Smug Straight Edge: Difference between revisions

m
Mass update links
m (categories and general cleanup)
m (Mass update links)
Line 24:
 
== Film ==
* In ''[[Miracle Onon 34th Street]]'', Kris Kringle gets his job as the Macy's Store Santa because the man they'd already hired had shown up drunk. Being that he was expected to entertain children, Kris is appalled at a drunk Santa and takes the job to replace him at the drop of a hat. Of course, Kris's "experience" with the role didn't hurt.
** However showing up drunk to just about any vocation is an immediate black mark. Common sense, people.
* One of [[Bob Roberts]]' songs is titled "Drugs Stink", and contains the lyrics "Drugs stink/They make me sick/Those that sell 'em/And those that do 'em/String 'em up/From the highest tree/Without a trace of sympathy."
Line 42:
* [[Mr. T]] is a teetotaler, and prides himself on drinking only kid-friendly milk rather than alcohol.
* ''Winners Don't Use Drugs'' is the name of an anti-drug slogan that was included on all arcade games imported into to North America from 1989 through to the year of 2000. The message appeared during the attract modes of both video games and on some pinball machines. It was established by FBI Director William S. Sessions with an agreement with the American Amusement Machine Association. By law it had to be included on all imported arcade games and continued to appear long after Sessions left office. The quote normally appeared in gold against a blue or black background between the FBI seal and Sessions' name.
** Hilariously parodied in the [[Scott Pilgrim (Videovideo Gamegame)|Scott Pilgrim game]], with the message altered to "Winners Don't Eat Meat"
* [[Penn and Teller Bullshit|Penn Jillette]] doesn't object to alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs, in fact, he advocates legalizing them. He also never misses an opportunity to remind people he's never used them. Whether comes off as [[Useful Notes/Objectivism|some grand proclamation of philosophical fortitude]] or just a disclaimer from an opinionated person who's never experienced drugs first hand, [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
* [[Ted Nugent]] has been known to be patronizing towards alcohol and drug abuse. Then again, [[Soapbox Sadie|knowing Ted and his views and reactions towards supporters of gun control, veganism, and so on]], would you expect anything less?
* Real-world reversal: Crucial Youth were a straight-edge send-up that parodied the movement and regularly gave the audience a good clean with the Youthbrush.
* Inversion: Quite a few of the pro drug group can be equally as smug for 'having seen and experienced things you can never even dream of, being more creative, being more philosophical and generally just being more worldly than you' cause they smoked/shot/ate something.
* Major Dick Winters (subject of ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'') admits in the book that he thought like this - he didn't drink until the evening of D-Day, and thought that taking a single swallow of liquor would have a noticeable deadening effect on his reflexes and thinking.
* People in Alcoholics Anonymous and similar programs can veer into this.