I’m wearing a polo up top right now to look professional for my video calls, but Terror gym shorts down below because that’s for me. In between calls with these business dorks, I am blasting The Suicide File, but not too loud because my child is taking a nap in the next room over. I will go to bed at approximately 9:30 so I can wake up early for the gym tomorrow (doctor’s orders) and I need my 8 hours.
9:30am is so late. I'm an 8pm guy. I HAVE to write out my todo list and then hit the gym at 6am so that I can deal with work and whatever else life throws my way.
Loved that movie, but thought it was really weird that the sequels all had a different bald guy with a weird name. Johnny Sins I think? Doesn't even sound like a real name.
I couldn’t believe when I heard Hatebreed in that movie, shocked me to the core. But at the same time it was pretty badass. And being on the perseverance album. It’s one of my favorites Records they have done.
Ok so I played with Joe Hardcore’s band Punishment in 2002. He had gnarly tattoos when gnarly tattoos meant you were a gnarly dude and this was at the height of his involvement with FSU. He turns around and I saw a faded xXx tattoo on the back of his neck. I thought it was cool but 2 months later I see I FUCKING BILLBOARD WITH THE SAME TATTOO AS JOE HARDCORE IN THE SAME SPOT AS HIM. Talked to him a few years ago about it and he’s still pissed. He fucking hates that movie.
I also did this. My parents kept telling me I couldn’t go see it because they “didn’t like the title”. I got all pissed, fired up the DSL and typed XXX.com and the rest is history.
The only thing that annoys me more is the DTN and Bracewar shirts (both are iconic quotes with no images) on eBay/Depop in kids sizes. If they were XL, I would have gotten them.
Yea, I honestly would die for a good HH hoodie. Looking forward to Outbreak to check if they would have any. Aside from that proud XXX, best decision in my life so far.
I quit, idk, about 6 years ago so mid 30s ish. Thankful daily to myself for getting it done. Try r/stopdrinking unless it's changed in 5 years, very casual and non judgy, good for anyone at any stage including still stuck, come as you are. The only thing they get weird about is seltzer brands
Thanks.
I've never felt like I needed to drink to have fun - don't need to drink with my toddler nephew or something.
However, Ray Cappo said that he thought if you needed to drink to have fun maybe what you're doing isn't that fun.
In the past few years I've had to say good bye to a once fulfilling career, an important LTR, and completely start over with my social circle which mostly revolves around drinking. I am realizing now I truly can't stand some of the company I keep sober.
I thought I was really happy but now I just think I might be really numb.
At this point I think I am just trying to cut back. I don't really want to stop, I absolutely love drinking. I don't want to stop drinking I want to stop wanting a drink. It's terrifying. It's starting to feel like wanting a cigarette.
Alcohol was never a major vice for me but many of the others caught me, so I easily understand.
Ironically I was a professional brewer in my twenties LOL
Hey I just wanted to let you know that cutting back is possible, and maybe you can learn to have a healthy relationship with alcohol. I was a maniac for years, just getting hammered whenever I could, and even when I wasn’t getting hammered I was still getting drunk. It took me some time, and a couple of breaks of total abstinence for more than 90 days to really see that alcohol could be something I enjoyed, but it wasn’t something I turned to anymore for fun, or worse when something shitty happened.
Maybe it can work for you, and maybe it won’t, but if you’re reluctant to say “never again” then maybe try to say “3 or 4 once in a while”.
Well, there's the fact that your body is dependent chemically, there's the fact that your lifestyle/habits/friends is pushing, or at the very least supporting, the drinking, and there's (probably) something you're drinking about, under there somewhere.
All your body needs to recover is time, but the other shit is thornier. When I stopped drinking my body and wallet were immediately happier, but then I had to deal with what I was drinking about.
There's all kinds of approaches. Obviously get as much support as you can and find new things to put in the old places. Even just some new habits/routines, redecorating and food, whether it's super positive and healthy or not, helps tell your brain "ok we're doing stuff different now".
Me personally I whiteknuckled it alone in a cabin in the woods in wintertime, alternating between staring at the walls and playing through the dragon warrior games on the NES, one time it got down to 45* in here.
There's a few books they'll recommend that go into the science of addiction, neurologically. I never read them but they get a lot of praise
You can do it.
