My lawn.
Get off it.

Kids today give up Facebook and MySpace for Lent

Christa Byker, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, added a line to her profile on Ash Wednesday warning her friends that she'd be disappearing from the digital world: "I am leaving Facebook to its own devices during the Lenten fast."

How old are kids to you submitter?

eqtworld: I am sure Jesus appreciates their sacrifice.

/I give this religion another 150 years, tops

I give it 50.

/Has more faith in humanity

Firetini: Kids today give up Facebook and MySpace for Lent

Christa Byker, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, added a line to her profile on Ash Wednesday warning her friends that she'd be disappearing from the digital world: "I am leaving Facebook to its own devices during the Lenten fast."

How old are kids to you submitter?

Anybody young enough to use Facebook?

Firetini: Kids today give up Facebook and MySpace for Lent

Christa Byker, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, added a line to her profile on Ash Wednesday warning her friends that she'd be disappearing from the digital world: "I am leaving Facebook to its own devices during the Lenten fast."

How old are kids to you submitter?

A 21year old is a kid.
Deal with it or I will throw the onion on my belt at you.
/get off my lawn

Religion is not a cult if it proves to be popular enough. And then gets state tax exemptions.

/.5% tax on churches to be sure where all the money goes.
//Hair spray included.
///Listen to the Cult today.

Any chance of MySpace and Facebook giving up their businesses for Lent?

Uncle Karl: Firetini: Kids today give up Facebook and MySpace for Lent

Christa Byker, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, added a line to her profile on Ash Wednesday warning her friends that she'd be disappearing from the digital world: "I am leaving Facebook to its own devices during the Lenten fast."

How old are kids to you submitter?

A 21year old is a kid.
Deal with it or I will throw the onion on my belt at you.
/get off my lawn

21 is not a kid. Are you an enabler of the snowflake generation? You must be one these adults that believe it's okay to take care of your child until they're 30 yoa.

Get Lost: Religion is not a cult if it proves to be popular enough. And then gets state tax exemptions.

/.5% tax on churches to be sure where all the money goes.
//Hair spray included.
///Listen to the Cult today.

I say tax them like every other business.
Even better would be the system some EU nations use, where donations come right out of your paycheck and the only way to avoid them is too get out of the religion.

A cult is any religion one joins as an adult.

So, for this Lenten season I'm giving up dismembering prostitutes. Does it count if you never actually did the thing you gave up?

Arthur Jumbles: Firetini: Kids today give up Facebook and MySpace for Lent

Christa Byker, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, added a line to her profile on Ash Wednesday warning her friends that she'd be disappearing from the digital world: "I am leaving Facebook to its own devices during the Lenten fast."

How old are kids to you submitter?

Anybody young enough to use Facebook?

What about Pedos?

Firetini: Uncle Karl: Firetini: Kids today give up Facebook and MySpace for Lent

Christa Byker, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, added a line to her profile on Ash Wednesday warning her friends that she'd be disappearing from the digital world: "I am leaving Facebook to its own devices during the Lenten fast."

How old are kids to you submitter?

A 21year old is a kid.
Deal with it or I will throw the onion on my belt at you.
/get off my lawn

21 is not a kid. Are you an enabler of the snowflake generation? You must be one these adults that believe it's okay to take care of your child until they're 30 yoa.

Not it that way dumbass. A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Think of it as a transitional time if you must.

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own
//not a real adult till you gain some experience

Ignoring the religious aspects, this would be a very useful exercise for many people.

radioman_: A cult is any religion one joins as an adult.

So, for this Lenten season I'm giving up dismembering prostitutes. Does it count if you never actually did the thing you gave up?

Nope, has to be something you normally do.

Monks used to limit themselves to one beer a day, so they brewed a 12% ABV or higher beer for this time.

The goddamned paradox is that, at a 35 year old guy in a major corporation, since I am surrounded by 45-60 year olds with "kids" in their 20s, they see me, they see a "kid"... so by enabling their little goddamned basement-dwelling jerkoffs to remain a teenage in perpetuity, I get a lot of "you're young! your career is just starting" and what not.

