Straight Edge Celebrities
James Frederick
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I'm not sure how much response this will get but after reading The Celebrities Who Smoke thread it got me thinking how many Straight Edge Celebrities are there that we know of.
To me the obvious one is Wrestler CM Punk who is sXe in Real Life was well as his gimmick.
Been sXe myself it is something I do wonder about.
For the ones who don't know Straight Edge or sXe means that
You don't drink alcohol
You don't smoke tobacco
You don't take drugs
Some are also vegetarian and don't have promiscuous sex I don't do either of those things myself but for different reasons than sXe (I'm very pro animals rights and Asexual)
To me the obvious one is Wrestler CM Punk who is sXe in Real Life was well as his gimmick.
Been sXe myself it is something I do wonder about.
For the ones who don't know Straight Edge or sXe means that
You don't drink alcohol
You don't smoke tobacco
You don't take drugs
Some are also vegetarian and don't have promiscuous sex I don't do either of those things myself but for different reasons than sXe (I'm very pro animals rights and Asexual)
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I don't believe that they smoke or take drugs either. Boyle has said that he would like to to see if it alters his comedy writing but said that he hasn't.
Skinner has said that he doesn't smoke or do drugs anymore. Not sure that falls into your definition.
I believe i've heard Peter Kay say that he doesn't drink.
Not sure if he is one of those who has a glass of Baileys at crimbo though.
I'm sure there are countless celebs who don't drink/smoke/take drugs/possibly vegan/non-promiscuous but that wouldn't make them straight edge necessarily or mean that they buy into the sXe *cough* 'philosophy'.
That's just the simplified version I'm actually what you would call hardline
I don't even have caffeine ect as it is a drug
"as being straight edge is more than just the above."
As I said I'm using the simplification of it most people don't know what it is and it would take hours of typing to explain the full meaning behind it all which at the moment I don't have time to do
Really? I don't think so. A quick google tells you pretty much all you need to know about its origins and the idea behind it.
True enough but most of us our own personal take and reasons mine may not be the same as others as I said the description I gave is the quick one but the other stuff can easily be looked up
ok.
Caroline Flack mentioned it when she was on Grimmy's R1 show.
I hate the "straight edge" movement [or whatever it is] it's so preachy. I don't drink [and i have never smoked], not for any moral reasons but because 1. i don't really like the taste of it and 2. I am usually the one driving, but i do not feel the need to preach about it or try to stop others drinking.
Ok needed to vent a little
I always avoid it i didn't even know about sXe until about 7 years ago but I never did any of those things before that but once I started reading up on it I really got into the whole idea
Of course I don't preach if others wish to do stuff that is up to them why should it bother me
Yeah it is
I would say so
I would describe myself as straight edge and am so not because I wish to be particularly virtuous about my health,but because to me alcohol tastes like piss, smoke stinks worse than an enema overspillage and snorting something off a toilet seat has never had much allure for me.
Surely not? It's a philosophy, something you actively buy into, a conscious rejection of things regarded as 'bad' for you. If you're not aware of the 'movement', then no, you can't be classed as part of it.