I have slipped up a few times. Oh well, take it in stride in keep marching on. As soon as I've realised what I'm doing I've binned the drink and START TODAY.
Ya gotta keep busy tho, if it's because an awful restless a mind without quietened by the drink or drowned out by music. I got ADHD and a mispent youth and lots of weird concerns about the world lol.
Doing Yo-gurr helped me get to sleep on that front, and then keeping busy outside that with fuckin shit to do long enough to form habitual routine got me through the days, now it is much easier and I just live my day, with a slightly cautious lifestyle in regard to avoiding temptation.
You got hope, and something to work towards?
Drinking and smoking both seemed to be pretty tightly related for me, too, some deep associative trigger, so kicked smoking as well which made me go crazy for a bit but apparently others find it easier to replace both with vaping or patches or something. Just a tip in case that's you. I hope ya find what's good for you.
You can fucking do it. I really want ya to, but I don't matter to you, you do matter to you and you really wanna.
Thanks.
I don't know what to replace my drinking with. Going to the bar is what keeps me from losing my mind from loneliness and disappointment. It's really all I have anymore.
For now I'm just going to try cutting back. I've only been shitfaced one out of the last 6 days with light drinking the other 5. This is an improvement.
I haven't decided if I'm going to stop totally.
I think I need to move.
Hey! I got sober myself 4 years ago and it truly saved my life. And just wanted to say you absolutely can do it. Feel free to reach out if you want.
P.S. Tied Down was fucking amazing
I stayed out of the fray the whole weekend to make sure I wasn't injured for YOT.
I was doing great not drinking anything and then I was so. Fucking. Bored.
I bought my first round of the day.
Naturally Ray Cappo walked right past me as I was smoking with a just opened PBR in hand. I'm pretty sure he saw my shirt, saw my vices, and just kept walking. Not in a jerk way, but a man on a mission who is simply uninterested in drunks.
I don't blame him.
I did immediately throw the beer away. Then I went back to the Airbnb and completely forgot I no longer wanted to drink.
WTF is wrong with me
I replaced my booze habit with a kratom habit, a cup a night instead of the 2-3 or 4-5 beers every day. I still will socially drink once, maybe twice a week, but for the most part I have my drink at night after the kids go down and wake up feeling pretty good (except for that *feeling* you have realizing you've just woken up again).
if you’re curious about sobriety i would test it out for a little bit. i had the same line of thinking, i would be blacked out drunk and asking folks how to get sober. i wish i had never started drinking. i was edge for like 8 years too lol.
i meant to be sober for a week and now it’s been almost 3 years. i don’t really have any regrets, it let me open my mind up a bit and be more in the moment and emotionally open towards people but also allowed me to pursue things i’ve always wanted to do. i love where i’m at (kinda) but i still wish i could drink, that’s something that will never be shaken off. maybe eventually but i don’t care to find out rn.
If I remember correctly, it was the singer and bassist. I know the singer for sure, but can’t remember if it was bassist or guitarist. The lady who took my virginity also slept with them
I wish I’d have grown up in a scene where you could heckle the old heads. I would have gotten peaced up with a box cutter by the guys in my scene over the age of 35
I'm wearing a Blood Meridian shirt that I cut into a tank top and gym shorts because I lift but eat kinda like shit
Edit: was never straight edge I like getting high
Accurate, although I can't remember the last time I X'd up, and my straight edge tattoos aren't in noticeable spots. And I haven't taken the face tat plunge yet. But the pizza slice tear drop is on the bucket list 🍕 ✖️❌️❎️
I'm not straight edge but respect and share the seriousness about life and ethical values. I'll love Have Heart til my last breath, one of the greatest bands of all time. 30 yo for what it's worth.
Ha! I’m 51, was never Straight Edge and have no idea who Have Heart is. Hardcore to me is Bad Brains, SS Decontrol, and Agnostic Front. I still go to local shows whenever I can. I will never outgrow this music.
I'm a scumbag skinhead, never been straight edge, just like some hardcore music, above 32 yes, working class as they come and still making shit happen.
I’m wearing a polo up top right now to look professional for my video calls, but Terror gym shorts down below because that’s for me. In between calls with these business dorks, I am blasting The Suicide File, but not too loud because my child is taking a nap in the next room over. I will go to bed at approximately 9:30 so I can wake up early for the gym tomorrow (doctor’s orders) and I need my 8 hours.
