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RawPower Jesus as in Revelations from Barcelona Since: Aug, 2009
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#51: Jan 21st 2011 at 7:15:37 AM

Where I grew up, opportunities to go out and socialize were basically zero unless you drank.

Here at college that's exactly the problem. YOU MUST DRINK. JOOOOIN UUUUS. JOOOOIN UUUUS.

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Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#52: Jan 21st 2011 at 9:58:09 AM

Of course you drink; you don't want to be a bitch.[lol]

neoYTPism Since: May, 2010
#53: Jan 21st 2011 at 10:09:26 AM

"Here at college that's exactly the problem. YOU MUST DRINK." - Raw

... even if you live off-campus?

RawPower Jesus as in Revelations from Barcelona Since: Aug, 2009
Jesus as in Revelations
#54: Jan 21st 2011 at 10:16:04 AM

So? I still have to go out with the other students and stuff. Alcohol is mandatory, We're worse than japanese salarymen.

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neoYTPism Since: May, 2010
#55: Jan 21st 2011 at 11:47:33 AM

Then why not just associate exclusively with students who would not pressure you into drinking? Hell, I'm in college and barely associate with anyone at all, save for occasionally chatting with a few people who happen to be in a few of my classes.

RawPower Jesus as in Revelations from Barcelona Since: Aug, 2009
Jesus as in Revelations
#56: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:00:12 PM

Not associating with people is not an option, it is the straight road to academic failure.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#57: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:10:49 PM

Why do you need to associate with people? Books are for learning from. And teachers, if you find good ones.

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RawPower Jesus as in Revelations from Barcelona Since: Aug, 2009
Jesus as in Revelations
#58: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:18:43 PM

Oh yeah? Teachers tell you the bare minimum, most of the difficult stuff is left for students to figure it out among each other. Books are written by teachers, and made of suck. There are no exercises to practice on. And they expect you to use an Hp 50g calculator and WON'T FREAKING TEACH YOU HOW, so WE HAVE TO TEACH EACH OTHER, generation after generation.

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Ukonkivi Over 10,000 dead.:< Since: Aug, 2009
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#59: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:45:20 PM

I always looked at Straight Edge as a way to not do drugs and still be cool and edgy and stand for something.

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
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#60: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:00:50 PM

Karmakin said it pretty well. That having the gall to not enjoy the prospect of headaches, vomiting uncontrollably, soiling yourself, cascading situations of poor judgment, risk of concrete harm to yourself and those around you, nauseating smell, and having to imbibe large amounts of a substance violently offensive to one's taste buds to get there somehow makes us the weird ones is even more deeply disturbing than the behavior itself.

edited 21st Jan '11 3:01:48 PM by Pykrete

Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#61: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:20:25 PM

There's ways to prevent or lessen the severity of hangovers and people can and do learn their limits when it comes to drinking. Also the taste and feel of alcoholic beverages is amazing. Straight vodka has the most lovely burn... I can understand why one wouldn't like it, but it's pleasant if you don't drink enough to make yourself sick and stay hydrated. And if you like the taste and feel of the stuff as said.

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Kino Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Californicating
#62: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:26:39 PM

Who's dumb enough to drink that much;wait......stupid kids.

RawPower Jesus as in Revelations from Barcelona Since: Aug, 2009
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#63: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:47:03 PM

Who's dumb enough to drink?

...

The Kool-Aid man. OH YEAAAH!

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Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#64: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:27:13 PM

...your joke confuses me.

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MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#65: Jan 21st 2011 at 6:28:20 PM

I haven't met any self-proclaimed "straight-edge" types, but I probably met plenty of unproclaimed ones.

I don't be smug about it. Personally, I give my perfectly personal reasons why I don't do any of the things. Why I don't smoke? The smoke gives me headaches. Why don't I drink? I think after trying three different alcoholic beverage I can safely say I dislike the taste of alcohol. Simple as that. Why don't I do drugs? I dunno, health class affected me more than it should've?

If there are people who feel as though they're high and mighty becuase they're "straight-edge" well bully to them, that's their own pig-headed close-mindedness and they need to grow up.

