Giving up booze for Lent

**MrsGoof** · 28 February 2006, 12:00

Many years ago in my Competitive days I tried to abstain from alchohol for 3 months. All went well untill the weekend before the big compition when I failed on a massive scale.

The competition was a big success, so I can't see why I would ever give up again.

**ChimpMaster** · 28 February 2006, 12:08

I would like to due to my beer gut but I have a stag night this weekend.

Thanks for the offer anyway, have fun.

**sasguru** · 28 February 2006, 12:14

Now that I've given up smoking, I'm seriously thinking about giving up drinking as well ( apart from the odd glass of wine). Here's a test. See how many of your mates you have something to talk about with when you're sober.

**Shimano105** · 1 March 2006, 08:06

I was intrigued about this at first - until I got wind of the fact that it was a religious site.

Bollox to that - binge drinking has been demonised and now they are turning their attentions to social drinkers.

I have now decided to drink more regularly as a result - anything that distances me from a bunch of happy-clappy, bible-basher nerds is fine by me.

Cheers!

**threaded** · 1 March 2006, 09:45

No nation is druken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.

**wc2** · 1 March 2006, 10:02

Being a good christian and all - I don't....

Eat Currys
Drink
Smoke
Drive
Speak
Fart
Burp

So I'm giving up breathing for lent - I've been in training since 9.45 and can now hold my breath for 13.78345 seconds.

**Mordac** · 1 March 2006, 10:27

Originally posted by sasguru

Here's a test. See how many of your mates you have something to talk about with when you're sober.

What happens when your mates apply the same test on you...?

**sasguru** · 1 March 2006, 10:30

Originally posted by Mordac

What happens when your mates apply the same test on you...?

They seem to enjoy the gratuitous abuse, random assaults and GBH.

**Shimano105** · 1 March 2006, 10:56

...and another thing, I'll give up my social drinking when they give up their planet-destroying car driving.

Try to go past any church on a Sunday and you'll see how many of them are happily clogging up the roads and belching out their ice-cap-melting noxious emmissions in the name of the Lord...

Giving up booze for Lent