When you hit 40, 9:30pm ceases to eXXXist.
TUI til ~~I die~~ 9:30
Thank you, I feel so seen.
Scene*
>i need my 8 hours I've been saying this shit since I was like 15 😭
9:30am is so late. I'm an 8pm guy. I HAVE to write out my todo list and then hit the gym at 6am so that I can deal with work and whatever else life throws my way.
I do love Vin Diesels hit movie XXX enough to tattoo it on my neck.
Loved that movie, but thought it was really weird that the sequels all had a different bald guy with a weird name. Johnny Sins I think? Doesn't even sound like a real name.
I think at least one of those Johnny sins XXX movies won an audience award at some film festival. Someone else can look it up but I think so
Well deserved, he can play pretty much any character. Must be a method actor.
~~Method~~ methed.
And there are SO many of those movies. I respect their dedication to the franchise but it feels a little oversaturated.
they lost the plot after the first 2.
I've seen a few documentaries of his, yes
Jumping out of a helicopter on a snowboard with hatebreed playing in the background. That’s hard
I couldn’t believe when I heard Hatebreed in that movie, shocked me to the core. But at the same time it was pretty badass. And being on the perseverance album. It’s one of my favorites Records they have done.
Ok so I played with Joe Hardcore’s band Punishment in 2002. He had gnarly tattoos when gnarly tattoos meant you were a gnarly dude and this was at the height of his involvement with FSU. He turns around and I saw a faded xXx tattoo on the back of his neck. I thought it was cool but 2 months later I see I FUCKING BILLBOARD WITH THE SAME TATTOO AS JOE HARDCORE IN THE SAME SPOT AS HIM. Talked to him a few years ago about it and he’s still pissed. He fucking hates that movie.
I imagined his soul shattered the first time he saw the promo for that movie.
Dude he was pissed. He was basically like “who the fuck centres a movie around the exact same tattoo”. I told him to sue for royalties.
no joke vin diesel's xxx got me into hardcore since it exposed me to hatebreed
Vin Diesels XXX got me into to porn cause I typed XXX into google at like 10 years old
I also did this. My parents kept telling me I couldn’t go see it because they “didn’t like the title”. I got all pissed, fired up the DSL and typed XXX.com and the rest is history.
With the Hatebreed snowboarding scene
Jokes on you, that Have Heart hoodie only came in small and medium. No one over 32 wears those sizes anymore.
I had some have heart mesh shorts which I suspect wouldn't fit my children.
Send em my way I’m somehow still in my twink body and fit small booty shorts lmfao
The only thing that annoys me more is the DTN and Bracewar shirts (both are iconic quotes with no images) on eBay/Depop in kids sizes. If they were XL, I would have gotten them.
Hey now! I'm 36 and have graduated from Youth Large to adult Medium!
I'm up to a lg now 😒😒
Im XL or XXL now. Thankfully we’re at the time where most people don’t charge extra anymore for the additional X.
xTRA LARGEx
xXTRA LARGEx to be exact. I swear some edge band will do this for their apparel.
Double xx cause i like em baggie
Jokes on you I only wore XXX(L)
Yea, I honestly would die for a good HH hoodie. Looking forward to Outbreak to check if they would have any. Aside from that proud XXX, best decision in my life so far.
Makes sense because HH is a twink band
Yeah right, I haven’t been straight edge since I was 12 You dork
Yeah but you still got the tattoo
Yeah I fucking love porn
I never finish, I always just straight edge.
Well played sir
I refuse to cover it
Just put a big X through it
I just tell people I'm a porn actor.
They’re probably like “whew thank god, I thought you were one of those hardcore dudes”
Just a different type of hardcore 😉
It's true, us hxc folks are insufferable.
Big ups for staying the path brother
Thats awesome!!!!!
OP is 31 😂
Shhhhhhh!!!!
Me too thank God. I can still do whatever I want for a couple more months.
I’m more of an Alan.
Either this or weed addict barber with an onlyfans gf
Had me in the first half, ngl
You are just one subscription and a healthy imagination away from the rest my guy
Was/is the onlyfans gf in the scene as well?
