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Lent!

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  • 17-02-2015 7:07pm
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    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭


    So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up? I've actually decided to deactivate my Facebook account for Lent, and possibly delete it on Good Friday!!


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    #2
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Borrowed!


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    Your Superior
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Your Superior


    Red Alert wrote: »
    So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up? I've actually decided to deactivate my Facebook account for Lent, and possibly delete it on Good Friday!!

    Nothing! Because it's just plain stupid!


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    I'm giving up lent.


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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Red Alert wrote: »
    So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up? I've actually decided to deactivate my Facebook account for Lent, and possibly delete it on Good Friday!!

    Sweets and crisps. I am currently stuffing my face with all the stuff from the cupboard. Feeling quite sick now but there's still some left and also some ice cream. Don't want it to go off during the time I'm off so I am working my way through it today. Has to be done! :pac:


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    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I haven't given up anything for Lent since I was 6 or 7. I was always a bit of a goody two shoes as a kid but Lent was one thing that I wouldn't do.


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    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Instead of giving up something, I'm doing something like more excercise or give some free time to a charity.

    Can't give up my caffeine addiction, I'm not a quitter.


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    Deranged96
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


    Preusse wrote: »
    Sweets and crisps. I am currently stuffing my face with all the stuff from the cupboard. Feeling quite sick now but there's still some left and also some ice cream. Don't want it to go off during the time I'm off so I am working my way through it today. Has to be done! :pac:

    You just transported me back to fourth class!


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I'm giving up sex.


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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Deranged96 wrote: »
    You just transported me back to fourth class!

    Welcome!


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    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm giving up sex.

    Your supposed to give up something you love doing.


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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm giving up sex.

    Giving something up you don't have anyway doesn't really count though :D


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,016 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I usually make a point of drinking more. Will have to wait a few days as I'm currently in the Middle East! Damn!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

    Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff :confused:


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    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Red Alert wrote: »
    Lent again! What are people giving up?

    Sniffing my mother's jocks

    Might try my sisters.


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Your supposed to give up something you love doing.
    :confused:


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    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    Sniffing my mother's jocks

    Might try my sisters.
    Your ma wears jocks :eek:


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    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    This year I shall be giving up auto-erotic asphyxiation.


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    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    I prefer to call it temporary second chance at a news years resolution.
    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

    Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff :confused:

    I remember in schools it was because you had to make something up or the teacher would give you something to pretend you gave up.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,016 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

    Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff :confused:

    Jesus spent 40 days in the desert fasting prior to the Last Supper and his crucifixition.

    Not what I'd spend the time doing if I knew I had only 6 weeks to live...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Red Alert wrote: »
    So it's time for Lent again! What are people giving up?
    Atheism.


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    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Im giving up picking my belly button for lint


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    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Went into butchers this evening- "Abstinence tomorrow!", "eh, no, steak!"


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    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

    Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff :confused:

    In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.


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    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    chocolate, I'm trying to finish this jar of nutella first though.


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    Deranged96
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


    Calibos wrote: »
    In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.

    The derision in this post is something else


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    9de5q7tsr8u2im
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭9de5q7tsr8u2im


    Possibly less time on the laptop does that count or do i have to completely give it up :(


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    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    Calibos wrote: »
    In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.
    think its more to do with the forty days and nights enduring temptation in the desert story.


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    #29
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Can't believe no one said rollerblades yet. AH standards are slipping


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    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    There is an oul one on the deli in my local centra that always barks on about mass. Im looking forward to tomorrow when I go in for a breakfast roll and some steak for dinner.
    Her and the catholic cult can kiss my arse


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    Deranged96
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    There is an oul one on the deli in my local centra that always barks on about mass. Im looking forward to tomorrow when I go in for a breakfast roll and some steak for dinner.
    Her and the catholic cult can kiss my arse

    I'm sure she'll never expect people to get meat from the Deli Counter on Ash Wednesday in the Ireland of 2015. Be sure she doesn't have heart problems before you give this mad stunt a go! :pac:


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