/14 years in corporate america
//yeah. My lawn? YOU Get off it, farkin' baby boomer scum.

eqtworld

I am sure Jesus appreciates their sacrifice.

Seriously. I'm sure Jesus, having willingly allowed himself to be nailed to a cross to slowly die of exposure and positional asphyxiation, will be totally miffed that you're eating meat on a Friday.

/actually said that to someone last Friday
//they couldn't think of anything to say back

They're doing it wrong. Why give up your favorite things? Why not just give up things that you only mildly like, such as for Lent, not watching any Star Trek movie, other than 5. Why give up the good stuff???

Or better yet, not be apart of a belief that requires you to give shiat up for a few weeks.

/knew a kid in jr. high who's parents made him give up meat for Lent.

Uncle Karl: Not it that way dumbass. A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Think of it as a transitional time if you must.

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own
//not a real adult till you gain some experience

I don't understand your first statement. "Not it that way dumbass." Clarify please.

A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Oh please, unexperienced with what?

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own

That's right. Legal adult.

Firetini: Uncle Karl: Not it that way dumbass. A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Think of it as a transitional time if you must.

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own
//not a real adult till you gain some experience

I don't understand your first statement. "Not it that way dumbass." Clarify please.

A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Oh please, unexperienced with what?

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own

That's right. Legal adult.

Sorry I made you mad little one, but you will learn in a few years.

Uncle Karl: Firetini: Uncle Karl: Not it that way dumbass. A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Think of it as a transitional time if you must.

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own
//not a real adult till you gain some experience

I don't understand your first statement. "Not it that way dumbass." Clarify please.

A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Oh please, unexperienced with what?

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own

That's right. Legal adult.

Sorry I made you mad little one, but you will learn in a few years.

I'm not mad. I'm trying to understand your point of view.

buzzvert: The goddamned paradox is that, at a 35 year old guy in a major corporation, since I am surrounded by 45-60 year olds with "kids" in their 20s, they see me, they see a "kid"... so by enabling their little goddamned basement-dwelling jerkoffs to remain a teenage in perpetuity, I get a lot of "you're young! your career is just starting" and what not.

/14 years in corporate america
//yeah. My lawn? YOU Get off it, farkin' baby boomer scum.

Find a new place to work.

/all of us are in our late twenties and early thirties. We make fun of the old geezers. The president of the company turned 40, I asked him if he cried when the dinosaurs died.

/he laughed, then we got a beer

Firetini: Uncle Karl: Firetini: Uncle Karl: Not it that way dumbass. A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Think of it as a transitional time if you must.

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own
//not a real adult till you gain some experience

I don't understand your first statement. "Not it that way dumbass." Clarify please.

A 21 year old is still rather unexperienced though.

Oh please, unexperienced with what?

/legal adult at 18, your ass is on your own

That's right. Legal adult.

Sorry I made you mad little one, but you will learn in a few years.

I'm not mad. I'm trying to understand your point of view.

Then just pay attention over the next few years. It will come to you.

90% of 21 yearolds, don't know anything about real life, they just got out of highschool 3 years ago and many are in college.

buzzvert: The goddamned paradox is that, at a 35 year old guy in a major corporation, since I am surrounded by 45-60 year olds with "kids" in their 20s, they see me, they see a "kid"... so by enabling their little goddamned basement-dwelling jerkoffs to remain a teenage in perpetuity, I get a lot of "you're young! your career is just starting" and what not.

You are young. You should be considering getting rid of your starter wife and thinking about what career you really want to focus the next twenty years of your life on.

/Life begins at 55 once you marry your first trophy wife.

now i feel even older and more irrelevant

/forget the lawn... i don't care anymore

Uncle Karl: Find a new place to work.

Yeah, I've thought about it. Unfortunately the flipside of the coin is probably worse- places where the lack of experience and competence creates a business environment which is more unstable than a Turkish Space Shuttle. If I were single and w/o kids I'd be able to weather that instability a little better.

/cake- you can't have it and eat it too.

buzzvert: Uncle Karl: Find a new place to work.

