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  • #52
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    What is this obsession with giving things up? Is there some sort of competition going on?


  • #53
    Swampy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Swampy


    Biscuits


  • #54
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,618 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Haven't bothered with Lent in more than thirty years. Load of rubbish.

    Kids came home from school wondering what they would give up. I told them they don't have to bother.


  • #55
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭valoren


    Homework.

    :cool:


  • #56
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    I'm giving up work for lent.


  • #57
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Shenshen wrote: »
    What is this obsession with giving things up? Is there some sort of competition going on?

    Yeah, it's lent. A time of year when all the a la carte/cultural catholics come out of the woodwork and try to outdo each other in showing how catholic and pious they are by giving stuff up (usually only maintained half heartedly for about a week or so) then they get a break from pretending to be religious until around Easter when they'll show up at the church.


  • #58
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Shenshen wrote: »
    What is this obsession with giving things up? Is there some sort of competition going on?

    I am not losing to Fr Dick Byrne in a giving things up competition. Thats what this is, a giving things up competition.


  • #59
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,542 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Decided to give up sex for lent and the wife said she'd give me a hand.


  • #60
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,542 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Yeah, it's lent. A time of year when all the a la carte/cultural catholics come out of the woodwork and try to outdo each other in showing how catholic and pious they are by giving stuff up (usually only maintained half heartedly for about a week or so) then they get a break from pretending to be religious until around Easter when they'll show up at the church.

    I'm with you......wish the country would just leave behind it's catholic stuff.

    It's just become culturally engrained and people just feel that they have to do it without actually thinking about it despite not doing anything religious for the rest of the year apart from weddings funerals, christenings and then Christmas.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Don't forget no meat or drink allowed today either!!


  • #62
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,752 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I'm giving up replying to cranky atheists who have a problem with tolerance towards theists on After Hours.
    If this upsets you, you are probably a cranky atheist who has a problem with tolerance towards theists... :p


  • #63
    Magenta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭Magenta


    Helen Uninterested Appetizer wrote: »
    Don't forget no meat or drink allowed today either!!

    Not everyone is Catholic, I'll eat and drink what I like, thank you.


  • #64
    littlemisshobo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭littlemisshobo


    Out of curiosity how many people giving things up for lent actually got to church on a weekly basis?


  • #65
    Grays Sports Almanac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Grays Sports Almanac


    _Brian wrote: »
    Kids came home from school wondering what they would give up. I told them they don't have to bother.

    It doesn't have to be about religion. Let them exercise some control and learn to make sacrifices. Teach them something maybe.


  • #66
    doodlebops2015
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭doodlebops2015


    My husband and I were chatting about that article in the independent couple of weeks ago about the woman who committed to having sex with her husband every day for a month and me being the fool that I am said we should do it every day for lent ...


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  • #67
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    RobertKK wrote: »
    I'm giving up replying to cranky atheists who have a problem with tolerance towards theists on After Hours.
    If this upsets you, you are probably a cranky atheist who has a problem with tolerance towards theists... :p

    As this is your first post in this thread it shouldn't be too difficult.


  • #68
    deviladvocate
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭deviladvocate


    murpho999 wrote: »
    I'm with you......wish the country would just leave behind it's catholic stuff.

    It's just become culturally engrained and people just feel that they have to do it without actually thinking about it despite not doing anything religious for the rest of the year apart from weddings funerals, christenings and then Christmas.

    Did you give or receive any Christmas presents a couple of months back?

    I don't see why it has to be a religious thing... Non religious people use Christmas as a time to treat the people they care about, why can't we use lent as an excuse to give up or take up something to better ourselves or our lives.. A lot of people don't have the motivation to just do it, and lent is just the kick up the arse some people need!

    I'm not actually doing anything for lent yet, was browsing here for ideas and then realised I'm already awesome and don't need to change anything :P


  • #69
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    For lent, I'm giving modern society amish.


  • #70
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    littlemisshobo wrote: »
    Out of curiosity how many people giving things up for lent actually got to church on a weekly basis?

    I do, I won't be giving anything up though. I'll make sure I get a walk in every day, eat weetabix for breakfast and more fruit. The timing is perfect, I feel like a fat lard.


  • #71
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Yeah, it's lent. A time of year when all the a la carte/cultural catholics come out of the woodwork and try to outdo each other in showing how catholic and pious they are by giving stuff up (usually only maintained half heartedly for about a week or so) then they get a break from pretending to be religious until around Easter when they'll show up at the church.


    Cultural Catholics lol :pac: Amount of gimps wandering around with muck in their faces today, wouldnt be able to tell a church from a bus station if asked.


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    wouldnt be able to tell a church from a bus station if asked.

    How did they manage to find the church to get the ash today so?


  • #73
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Helen Uninterested Appetizer wrote: »
    How did they manage to find the church to get the ash today so?

