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[swanaldo]

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new phone is sony erricson k800i. tis a good phone and not bad for free. well contract free but still said the word free when i got it so thats good enough for me

[craig_anto]

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Hello folks
well low and behold i did it, 40 days without alcohol, would of posted monday but had an incident walking home with the girlfriend, where a few youths thought it was fun to throw fireworks out of a car, typical craig i got hit on my shoulder luckily my jacket saved me from being burnt, theres a reason i wear leathers. how ever the bang was enough to deafen me in my right ear dont know just yet if its permenant. will find out when the swelling goes down
god bless Luton

[babeth]

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Youre still to wait until Sunday !! Otherwise it wouldnt be a real Lent fasting.
But hey, congratulations so far. How many kilos did you lose ?
And get well soon. Its a scare to have something happening to your ears but usually the damage is not permanent. Or else, take it from someone who is partially deaf, youll get used to it.

[swanaldo]

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so graig when we eventually go for a beer, when its your round, its not going to fall on deaf ears now is it...... craig its your round get the beers in

eh sorry didnt hear you

im on to you mate

[craig_anto]

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actually its from shrove tuesday to palm sunday easter sunday isnt the end of lent as i was taught

what was that Shane i heard something about beers and around?

[geoff]

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Craig, Its not a firework that is supposed to make you deaf!!!

[babeth]

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You might be in trouble Craig...

From Wikipedia:
In Western Christianity, Lent is the forty-day period (or season) lasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter or Holy Thursday (in the Roman Catholic Church).

Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 23, roughly corresponding to early spring in the Northern Hemisphere. A simple formula to know the exact date is that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of the Spring Equinox. Ash Wednesday, which may fall anywhere between February 4 and March 10, occurs forty-six days before Easter, but Lent is nevertheless considered to be forty days long, due to the fact that Sundays in this season are not counted among the days of Lent.[citation needed] The traditional reason for this is that fasting was considered inappropriate on Sunday, the day commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus.[citation needed]

Lent is a time of preparation for Holy Week, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in the Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

From this page:http://www.kencollins.com/holy-04.htmhttp://www.kencollins.com/holy-04.htm
Lent is a forty-day period before Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday. We skip Sundays when we count the forty days, because Sundays commemorate the Resurrection. Lent begins on 21 February 2007 and ends on 7 April 2007, which is the day before Easter.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Lent officially ends at sundown on 5 April (Holy Thursday), with the beginning of the mass of the Lord€™s Supper.

Then here:http://www.crivoice.org/cylent.htmlhttp://www.crivoice.org/cylent.html
Originating in the fourth century of the church, the season of Lent spans 40 weekdays beginning on Ash Wednesday and climaxing during Holy Week with Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Good Friday, and concluding Saturday before Easter.


You see, always consult several sources before making such a serious statement.
I was raised by nuns, hence my almost encyclopaedic knowledge of matters Catholic.
And especially of how many days Lent takes. I hated giving my daily allowance of sweets away to the poor children in Africa during Lent. And I never gave my sweets away at all. The nuns frigging took it.

[swanaldo]

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as long as i get me an easter egg i dont care when it is. nice big easter egg mmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate. i think its all becoming commercialised too. an advert was on last night advertising to buy a game of monopoly or cludo ect with easter eggs. chocolate monopoly yes.

[ewan]

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mmmm chocolate whos to care about all the religious do-da when theres so many thorntons bunnies around

[craig_anto]

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well i can go another week but thats 47 days im not happy with that, jus miss beer so much

[swanaldo]

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craig get your ass down your local and buy yourself a nice cool crisp delicious full pint of carling cold and sit yourself in a corner near the tv and enjoy. feel like a man once more.

[swanaldo]

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or batemans xxx if thats your bag. no alco pops tho or i slap you boy.

[craig_anto]

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lol hmmm beer
but Babeth is right best go to Sunday.
total weight lost 17KG, IQ improved 24 points jean size dropped to 32 from 36, none of my clothes fit me now but hey

all that said i still want a beer

[babeth]

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Just 3 more nights and you can splurge all you want on your beverage of choice. Lent is all about hardship and overcoming the urges. The reward is one more step forward to having the body of a young god.

By my previous post you could have guessed that Lent is not my thing (which wont prevent me from encouraging others). The nuns certainly took all of my possible motivation out of it long ago by their sound pedagogic actions !
The only part of Lent I still observe is not to eat meat on Good Friday. But thats only because my dearly beloved Momma would kill me if I didnt.

[swanaldo]

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