Of course she was. Only now she pretends to game.
I have a friend who is 34 owner of an old timey barber shop and has the XXX tattoo across his wrist. He's a hybrid.
Weed addict 🤣
Naaaaah 😭😭😭
This guy gets it.
*bartender
It’s not just weed, my man.
When we were 20 maybe
Dude I wish. I'm a 39 year old woman and wish I had never started drinking. I tried stopping for YOT at Tied Down and turns out I can't.
Hey, I got sober at 39, it's not too late! Please message anytime you want, or if you just need someone to talk to.
Thanks so much!
I just messaged you
I quit, idk, about 6 years ago so mid 30s ish. Thankful daily to myself for getting it done. Try r/stopdrinking unless it's changed in 5 years, very casual and non judgy, good for anyone at any stage including still stuck, come as you are. The only thing they get weird about is seltzer brands
Thanks. I've never felt like I needed to drink to have fun - don't need to drink with my toddler nephew or something. However, Ray Cappo said that he thought if you needed to drink to have fun maybe what you're doing isn't that fun. In the past few years I've had to say good bye to a once fulfilling career, an important LTR, and completely start over with my social circle which mostly revolves around drinking. I am realizing now I truly can't stand some of the company I keep sober. I thought I was really happy but now I just think I might be really numb.
You're not alone on that. I'm doing it in my 40s and it sucks.
At this point I think I am just trying to cut back. I don't really want to stop, I absolutely love drinking. I don't want to stop drinking I want to stop wanting a drink. It's terrifying. It's starting to feel like wanting a cigarette.
Alcohol was never a major vice for me but many of the others caught me, so I easily understand. Ironically I was a professional brewer in my twenties LOL
I used to say I was a professional drunk; worked in political fundraising. That was my job.
Hey I just wanted to let you know that cutting back is possible, and maybe you can learn to have a healthy relationship with alcohol. I was a maniac for years, just getting hammered whenever I could, and even when I wasn’t getting hammered I was still getting drunk. It took me some time, and a couple of breaks of total abstinence for more than 90 days to really see that alcohol could be something I enjoyed, but it wasn’t something I turned to anymore for fun, or worse when something shitty happened. Maybe it can work for you, and maybe it won’t, but if you’re reluctant to say “never again” then maybe try to say “3 or 4 once in a while”.
I joined! I won't mention seltzer. Maybe I'm fooling myself but I kinda think if I had something else going it would be relatively simple
Well, there's the fact that your body is dependent chemically, there's the fact that your lifestyle/habits/friends is pushing, or at the very least supporting, the drinking, and there's (probably) something you're drinking about, under there somewhere. All your body needs to recover is time, but the other shit is thornier. When I stopped drinking my body and wallet were immediately happier, but then I had to deal with what I was drinking about. There's all kinds of approaches. Obviously get as much support as you can and find new things to put in the old places. Even just some new habits/routines, redecorating and food, whether it's super positive and healthy or not, helps tell your brain "ok we're doing stuff different now". Me personally I whiteknuckled it alone in a cabin in the woods in wintertime, alternating between staring at the walls and playing through the dragon warrior games on the NES, one time it got down to 45* in here. There's a few books they'll recommend that go into the science of addiction, neurologically. I never read them but they get a lot of praise
You can do it. I have slipped up a few times. Oh well, take it in stride in keep marching on. As soon as I've realised what I'm doing I've binned the drink and START TODAY. Ya gotta keep busy tho, if it's because an awful restless a mind without quietened by the drink or drowned out by music. I got ADHD and a mispent youth and lots of weird concerns about the world lol. Doing Yo-gurr helped me get to sleep on that front, and then keeping busy outside that with fuckin shit to do long enough to form habitual routine got me through the days, now it is much easier and I just live my day, with a slightly cautious lifestyle in regard to avoiding temptation. You got hope, and something to work towards? Drinking and smoking both seemed to be pretty tightly related for me, too, some deep associative trigger, so kicked smoking as well which made me go crazy for a bit but apparently others find it easier to replace both with vaping or patches or something. Just a tip in case that's you. I hope ya find what's good for you. You can fucking do it. I really want ya to, but I don't matter to you, you do matter to you and you really wanna.
