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PREVIOUSLY ON THIS website we’ve asked people whether or not they buy into the idea of Lent and if so, how long they usually last with their vows.
This evening, ahead of the beginning of the Christian tradition of forty days of self-control, we’ve decided to find out something different.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever done for Lent?
As a child it may have been an obligation placed on you so in protests you decided to give up something fairly petty,”being mean to your sister” being a regular one.
Even now, many people now, religious or not, see it as kind of a second chance at a New Year’s resolution. An excuse to take up something they’ve been wanting to try but couldn’t find the reason.
Whether it’s ‘giving up Facebook’ or something even more out there like ‘doing something nice for a stranger ever day’.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever done ( or plan to do) for Lent?
Over to you. Also, if you don’t do Lent fair enough, but maybe you did once upon a time.
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I’m giving up the Journal. Goodbye till Easter.
Yous are all feckers, green thumbing that like yous are all happy to see me go. =\
That’s funny mrs . S
I gave up buying Yankee Candles.
I gave up masterbateing. It got hard
Why is it that giving up sweets and chocolate is no easier now than it was as I kid. One would think at 35 it would be easier
I actually find it harder now, when I was a kid we got chocolate as a treat at the weekends. Now I have it whenever I want so I have it more often so I need to give it up for a while.
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Gave up sex for lent a few years back. To be honest it was not by choice.
I have up sugar as a child and lasted 39 days. I still get pangs of guilt all these years later. I was so close.
I’m giving up rollerblading, and the other two are giving up cigarettes and alcohol.
Can the journal give up lesbian and gay news stories for lent for the love of God
There’s a few topics that feature heavily on Journal, not just LGBT-related ones, yet it’s only these that you ever seem to comment on, howzatme. What’s up?
I would gladly give up work but the FUC___S won’t pay me :(:(:(
Anyone going to give up religion for lent?
Trying to but the catholics wont let ya!
I gave up religion, full stop. That included lent.
Proof Lent works: I have up religion for lent 12 or 13 years ago and never went back!
Ha I gave up religion many years ago! Lent ha hilarious your right there!
So many down thumbs wow! Maybe Ireland is still a touchy Catholic country!
Lent is weird, full stop.
I’m giving up taking the Bible literally.
It says that it took Moses 40 years to get from Giza to Jerusalem, but Google maps says it only takes 191 hours.
That’s only a couple of days longer than it took James Franco to cut his arm off, and he was in a desert too.
Ffs Terry,
Nah it took Moses 40 years to get The Giza to Jerusalem, he was havin a giraffe…
Sure wasn`t Jesus made of Rubber??.Doesn`t it say in the Bible that he tied his ass to a tree and walked 3 miles into Jerusalem??
Went through a phase of loving twixes and mars bars when I was about 12, couldn’t give up both , so took turns of week on week off for each bar for lent….think it’s called cheating though !
At the ripe age of nineteen I decided to give up ‘my left hand’ for lent! It was five days of meh, twenty-five days of pure frustration followed by ten more days of not even realising I was missing it! So much so that I was even two days late finishing lent! All in all boys and girls, not recommended for nineteen year olds!
Ummm…what’s lent?
Its de measure of how long a yoke is, de lent of it.
Oh, Boyne, that is clever. Very clever. Kudos.
I’m giving up religion
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