Lent - does anyone give anything up anymore?
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:27 pm
I went without alcohol for one night, but that was unintentional. I may try and give up using 'any' as a prefix 3 times in one (short) sentence.
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Biscuits and chocolate are ok although my daughters take great pleasure in eating them in front of mecj wrote:But that's 3 of the 4 major food groups (the other being crisps)! I sit as painful as it sounds?
Luckily I've never really smoked other than the usual token attempts to get some street cred.cj wrote:I guess it's like giving up smoking. Remove yourself from the usual surroundings in which you pursue the vice you want to give up. Or tie your hands behind your back and tape your mouth shut. Either of which seem totally feasible.
Commiserations! How do you compensate? Chocolate? Sex? Chat forums?hoob wrote:or alternatively do something really stupid like develop something resembling an allergy to alcohol......
This has really upset me!
hoob wrote: allergy to alcohol......
I gave up sugar at Hertford at age 14, couldn't wait until Easter to start again. pheugh, never taken it since. (except at 5am when on nights)Vonny wrote:hoob wrote: allergy to alcohol......![]()
I've never given up anything for lent - I do remember loads at school did this every year but never lasted the full course!
I also have Hertford to thank for giving up sugar in tea & coffee and also cereal. Stopped having it in my first couple of years at Hertford when I sat at the bottom of the long tables in dining hall. The sugar was always at the top of the table near the seniors & they weouldn't pass it downenglishangel wrote:I gave up sugar at Hertford at age 14, couldn't wait until Easter to start again. pheugh, never taken it since. (except at 5am when on nights)