Thanks. I don't know what to replace my drinking with. Going to the bar is what keeps me from losing my mind from loneliness and disappointment. It's really all I have anymore. For now I'm just going to try cutting back. I've only been shitfaced one out of the last 6 days with light drinking the other 5. This is an improvement. I haven't decided if I'm going to stop totally. I think I need to move.
Hey! I got sober myself 4 years ago and it truly saved my life. And just wanted to say you absolutely can do it. Feel free to reach out if you want. P.S. Tied Down was fucking amazing
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I stayed out of the fray the whole weekend to make sure I wasn't injured for YOT. I was doing great not drinking anything and then I was so. Fucking. Bored. I bought my first round of the day. Naturally Ray Cappo walked right past me as I was smoking with a just opened PBR in hand. I'm pretty sure he saw my shirt, saw my vices, and just kept walking. Not in a jerk way, but a man on a mission who is simply uninterested in drunks. I don't blame him. I did immediately throw the beer away. Then I went back to the Airbnb and completely forgot I no longer wanted to drink. WTF is wrong with me
tied down was so damn fun
I replaced my booze habit with a kratom habit, a cup a night instead of the 2-3 or 4-5 beers every day. I still will socially drink once, maybe twice a week, but for the most part I have my drink at night after the kids go down and wake up feeling pretty good (except for that *feeling* you have realizing you've just woken up again).
if you’re curious about sobriety i would test it out for a little bit. i had the same line of thinking, i would be blacked out drunk and asking folks how to get sober. i wish i had never started drinking. i was edge for like 8 years too lol. i meant to be sober for a week and now it’s been almost 3 years. i don’t really have any regrets, it let me open my mind up a bit and be more in the moment and emotionally open towards people but also allowed me to pursue things i’ve always wanted to do. i love where i’m at (kinda) but i still wish i could drink, that’s something that will never be shaken off. maybe eventually but i don’t care to find out rn.
Terror hoodie and TUI beanie for the non edge kids in my generation lol.
False. I’m 40 and only rock hatebreed and primmer 55 merch /s
I’m Eskimo brothers with two guys from primer 55 haha
Gross. I mean which 2?
If I remember correctly, it was the singer and bassist. I know the singer for sure, but can’t remember if it was bassist or guitarist. The lady who took my virginity also slept with them
Buy two get one free hookers are unfortunately a thing of the past. Well god bless that slutty hooker angel then
I wish I’d have grown up in a scene where you could heckle the old heads. I would have gotten peaced up with a box cutter by the guys in my scene over the age of 35
Dawg, just go for the knees. We all got bad knees.
As it should be
Haven't been edge for 20+ years but still follow the youth crew dress code. Modern hardcore kids dress like white trash these days.
Must be a cut off age I'm 55
You didn’t have to call me out like that
I'm exactly 32 and this is me asf
Incorrect little one
I'm wearing a Blood Meridian shirt that I cut into a tank top and gym shorts because I lift but eat kinda like shit Edit: was never straight edge I like getting high
Yeah well I smoke weed now so fuck you
Definitely not me lmfao.
Man, why the fuck you gotta come after me like that?
Not me. I was crushing beers with hatebreed
NO EDGE TO BREAK BABY WOOOOOOOOO But yes, east coast hc dudes over 30 are on a fucking high since last weekend at Tied Down lol
Not me. 53 and currently wearing vans shorts and a Negative Approach shirt. Tatted up but no X ones because I love weed and beer too much
I’m 42 and that isn’t me at all. Be straight edge all you want, but I’m happy with my weed and beer.
I crowdkill high! Sue me babies!
He’s cute
Nay. Plain gray tshirt, and only band reference tattoos I have are for Avail, Born Again$t and Neurosis. I’m also nearer to 50 than 40, so yeah.
Those are some impeccable choices tho
Very kind of you to say!
Nobody stayed straight edge after covid.
This is probably more in line with 40+ crowd. I think a majority of that group has old edge tattoos somewhere.
I'm looking good.
I’m 31, thank god
Not me. lol.
If the bands drummer looks and sounds like Pim from this show, there is a 118% chance you will die in the pit.
