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Ash Wednesday

  • 13-02-2018 12:27PM
    #1
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I was gonna start this thread in AH but thought would be better here.

    How is it like back in Ireland on Ash Wednesday ?
    When I was a kid (80s + 90s) we would all get the ash put on at school and you would see a good few adults walking about with the black mark on their foreheads.

    How about in 2018 ?
    Will you see much ?


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  • #2
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,266 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Coincides with Valentine's day. A choice between chocolate and wine on the one hand and a black fast and ashes on the other. #choices #ashtag


  • #3
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    :D forgot it was Valentines day!


  • #4
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,058 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Yip, still see plenty of people with them.

    Kids will have no choice at school, and many adults still go in for that.


  • #5
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,266 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Pity Hookie isn't still on at lunchtime. He'd spend all today ranting about people getting or not getting ashes.


  • #6
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,013 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Coincides with Valentine's day. A choice between chocolate and wine on the one hand and a black fast and ashes on the other. #choices #ashtag
    Strictly speaking, no conflict. It's a day of fast (so only one meal and two collations) and abstinence (so no red meat or fowl), but there is no ban on either choccies or wine, as long as they are part of your meal or your collation.


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  • #7
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    more a fan of Shrove Tuesday

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #8
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    How is it like back in Ireland on Ash Wednesday ?
    Sunny with occasional showers.
    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Will you see much ?
    Haven't seen a blotched sinner today yet, but that's probably 'coz today is Pancake Tuesday not Ash Wednesday.

    Which reminds me of Sky News' Kate Burley on Joe Biden from a few years back - 0:20 onwards :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ybxah6xHgU


  • #9
    nozzferrahhtoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,367 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    Well some people find it wrecks their head. Literally.


  • #10
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Yip, still see plenty of people with them.

    Kids will have no choice at school, and many adults still go in for that.

    Depends on age and school I suppose, in secondary I flat out refused to get the ashes. They didn't like it but I wasn't forced.
    I was one of maybe two or max of three in the school that did this.

    Used to get the odd comment in work canteen when I'd get my usual fry about how I shouldn't be eating bacon etc, I used to reply with I expected them not to eat during daylight hours during ramadan :P


  • #11
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,344 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Start of the six-week fast on things you like


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  • #12
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,058 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Definitely not as many of them around on my travels today.

    Its on its way out for sure.


  • #13
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,945 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Until a few years back you'd see a fair few smudgees around Dublin 2 during the day, a few years back it dwindled to less than a handful, I saw one last year, this year not a single one.

    Wonder if that church that did drive-thru smudging last year did it again?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #14
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Was in the city center for a few hours last night. Total was three smudgikins, each one looking lonelier and more annoyed than the last.


  • #15
    beefburrito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭beefburrito


    robindch wrote: »
    Was in the city center for a few hours last night. Total was three smudgikins, each one looking lonelier and more annoyed than the last.

    I hear tramp stamps are on the way out too...
    Are you saying that the smudge is looking annoyed or the wearer of the smudge looks annoying to you..


  • #16
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,856 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Saw only 2 or 3 on Wednesday. First one I nearly told that they had some dirt or mascara on their forehead before I realised what is was ::pac:.


  • #17
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,602 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    254348.jpg

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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