Giving up booze for Lent

[sasguru]

All a good Christian is expected to give up at Lent is sin. Nothing else matters.

Is stupidity a sin?

[Chico]

All a good Christian is expected to give up at Lent is sin. Nothing else matters.

[sasguru]

Indeed

[Shimano105]

...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...

[sasguru]

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

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

[Mordac]

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...?

[wc2]

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.

[threaded]

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

[Shimano105]

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!

[sasguru]

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.

[ChimpMaster]

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

Thanks for the offer anyway, have fun.

[MrsGoof]

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.

[G8_Summit]

http://www.thirstforlife.org/?page=home.htm

Starting tomorrow - 40 days without alcohol.

Anyone up for it ???