I just did some research and saw there is a pretty right-winged part of sxe and a pretty extreme leftist wing of sxe. Must be interesting when those two groups meet up.correctThe vegan thing was secondary when it first started and picked up steam with NYHC bands like youth of today and then it went real extreme with Earth Crisis.straight edge was the group that rose up out of the punk movement, right? I remember reading somewhere that a lot of them are vegan, too. Is that accurate?yup. I buy it for all of our parties and fantasy draftsDo you allow alcohol into your home?yeah. I made the decision at an early age to not drink or do drugs. That was without ever doing either. So it doesnt affect me when people drink. As the old sxe saying goes. I'm drug free but all my friends will take free drugs. I don't judge anyone. Personal decisionAcerFC is straight-edge, I believe. Maybe he'll check in here.
I am not and have never been vegan so they are not tied together
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I just read about that as well. InterestingI just did some research and saw there is a pretty right-winged part of sxe and a pretty extreme leftist wing of sxe. Must be interesting when those two groups meet up.correctThe vegan thing was secondary when it first started and picked up steam with NYHC bands like youth of today and then it went real extreme with Earth Crisis.straight edge was the group that rose up out of the punk movement, right? I remember reading somewhere that a lot of them are vegan, too. Is that accurate?yup. I buy it for all of our parties and fantasy draftsDo you allow alcohol into your home?yeah. I made the decision at an early age to not drink or do drugs. That was without ever doing either. So it doesnt affect me when people drink. As the old sxe saying goes. I'm drug free but all my friends will take free drugs. I don't judge anyone. Personal decisionAcerFC is straight-edge, I believe. Maybe he'll check in here.
I am not and have never been vegan so they are not tied together
Reminds me a bit of the libertarian party.I just read about that as well. InterestingI just did some research and saw there is a pretty right-winged part of sxe and a pretty extreme leftist wing of sxe. Must be interesting when those two groups meet up.correctThe vegan thing was secondary when it first started and picked up steam with NYHC bands like youth of today and then it went real extreme with Earth Crisis.straight edge was the group that rose up out of the punk movement, right? I remember reading somewhere that a lot of them are vegan, too. Is that accurate?yup. I buy it for all of our parties and fantasy draftsDo you allow alcohol into your home?yeah. I made the decision at an early age to not drink or do drugs. That was without ever doing either. So it doesnt affect me when people drink. As the old sxe saying goes. I'm drug free but all my friends will take free drugs. I don't judge anyone. Personal decisionAcerFC is straight-edge, I believe. Maybe he'll check in here.
I am not and have never been vegan so they are not tied together
Sometimes the biggest victory comes from a simple surrender.Nobody likes a quitter
Why? Have you been to AA or something?Sounds like a AA quote to meSometimes the biggest victory comes from a simple surrender.Nobody likes a quitter![]()
Of what?Mine too. Trying to make room for my 5 gallon keg.Yeah my beer fridge is ridiculously low right now.I am a non-drinker at the moment.
Trying to motivate myself to go on a beer run.
still allowed to dance?Have not had a beer since October 10, two days before being beginning a 10 day stay in Mass General with heart problems. No caffeine, no salt, no alcohol, no working out...rug totally pulled out from under me, and it's not short term.
So yeah I'm a non-drinker and it ####### blows.
Kibosh. Just contributing to your literacy.Mr. Ham said:In 2011, I quit for a New Year's resolution - indefinitely, though I figured a year. I ended up on a work assignment in London from April to September. By May, I realized it would be much more fun to be able to enjoy pints with friends at the pubs, and decided I'd limit quitting to 6 months. On July 1, I had one of the best beers of my life at an outdoor cafe in Budapest.
Since, I've had 3 or 4 benders. Slowly gravitated back to daily wine drinking - 6 or 7 days a week, averaging 3 glasses. Never more than a bottle, but that about 1 or two days a week.
