That's why I like being a Jew. I only have to fast one day a year and all is forgiven. A month without something? Forget it!

I am honestly thinking of giving up going on 4chan for Lent., which doesn't start for another week or so for me with the eastern calendar.  Heaven knows it will probably improve my productivity and help with doing something with my life.

So what we have here is a top ten list of things nerds/geeks like?!?  Wow, that must have been hard to come up with.

Snark was the only entry that I thought was the least bit entertaining.  Hence my tribute to it by being snarky in these comments.

I'm an atheist who still identifies as jewish (I know, I know) so, this list barely makes any sense to me

I gave up lentils for lent. Now I use those little star shaped pastas instead.

I gave up religion for Lent. 

How did porn not make this list?

The only thing I'd give up for Lent, is lint.

I gave up being catholic

Lent? Seriously? Now? And this list really boils down to "have you ever tried not being a nerd?"

This might top the Scooby Doo one for worst daily list ever.

In my own upbringing, Lent wasn't about giving up something as punishment, it was giving up something to grow closer to God/becoming a better human being. Let's take video games for example. The money you would have spent on that new video game should go towards charity instead and the time you would have spent playing that game is instead time for inward meditation and reflection or community service or even just doing that self-improvement thing you've always been meaning to do. Make the sacrifice meaningful that way. At least, that's what Lent is to me.

Shouldn't you have posted this sooner? It's too late for me now to give up anything...oh well.  What haven't I done in the last little bit that could still count?  I gave up on Marc Webb's Amazing Spider Man, does that count?

Catholic boy here. I played a lot of D&D in the the 1980s, when everyone was saying it was a gateway to perdition.  My brothers and dad played it because we saw it for what it was, fun. Heck, we got to battle demons from hell in the game. How much more Catholic can you get? Its like 'The Exorcist' with +5 Holy Swords.

As for giving something up for Lent; being a broke-ass sumbitch most of the time, I've already made to make due without a lot of stuff. The only things I could conceivably give up are breathing and eating, neither of which are a viable option. So if I come into a lot of money all of a sudden, I'm heading to the comic shop. Sorry J.C., but I need to get the next issues of my favorite comics before the heathens buy them all. 

It doesn't matter what you give up for Lent, the Pope already made you look like a chump. 

"Oh, you gave up Call of Duty? How nice. I gave up being Pope!"

One thing that Mr. Daniels should give up is harassing girls online. Especially friends of mine.

"I've campaigned with more than a few Christian D&D players - none of them renounced their faiths and began worshiping Satan."

Indeed, I went to a Catholic school, and we had a pretty robust tabletop D&D group. In fact, the only time things got awkward was when we brought on a Mormon DM who was a little uncomfortable with our bullshit. He was kinda the Ned Flanders to our Homer.

I gave up masturbating for Lent.........worst minute of my life

I gave up banging Zarana for Lent one year.  I lasted about a day-and-a-half.

I already gave up on pizza, soda, and sweets...