What are you giving up for lent?

SimonAH

Who is Len T anyway? And what hold has he got over you lot? If it's blackmail you can have him prosecuted you know.

iPete

SimonAH wrote:

Who is Len T anyway? And what hold has he got over you lot? If it's blackmail you can have him prosecuted you know.

T was the keyboard player..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2TwP2_Pxs

BenS999

dhope wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

dilemna wrote:

Your remark was calculated to cause offence which you knew or should have reasonably known. You are a deeply unpleasant person to have posted such a response. I would suggest that you remove it out of common decency. I refer you BR's terms and conditions of posting of which you are clearly in breach.

I suspect you may find the "tongue" was so firmly in cheek and held for such a time as to actually start to bond together and the plaintiff can now no longer speak properly - chastised so thoroughly for his mis-deeds.

Oh cruel cruel world!

Besides, one should be praising him for giving up what the Catholic Church could not.
Uh oh, did I really just go there? :roll:

+1 hahaha
I very nearly fell off my chair - a pure Frankie Boyle moment.

pastey_boy

scary to say the least
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACyLTsH4ac

solsurf

crisps mmmmm and buying bike stuff especially after the number of purchases in the last week! :shock:

hatbeard

Butterd2 wrote:

Scalping Hatbeard

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kelsen

hatbeard wrote:

Butterd2 wrote:

Scalping Hatbeard

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The sound of Hatbeard's deflating ego?

hatbeard

judging by the number of visit's i've had lately it's more likely the air out of my tyres

Mr Sharky

Posting on here.... oh, bugger.. maybe next year then.

Fixxxer87

Religious superstition and irrationality.

SmellTheGlove

Abstinence

veronese68

A friend of mine runs a nice wine shop, posher than an offy. He says that every lent he gets a few regulars giving up booze. However, because Sundays don't count apparently, they spend more on a really posh bottle for a Sunday. So he does better out of their supposed abstinence.
Makes no sense to me. I didn't even know Sundays don't count.
I would like to give up cycling on frosty mornings, not entirely within my control though.

CiB

As of tonight I've given up on any hope of Leicester sneaking into the Play-Offs, following another defeat that equates to 1 point from the last 12. Bunch of wasters. I have heard that in return Sven has haughtily but rightly dismissed any chance I might have had of a Top 6 place on the Stats board this year. So that's alright then.

On second thoughts, I give up on giving up. There's always a chance...

CiB

Veronese68 wrote:

A friend of mine runs a nice wine shop, posher than an offy. He says that every lent he gets a few regulars giving up booze. However, because Sundays don't count apparently, they spend more on a really posh bottle for a Sunday. So he does better out of their supposed abstinence.
Makes no sense to me. I didn't even know Sundays don't count.

I can help there. If you count the number of days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, the total is 46. Subtract the number of Sundays in Lent, which is 6, and you arrive at the figure of 40 - the number of days Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness. [Lift from Telegraph letters page actually. Me? Religious? God no.]

pst88

As others have said: nothing, because i'm not religious. I wouldn't've even had pancakes yesterday but the girlfriend wanted them.

Drysuitdiver

CiB wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

A friend of mine runs a nice wine shop, posher than an offy. He says that every lent he gets a few regulars giving up booze. However, because Sundays don't count apparently, they spend more on a really posh bottle for a Sunday. So he does better out of their supposed abstinence.
Makes no sense to me. I didn't even know Sundays don't count.

I can help there. If you count the number of days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, the total is 46. Subtract the number of Sundays in Lent, which is 6, and you arrive at the figure of 40 - the number of days Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness. [Lift from Telegraph letters page actually. Me? Religious? God no.]

and why do you not count the sundays >??

its because each of them in Lent is a mini Easter

daviesee

Drysuitdiver wrote:

CiB wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

A friend of mine runs a nice wine shop, posher than an offy. He says that every lent he gets a few regulars giving up booze. However, because Sundays don't count apparently, they spend more on a really posh bottle for a Sunday. So he does better out of their supposed abstinence.
Makes no sense to me. I didn't even know Sundays don't count.

I can help there. If you count the number of days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, the total is 46. Subtract the number of Sundays in Lent, which is 6, and you arrive at the figure of 40 - the number of days Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness. [Lift from Telegraph letters page actually. Me? Religious? God no.]

and why do you not count the sundays >??

its because each of them in Lent is a mini Easter

Does that mean you get to eat a lot of chocolate then? :twisted:

Mini Easter Eggs at least

Mr Sharky

I love Jesus.

When he was born I get presents, when he died I get chocolate!

rick_chasey

pst88 wrote:

As others have said: nothing, because i'm not religious. I wouldn't've even had pancakes yesterday but the girlfriend wanted them.

Eating pancakes on shrove tuesday (i.e. Pancake day) is about as religious as giving and receiving presents and eating a turkey dinner (lunch?) on Christmas day.

notsoblue

Rick Chasey wrote:

pst88 wrote:

As others have said: nothing, because i'm not religious. I wouldn't've even had pancakes yesterday but the girlfriend wanted them.

Eating pancakes on shrove tuesday (i.e. Pancake day) is about as religious as giving and receiving presents and eating a turkey dinner (lunch?) on Christmas day.

Hmm, I always thought the purpose of shrove tuesday was to use up ingredients like eggs, sugar etc. because they were restricted during the (religious) lent fast?

veronese68

Yes, I think that is the point of shrove tuesday. Doesn't Mardi Gras translate to fat tuesday?
Regarding the sundays not counting as lent. That makes the fasting for 40 days thing a bit of a cop out. It's 6 fasts of six days and one of 4 days. They would be seperate fasts surely.

sketchley

Nothing as I gave up religion some time ago, about the same time I stopped beliving in santa.