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drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#66: Jan 22nd 2011 at 12:43:40 AM

[up]I like this guy.

I feel our society is set up in such a way to be smug in favor of drinkers and (to a lessening extent) smokers.

Where the fuck do you live? Because I want to live there.

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EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#67: Jan 22nd 2011 at 1:09:56 AM

There are quite a few social thingamabobbers where alcohol is plentiful, but for a lot of them, you can get away with just drinking ginger ale or something like that.

RawPower Jesus as in Revelations from Barcelona Since: Aug, 2009
Jesus as in Revelations
#68: Jan 22nd 2011 at 4:58:39 AM

@64: Wich person is dumb enough that you can drink it? Andswer: The Kool Aid man, who will come to you whenever you cry his name, ready to be drunk, through the wall, shouting OH YEAH

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snailbait bitchy queen from psych ward Since: Jul, 2010
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#69: Jan 22nd 2011 at 9:31:42 AM

I think a lot of Straight-Edge people believe being drunk/high = hedonism. This is not true at all because I consider myself an introvert who prefers living in the mind over hedonism, and yet I still love to go out with my friends on occasion and get buzzed.

Of course, the majority of college students around me tend to talk about getting drunk a lot. I also don't like the idea of "you can only have fun when you're smashed as hell".

To summarize myself, I try to avoid any extremist opinion. Going out and getting drunk/high is totally fine, but if that's the only way you can have fun then that's an issue.

edited 22nd Jan '11 9:33:51 AM by snailbait

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#70: Jan 22nd 2011 at 11:18:28 PM

Almost every smug straight edge person I know is a former drinker/smoker or grew up with them or a combination of the two.

I have one friend I love him to death he's like a brother to me...but dear god, is he stuck up about this topic.

Seriously he thinks we should go Draconian over weed, and drug possession. We started hanging out every week at the beginning of the year, he used to drink on the weekends, not get drunk just have a beer or two and relax , now he's so stuck up in his own anti-anything but straight edge rhetoric that having a beer or two isn't straight edge enough for him. ((Granted it's not like his anti-weed rants, he'll still do it for like a birthday but he'll bash people who drink more than limited-casually.)) He talks about how he doesn't like talking to people just because they smoke, people who used to be his best friend just because they get high...I don't know maybe it's just my ultra-accepting nature but that doesn't seam right to me.

This is the grew up with it and lives with it type.

I can see why its justifed thou, he's brother does nothing but smoke and play Halo and COD, was in and out of Juvenile Detention centers as a teen, is almost in his last 20's lives with his parents, and the closest thing he has to a job is dropping people off and picking them up for that family, and maybe grocery shopping.

My other friend is straight edge, who believes in legalization and then taxing it out of existence (again) and using the tax money to fund DARE and education. (I actually agree with them for the most part, minus the out of existence part.) This is the type who tired but didn't like it so they became straight edge, they've never been drunk according to them thou.

Now comes my friend who has never tried anything, he isn't smug, or pretentious, he's nice about it, and just says it's not for him.

and finally me who is only straight edge out necessity, other wise I'd be at party not sitting alone on my bed reading tv tropes while watching old episodes of Naruto because after I stopped smoking I also stopping having a life. (I only smoked for 4 months but for those 4 months I had a life!)

Those are the four types of straight edge I know of, I prefer to call my kind; Last-Man Straight-Edge.

edited 22nd Jan '11 11:20:07 PM by americanbadass

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EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#71: Jan 22nd 2011 at 11:38:05 PM

DARE is a horrible lying waste of money. The cash should go somewhere else.

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#72: Jan 23rd 2011 at 12:28:51 AM

Why not put it into prevention, and education?

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Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
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#73: Jan 23rd 2011 at 12:30:05 AM

...what does DARE even do save bore children?

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
RawPower Jesus as in Revelations from Barcelona Since: Aug, 2009
Jesus as in Revelations
#74: Jan 23rd 2011 at 12:38:09 AM

DARE wa dare desu ka?

edited 23rd Jan '11 12:38:34 AM by RawPower

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Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#75: Jan 23rd 2011 at 12:39:34 AM

...

Stop making me laugh!

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

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