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Lent and all that..

  • 20-02-2012 9:18pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭fusuf


    What are yous giving up for lent this year lads? I need ideas. :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'm giving up beetroot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    giving 2 fuks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    Cock.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Catholocism


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Catholocism

    Cathotrolololoolololocism or Catholicism?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    A guy asked me that in work today- like wtf! Lent was my reply!
    I asked him how Ramadan was going for him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Lent is for weak-willed people who need a specific date to try giving up stuff and fail miserably, and will usually pick the same stuff they made New Year's resolutions about


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ Tommy Moldy Boardroom


    Nothing.

    I ain't no quitter.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    I give up being nice.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Go on ill get it out of the way...your Ma


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    efb wrote: »
    A guy asked me that in work today- like wtf! Lent was my reply!
    I asked him how Ramadan was going for him

    Ramadan. Sounds like the name of a gay nightclub.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Coke, and hookers


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I gave up giving things up for Lent years ago.

    Partly because I'm not religious, but partly because it's usually counter-productive. If you give something up completely for a few weeks, you're more likely to overdo it after (or on Patrick's Day if you allow yourself to take that day off).
    It's like going on a crash diet, then breaking and binging.

    If you're eating too much unhealthy food or drinking too much, you don't need to give them up completely (unless you think you're an alcoholic).
    Just cut down on them for the whole year, but still allow yourself to enjoy them.

    Also, if you're cutting something that's bad for you out of your life, what good will it do you if you do it for 40 days out of 365/366?
    It would seem much more sensible to me to have a forty-day period of complete indulgence, with moderation the rest of the time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    I'm cherry-picking the good parts of lent, I'll eat loads of pancakes tomorrow and I'll have some easter eggs whenever you're supposed to and then I'll wait till next year to do it again


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Nothing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Cigaretes and alcohol and rollerblading


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Ledger


    I don't believe in it.

    I don't give up anything for it. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'll have some easter eggs whenever you're supposed to

    Easter. The clue is in the name.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    Lent is for weak-willed people

    I ain't no Catholic but this is ****. We all have our weaknesses.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I'm just giving up.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Ramadan. Sounds like the name of a gay nightclub.

    Can't see it catching on...


  • Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭ICANN


    My housemate is using Lent as a reason to diet so she's giving up carbohydrates.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    If the warnings on the packets didn't make me quit, a story about some chap in a desert isn't going to do much. I'm giving up nothing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭lividduck


    Nothing, I dont believe in all that superstisious nonsense


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Smoking. I don't smoke so it should be easy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭jay phelan


    I'm giving up pretending to give something up!


  • Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭beardedmaster


    Fast-food/chocolate/sweets/biscuits/ice-cream..

    Gonna try and go for runs and **** too.
    .. but there's no chance in Hell I'm giving up the cans..


  • Registered Users Posts: 904 ✭✭✭MetalDog




  • Registered Users Posts: 12,329 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Don't gives a rats arse. ffs lent my eye. I done my fast already, gave up chocolate and drink since Christmas! ha ha ha. Probably go easy on the sweets and crisps for lent otherwise not giving up anything. What's the point I don't go to confession and don't eat fish. I rather a veggie option otherwise eat meat ha ha ha.

    I suppose for lent I will give up confession have given it up every year for five years so great to be giving up something each year for lent! Go me.

    I'm not a quitter either!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭Paddy Bateman


    fusuf wrote: »
    What are yous giving up for lent this year lads? I need ideas. :pac:
    Fapping in work


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