Any HC/punks in here??

[Nikko]

I've gotta say that if it wasn't for the hardcore/punk scene, I wouldn't have discovered veganism......well actually I would have eventually but I wouldn't be as confident and sure of a lot of things if it wasn't for the influence if many people I consider role models from hardcore bands and the scene in general.

So can I get a shout out from the other tattooed misfit punks and hardcore kids workin their asses off stayin fit and setting an example to the world that the terms hardcore and compassionate are NOT mutually exclusive!!

[soniczip]

i think i'm not a kid anymore but i still listen to some old school: read 80's hc and some 90's. don't know much about the recent scene!

[Nikko]

80 and 90s hardcore is awesome especially the crossover thrash stuff like cro-mags!! Suicidal Tendencies and Sick of it all get me pretty psyched too.

[Hiking Fox]

I am very punk, but I don't dress like one!

[soniczip]

I am very punk, but I don't dress like one!

ur a foxpunk!!!

[ninearms]

Punks is hippies.

[Hiking Fox]

For me:

Hippies = People who go to India to "find themselves", listen to music with lots of chanting in it, talk quietly because aggression is bad, and think crystals and homoeopathy can heal you. Often have made-up food allergies.

Punx = People who try to do everything themselves, enjoy hanging out in squat cafés and benefit gigs, listen to music with lots of shouting in it, and tend to rage about stuff a lot. Eat pretty much everything, especially if salvaged from a bin.

The common denominator is a tendency to be scruffy and to peel oneself off one's armpit each morning. However, on getting up, the hippies will do tai chi and the punx will run round the park with an equally scruffy dog, or eat a mountain of toast.

[ninearms]

Any true punk would have got the reference.

[soniczip]

http://punksishippies.blogspot.it/

[ninearms]

[xrodolfox]

I really encountered veganism and AR through the HC scene in the early 1990's.
I am still straight edge.

I have one small tattoo, and today I'm wearing slacks and a polo in an office.

However, I still think of myself as "punk" or at least "HC".

[Catt Queen]

For me:

Hippies = People who go to India to "find themselves", listen to music with lots of chanting in it, talk quietly because aggression is bad, and think crystals and homoeopathy can heal you. Often have made-up food allergies.

Punx = People who try to do everything themselves, enjoy hanging out in squat cafés and benefit gigs, listen to music with lots of shouting in it, and tend to rage about stuff a lot. Eat pretty much everything, especially if salvaged from a bin.

The common denominator is a tendency to be scruffy and to peel oneself off one's armpit each morning. However, on getting up, the hippies will do tai chi and the punx will run round the park with an equally scruffy dog, or eat a mountain of toast.

Sounds like I am a mixture of the two...

[Webb]

I became vegetarian separately from my involvement in punk, but there was some influence in me becoming vegan. It was mostly through a few friends, though, I don't really listen to 90's XVX style music or have any role models in the scene. While transitioning and I had essentially been vegan for a week or so, I made it official at an Earth Crisis show in May 2008.

[Hiking Fox]

The appalling grammar threw me; it should have read: "Punks are hippies"

[Nikko]

I really encountered veganism and AR through the HC scene in the early 1990's.
I am still straight edge.

I have one small tattoo, and today I'm wearing slacks and a polo in an office.

However, I still think of myself as "punk" or at least "HC".

Yeah I'm completely inkless at work also, long sleeves and trousers all day in the office in front of a computer screen. On the weekend I have lots of tattoos haha. I tend to think of being punk in terms listening to a lot of punk music, not liking punk fashion so much. My attire is generally understated even boring. I just love the way punk, hardcore, metalcore whatever makes me feel, energized ya know!!