What did you give up for Lent?

Displaced Bama Fan · Feb 10, 2016

I gave up cocaine and hookers.

alabama mike1 · Feb 10, 2016

Nothing, I don't recognize lent.

92tide · Feb 10, 2016

i gave up nothing. this year, i will run every day during lent.

last year i quit biting my fingernails and never started back. i have been a compulsive/habitual fingernail biter my entire life

AV8N · Feb 10, 2016

Growing up Methodist in Mobile, Lent was hard. As a child, the most obvious thing to give up is sweets.

But if God wanted me to give that up, why did He allow me to score a huge sack full of moon pies and candy at the Mardi Gras?

Displaced Bama Fan · Feb 10, 2016

AV8N said:
Growing up Methodist in Mobile, Lent was hard. As a child, the most obvious thing to give up is sweets.

But if God wanted me to give that up, why did He allow me to score a huge sack full of moon pies and candy at the Mardi Gras?

God is testing your will power my son.

TIDE-HSV · Feb 10, 2016

AV8N said:
Growing up Methodist in Mobile, Lent was hard. As a child, the most obvious thing to give up is sweets.

But if God wanted me to give that up, why did He allow me to score a huge sack full of moon pies and candy at the Mardi Gras?

Growing up UMC also, they issued us a card to place a dime in each day and put on the altar on Easter Sunday. A whole dime! ($1.33 today) Meant doing a lot of extra chores to earn the money...

Bamafaninco1 · Feb 10, 2016

I'm giving up Lent, quitting is for losers.

92tide · Feb 10, 2016

Bamafaninco1 said:
I'm giving up Lent, quitting is for losers.

reminds me of a bumper sticker i saw once

"rehab is for quitters"

mrusso · Feb 10, 2016

Displaced Bama Fan said:
I gave up cocaine and hookers.

Do you still have your dealer's phone number and hooker contacts? Asking for a friend.

exiledNms · Feb 10, 2016

I gave up eating boiled rutabagas.
(OK, I gave that up ~45-50 years ago, & not for Lent. But I've kept my streak intact & without blemish ever since. :biggrin2

Jon · Feb 10, 2016

I used to always answer "Catholicism" until I was informed that it had to be something I liked

dayhiker · Feb 10, 2016

My business partner gave up beer for Lent one time, but he didn't on Universal Coordinated time. Some say you can partake on Sunday's of what you gave up. Others say you can't, but that it ends on Palm Sunday (I believe that's correct). The two methods yield 40 days. So, with him giving up beer on UTC, it meant that come SAturday night in Alabama, it was Sunday on UTC and he'd drink a beer with supper on Saturday night.

CajunCrimson · Feb 10, 2016

Jon said:
I used to always answer "Catholicism" until I was informed that it had to be something I liked

I see you gave up "sense of humor" too

CajunCrimson · Feb 10, 2016

Dessert......

Displaced Bama Fan · Feb 10, 2016

mrusso said:
Do you still have your dealer's phone number and hooker contacts? Asking for a friend.

On speed dial. #3 for dealer, ## for well, you know.

Displaced Bama Fan · Feb 10, 2016

AV8N said:
Growing up Methodist in Mobile, Lent was hard. As a child, the most obvious thing to give up is sweets.

But if God wanted me to give that up, why did He allow me to score a huge sack full of moon pies and candy at the Mardi Gras?

I grew up Presbyterian in Mobile. All the benefits of being catholic, none of the post party guilt. So sweet.

Bodhisattva · Feb 10, 2016

I gave up flossing.

92tide · Feb 10, 2016

Displaced Bama Fan said:
I grew up Presbyterian in Mobile. All the benefits of being catholic, none of the post party guilt. So sweet.

i grew up southern baptist in rural alabama, we were supposed to be miserable 365 days a year, not just 40

. i didn't even know what lent was until my 30s.

bamacon · Feb 10, 2016

Chris Christie is giving up running for president. He gave up plain running a real long time ago. I'm giving up exercise.

TIDE-HSV · Feb 10, 2016

Displaced Bama Fan said:
I grew up Presbyterian in Mobile. All the benefits of being catholic, none of the post party guilt. So sweet.

You must be the only guiltless Presbyterian I've known. John Calvin invented guilt...

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