Lent is 46 days long to represent the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness being tempted by Satan. This makes absolutely no sense until you realise that Sundays don’t count because each of them “represents a ‘mini-Easter’, a celebration of Jesus’ victory over sin and death.” (Thanks Wiki). The question now for anyone taking part is what to do with these Sundays. Baines is considering whether she should Facebook on the Sabbath here.
Wikipedia tells me that “When observing fasting or abstinence during Lent, regard must be paid to the fact that Sundays are Feast Days, so the fast or abstinence may be broken.” and that “In the past if you had given up slaughtering the innocents for Lent no one would pass judgement if you carved up a couple of choirboys after the Sunday service.” (There is a slight possibility I made one of these quotes up).
I have decided that swearing on Sundays would feel like cheating and falling back into my bad habits in time for Monday would only cost me money, so each Sunday I will be compiling a comprehensive list of the dates, times and context of all the bad words I have used in the previous week. I will also be keeping a tally of the amount being donated to charity and how much swearing is costing me a day.
All proceeds will be added to Gingell’s sponsorship fund, she is running the Asics British 10k race to raise money for Lupus UK. I think you should donate too.
Time to wrap this up, here’s a video featuring a grab bag of celebrities from the Channel 4 stable sharing their favourite swear words (WARNING: At least half my audience are going to find this offensive, if repetition of the word c**t doesn’t fill your heart with joy maybe watch this instead. I like them both).
Feel free to share your (swearing related) stories, opinions and clips. Also try and guess how many times I’ve sworn so far this week and then check back tomorrow to find out if you’re right.
[For the more adventurous you can try predict what the final total of the swear tin will be when Lent ends (11th April), the correct answer might even win you a prize if I have any money left in April.]
that video is hilarious.
also, i’m running the asics british 10k this year – up the ante and all that. thanks for the plug though.
Only in my head can 40 days plus 6 Sundays equal 47.
Only in my head can 10k be read as 5k.
I even remember it being an Asics race because it made me think of a Jean Grae lyric (let’s get back to basics/ like back when I was wearing asics).
Will teach me to copy paste what you did last year.
Apologies in advance for the next time I attempt to use numbers (have corrected the post).
I be like Funshine and make the Sun Shine!
Epic song.
Crving up choir boys on a sunday? Something only a priest would do!