    Because they don't live places where things such as 'bus-stations' exist.


  • #74
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Cultural Catholics lol :pac: Amount of gimps wandering around with muck in their faces today, wouldnt be able to tell a church from a bus station if asked.

    Da fuq?


  • #75
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    haven't 'done' lent since i was 13. had chicken gougons in a wrap just now. for some reason just can't be bothered any longer with the whole thing. my grandmother must be revolving in her grave.:eek:


  • #76
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Very steamy bible readings on Ash Wednesday. It's all sucking breasts and bridegrooms coming out of closets.


  • #77
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    Absolutely nothing. Life can be fecking stressful enough, why stop doing the little things that make it more enjoyable? Ask me hoop Catholic guilt.


  • #78
    BBJBIG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭BBJBIG


    Wankin - I'll **** only twice a day now - and not the usual 5 times ... ;)


  • #79
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    BBJBIG wrote: »
    Wankin - I'll **** only twice a day now - and not the usual 5 times ... ;)
    How were you able to see the keyboard to type that:pac:


  • #80
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    is ash wednesday suppose to be meat free ??


  • #81
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fryup wrote: »
    is ash wednesday suppose to be meat free ??


    As BBJBIG said, twice a day should be enough.


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  • #82
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    fryup wrote: »
    is ash wednesday suppose to be meat free ??
    Nothing in the Bible about it so no, it a 'rule' made up by a cult


  • #83
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    someone said to me today that the two days you shouldn't eat meat are good friday and ash wednesday


  • #84
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    fryup wrote: »
    someone said to me today that the two days you shouldn't eat meat are good friday and ash wednesday
    Someone told me once that politicians are honest folk


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    fryup wrote: »
    is ash wednesday suppose to be meat free ??

    Yeah no meat of drink good Friday or Ash Wednesday, fish for dinner both days!


  • #86
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    I'm giving up drink. For real. Fairly regular drinker, 2-3 times a week (both home and out). Haven't gone six weeks without it in at least eight years.

    Tough times ahead.


  • #87
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    RobertKK wrote: »
    I'm giving up replying to cranky atheists who have a problem with tolerance towards theists on After Hours.
    If this upsets you, you are probably a cranky atheist who has a problem with tolerance towards theists... :p

    Yawn. I guess that means a slight decrease in the amount of rubbish posted on Boards, at least.


  • #88
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    eternal wrote: »
    I'm giving up giving up.

    I'm keepin' on keepin' on.

    Scrap the cap!



  • #89
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    I'm giving up drink. For real. Fairly regular drinker, 2-3 times a week (both home and out). Haven't gone six weeks without it in at least eight years.

    Tough times ahead.
    Godspeed.

    I shall drink to you!


  • #90
    BBJBIG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭BBJBIG


    doodlebops2015 wrote: »
    My husband and I were chatting about that article in the independent couple of weeks ago about the woman who committed to having sex with her husband every day for a month and me being the fool that I am said we should do it every day for lent ...

    Jayz - he'll have d Holes worn off ya ... :pac:


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  • #91
    doodlebops2015
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭doodlebops2015


    I will write my diary on Easter Monday .. lol.


  • #92
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    Helen Uninterested Appetizer wrote: »
    Yeah no meet of drink good Friday or Ash Wednesday, fish for dinner both days!

    I had a chicken sandwich yesterday, completely forgot. I didn't have a drink though. Not sure where this tradition comes from, I don't think its in the bible anyway


  • #93
    Magenta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭Magenta


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Yawn. I guess that means a slight decrease in the amount of rubbish posted on Boards, at least.

    Rubbish such as stories about virgins becoming pregnant by immaculate conception, and the like?


  • #94
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Magenta wrote: »
    Rubbish such as stories about virgins becoming pregnant by immaculate conception, and the like?

    Ah, c'mon now - if that was a "Game of Thrones" storyline, people would love it! ;):p


  • #95
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Ah, c'mon now - if that was a "Game of Thrones" storyline, people would love it! ;):p
    They would indeed. But they would know its pretend:D


  • #96
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    They would indeed. But they would know its pretend:D

    Hahahha, atheists can't get enough of threads about religion. Ye make your own forum or .......oh wait.


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  • #97
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Hahahha, atheists can't get enough of threads about religion. Ye make your own forum or .......oh wait.

    Im not atheist, I meant Game of Thrones is pretend unlike The Bible.


  • #98
    podgemonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Im not atheist, I meant Game of Thrones is pretend unlike The Bible.

    I think you're underestimating how obsessive Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire fans are.

    Ours is the Fury


  • #99
    Uncle Ruckus
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Uncle Ruckus


    Nothing, sure I don't believe in it and I bet half of the folks giving stuff up don't believe in it either.


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