what did you give up for lent

thedrowner · 09-03-2003 5:10pm #1

or did anyone....

anyone give up anything mad?

Cherry · 09-03-2003 9:48pm

Boys, studying, chocolate, alcohol, un-necessary shopping sprees, swearing, obsessing over Jeff Buckley

I've only managed to stick with resisting one of them. Wonder which?

karma kabbage · 09-03-2003 11:01pm

i don't think anyone from our peer group gives up anything in this 'day and age'. Or at least very few.

i gave up alcohol though..it's goin ok so far... although that depends on your definition of ok

i miss beer

startled_frog · 10-03-2003 11:40am

Men

thedrowner · 10-03-2003 12:31pm

i gave up sweets
it's going ok-haven't broke it yet
although i am eating about 12 special k bar's a day to compensate.

startled_frog · 10-03-2003 12:43pm

No I gave up men ages ago. I'll probably try give up tea for the whole of lent. How long is lent? I never ever paid attention in religion.

roxy · 10-03-2003 2:19pm

Tea - don't even think about it sista!!

I refuse to believe that Jesus went for forty days and forty nights without a cup of wonderful, good-for what-ails-ya tea.

Not a chance. All the other stuff in the bible I take as true. Well, apart from the parting of the seas thing. Ah sure it's probably true but it just requires a little stretch of the imagination.

You know that if you count up the days from the beginning to the end of lent, it's more than 40 days, it's closer to 50. So, when me and my siblings were wee, our ritual was that we could eat our sweets on Sundays and St. Patrick's Day. All legit, well it was to me.

polarbelly · 10-03-2003 2:28pm

cigarettes, beer, chipper...

have done ok, but the first 2 aint gonna last

Tyrrial · 10-03-2003 3:09pm

I gave up religon last lent and i'm still off it!!!

johnnynolegs · 10-03-2003 3:26pm

chocolate/crisps/fizzy drinks

sweet as pie

Kurdt · 10-03-2003 3:50pm

the start of it passed me by... and i havent had a drink since last monday... so maybe i'll say drink...

though i do have a bottle of whiskey in my bag... hmmmm...

polarbelly, giving up beer... does that mean you can drink spirits?

lamda · 10-03-2003 7:15pm

Originally posted by Kurdt
the start of it passed me by... and i havent had a drink since last monday... so maybe i'll say drink...

though i do have a bottle of whiskey in my bag... hmmmm...

Now where have I heard that one before???:D

bandit · 11-03-2003 1:50am

I gave up posting on this message boa......
Dammit I failed again!!!!!!

Space Coyote · 11-03-2003 1:57pm

i didnt have any pancakes coz i forgot so i forgot to give something up for lent to compensate...

polarbelly · 11-03-2003 3:23pm

Originally posted by Kurdt
polarbelly, giving up beer... does that mean you can drink spirits?

of course

still the beer is the one that wont last... was in the porterhouse yesterday, such lovely tasty beer, couldnt not sample from the menu

oh and i'm now a qualified paddy irish whiskey taster too

best day of my life

LA_girl · 11-03-2003 4:09pm

Oh, Mick! How could ye! You went to the Porterhouse without me! I'm hurt.

johnnynolegs · 11-03-2003 4:25pm

yeah mick how could u

Tyrrial · 11-03-2003 7:35pm

it seems he could very easily.....
which should upset you guys even more!

Volvagia · 11-03-2003 10:33pm

I Gave Up Giving Up Stuff ... then I got confused!

Tom182 · 11-03-2003 11:01pm

Biting my nails!!! They are an absolute disgrace...but I'm not doing too bad!!

lamda · 11-03-2003 11:43pm

Vodka... well until Saturday that is....
Oh this will work better - I give up having a camera in the presence of vodka, I always regret it:D

Amz · 12-03-2003 12:24am

Toasted Cheese Sandwiches after 11pm
And taking sh!t from muppets!

Meh!

polarbelly · 12-03-2003 12:59am

hey, i had my fun

Tom182 · 12-03-2003 3:19am

Originally posted by Amz
Toasted Cheese Sandwiches after 11pm
And taking sh!t from muppets!

Meh!

wHICH ONE OF THE MUPPETS WAS GIVING YOU ****????
I bet it was that scooter fella...never liked him,a bit of a back stabber if you ask me>......

johnnynolegs · 12-03-2003 11:18am

Originally posted by polarbelly
hey, i had my fun

Yes you did didn't you.......pity you didn't think of the consequences

karma kabbage · 13-03-2003 2:13am

Originally posted by Tyrrial
I gave up religon last lent and i'm still off it!!!

well some might say that self improvment isn't an option you should be dissmissing....so THERE

Kurdt · 13-03-2003 11:01am

and i return after my whiskey...

go me and go you mick... go you!

Macseamusa · 20-03-2003 3:32pm

i think i started off with spirits, then i moved to chocolate and i think i left it there. If u could see me now im eating a double decker. So lent didnt work for me. when does lent finished, i went easter eggs

thedrowner · 20-03-2003 5:34pm

oh my goodness
how much choc did i eat on paddy's day?

4 weeks to go then chocolate
mmmmm

Nobodyme · 21-03-2003 11:16pm

I Gave up Lying....no, wait, that's not true.

Silverfish · 22-03-2003 12:44am

Even though I'm not actually of the religion that gives things up for lent, I decided to quit smoking.

Which I did, for the three minutes it took me to wrestle the lid off the Baileys bottle.

But I remember when other people in my class were giving things up or whatever, I always thought that instead of giving stuff up for personal gain, how about doing stuff instead?

I used to try to be nicer to people (stop laughing, I did, really, honest...no, seriously...) but a brief and horrific career dealing with the public put paid to that.

Customer: 'I need to withdraw money from my account'

Catriona: 'Oh f*** off.'

Unfortunately, though the gick uniform and disgraceful pay is long behind me, the attitude has remained.

what did you give up for lent

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