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What you giving up for Lent?

  • 24-02-2020 1:30pm
    #1
    bitofabind
    Registered Users Posts: 939 ✭✭✭


    I'm gonna give caffeine a go. Lasted three days last year. Aiming for a week this time (serious habit)

    What are the good folks of AH giving up for Lent this year?


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Comments

  • #2
    Cutie 3.14
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Cutie 3.14


    Ridin', sure I've no choice really, I'm wrecked half the time


  • #3
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Remember in primary school you'd say "I'm giving up homework" and it was absolute comedy gold.


  • #4
    Cina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Cina


    Cutie 3.14 wrote: »
    Ridin', sure I've no choice really, I'm wrecked half the time

    Absolute mad lad legend you are.


  • #5
    Cutie 3.14
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Cutie 3.14


    Cina wrote: »
    Absolute mad lad legend you are.

    Mad 'lady' legend I am


  • #6
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Cutie 3.14 wrote: »
    Ridin', sure I've no choice really, I'm wrecked half the time

    Tomorrows your last day, you should go out with a bang.


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  • #7
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    I gave up lent a long time ago and sticking with my convictions.


  • #8
    barney shamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    Religion.


  • #9
    Car99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    I'm giving up boards.ie, reading rte news and bbc news websites.


  • #10
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,947 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    This still a thing with the Bouncy Castle Catholics?


  • #11
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    This still a thing with the Bouncy Castle Catholics?

    You should try 40 days of not being so deeply pessimistic and misanthropic. Such unrelenting bleakness must be tiring.

    As Leonard Cohen once said, ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Drink, fags, and nice food. Maybe coffee too.


  • #13
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Nothing. As I don't believe in it.


    Good custom though, its a good idea to deny yourself something once in a while but I won't be.


  • #14
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Nothing specific but definitely increasing exercise as the days get longer and weather improves.

    So giving up being a lazyhole using winter as my excuse.


  • #15
    Stewball
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Stewball


    I gave up catholicism 20 years ago and I'm still off it.

    That's dedication!


  • #16
    bitofabind
    Registered Users Posts: 939 ✭✭✭bitofabind


    Think I'll throw junk food and social media to the list, become the most virtuous person on the face of the planet. For about a day and a half.


  • #17
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Giving up being polite :)


  • #18
    Cutie 3.14
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Cutie 3.14


    In all seriousness though, not that I believe in any of it but, same as a previous poster, try get out for a walk/jog now that the evenings are brighter. And actually having breakfast.

    Had a big bowl of porridge every morning for about a week and a half, another for lunch then my dinner in the evening and the weight started to come off quick enough.
    Might try it again for lent


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I’m thinking of giving up posting on Boards. Either that or give up the drink.


  • #20
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,479 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Nothing specific but definitely increasing exercise as the days get longer and weather improves.

    So giving up being a lazyhole using winter as my excuse.

    Except the weather never really improves


  • #21
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Boards.


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  • #22
    bitofabind
    Registered Users Posts: 939 ✭✭✭bitofabind


    Cutie 3.14 wrote: »
    In all seriousness though, not that I believe in any of it but, same as a previous poster, try get out for a walk/jog now that the evenings are brighter. And actually having breakfast.

    Had a big bowl of porridge every morning for about a week and a half, another for lunch then my dinner in the evening and the weight started to come off quick enough.
    Might try it again for lent

    That's a lot of porridge!


  • #23
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,947 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    You should try 40 days of not being so deeply pessimistic and misanthropic. Such unrelenting bleakness must be tiring.

    As Leonard Cohen once said, ‘there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’.

    Touch a nerve?


  • #24
    Cutie 3.14
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Cutie 3.14


    bitofabind wrote: »
    That's a lot of porridge!

    Mmm luuvly porridge:)


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cutie 3.14 wrote: »
    Mmm luuvly porridge:)

    I’d love to like food like that. Or think of food as nothing but fuel.


  • #26
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,151 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Nathin.


  • #27
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,658 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I'd love to say Boards, but that's probably not going to be true.


