Nemi and I share our pain...

[sherkahn]

For us Catholics, this time of year means Lent, which means I have to give up something I like for 40 days, and as we come close the Easter break, I'm getting a bad "junkie" craving. No, not comics... something else. Nemi feels my pain.






Nemi of Earth, you have shown great greed.
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Comments

[sarno001]

Gave up rice, not taking into account that I live in a house full of Asians and we always have the rice steamer going. One of my roommates came into the kitchen, asked what I gave up, then looked pointedly at the bowl of rice I was eating when I told her.

Damn.

Also, this looks webcomic-y and interesting. What's the title?

[ravenous_raven]

What in the name of the mother of Marvel are you going to eat then? o_0 Bread doesn't provide the same edible effect...

[nezchan]

But rice is so wonderful! You can put all manner of sauces on it and it tastes good, and even without it still tastes good!

You might as well give up air!

[mllesays]

I gave up caffeine, and had a cup of coffee the very next day. Oops.

[ravenous_raven]

< to your predicament and icon :)

[nezchan]

The stone people express their sympathy.

(I gave up coffee and switched to tea, though, but it's still caffeine)

[kamino_neko]

Never give up something that makes it harder to remember what you've given up!

[sherkahn]

The title is Nemi.

scans_daily 2.0 introduced me to her.

Here you can find her latest exploits.

[sarno001]

Thanks!

[peur-evol.blogspot.com]

Nemi seems to be in the 'games' section of the website, but I can't figure out what buttons to press to make it work.....

[sherkahn]

It should bring up a page with the last 5 cartoons of the week, like Dilbert.com used to.

[hatman]

The Nemi archive is back?? W00t!! Was so sad when it vanished in the site redesign a couple of months back.

[kingrockwell]

Could you please edit the OP to add in the source link?

[darkblade]

Giving up choclate for Lent is border line insane. October through to March is the biggest sales for chocolate anywhere and the people in marketing know how to push it out on you.

[nezchan]

The funny thing is, like Nemi I rarely eat chocolate. It's good and all (especially when you hold out for quality rather than Mars bars), but hell, I gave it up for a whole year just to see if I could and, well, I could.

[saralakali]

Yeah, me too. I was allergic to chocolate when I was a kid, so I never imprinted on it the way a lot of folks seem to. Also, my first real job was at a discount retailer. My end-of-the night cleanup was the seasonal aisle. I was hired at the end of the Valentines season, so for three months I was surrounded by the smell of chocolate. It did not endear me to the stuff.

[nezchan]

To be fair, the great bulk of Valentines and Easter chocolate is really crappy quality anyway. Usually I consider something like Lindoor to be a minimum in quality when I actually do eat chocolate.

Besides, white chocolate > brown chocolate, and doesn't have the same smell.

[neuhallidae]

That's because the only "cocoa" in it is the butter.

[cleome45]

There is only one white chocolate I've ever liked, but I can't afford it now. [grumble]

[kaileighblue]

Funny my friend was talking about this the other day. And you used the exact example he did. He was explaining how Lent went from giving up food during the day entirely to giving up one thing. To then just giving up one thing.. maybe on Friday. (He's a very angry former catholic school child.)

[sarno001]

The whole point of Lent is that it's really hard to give up even one little thing for even forty days, while Jesus gave up everything to be born human, live in poverty, die for our sins, etc. It's more to make you go, "Wow, I suck, and Jesus is badass."

^Lutheran perspective^

[jelly_ace]

I'm Catholic in a country that's majorily Catholic and I didn't even know you were supposed to give up something for Lent! Religious education fail!

[icon_uk]

Really? Wow...What country are you in, out of curiosity.

[jelly_ace]

The Philippines. We're mostly Christian, but Catholics still dominate.

[foxhack]

Ha ha, lent.

*eats a burger*

[cleome45]

*Ignores Passover for the approximately the 22nd consecutive year*

:o

[foxhack]

I'd tell you how many years I've ignored it for, but that would only make me feel older than I do already.

[cleome45]

[schedules epic shuffleboard face-off in that park behind the Veterans Hall at sundown]

[palabradot]

*eyes her copy of her husband's family's Haggadah, eyes glazing over from trying to parse Hebrew after a lifetime of being a Baptist*

Easter? Whassat, again?

[arilou_skiff]

Abandon the papists! As a protestant you don't have to fast, but you still get to eat the creamy-goodness confectionary!

[math_camel]

The trick is to be specific and to remove accidents waiting to happen. For example, I gave up Nutella (That stuff is like crack to me, yummy, chocolate-hazel-nutty crack) and the Sims 3. Then I put my last container and the disks on top of my cupboard (where I can't reach them without a chair) so I don't accidentally slip.

The downside of this method is they both sit up there tempting me, beckoning me. But the upside is I rarely walk past people playing Sims on the street or eating Nutella. Good thing to, because someone might forgive Nemi for eating their candy (as long as she doesn't get a finger too), but no one will forgive me stealing their laptop.

[icon_uk]

Chocolate, ordering commissions, and TRYING (not terribly successfully) to avoid random impulse purchases of luxuries, like DVD's, action figures and the like.

[leikomgwtfbbq]

My mom gave up caffeine for Lent. She's a bit... edgy just lately for it. XD

[lieut_kettch]

I just did the meatless Fridays thing.

[psychopathicus_rex]

I think it's probably a good thing that I don't know many Catholics, because I don't think I would be able to resist giving them merry hell for the duration of Lent. 'You've given up chocolate? Ooooh, what a coincidence, guess what IIIIIIIIIII'm eating? Ooooooh, it's so lovely and sweeeeeeeeet!' Hee hee. (Yes, I can be a little bastard sometimes - can't everyone?)
Here's a thought - what you should do next year is cultivate a taste for something that you normally dislike. Let's say, for instance, broccoli. Let's say you don't like broccoli. Well, in the months leading up to Lent, become a broccoli-eatin' FIEND. Eat it with your favorite foods, eat it with luscious dips and sauces, do everything you possibly can to make it something that, at the very least, you appreciate. Then, when Lent comes around, give up broccoli. You know you can do without it, 'cause you always did before, and if your plan works, you will have expanded your culinary horizons just a tad.

[tifaeria]

I gave up meat entirely. I'm eating fish and eggs though so I'm not totally off of it, but it's always hard for me when making dishes for the week and just trying to get by. Good luck to everybody who's getting through Lent!

[purple_smurf]

I do the smart thing: I don't actually give up anything, but I put aside a gold coin donation ($1 or $2) every time I have a cup of tea or coffee for a Lenten charity appeal. I don't deprive myself of my caffeine (although it encourages me to cut back!), and I think about Lent every time I have a fix, thus thinking about it more often than I would if I gave the stuff up completely. Win-win!

[pseudo_tsuga]

That's really sweet! What a neat idea.

[iondan]

I didn't give up anything this year so I gave blood at my parish's blood drive, which happened to conveniently be during lent.