what did you give up for lent

thedrowner · 09-03-2003 4:10pm #1

or did anyone....

anyone give up anything mad?

Cherry · 09-03-2003 8:48pm

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 10:01pm

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 10:40am

Men

thedrowner · 10-03-2003 11:31am

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 11:43am

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 1:19pm

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 1:28pm

cigarettes, beer, chipper...

have done ok, but the first 2 aint gonna last

Tyrrial · 10-03-2003 2:09pm

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

johnnynolegs · 10-03-2003 2:26pm

chocolate/crisps/fizzy drinks

sweet as pie

Kurdt · 10-03-2003 2:50pm

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 6:15pm

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 12:50am

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

Space Coyote · 11-03-2003 12:57pm

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

polarbelly · 11-03-2003 2:23pm

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 3:09pm

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

johnnynolegs · 11-03-2003 3:25pm

yeah mick how could u

Tyrrial · 11-03-2003 6:35pm

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

Volvagia · 11-03-2003 9:33pm

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

Tom182 · 11-03-2003 10:01pm

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

lamda · 11-03-2003 10:43pm

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 · 11-03-2003 11:24pm

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

Meh!

polarbelly · 11-03-2003 11:59pm

hey, i had my fun

Tom182 · 12-03-2003 2:19am

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 10:18am

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 1:13am

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 10:01am

and i return after my whiskey...

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

Macseamusa · 20-03-2003 2:32pm

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 4:34pm

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

4 weeks to go then chocolate
mmmmm

Nobodyme · 21-03-2003 10:16pm

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

Silverfish · 21-03-2003 11:44pm

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.

suppafly · 22-03-2003 12:12am

i didn't give up anything cuz i'm not christian. Well i guess u could say that i gave up food for the last 19 days during the hours of daylight for a fast

rapture_queen · 22-03-2003 1:46pm

Im giving up, giving up things-instead i gave blood and will do a fast.

The truth is i cant survive without chocolate esp around exam time.

startled_frog · 22-03-2003 2:02pm

I've decided to give up eating after 8pm. I heard its bad for you.

Silverfish · 22-03-2003 3:57pm

But none of these things are giving things up for 'Lent'!!

All these I'm giving up chocolate because I want to lose weight and eating after 8pm because its bad for me and smoking because it makes me the son of the devil or whatever....none of these are making a sacrifice like Jesus did really, and wasn't that the point of Lent? Thats just doing stuff for personal gain!!

(Ahhh, google, you're only great.)

karma kabbage · 23-03-2003 2:53pm

well actually....beg to differ

giving up alcohol FOR LENT right here look at me look at me look at me look at me.....etc

thedrowner · 23-03-2003 4:37pm

Originally posted by Silverfish
But none of these things are giving things up for 'Lent'!!

All these I'm giving up chocolate because I want to lose weight and eating after 8pm because its bad for me and smoking because it makes me the son of the devil or whatever....none of these are making a sacrifice like Jesus did really, and wasn't that the point of Lent? Thats just doing stuff for personal gain!!

well there is an element of personal gain but there's is also sacrifice that comes with it...no pain no gain.
sure eating no ****e will do wonders for me but its also KILLING me slowly but surely. if i could JUST HAVE A ****ING BAG OF CRISPS.....but thankfully the sweats have passed now and i'll make it till the next craving comes along.

Silverfish · 23-03-2003 5:00pm

Ahaha I get that all the time anyway...'Eeeeuuurrrgghh its been 15 minutes since that toffee crisp...surely I can have a Yorkie now...WHY IS THIS VENDING MACHINE SO SLOW??? PUSH little spring PUSH aaaaaaarrrghhh'

My point was though isn't Lent not about personal gain, but instead having an affinity with Jesus's suffering in the desert? (mmmm dessert)

I'm sure he didn't do it for a smaller bum and cleaner lungs and a healthy liver or whatever?

thedrowner · 24-03-2003 10:31am

yeah and...? do you think im not suffereing from not eating chocolate

karma kabbage · 29-03-2003 1:02am

but is isn't just self improvement that motivates me. it is a religious thing too and i refuse to believe i'm the only one.

Tyrrial · 29-03-2003 1:05am

karma Kabbage i heard a rumer that you may not have stuck to you lent promise....

could this be true?

karma kabbage · 29-03-2003 1:08am

maddness, what have they been paying you. i'll double it

TWO chocolate bars per day

Tyrrial · 29-03-2003 1:14am

no problems!...

only i pick the bars.....

scuzzy · 30-03-2003 1:24pm

Masturbation

No really

karma kabbage · 30-03-2003 11:36pm

alright, well maybe after a brief

lapse in willpower i may have agreed to a half way point binge in celebration of times gone by...

but here i go again... how many days til lent ends?

Tyrrial · 31-03-2003 11:24am

so this confestion, does it mean that i won't get my black mail demands?....

karma kabbage · 31-03-2003 10:10pm

hey you missed your chance

Tyrrial · 31-03-2003 10:14pm

i have pictures... very sensitive pictures!

do i get chocolate now?

karma kabbage · 31-03-2003 10:42pm

i don't wanna see you that way..

...sorry

Tyrrial · 31-03-2003 10:48pm

damn you!!!

and damn your choclatly promises!

damn them to hell!!

karma kabbage · 31-03-2003 10:51pm

bwa ha ha ha

what did you give up for lent

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