  • #28
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Giving up giving up things for lent.

    Wife says she's giving up sex. Not sure where that leaves me...


  • #29
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,834 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Giving up giving up things for lent.

    Wife says she's giving up sex. Not sure where that leaves me...

    Who's wife?


  • #30
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I’m thinking of giving up posting on Boards. Either that or give up the drink.

    Fcuk , imagine being sober in AH.


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  • #31
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Remember in primary school you'd say "I'm giving up homework" and it was absolute comedy gold.

    It’s the kid version of Dad Jokes (which I secretly kind of love. When my father or father-in-law opens their mouth and I know a Dad JokeTM is a-coming, I am all ears).


  • #32
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    It’s the kid version of Dad Jokes (which I secretly kind of love. When my father or father-in-law opens their mouth and I know a Dad JokeTM is a-coming, I am all ears).

    Speaking of ears, theres a three for the price of two deal on hearing aids in Specsavers at the moment.
    It's not going very well , sure who has three ears.


  • #33
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,039 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    Good custom though, its a good idea to deny yourself something once in a while but I won't be.

    Why?!


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm very erm...what's that word...bacchanalian?
    Giving things up for Lent and new year resolutions and dry January and all that kind of thing doesn't enter my mind at all. It would be nice commit to taking up jogging and not having pizza for months. But gawd. It wouldn't make me happy.


  • #35
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    I will give up Tequila and hope I hold fast to that,heh.


  • #36
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,546 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Life's too short for that craic, enjoy it while you're here.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




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  • #37
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Life's too short for that craic, enjoy it while you're here.

    I'm not having a lot of faith in my Catholic duties, but what hell, least I tried,heh.I've too much bottled away to go through til Wednesday,heh.
    Besides my father always told me God loves those who try,heh.


  • #38
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    The last time I gave something up for lent I was probably 7.

    Over the following 33 years I havent abstained and nothing has happened to me as a result so Im gonna continue as it would be terrible to break a good record like that


  • #39
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    I'm boycotting lent.


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Torino wrote: »
    It would be amusing to see people try and abstain from.using their smart phones. :pac:

    Nobody gives up a necessity.


  • #41
    Go Home Paddy Cat!!
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭Go Home Paddy Cat!!


    Im giving up showering. will have a bath once a week instead :)


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  • #42
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Torino wrote: »
    It would be amusing to see people try and abstain from.using their smart phones. :pac:

    Even just giving it up while driving would be good.


  • #43
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Go Home Paddy Cat!! wrote: »
    Im giving up showering. will have a bath once a week instead :)
    Go home Paddy Cat, you stinky basterd!


  • #44
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,527 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Nobody gives up a necessity.

    It wasn't a necessity before you had one.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    It wasn't a necessity before you had one.

    It is now though.


  • #46
    Irishphotodesk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭Irishphotodesk


    Was going to give up social media for the month... But my wife reminded me that my birthday is during Lent, and it would be very rude not to acknowledge the friends and family etc that will wish me happy birthday .... Online !

    So ... Now I guess probably do the chocolate thing !


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Irishphotodesk wrote: »
    Was going to give up social media for the month... But my wife reminded me that my birthday is during Lent, and it would be very rude not to acknowledge the friends and family etc that will wish me happy birthday .... Online !

    So ... Now I guess probably do the chocolate thing !

    Turn off posts on your timeline and then they can’t. It’s fake as **** anyway.


  • #48
    cazzer22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭cazzer22


    I'm doing a pretty tough one, let's see how long it lasts :D
    No biscuits, crisps, chocolate, ice-cream and all the good things in life. Will try and limit takeaway coffee to once a week, if I can.


  • #49
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭cena


    crisps and sweets. going to miss the crisps


  • #50
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Smack and crack


  • #51
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,263 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    I've been thinking about this for a while. I haven't given up anything for Lent in years and usually did extra things instead, like visiting a local nursing home, going to mass mid week etc. But this year I think I'll try giving up my morning biscuits with my coffee as well, because we had a tough year and things came good recently, so it would be more in Thanksgiving than penance.


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