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I gave up drink for lent and now I am hanging for a drink

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  • #52
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,017 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Lent eh? Do people still bother with that, or does it fall under "pick n mix" Catholicism like only going to Mass on Xmas Eve?

    Giving up something is all well and good but if you're not doing it for yourself then it's pointless.


  • #53
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Lent eh? Do people still bother with that, or does it fall under "pick n mix" Catholicism like only going to Mass on Xmas Eve?

    Giving up something is all well and good but if you're not doing it for yourself then it's pointless.

    Lent has pre-christian origins. I'm off booze - not for myself but for the sake of my kidneys and my waistline.


  • #54
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I've never felt the need to give up alcohol, but then my relationship with it doesn't involve necking back 20 pints of a weekend, feeling depressed until Thursday, then to start planning the next round. I can enjoy a glass of Reisling or a good Northern Italian red without feeling guilty about it.


  • #55
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I've never felt the need to give up alcohol, but then my relationship with it doesn't involve necking back 20 pints of a weekend, feeling depressed until Thursday, then to start planning the next round. I can enjoy a glass of Reisling or a good Northern Italian red without feeling guilty about it.

    You sound drunk enough on your own snootiness :p


  • #56
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Lent eh? Do people still bother with that, or does it fall under "pick n mix" Catholicism like only going to Mass on Xmas Eve?

    Giving up something is all well and good but if you're not doing it for yourself then it's pointless.
    I'm doing it for everyone.

    In the bible god says that he won't ever destroy mankind with a flood but he says nothing about mice with tanks or flamethrower squirrels.

    My lenten penance is a small price to pay to prevent the rodent apocalypse.


  • #57
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I've never felt the need to give up alcohol, but then my relationship with it doesn't involve necking back 20 pints of a weekend, feeling depressed until Thursday, then to start planning the next round. I can enjoy a glass of Reisling or a good Northern Italian red without feeling guilty about it.

    You had to put that in didn't do? No beer for you, that's for the common man ;)


  • #58
    SPM1959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    I'm nearly off it a month now. Generally fine and certainly don't miss the hangovers but drinking water on nights out is a bit boring.


  • #59
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    ColeTrain wrote: »
    You had to put that in didn't do? No beer for you, that's for the common man ;)

    Lots of men drink wine. I will take a beer occasionally, especially with more rustic German dishes. I've even wrote about how much I enjoyed sampling some Irish craft beers when home for Christmas. I just prefer wine. I especially like a glass of good Riesling.


  • #60
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    ColeTrain wrote: »
    You had to put that in didn't do? No beer for you, that's for the common man ;)

    :confused: what's wrong with someone drinking wine? It's hardly for the upper classes exclusively


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  • #61
    Testament1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Testament1


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    :confused: what's wrong with someone drinking wine? It's hardly for the upper classes exclusively

    I believe it was a dig at AvBs penchant for highlighting how much more sophisticated he is than the savages he left behind in Ireland.

    Stick around for highlights including generous remuneration, owning a new 5 series BMW, mindfulness and of course all washed down with a glass of Riesling!


  • #62
    csallmighty
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    I don't "give up" drink, I just don't bother with it for periods of time. Had a couple pints last weekend, been well over two months since I was last well inebriated.

    If I ever feel a craving for drink but I don't want to go out I just go run and tire myself out. Then I don't want a few pints anymore.


  • #63
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Testament1 wrote: »
    I believe it was a dig at AvBs penchant for highlighting how much more sophisticated he is than the savages he left behind in Ireland.

    Stick around for highlights including generous remuneration, owning a new 5 series BMW, mindfulness and of course all washed down with a glass of Riesling!

    Mindfulness and Reisling are part of that? Ok....

    Or maybe you've got an inferiority complex


  • #64
    Testament1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Testament1


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    Mindfulness and Reisling are part of that? Ok....

    Or maybe you've got an inferiority complex

    They're but a couple of elements that make up a consistent style of posting by AvB which, in my eyes at least, has become something of a running joke on this forum. Making a lighthearted remark on this doesn't mean I have an inferiority complex. If anything I just wish he'd come up with some new material instead of becoming reliant on the classics!


  • #65
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    seamus wrote: »
    Two weeks.

    The easiest time to stay away from the beer is when you've got your head in the toilet the next day.

    The hardest time is seven days later when that morning is a forgotten memory and you're back in party mood.

    And the seven days again after that you'll find yourself eating a huge takeaway to take your mind off the beer.

    After that though, it becomes remarkably easy to stay off the beer. I've done it for a month once; pretty inadvertant, sickness, training etc meant I had to keep away from it. Once the two week period was done, the cravings pretty much went away and I felt like I could carry on for ages without a beer.

    So keep going, push on through. The hardest part is the weekend. Arrange to go to the cinema on Friday and Saturday. Choose 10pm viewings and pre-pay for your tickets. That way you have to go, and by the time you come out of the cinema it'll be too late to go to the pub.

    You sir, are a mirror image of me. So true, 2 weeks after giving the booze a miss, you wonder what all the fuss was about. The first week after as you say is not easy, best to make plans in advance or let the drinking buddies know ahead of time you're giving it a miss.


  • #66
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    I've a funeral to go to tomorrow. Where does God stand on breaking your lenten vow for a funeral?


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  • #67
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    I've a funeral to go to tomorrow. Where does God stand on breaking your lenten vow for a funeral?
    Sure he turned water into wine, work away FFS ;)


  • #68
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    People who drink are incredibly stupid and have no imaginations

    I tip my cap, spit in the fire and raise my glass to you Sir/Madam.

    It's not often I get a good laugh off the back of one short sentence, but you have given me the best laugh I've had all day.

    Slainte :)


  • #69
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,344 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Everything in moderation, I say.


  • #70
    illdoit2morrow
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭illdoit2morrow


    Some heroin might take the edge off things.


  • #71
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/seasons/Lent/lent_program.cfm

    I don't want to do any of the above other than give up drink.
    It's mad Ted.


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