Asceticism

[davywavy]

Every year I add something extra to the list of things I give up for Lent. It's a challenge I rather enjoy - the asceticism appeals to me, plus it's handy to give up stuff that's appallingly bad for me as I lose simply acres of lard in the process. The current list of things to quit is: Alcohol, tobacco, chocolate, caffeine, and first-person shooters, and I'm starting to think of what I might quit doing this year - Lent starts on March the 1st this year, if you're interested.

I thought I'd get some ideas from you lot - who knows, based on the following poll, I might even give up the thing which the most people think I should quit doing.


[Poll #660344]

^{*Note to raggedhalo: before you take this opportunity to suggest I stop eating meat, you already know my conditions on that.}

Comments

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I say everything.

See how long it takes you before you end up gibbering in a corner with a blanket.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ha! Asceticism wouldn't get me gibbering! I developed great mental fortitude through to many years of [remainder of reply deleted on Legal advice].

Masturbation

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

Because it would be funny. You could be like that guy in 40 days and 40 nights...I'd laugh

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

To explicate my responses, I want you to give up absolutely everything except LiveJournal, as the resultant ultra-miserable posts would appeal hugely to my sense of schadenfreude.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'm not surly enough already?

[student-heaven.livejournal.com]

I voted roleplaying, because the thought of people walking round church halls dressed as vampires and telling each other their skills kinda unsettles me a bit.

No offence.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You think it's unsettling and you don't even know these people.
I see RPing as making me a bit like a gay Liberal Democrat MP - once a month I sneak off to hot sweaty rooms and get relief, and the rest of the time I spend my life denying it.

Ahem.

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

posting ozzy osbourne pictures on my lj

[inquis.livejournal.com]

No-one should ever give up masturbation - it's the best! (Except for the real thing, but I'm on 3 months abstinence at the moment, so it'll have to do)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Heavens above - that's worse than 40 days and nights!

[colonel-maxim.livejournal.com]

Follow my esteemed example, give up restraint for a month. Either that or give up volcano diving. I have successfully fulfilled that for three years now.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I was considering giving up Socialist-baiting for a month, but that'd be like stopping breathing.

[colonel-maxim.livejournal.com]

Socialist baiting is not a pleasure, it is a sacred duty - okay, and a pleasure as well.

[gwaunquest.livejournal.com]

The results seem to imply that people who know you think you're a wanker! And a longlunch sciver to boot. But these are all so trivial. Show your real caliber and sit atop a pole for lent (Wooden not eastern European). Not one of those namby pamby platform things - make yours a pointed one.Wear only a very scraty loincloth and one sandal.