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Lent and all that..

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  • #32
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Lent is Pure nonsense!


  • #33
    Greentopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    Nothing, I'm not Catholic.


  • #34
    Owen_S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Owen_S


    The usual for myself - cigarettes,alcohol and rollerblading.


  • #35
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


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

    Well last summer I lent a mate my lawnmower, bastard broke it and I had to buy a new one. So I'm giving up loaning people my lawnmower.

    I don't know yous so I have no idea whet he's doing.


  • #36
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    fusuf wrote: »
    What are yous giving up for lent this year lads?

    Getting molested by priests.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpuYoK6wv_Y


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  • #37
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    Lent? Sure didn't I give up junk food since new years..
    well that and I've never entertained the idea of lent, no fiddly priests or chocolate eggs for me no sir.


  • #38
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    im giving up picking my belly button for lint


  • #39
    Paddy Bateman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭Paddy Bateman


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    im giving up picking my belly button for lint
    Do you eat it ?


  • #40
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Not into religions, so giving up nothing.


  • #41
    OhMSGlive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭OhMSGlive


    Last year, I gave up trying to please Sarky. Didn't work in my favour at all!


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  • #42
    casandra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭casandra


    We got it from the Bible !!!!

    And the Lord sayeth unto Daniel -- go thee forth into the desert and therein fast for 40 days and 40 nights - and Daniel being a good and faithful servant of the Lord did so. After Daniels great fast, as he came forth from the desert it happened that he came across a wonderous maiden of great beauty, who said unto Daniel - come lie with me - and Daniel being weak from hunger and thirst lay with her. When Daniel came forth from the desert - the Lord was angry with him and said unto Daniel - go thee back into the desert and therein fast for a further 40 days and nights - and Daniel did so. At the end of Daniels second great fast as he came forth from the desert, it happened that he met the same wonderous maiden, who said unto Daniel, knowest dout has lain with me and now I am great with child ---- What steps arth you going to take ? FUXXING GREAT BIG ONES said Daniel departing into the desert for the third time !!!!!!!!!!!


  • #43
    PickledLime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭PickledLime


    Life's far too short for this kind of nonsense


  • #44
    IsaMtq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭IsaMtq


    Singing along to my mp3 on the luas, just for lent tho.


  • #45
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    I think I'll challenge myself to give up chocolate - ''my achilles heel, if you will."


  • #46
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    Biggins wrote: »
    Not into religions, so giving up nothing.

    Doesn't have to be about religion. I'm not religious, but enjoy the challenge! :)


  • #47
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Booze :)
    Maybe not for Piddys Day though!


  • #48
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    I don't need to change! :cool:


  • #49
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    ill give up catholism for good :)


  • #50
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    I'm giving up procrastination. I'll start next week though, got too much important things coming up to put off to start now.


  • #51
    charlietheminxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭charlietheminxx


    I'm not into religion so I don't do lent.... but coincidentally I'm going back to weight watchers tomorrow. Might be as good a time as any....


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  • #52
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Hadnt seen this thread, but already posted....

    I've decided to atleast try to give up something, and also take up something for the next few weeks.

    What with feeling the work trousers getting a bit tighter around the waist this last few weeks (since Christmas) I've decided to give up the beer/alcohol for the next few weeks, and also to try and get myself a wee bit fitter.

    I have decided that without the beer in my life, (I'm by no means an alco btw) that in order to simply give it up, I'd have to take something up else to fill that gap in my day/week etc.

    So, will probably treat myself to a six pack tonight, with the intention of staying off it until Easter Sunday (might indulge on St Patricks day, but will play it by ear). Tomorrow evening though, once I have my daughter put to bed etc, will head out on an hours walk, and when I get in, have a nice shower, a mug of tea, then hit the sack early with the intention of getting up at 6am for another half hour/hours walk before showering, and breakfast for work.

    I hope having this routine, and with the incentive of 'something to get up earlier for in the mornings' should help me get to bed, and not be tempted to open a bottle/tin the odd evening.

    I'm not doing this because I think I'm a good christian or whatever, I'm simply doing it to try and imrove my lifestyle, and as a few folk I know are giving up something, this will give me the incentive to at least try it for the next six weeks.

    Anyone giving up anything else? Or do you lot think its a load of nonsense?

    All encouragement, greatly appreciated!!!!!


  • #53
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Booze :)
    Maybe not for Piddys Day though!

    What?

    No more 'booze fuelled banter' from Teddy the odd evening :eek:

    Fcuk it, I may give up AH for Lent too though until you come back to us lol! :pac:


  • #54
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Biggins wrote: »
    Not into religions, so giving up nothing.

    Was that you in the corner losing your religion?


  • #55
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Was that you in the corner losing your religion?

    No, that was him in the spotlight.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 511 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've given up the same thing every Lent and never once have I broken my vow.

    Genocide


  • #57
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Hadnt seen this thread, but already posted....

    I've decided to atleast try to give up something, and also take up something for the next few weeks.

    What with feeling the work trousers getting a bit tighter around the waist this last few weeks (since Christmas) I've decided to give up the beer/alcohol for the next few weeks, and also to try and get myself a wee bit fitter.

    I have decided that without the beer in my life, (I'm by no means an alco btw) that in order to simply give it up, I'd have to take something up else to fill that gap in my day/week etc.

    So, will probably treat myself to a six pack tonight, with the intention of staying off it until Easter Sunday (might indulge on St Patricks day, but will play it by ear). Tomorrow evening though, once I have my daughter put to bed etc, will head out on an hours walk, and when I get in, have a nice shower, a mug of tea, then hit the sack early with the intention of getting up at 6am for another half hour/hours walk before showering, and breakfast for work.

    I hope having this routine, and with the incentive of 'something to get up earlier for in the mornings' should help me get to bed, and not be tempted to open a bottle/tin the odd evening.

    I'm not doing this because I think I'm a good christian or whatever, I'm simply doing it to try and imrove my lifestyle, and as a few folk I know are giving up something, this will give me the incentive to at least try it for the next six weeks.

    Anyone giving up anything else? Or do you lot think its a load of nonsense?

    All encouragement, greatly appreciated!!!!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2HcRl4wSk


    I probably won't make it to be honest:P
    I only drink one day a week, but it sometimes lasts for about 48hours...


  • #58
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I probably won't make it to be honest:P
    I only drink one day a week, but it sometimes lasts for about 48hours...
    :eek::eek:
    LOL.....


    So to sum it up, you only drink two days a week, once a week :pac:


  • #59
    mongoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭mongoman


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Herb Powell wrote: »
    Catholocism

    Cathotrolololoolololocism or Catholicism?


    Really?


  • #60
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Bad Panda wrote: »
    No, that was him in the spotlight.

    But that was just a dream,That was just a dream


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  • #61
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Bad Panda wrote: »
    Doesn't have to be about religion. I'm not religious, but enjoy the challenge! :)

    If you're not relgious, could you not challange yourself to things which aren't based on religious holidays?

    Or is it just coincidental that lent falls at exactly the same time you wish to challange yourself during the year? :pac:


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