What are you giving up for Lent? Here's mine:

[trof]

I'm giving up cilantro and cotton candy.
You?

[rzemanfl]

1. Just like always I am giving up Lent for Lent. n/t

[lastlib]

17. I'm giving up *giving up stuff for Lent* for Lent.

that has always worked out well for me.

[dchill]

26. But, you gotta admit...

Sometimes it's tough!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. religion

[trof]

4. Bless you.

[lapucelle]

3. I want to say gossip...

but I know I can't do it.

[yeoman6987]

5. Meat on fridays and candy until Easter

It's what I've done for over 40 years and is not easy for me. But Easter I get all the candy saved up in the freezer and go to town.

[Hangingon]

6. I will give up cotton candy but

Salsa without cilantro is terrible.

[trof]

8. Au contraire...

For those of us with a certain gene cilantro tastes like soap or chlorine.

[OriginalGeek]

44. I'm one of those

but I love Mexican and Tex-Mex so much that I just power through it.


Of course, it didn't hurt that a day-care life-time of getting my mouth washed out with soap for my salty talk inured me to the condition.

Besides, my favorite Mexican place has all day happy hour on Sundays and 2 for 1 22oz Negra Modelos helps wash that soap down.

[pinboy3niner]

7. A cable news host, when asked by a guest, said she's giving up discussing religion on TV

[Squinch]

9. I was raised Catholic. Gave up the religion years ago, but never gave up Lent.

I LOVE the idea of a reset, a time when you can change a habit during the part of the year that is all about rebirth and renewal.

So I'm giving up sugar and flour. Which will be a challenge.

[trof]

11. Stay away from the King Cake.

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[Squinch]

13. Easy to do where I live. It's the seven layer cake I'm going to miss. And my home made bread.

It's an amazingly delicious nutritional void.

[trof]

14. Oh lordy. Aunt Lutie's Seven Layer Lemon Cake.

Eat that and die a happy man.

[Squinch]

15. In my neighborhood its the local bakery's vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream.

Ta die for!

[MosheFeingold]

48. I will stay away. It's not kosher. ;-) n/t

[hlthe2b]

10. Just cutting back daily calories a bit more....

I cut out processed foods and sugar some time ago

[trof]

12. Notice: This is NOT a serious thread. It's the Lounge.

But whatthehell, feel free.

[hlthe2b]

16. Sorry you were offended

I guess....

Lent is not so much religious for me as a second chance at theNew Years resolution

[trof]

19. No harm, no foul.

No offense.

[True Dough]

18. You're giving up

cilantro flavored cotton candy? That really doesn't seem like such a sacrifice, trof!

[trof]

20. You don't know me.

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[rurallib]

21. I think I shall forgo reading Chaucer

and space trips.
And reading Chaucer on space trips.

[mainstreetonce]

22. FOX News

..

[NNadir]

23. Reading about the chemistry of thulium and berkelium.

Hell, I'll throw in their cogeners terbium and mendelevium.

It's not hard, at least not as hard as giving the chemistry of dysprosium, or - perish the thought - giving up reading about the chemistry of plutonium.

[ProfessorGAC]

57. Now, That's A Sacrifice!!!!!

At least you're not giving up electronic conformational mechanics of boron!
I was worried you were headed there!

[Metsie Casey]

24. Looking at other women. Yes. I am Catholic

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Watching any and all Trump speeches on the TV

[Warpy]

29. Liver and turnips.

It's such a terrible sacrifice.

[fNord]

30. Not sharing Discordianisim with the rest of the world...

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/1.php

I'll post this once every day for the rest of lent.....

I just sent a copy to my sister, a USAF Master Sargent, my parents, and am signing up for twitter so I can tweet it 40times to 45.......


"Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck!"

[fNord]

32. Post script.....

So I guess, I'm basically giving up not tweeting.......40 days.... can I make it?

[jack69]

31. My sanity.

[littlemissmartypants]

33. Nothing.

And I won't miss it either.

[fNord]

34. Careful.....

That means you're going to have to do Something 24 hours a day for the next38&1/2 days. Nothing is one of my favorite things to do....it's so rare that I actually get to do it, I couldn't dream of giving it up......

[littlemissmartypants]

36. Point taken.

I'm going to have to work harder at looking for nothing now, apparently.

[fNord]

37. Thankfully sleeping counts as "something"......n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

38. Funny you should mention that.

I had the same thought. Giving up is so last week anyway. I'd rather resist.

[fNord]

39. I think I may adore you.....

https://m.

[fNord]

40. Don't feel intimidated schatzi.....

My boyfriends not the jealous type.....the dog on the other hand, he might rip out both our throats....although, he did bark that he gave that up for lent

[littlemissmartypants]

46. This thread needed

More Bowie, a dog and facial hair from the start. I'm so glad you fixed that. Looking at that pic makes me think of giving up nylons and garter belts. But resisting might have to stay on the table for now. I like my throat.

Best thread hijack ever.

♡ lmsp

[fNord]

51. The bf here

I'm not giving up nylons and garter belts anytime soon. Frankenfurter for life!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

53. Meet me on the corner. eom

[Doreen]

35. Do you think if we all give up trump that he will disappear?

[DFW]

41. My wife gave up Catholicism

I didn't even know it was more than an expression.

[Freddie]

42. 40 bags in 40 days challenge

Instead of giving up, say, a favorite food, the idea is to de-clutter your life by filling a trash bag every day of Lent with stuff to throw away, recycle or donate. Not a hoarder but my house tends to be cluttered at times, plus being here 20 years things tend to "accumulate". As cleaning is far from a favorite thing to do, it's a sacrifice of time too.
We Lutherans don't "have" to give up something for Lent but I like this idea. Already one bag behind I'll catch up on the weekend.

[Tanuki]

55. Freddie, thank you for this idea. My mom passed away in 2016

after several years of declining health. I was very involved in caregiving and accumulated a lot of clutter over that time that I didn't have time or energy to deal with, and also have some of her things now as well that I haven't gone through. I have been feeling overwhelmed and decided to give this a try. My car conked out on March 1 and I had to deal with that first, so I was a couple of days late getting started, but I can already see progress and a steady way forward.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

56. You know, that's a good idea. I'm not a religious person, but

throwing out some of that worthless old junk wouldn't hurt a bit.

What someone else is doing:

Giving up hope for lent.

Link to tweet

[mulsh]

43. I'm giving up on contributing to the collection basket at mass.

n/t

[we can do it]

45. Republicans.

[SCantiGOP]

47. I gave up Catholicism for Lent

almost 40 years ago.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

49. I'm giving up Democratic Underground for Lent.

...

Oh, well, that lasted about as long as all my other Lenten resolutions.

[raven mad]

50. Wishing for warmer weather.

It's 31 below.....................

[alarimer]

52. February

Nothing else.

[True Dough]

54. This seems relevant, crude, but relevant!