Who has a "conservative lifestyle"? That is "good wholesome living".

Just wondering since some people who meet me think I'm almost a Mormon or something.

I'm pretty moral, very gentlemanly, love my family, don't sleep around, etc.

Sure, I do drink on occasion, but who doesn't?

Wholesome to some, but I'm sure blasphemous to others.

and swearing - well except for the Lounge - enjoy clean air, etc.

I'd probably qualify as 'clean living' on pretty much anyone's scale. On that last point, I get frisky often enough, but have more self-restraint than is probably good for me. Believe it or not. :D

No smoke.

No drink.

No drugs.

Mostly eat pretty thoughtfully, typically with little 'junk' food component. When I do eat 'badly," I know full well what I'm doing.

Hold door open for people. And so on.

"Please," "thank you," "you're welcome."

No swear...usually (been slipping a little bit in recent years, when I'm really mad, but have lifelong pretty much avoided swearing in front of others...when alone, sure, and it's obviously a different story in 'intimate contexts' :-) ). I am a f***ing saint.

Always wear protection (on my motorcycle). And black leather's not just for Terminators.

And as much as I hate and am saddened by celibacy, I'm really, really good at it. I can go for years...many years -- not that proving this has been a source of great joy, of course.

'Conservative' isn't what people would ever have thought when looking at me, but the truth is that I am and always have been pretty much a nonconformist with good manners. Same with my brother. We've both always looked diferent from everyone else, because neither of us has ever in our lives succumbed to peer pressure or the need to follow trends. I'm a leftist (the political test that pops up on DU now and then placed me pretty far left but in the 'socialist libertarian' section) but I despise some of the idiots who inhabit this side of the spectrum. We're both very much rebels in some ways, and at various times we've both looked and outwardly acted (the pop-culture archetype: long hair, rocker clothing, motorcycles and leather, etc) the part, but neither of us has ever used that as an excuse for disrespect and we've never rebelled against or resented and fought with our parents.

I think our parents did a good job, letting us know that we can do or be or appear however we want but that it does matter how we treat others and how we conduct ourselves. We were never brats, which is why I sneer in the general direction of people who excuse bad behavior by children or teens (cruelty to animals, rudeness, and so on) as being because they're "just kids." I was always a mature kid and I don't regret it -- in some ways, I'm arguably getting less mature every day now, and I don't regret that, either. :-)

I'm down to only six to eight drinks per day (beer doesn't count, right?), and I hardly ever shoot smack anymore. And I haven't visited a prostitute in almost a week!

Unless we talk about food, religion or politics, then it's "Are you some kind of hippie or something?" (Actual quote from my Mom's new in-laws on Thanksgiving. I wish somebody'd warned me they were conservative, deer-hunting Mormons.)

They like their guns but not - from what I've seen - a lot of hunting.

I guess up there hunting was a big part of thier diet. Of course tehy had to tell me all the gory details as I sat trying to eat my plate of vegan holiday fare. :eyes:

are actually kind of open to left of center politics. BUT, once you start talking about homosexuality or abortion - though they do make exceptions - they turn right off. With other things like social programs they can bend to it, however their religion talks self-reliance.

it's the conservatives that are the criminal class in this country, what with fiscal and sexual escapades ad infinitum.

good wholesome without the bad dirty? Life is a paradox, a dichotomy if you will....

Crew cut, business clothes, house in the 'burbs. Wouldn't take long some an observer to be disabused, however.

No children, no church, wife has different surname, "foreign" cars, unusual personal interests.

a traditional sense.

conservative and my truly uptight and conservative acquaintances think I am wild and unconventional....so I guess it is dependent upon the vantage point:shrug:

I don't think the words "conservative" or "wholesome" have ever been used to describe me, even in jest.

Khash.

I'm a single mom who does her own thing. Never the norm in this lifetime and I wouldn't trade it for anything!

I am pretty traditional!

What? Why are you laughing? :shrug:

eats alot of :popcorn:

I think that is my mom's secret. Or is that pop secret?

Mormons dress up too much, otherwise I live like a Mormon - with a caffeine addiction and dressing like a teenage dirtbag. Plus my house is a mess.

Twenty three years old.

Chaste. (I dig 19th century poetic eroticism, though.)

No desire to imbibe alcohol, or narcotics.

And I tuck in my shirts.

...With my divorced, single-mother girlfriend. ;)

Plus, we kick puppies. Not really.

No smoking, no drinking, no funny substances, no sleeping with anyone but my lawful husband. Heck, I even try to eat more vegetables than ice cream, and I exercise at least 3 days a week. And I don't generally drink coffee either (maybe once or twice a month).

The worst thing I do is swear and play too many video games when I should be working.

I bet Rush Limpballs has a much more "liberal" lifestyle than I do, despite his assumed facade of moral superiority.

Besides the facts that I do:

- smoke
- drink
- have intimate contact

But, i do not:

- swear (not often, though)
- drive
- mormon

Monogamy? I've never even cheated on girlfriends. Dating is one thing, but once I'm intimate with someone, I just feel it's the polite thing to do, or not to do. Oh, I might still flirt and talk, but I'm a serial boinker, if that makes any sense.

Drinking? Well, I like to go out with my friends on Fridays and Saturdays but never so much that I can't legally drive. Usually have a little something almost every night at home though.

Drugs? Not since college. A little grass every once in a long while, but quite frankly, I've decided I've never cared for it.

Tats & piercings? No & no. I'm too much of a nonconformist to go along with that crowd. :) I'm a freak on the inside, where it counts.

I'm probably the most polite person you'd ever meet. Besides please and thanks, I say "pardon" or "excuse me" when I can't hear someone instead of the more vulgar, "WHAT?!"

Sharing of household duties? Well, I'm single so it's all on me. But if someone makes me a meal, I'm doing the dishes.

I only go to chruch for weddings and funerals and don't believe in god so I guess that's not very conservative.

I dunno what this all makes me....

My dress is highly conservative - pretty much always have a tie, and I don't posses a single pair of shorts or jeans. I go to church twice on a Sunday (Mass in the morning, Evensong later). I have very close ties with my family, and see loads of both of my sisters and my parents. I speak pretty much received English. &c.&c.

But I don't perceive that as superior - simply that's it's me. If others want to live in a totally different manner - that's their choice, as much as this is mine.

in the way I live my life; living this way has just always felt the most natural to me so I've decided not to change who I am for the sake of fitting in.

However, I'm also very tolerant (conservatives cannot understand the concept of being personally conservative yourself but not trying to push your lifestyle on others) and non-conformist in my own ways, so I'm not often mistaken for a conservative. Not to mention, I usually score as a democratic socialist on political surveys, so I couldn't very well be a political conservative if I wanted to!

I'm highly irritated by the hypocrisy of RW Fundie types who have been divorced, cheat on their taxes, wreck the environment with their gi-normouse SUVs, get drunk on Saturday and go to church on Sunday, etc.

Yet, because my politics are Liberal, they are automatically more "wholesome" than I am!

I never waste a drop

and I do what I do all night long

Since my past has painted much of my present and future. I'll always hear that different drummer, and march along to my own tune.
Doesn't mean I'm not healthy as hell though.

Conservative in lifestyle but radical in politics.

To me a wholesome life is one that includes fighting for justice.