I would classify myself ostensibly to be in good shape. Work out 6 days a week, good balance of cardio core and weights. Trim. But got my blood work back in November and cholesterol was 241. Blood sugar borderline (possibly because I'd had most of a bottle of wine the night prior and tested early AM.)
Regardless, I went on a strict low cholesterol diet, no sugar whatsoever and have been on it since the week before Thanksgiving. My biggest sins were red meat and barbecue, one of which I ate pretty much daily. None since the blood work.
Cut out booze as a New Year's resolution. For six months. As with the last time, it's been pretty easy although I'd prefer to drink at night. Wife has had a couple beers and drank sake when we went out to sushi last night. I find the trick is to have something I can pour in a wine glass, whether its a fruit smoothy, green tea, even club soda with a lemon. It's the ritual I
miss, the end of the day exhale, as much or more than the alcohol.
I'm sure I'll stay on the wagon to July 1 and may make the 6 months off annual. That way I get all the major holidays and summer to drink socially and can put the cabash on the inevitable habit that forms when it becomes a nightly comfort thing. I'll note that the idea of limiting to a glass a night or just weekends just doesn't fly with my personality. It's either no alcohol, and I have very little trouble with that discipline, or I can drink and judgement is only as good as my whims, which tend to become more whimsical in proportion with consumption.
I'm sensing you aren't a fan of AA? Is that because you don't like its message or that you just have a deep, seething hatred for your ex-FIL?FIL was a drunk that became a AA talking head. I heard more then my share of AA propaganda.tikigods said:Why? Have you been to AA or something?shotsup said:Sounds like a AA quote to metikigods said:Sometimes the biggest victory comes from a simple surrender.shotsup said:Nobody likes a quitter![]()
Understandable.Not a fan of AA and you sense right. I am happy it works for a lot of people but to me it is like a cult. He is not ex FIL just a dead one. Liked him better when he was a drunk though.I'm sensing you aren't a fan of AA? Is that because you don't like its message or that you just have a deep, seething hatred for your ex-FIL?FIL was a drunk that became a AA talking head. I heard more then my share of AA propaganda.tikigods said:Why? Have you been to AA or something?shotsup said:Sounds like a AA quote to metikigods said:Sometimes the biggest victory comes from a simple surrender.shotsup said:Nobody likes a quitter![]()
According to YouTube, Minor Threat shows were hella crazy.Lol at different factions of straight edge kids. I know two other people who are straight edge. There are not too many of us out there. I've met Karl from earth crisis. He didn't beat me up for wearing leather sneakers. There was a short time period where straight edge gangs were forming. But they were mostly teen hoodlums who happened to say they were sxe
You sound like a hoot. Kind of a judgmental hoot, but a hoot none the less.Have maybe 3-4 drinks per year, at the most. That's actually up from zero drinks per year until I was in my early 30s...as even the smell of beer/wine can make me gag. So when I do have a drink, I make sure to stick to the good stuff...rum, vodka, whiskey, etc.
My buddies and I had a good rule in college that I wish more people would use: When you wanted a drink, it had to be the good (expensive) stuff, and if you wanted to smoke, it had to be cigars. Partially because we believed in quality over quantity, but mostly because none of us could afford more than 1-2 drinks/cigars at a time, ever. So it was a way to make sure we never developed a habit (becoming an alcoholic, addicted to nicotine, etc.).
Anyway, compared to 90-95% of people here, I suppose the above makes me a non-drinker. I'm thankful I never developed a taste for "rent-a-pee," as I don't know how some of you guys can afford to make the mortgage payments from the sounds of how much alcohol you consume.
wish I could have been thereAccording to YouTube, Minor Threat shows were hella crazy.Lol at different factions of straight edge kids. I know two other people who are straight edge. There are not too many of us out there. I've met Karl from earth crisis. He didn't beat me up for wearing leather sneakers. There was a short time period where straight edge gangs were forming. But they were mostly teen hoodlums who happened to say they were sxe