I've posted this before but this sums up my current feelings on the subject much better than I ever could.

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg

Butterd2

Veronese68 wrote:

Yes, I think that is the point of shrove tuesday. Doesn't Mardi Gras translate to fat tuesday?
Regarding the sundays not counting as lent. That makes the fasting for 40 days thing a bit of a cop out. It's 6 fasts of six days and one of 4 days. They would be seperate fasts surely.

Yeah, it's called Intervals.

rick_chasey

notsoblue wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

pst88 wrote:

As others have said: nothing, because i'm not religious. I wouldn't've even had pancakes yesterday but the girlfriend wanted them.

Eating pancakes on shrove tuesday (i.e. Pancake day) is about as religious as giving and receiving presents and eating a turkey dinner (lunch?) on Christmas day.

Hmm, I always thought the purpose of shrove tuesday was to use up ingredients like eggs, sugar etc. because they were restricted during the (religious) lent fast?

Yeah, and we have public holidays at christmas so people could/can celebrate the birth of jesus.

My point is eating pancakes on shrove Tuesday is not a religious event, in the same way giving presents to your family and friends at Christmas isn't. It has roots in religion sure, but you'll be hard pressed to find many national celebration days, especially those that involve particular food, that don't (with a couple WW2 end celebrations, but to be honest, they're a) more memorials then celebrations, and b) not that big a deal here in the UK)

pst88

Rick Chasey wrote:

pst88 wrote:

As others have said: nothing, because i'm not religious. I wouldn't've even had pancakes yesterday but the girlfriend wanted them.

Eating pancakes on shrove tuesday (i.e. Pancake day) is about as religious as giving and receiving presents and eating a turkey dinner (lunch?) on Christmas day.

That is true I suppose, they're just traditions tagged on to religious events that have nothing to do with the religion itself. I'm pretty sure pancakes and chocolate eggs aren't mentioned in the bible, neither is the practice of giving something up for lent. I'm still not going to do it though.

rjsterry

Sketchley wrote:

Nothing as I gave up religion some time ago, about the same time I stopped beliving in santa.

I've posted this before but this sums up my current feelings on the subject much better than I ever could.

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg

What a wonderfully simplistic view of mankind. 20th century history has some fairly obvious examples that disprove that statement. He should have stuck with the physics.

Sorry to get all serious, but the 'religion causes all the world's problems' argument really gets my back up.

notsoblue

Rick Chasey wrote:

notsoblue wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

pst88 wrote:

As others have said: nothing, because i'm not religious. I wouldn't've even had pancakes yesterday but the girlfriend wanted them.

Eating pancakes on shrove tuesday (i.e. Pancake day) is about as religious as giving and receiving presents and eating a turkey dinner (lunch?) on Christmas day.

Hmm, I always thought the purpose of shrove tuesday was to use up ingredients like eggs, sugar etc. because they were restricted during the (religious) lent fast?

Yeah, and we have public holidays at christmas so people could/can celebrate the birth of jesus.

My point is eating pancakes on shrove Tuesday is not a religious event, in the same way giving presents to your family and friends at Christmas isn't. It has roots in religion sure, but you'll be hard pressed to find many national celebration days, especially those that involve particular food, that don't (with a couple WW2 end celebrations, but to be honest, they're a) more memorials then celebrations, and b) not that big a deal here in the UK)

Well if I was being particularly pedantic, its more about the symbolism of the ingredients rather than the actual food you make from it being religious. :P

Anyway, did you have poffertjes btw? I was desperately trying to find a poffertjes pan in London but to no avail....

rick_chasey

notsoblue wrote:

Anyway, did you have poffertjes btw? I was desperately trying to find a poffertjes pan in London but to no avail....

I didn't.

I did however make proper pancakes on Sunday - as opposed to chewy thin, p!ss poor pancakes, (more commonly reffered to as crêpes) and I had spek met stroop - naturally.

If the pancake isn't on its way towards an omelette (in terms of thickness, and in my grandmother's case, egginess) then it's not a proper pancake.

BTW: If you're ever in Sheffield, they always sell poffertjes at the 'world' market which seems to be there every other weekend.

rhext

rjsterry wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

Nothing as I gave up religion some time ago, about the same time I stopped beliving in santa.

I've posted this before but this sums up my current feelings on the subject much better than I ever could.

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg

What a wonderfully simplistic view of mankind. 20th century history has some fairly obvious examples that disprove that statement. He should have stuck with the physics.

Sorry to get all serious, but the 'religion causes all the world's problems' argument really gets my back up.

I'd be the last to contend that religion causes all the world's problems, but I'd observe that it seems to be associated with a disturbingly large number of them.....

rjsterry

rhext wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

Nothing as I gave up religion some time ago, about the same time I stopped beliving in santa.

I've posted this before but this sums up my current feelings on the subject much better than I ever could.

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg

What a wonderfully simplistic view of mankind. 20th century history has some fairly obvious examples that disprove that statement. He should have stuck with the physics.

Sorry to get all serious, but the 'religion causes all the world's problems' argument really gets my back up.

I'd be the last to contend that religion causes all the world's problems, but I'd observe that it seems to be associated with a disturbingly large number of them.....

A lot of the world's problems involve people, and a lot of people are religious to some degree. It doesn't take long for someone to try and legitimise their point of view by saying, "Oh and another thing: God's on our side not theirs!" and suddenly it's a 'religious' conflict.