h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It is now the season of Lent, the traditional time in Ireland for engaging in self-denial.

I propose to give up chocolate for the rest of Lent, which ends on Easter Sunday 20 April 2003. I should really have started last Wednesday, but I didn't.

Does anybody else want to join me in giving something up? You will benefit greatly from a bit of self-denial, particularly if it's the first time you've ever done it. You'll gain much more control over your own personality, because you'll know that whatever is tempting you, you are able to do without it.

I suggest that you start with something small like: sugar in your tea, milk in your coffee, eating chocolate; don't attempt a biggie like giving up cigarettes, until you have a few minor triumphs under your belt.

So who's with me?

As long as you don't ask me to give up hootoo (40 day backlog? ), I'm in.

I'm proposing to give up curries - a big vice of mine, and responsible for burning my tastebuds into oblivion over the last few years. Besides, I quite fancy the girl at the pizza place next door to the Indian takeaway.

B

Dammit! Also, I'm really going to have to give up the suggestive comments when my girlfriend can read them.

B

Now that will be a challenge for you!! Especially since incriminating threads keep turning up in my PS.

Perhaps I should consider using less petrol. Save the planet and all that.

OK, so now we have:

Gnomon - giving up chocolate until 20 April 2003
Master B - giving up curries until 20 April 2003

Anyone else?

I shall give up buying 'stuff' I'm terrible at spotting bits n bobs getting obsessed over buying them, then not using them to their full potential.

Bills, food, travel and cinema as my luxury then, no more DVD's, books, and 'tat' for me I move house after Easter, so it's less stuff to pack anyway

ok, i will give up kebabs. they are yummy but i shouldn't eat them!

crecahy

I'm sort of with Toccata, I'm not allowed to buy any CDs until Easter. I currently have a backlog of almost 20 CDs that I have bought but haven't listened to yet.

I've set up a Self Denial page at A993422. I've recorded all our resolutions there. Current list of people undergoing self-denial:

Gnomon, Master B, Toccata, Lieutenant Creachy, Ballynac

I stopped smoking last week. Not just for Lent, obviously. Just joining in the whole self-denial thing!


Gubernatrix (non-smoker)

So will I add you to the Self Denial page?

Nope. I was just butting in!

I'm always trying to change specific little things in my life to find out what kind of a difference to how much I enjoy existence- abstaining from sex, not drinking lager, always getting to bed before midnight etc. It never lasts long though.

The point is that that's what I'll give up with you;

I hereby give up giving things up. At least until 20th, at which point I may start giving things up again.
K?

So you're going on a non-stop binge of sex, lager and going to bed late.

i could do that as long as i don't eat kebab.

Hang on. If I start eating kebabs, and Creachy starts eating curries after the pub, does that mean that we moralistically start cancelling each other out?

B

Bebel Matman Owlatron, I've added you to the chart. You've committed yourself to giving up 'Pointless unkept resolutions of self-denial '.

good point master b. i must give this much deliberation

Hmm. That sounds like British suburbia's answer to that classic Rock And Roll motto "sex, drugs and rock n roll";

"Sex, lager, and going to bed late"
I might make it my new personal motto...

Gnomon, I'll join you.

I'll give up......having sex, alcohol, and late nights.
{There isn't an official h2g2 meet until Summer so I should manage that}



Give up buying cd's?
Never!
I'm glad to hear someone else has the same addiction....