What is the most non-punk rock thing you can think of?

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Recently, one of my bandmates said he couldn't make it to a gig because he and his wife had to go to a childbirth class.

That is so not punk rock, I thought.

Another bandmate was late for a rehearsal because she was closing on a house. Also, not a punk rock reason. Can't they at least have the decency to say they were in jail, or overdosing, or something? Then, on another thread, there was talk of Semisonic (which is, of course, non-punk rock), whose hit is said to have been about having a baby.

People often disagree about what punk is. But what about what it isn't?

― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

posting about it on the internet seems pretty punk, though.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Green Day.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I think the simple statement "That is so not punk rock" is not punk rock.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

posting about it on the internet seems pretty punk, though.

roffle

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Actually, skipping out on rehearsal is probably the most punk thing a musician can do.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

the new anarcho-activist all black wearing fixed gear riding vegan food eating punkers

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Or a gig, even.

xpost

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Golf.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Jay: well, I never claimed to be punk, of course.

Golf is a pretty good answer, though punk golf would be funny to watch: driving the carts into the pond, assaulting old ladies with a putter, passing out on the seventh green....

― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Wearing a CBGB's t-shirt.

Actually, everything about CBGB's in the last decade or so, if not longer.

― cdwill, Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

http://ogonbat.brinkster.net/arkiv_osmonds.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 6 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

http://tinypic.com/16o4jk

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 6 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rockandrollconfidential.com/hall/images/hall_images/10/g4.jpg

― darin (darin), Thursday, 6 January 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rockandrollconfidential.com/archives/images/magazines/magazine_005.jpg

― darin (darin), Thursday, 6 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

John Lydon, circa right now

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 6 January 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Read Me

― Nancy Boy (Nancy Boy), Thursday, 6 January 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Luton Airport, according to Bobby Gillespie anyway.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 6 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Teddy Bears

― 1783, Year of Ginger Ale, Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

mottdeterre = otm dat dere

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

NPR

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

"Punk Rock"

― Geoffrey Mark Maddock (cutups), Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)