Lent!

Red Alert

So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up? I've actually decided to deactivate my Facebook account for Lent, and possibly delete it on Good Friday!!

dd972

Borrowed!

Your Superior

Red Alert wrote: »

So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up? I've actually decided to deactivate my Facebook account for Lent, and possibly delete it on Good Friday!!

Nothing! Because it's just plain stupid!

mad muffin

I'm giving up lent.

Dr Strange

Red Alert wrote: »

So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up? I've actually decided to deactivate my Facebook account for Lent, and possibly delete it on Good Friday!!

Sweets and crisps. I am currently stuffing my face with all the stuff from the cupboard. Feeling quite sick now but there's still some left and also some ice cream. Don't want it to go off during the time I'm off so I am working my way through it today. Has to be done! :pac:

Badly Drunk Boy

I haven't given up anything for Lent since I was 6 or 7. I was always a bit of a goody two shoes as a kid but Lent was one thing that I wouldn't do.

The_Valeyard

Instead of giving up something, I'm doing something like more excercise or give some free time to a charity.

Can't give up my caffeine addiction, I'm not a quitter.

Deranged96

Preusse wrote: »

Sweets and crisps. I am currently stuffing my face with all the stuff from the cupboard. Feeling quite sick now but there's still some left and also some ice cream. Don't want it to go off during the time I'm off so I am working my way through it today. Has to be done! :pac:

You just transported me back to fourth class!

The Backwards Man

I'm giving up sex.

Dr Strange

Deranged96 wrote: »

You just transported me back to fourth class!

Welcome!

dodderangler

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm giving up sex.

Your supposed to give up something you love doing.

Dr Strange

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm giving up sex.

Giving something up you don't have anyway doesn't really count though

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I usually make a point of drinking more. Will have to wait a few days as I'm currently in the Middle East! Damn!

Mesrine65

What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff

Sheep Lover

Red Alert wrote: »

Lent again! What are people giving up?

Sniffing my mother's jocks

Might try my sisters.

The Backwards Man

dodderangler wrote: »

Your supposed to give up something you love doing.

Mesrine65

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Sniffing my mother's jocks

Might try my sisters.

Your ma wears jocks :eek:

Buona Fortuna

This year I shall be giving up auto-erotic asphyxiation.

shruikan2553

I prefer to call it temporary second chance at a news years resolution.

Mesrine65 wrote: »

What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff

I remember in schools it was because you had to make something up or the teacher would give you something to pretend you gave up.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Mesrine65 wrote: »

What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff

Jesus spent 40 days in the desert fasting prior to the Last Supper and his crucifixition.

Not what I'd spend the time doing if I knew I had only 6 weeks to live...

K4t

Red Alert wrote: »

So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up?

Atheism.

fleet_admiral

Im giving up picking my belly button for lint

efb

Went into butchers this evening- "Abstinence tomorrow!", "eh, no, steak!"

Calibos

Mesrine65 wrote: »

What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff

In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.

pharmaton

chocolate, I'm trying to finish this jar of nutella first though.

Deranged96

Calibos wrote: »

In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.

The derision in this post is something else

9de5q7tsr8u2im

Possibly less time on the laptop does that count or do i have to completely give it up

pharmaton

Calibos wrote: »

In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.

think its more to do with the forty days and nights enduring temptation in the desert story.

iDave

Can't believe no one said rollerblades yet. AH standards are slipping

fleet_admiral

There is an oul one on the deli in my local centra that always barks on about mass. Im looking forward to tomorrow when I go in for a breakfast roll and some steak for dinner.
Her and the catholic cult can kiss my arse

Deranged96

fleet_admiral wrote: »

There is an oul one on the deli in my local centra that always barks on about mass. Im looking forward to tomorrow when I go in for a breakfast roll and some steak for dinner.
Her and the catholic cult can kiss my arse

I'm sure she'll never expect people to get meat from the Deli Counter on Ash Wednesday in the Ireland of 2015. Be sure she doesn't have heart problems before you give this mad stunt a go! :pac:

Calibos

pharmaton wrote: »

think its more to do with the forty days and nights enduring temptation in the desert story.

I stand corrected.

In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross starving himself in the baking heat of a middle eastern desert for 40 days and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins resisting the temptation of another demi-god who according to their bible killed millions of people less than their God, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.

Hows that?

Pumpkinseeds

I'm giving up all junk food for Lent. It's a great way to shed a bit of post-Christmas flab and kickstart healthier eating patterns.

highly1111

Religion

FloatingVoter

Is this the bit where people stop drinking ? Then they wind up in hospital on Paddys Day getting their stomach pumped. I've great respect for JC mainly because he did the loaves and fishes but also because he didn't block up A & E after the desert gig.

fineso.mom

The last time i gave up anything for lent - and kept it up for the duration -was in first class. I gave up sugar in tea and never went back to it. Which is mad really, cos my diet generally speaking, is mostly sugar based :-) It must have been the impending first confession and holy Communion that gave me the strength.!
Not once in the many many years since have I succeeded in staying off whatever I gave up. I'm such a failure.

Mourinho

I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.

FloatingVoter

Mourinho wrote: »

I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.

Fair play and best wishes on the fags...same with the booze.. Evict rollerblade man because one or both of you is likely to kill him before the 40 days are up. For their own good.

DEFTLEFTHAND

fleet_admiral wrote: »

There is an oul one on the deli in my local centra that always barks on about mass. Im looking forward to tomorrow when I go in for a breakfast roll and some steak for dinner.
Her and the catholic cult can kiss my arse

Do you think any Catholic really gives a hoot?

libelula

Guinness. The beloved, creamy couple of pints of a weekend
The timing suits well though, I've just gotten back into a half-right training routine and have a race mid-march to cop myself on for.

fineso.mom

Mourinho wrote: »

I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.

Jaysus, alcohol AND rollerblading ,not smart.

eternal

I'm giving up giving up.

madmaggie

Thinking of taking up something instead, doing an anti-Lent.

Lapin

Mesrine65 wrote: »

What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff

Cutting back on food consumption and abstaining from certain foods at this time of the year predate the spread of Christianity.

Like many seasonal traditions long since adopted by religions of all types, it has it's roots in early methods of agriculture.

With the arrival of Spring came the opportunity to re sow the land and take stock of the previous year's harvest. What remains of it may need to be rationed sensibly depending on how severe the Winter was, and with a look ahead to the harvest in the year to come still many months away.

The new lease of life ushered in during Spring was simply an opportune time to conserve the fruits of the previous harvest and that often meant cutting back a bit until the Summer arrived and the new crops could be reaped.

That's how Lenten sacrifice originated. It's got sod all to do with a bloke swanning around a desert for six weeks trying to stop a snake from selling him shìt but I must admit, thats a much cooler story than mine.

I'd just love to know what the codgers who wrote it were smokin.

Lucifer MorningStar

mad muffin wrote: »

I'm giving up lent.

Grays Sports Almanac

I'm not religious or anything, but I'm giving up bread, dairy and the awful habit I got into recently of having tea and biscuits after dinner.

Smidge

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

This year I shall be giving up auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Good for you.
It will be like a breath of fresh air

iDave

Hope

Username here

Mourinho wrote: »

I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.

.....Ted? Is that you?

boobar

White bread...

But it's really a health thing rather than for Lent

force eleven

All processed sugar. Hell if you love a sugary cereal followed by white toast slathered in butter and marmalade, washed down with a mug of white tae and three sugars.

This morning I had shredded cardboard, sorry, wheat, and unsweetened tea. 6 weeks of this?