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It just occured to me that it's Lent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent). So, do any of you care? Aer you giving anything up?

I'm not Catholic, so I don't really care about Lent. Funnily enough, neither do any of the French people I know around here.

It just occured to me that it's Lent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent). So, do any of you care? Aer you giving anything up?

If I gave up something, I'd be taking the "lapsed" out of the "catholic". Can't be having that.

It just occured to me that it's Lent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent)

Not in Milan or elsewhere in the Ambrosian Church! Here Lent begins next Sunday, we have the Sabato Grasso tomorrow!

35 days of Lent instead of 40. :cool:

I gave up Catholicism for lent when I was about 13. :)

It just occured to me that it's Lent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent). So, do any of you care? Aer you giving anything up?I'm giving up Lent.

Not in Milan or elsewhere in the Ambrosian Church! Here Lent begins next Sunday, we have the Sabato Grasso tomorrow!

35 days of Lent instead of 40. :cool:
Pussies. :p
I gave up Catholicism for lent when I was about 13. :)

I tihnk we all did that at least once.

I'd be giving up repeat threads.

I'm going to give up giving stuff up.

I'm going to try not to express as much anger at my brother about all the annoying things he does and I'm going to try to be nicer to both of my brothers (I made him eggs this morning for breakfast since it's Friday and thus no meat.:) )

Hope

I do not observe lent at all.

I'm not giving up anything.

ZOMG, Bosco!

I'm not giving up anything.

ZOMG, Bosco!

It doesn't seem possible does it?

It doesn't seem possible does it?

Not at all. My brain is melting.

I gave up not coming here for Lent. ;)

I gave up not coming here for Lent. ;)

Glad to see you've done so well with that.

In a few weeks I'll be forced to give up NS, not for Lent though, but because I'll be on a dial-up connection for two months.

Jolt on broadband is painful enough, I can't imagine it on dial-up.

I don't participate in Lent, I find it represents everything I dislike about the Catholic Church.

When I fast, I do because I feel I need to, not because "everyone else is doing it", and I don't tend to tell people, because I am not trying to prove a point to the world, it's something between me and God.

Not a Catholic, and not a member of a church that does Lent.

Mmm, pancakes. Wait... did I have pancakes this year? I remember buying lunch for someone on Tuesday and they chose pancakes... no wait... that was earlier... yes I did have pancakes. I was round at the friend-who-chose-pancakes' house and we made pancakes... but from 'batter mix'. Does that count? It's not like he was getting rid of any excess eggs, butter or sugar. He did 'make' some caramel though, but he ended up heating the sugar for too long and it from all the way from caramel stage to toffee stage. Toffee pancakes are bizarre.

If I gave up something, I'd be taking the "lapsed" out of the "catholic". Can't be having that.Indeed. *munches chocolate while posting on NS and watching porn*

Indeed. *munches chocolate while posting on NS and watching porn*

Now I want chocolate. Damn you!

Indeed. *munches chocolate while posting on NS and watching porn*

NS porn?

Pussies. :p

I could spare a Sabato Grasso pancake for you... but I think I won't. Nyaah.:p

:D :D :D

i already gave up drinking for new year. if i gave up anything else i'd go insane.

NS porn?
Are you insane? Who would want to see that?

It just occured to me that it's Lent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent). So, do any of you care? Aer you giving anything up?

I gave up giving stuff up. *shrug* So it's pizza, pasta or fish the next few weeks on Friday -- not as if that's actually a bad thing. ;)

In a few weeks I'll be forced to give up NS, not for Lent though, but because I'll be on a dial-up connection for two months.

Jolt on broadband is painful enough, I can't imagine it on dial-up.

Ah, you're spoiled. I do it every day.

I'm giving up reality for lent. For the next fourty days you will call me Svear Svearsson, the viking vampirate lord.

Ah, you're spoiled. I do it every day.You're moderating on dial-up? Wow. That must eat up an incredible amount of your time.

In a few weeks I'll be forced to give up NS, not for Lent though, but because I'll be on a dial-up connection for two months.

Jolt on broadband is painful enough, I can't imagine it on dial-up.

its no slower than anything else on dialup

it harks back to the last century when the (net) world moved at a slower pace and we had time to think our posts through and even re-read them as we waited for the server to accept them

Even though I'm no longer Catholic, every year I want to participate in Lent anyway. Inevetiably I forget, then Ash Wednesday passes and I've missed my favorite part.

Actually, it's not really the Lent I miss, it's the Ash Wednesday. I like that mass and I like walking around all day with that ash smudge on my forehead.

Lent with that fasting (one meal a day) and abstinence (no meat) will kill me.

I like to eat... meat. Sorry.