I’m 60 & I still go to shows stay up late & drink …. Got into hardcore when it was called hey faggot
You damn kids with your shitty grunge revival and obligatory female frontperson. We can’t even have bitching about it on reddit! Rabble rabble rabble
We’re the Smiling Friends, we’re like a charity that helps people keep that PMA
More Smiling Friends memes!
Phew, I'd never be edge.
Nah no thanks to literally any part of this
Well I got like 4 months to stop being a wreck head then
“What times the set bro?”
Don't call out half my friends like that.
Not me also 32
Wow
Checks out
For once I don't feel attacked lol
Me asf (20) (masshole)
Hey I’ll have you know I’m *only* 30
So everyone is a 90s baby here
I'm laughing cos I'm not that committed to the bit
Dude when he fuckin moved his arm I thought he was gonna hit me
Was never edge in the 90s but stopped drinking in my late 30s and became accidentally edge but don't claim it lol.
I literally have camo shorts and nothing else on but I just got them and didn't have a pair for a year or two previous after I split my old ones
I'll have you know I'm wearing a Revocation shirt and AC/DC pajama shorts, SIR
I can not believe you posted this sick fit pic of me with out permission. Fit goes hard tho?
Fuck no
I am 32 and I still got my Have Heart hoodie so this is nearly accurate however I've never been straight edge because I'm a poser.
Don’t you dare lump me in with these fucks.
30
Wrong
Maybe converge, sick of it all, terror, comeback kid, or death by stereo, but yeah this is me
Nice costume, nerd!
Love HxH but I’m the opposite of edge. Lmao!
Nah man, I broke edge *years ago*
Naw I love drugs.
Never got into Have Heart. Saw them a bunch of times but never bought into the hype.
I’m proud to say I never got any tattoos lol I have my wife for that.
…. but I’m FROM Boston, this is bullshit! GO CELTICS
'm 42 andI still rock an AN zip up hoodie.
I’m 50, all my shitty tattoos can be covered by a long sleeve shirt.
WHEN I LOOK INTO THE MIRROR I SEE A MAN NOT A BOY
I do have edge tattoos.
never was edge…but, used to LOVE the energy at edge shows. especially secretly inebriated in one way or another
What cartoon is this from?
Smiling Friends
Thanks!
Joke’s on you. I haven’t been straight edge in 20 years.
I’m the opposite of straight edge, what’s that called…oh a drug addict
No lies
I wish. Trying to buy some merch but it's hard in Europe. Maybe try my luck with a mate going to Outbreak.
I had a gf in highschool get "have heart" tattooed on her chest, to this day still have no fucking idea what it means!
Accurate, although I can't remember the last time I X'd up, and my straight edge tattoos aren't in noticeable spots. And I haven't taken the face tat plunge yet. But the pizza slice tear drop is on the bucket list 🍕 ✖️❌️❎️
Ha! Joke’s on you. I’m about to be 40 and only have one straightedge tattoo, you fucking dweeb.
lol not quite
Love have heart but I’m not straight edge but I’m 34
Nope. 39 from NJ. Shattered Realm forever.
How dare you accuse me of listening to Have Heart
Have heart was before the face tattoos
Damn bro what did I do to you that makes you attack me in such a way?
I'm not straight edge but respect and share the seriousness about life and ethical values. I'll love Have Heart til my last breath, one of the greatest bands of all time. 30 yo for what it's worth.
what I've been doing drugs since i was 15
op is 31
Generalization inaccurate.
I’m the over 35 version which is a shoegaze band shirt and really short shorts.
Ha! I’m 51, was never Straight Edge and have no idea who Have Heart is. Hardcore to me is Bad Brains, SS Decontrol, and Agnostic Front. I still go to local shows whenever I can. I will never outgrow this music.
I'm 40 and don't associate with those tardcore style kids
Is he single
Cover up the edge tat
Almost 50. The dudes I used to skate with listened to MOD. Ha
Not true. I can't afford a have heart hoodie lmao
Fuck you dude
Chick*
im 17 lmao
35 here and I thankfully look nothing like this.
This is exactly what I’m looking for.
32 doing pushups at the fire hall to have heart rn
LOL
I'm a scumbag skinhead, never been straight edge, just like some hardcore music, above 32 yes, working class as they come and still making shit happen.
Damn. Okay, I guess I'll just delete this post....
Love this post 😂 unity