plus none of them are more then 150 lbs, or go to the gym.
If I’m into a guy and he says he straightedge, I drink in front of him on purpose at college parties to see what he does. Not to get sloppy drunk, just a beer or two. The ones who freak out beta-style are probably judgemental assholes to date. The ones that are perfectly cool with it usually turn out to be awesome easygoing guys.
Im edge and the girl i’m seeing at the minute drinks around me all the time, doesn’t bother me at all.
I don’t drink, thats my choice. Trying to force it down other peoples throats makes you no better than Christians who do the same with their beliefs.
ditto for myself. just because i’m edge doesn’t mean i can’t chill with you and get loud and obnoxious at a bar sober.
I got wasted at the last Earth Crisis show through town. The straight edgers worried about judging me rather than worrying about smashing hoes. BETA
All my ex SXE friends who drink now are in their 30′s, but it feels like hanging out with retarded drunk teenagers all over again cause they are not experienced in how to act and control themselves while drunk.
You need to get the akward shit out of the way and learn your lessons when you are young like you are supposed to.
Starting drinking at 30 is like a dude who married his first girlfriend in highschool getting divorced at 30 and jumping into the dating pool. They arent equipped with the social skills or experience to handle it.
anyone who needs to base their whole identity on something like SXE, religion, their nationality etc obviously has no personality and is very insecure, looking for a team to join = the modern definition of beta.
I was straight edge but I broke edge so I could take creatine(a steroids).
Was worth the gains because I can now squat almost a half a ton on the squat machine.
Lol. Creatine: not even once.
true story, I am about to get on HRT haha
Good luck with it man.
If youre a teenager and your parents think the music you are into is “cool, and has a positive message!”, you’re doing it wrong.
^ truth
I’ll be 32 in a month, and I’m still straight edge. It’s probably a result of not giving a fuck what other people want to do to themselves.
No fucking way you’re over 30 and have an X before and after your name.
I’m from Liverpool in the UK and never been edge in my life, but I love the music – hands down some of the best music to work out to.
My two resounding memories of ‘the edge’ are from the 90s:
Seeing an x’ed up crew knocking beers out of other peoples hand at of all places…an Obituary gig! Also saw the same crew do the same thing at a Bosstones gig.
And, watching Slapshot getting heckled by a very, very unhappy x’ed up crew for playing the intro to ‘pump up the jam’ and then running with it for a few minutes, while their guitarist sorted out a problem with his set-up.
Nobody did anything about a group of douchebags just knocking beers, which people paid for with their hard-earned money, out of their hands? Nothing at all? Man that’s just the worst….
Oh no, it went off. A friend of mine still has a scar on his knuckles from knocking someone’s teeth out. I just found it really funny that they chose a death metal gig to spread the sxe word.
I def love youthcrew, especially for the homoerotic lyrics.
10 yard fight writes their own jokes. “im still proud to be straight!”, “together we mosh in the put of equality!!!!!!”
Read that as “homophobic lyrics”, and it also fit. Of course, the line between homophobic and homoerotic is quite fine.
lololol somehow I never thought of “proud to be straight” that way before but that’s hilarious
Anybody ever check out the edge-breaker list on howsyouredge.com?
Ive never met a straightedge in my country. then again, here you can drink at 18 and the whole underage drinking law is not really inforced here at all.
“Basically, it’s beta as fuck to have excessively strong opinions about anything”
So, in other words, you’re beta as fuck as well?
touche- but if I’m being honest, anything I write on the internet is a very exaggerated version of my actual opinion (because that’s the only thing people will pay attention to). IRL, I try very very hard not to be “aggro opinions bro”
Damn project x is way off time in that vid.
I am old as fuck. Back in ’97 I interviewed Karl from Earth Crisis and had to stifle laughter the whole time because a) he was going on and on about animal rights while wearing Nike sneakers, so in my head I was thinking, “What about the rights of the 11-year-old that made your fucking shoes, dude?”; and b) he told me he’d been straight edge and vegan since he was 16, and all I could think was, “I don’t believe ANYTHING I believed when I was 16.”
yeah i always wondered how karls hatred for 11 yr old indonesian girls squared with his love of all other living beings (even fetuses!)… :/ those were some fresh nikes though
To be fair, Nike pays top wages in their country. Just because 50 cents a day isn’t a lot to you, doesn’t mean it’s not a great place to work in India.
Real talk: 50% wool earth crisis hats available from the 1996 victory style catalogue.
Also you arent vegan if you : have a car, bank account, laptop, are alive due to vaccinations you recived at a child. Etc.
I’ve always avoided the edge label, partially because I’m too young to be anything but a copier, partially because I’m more into metal than hardcore, partially because I legit drink beer for the taste and partially because of the fact that there’s the negative connotation due to all the assholes. Good to see there’s some people who don’t take it too seriously, but for me it’s still a label I don’t feel like applying to myself.
The former bass player of my band was straigh edge, but he was a cool dude, he didn’t mind if we smoked some weed or drink beers while he was with us,nor even he had to take us home because we were too drunk after a show, he was a cool dude, the sxe thing was secondary… his girlfriend though, was a really bitch about that, allways being so superior than other people, when in fact she is an insecure bitch who craves for atenttion
You meant to post this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxcPvkyPQeA
Today, while watching Phineas & Ferb with my 3 yr old daughter, I discovered that Ray Cappo drank a glass of wine in Europe causing the singer of Glassjaw Dave Palumbo to renounce his sxe after 12 years. I also read a rumour that Ray Cappo wasn’t really sxe at all and that Chain of Strength liked the occasional beer or three.
THE NIGHT MY WORLD WAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
multiple lols at this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxcPvkyPQeA
1. davey havok trying to prove he is hardcore/a man
2. singing lyrics like that at his age
3. being butt hurt about everything before playing the song
4. the friar tuck bro at 1:20
5. ceremony
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