Yeah, I've thought about it. Unfortunately the flipside of the coin is probably worse- places where the lack of experience and competence creates a business environment which is more unstable than a Turkish Space Shuttle. If I were single and w/o kids I'd be able to weather that instability a little better.

/cake- you can't have it and eat it too.

There is always a board seeing over everything.

/we has competence
//some of our fortune 500 customers do not

Arthur Jumbles: You are young. You should be considering getting rid of your starter wife and thinking about what career you really want to focus the next twenty years of your life on.

I wouldn't have to think too hard... "Alimony, loneliness and child support" doesn't sound like a great way of life.

Uncle Karl: Then just pay attention over the next few years. It will come to you.

90% of 21 yearolds, don't know anything about real life, they just got out of highschool 3 years ago and many are in college.

How old do you think I am? The only reason 21 year olds are lacking experience is because their parents do everything for them. Sadly, where I'm from, most "kids" are knocked up, drop out of school, and working full time by the time they reach 18. So it's a different perspective from my viewpoint.

Firetini: Uncle Karl: Then just pay attention over the next few years. It will come to you.

90% of 21 yearolds, don't know anything about real life, they just got out of highschool 3 years ago and many are in college.

How old do you think I am? The only reason 21 year olds are lacking experience is because their parents do everything for them. Sadly, where I'm from, most "kids" are knocked up, drop out of school, and working full time by the time they reach 18. So it's a different perspective from my viewpoint.

Your state must suck if that really is the norm. I somehow doubt it, those are just the ones that are memorable.

I had a catholic girlfriend give up sex for lent. I told fine then just lay there.

In response to the oh-so-hip trend of knocking all religious thought and spirituality on FARK, nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to see the shock and awe on the your faces if "religion" and people of faith were to suddenly agree with you, pull the plug on volunteerism, charity and good works across the planet for a week.

One lent I gave up observing stupid religious bullsh*t. Best lent ever.

Uncle Karl: Your state must suck if that really is the norm. I somehow doubt it, those are just the ones that are memorable.

It's not the state, it's the county. Look up Nueces County. It's the highest in adolescent pregnancy. There are daycares in the high schools down here.

Walljasper: In response to the oh-so-hip trend of knocking all religious thought and spirituality on FARK, nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to see the shock and awe on the your faces if "religion" and people of faith were to suddenly agree with you, pull the plug on volunteerism, charity and good works across the planet for a week.

So that is the only thing that makes people volunteer or be charitable?
Sounds like those people are some serious assholes.

Firetini: Uncle Karl: Your state must suck if that really is the norm. I somehow doubt it, those are just the ones that are memorable.

It's not the state, it's the county. Look up Nueces County. It's the highest in adolescent pregnancy. There are daycares in the high schools down here.

So that abstinence only education really did wonders for you guys, right?

I'm 21, going to be 22 soon, and I have no doubt that I expect my elders to still see me as a kid. That's just how it's going to work.

That being said, as long as I am still treated legally like an adult, because I am, I don't care.

Great Janitor: Why not just give up things that you only mildly like, such as for Lent, not watching any Star Trek movie, other than 5. Why give up the good stuff???

Watching 5 is a bit harsh, don't you think? I mean, "HE" died for our sins already... why must I suffer such pain as well.

/5 is teh sux0r

Uncle Karl: So that abstinence only education really did wonders for you guys, right?

Funny. That was a waste of time and tax dollars. Sex education wouldn't do much better because most of the population here is Catholic and they don't believe in contraceptives.

The Grinch:



Seriously. I'm sure Jesus, having willingly allowed himself to be nailed to a cross to slowly die of exposure and positional asphyxiation, will be totally miffed that you're eating meat on a Friday.



I humbly ask for your permission to use that. I LOL'd!

Firetini: Uncle Karl: So that abstinence only education really did wonders for you guys, right?

Funny. That was a waste of time and tax dollars. Sex education wouldn't do much better because most of the population here is Catholic and they don't believe in contraceptives.

Well, it was a joke. As to catholics not using contraceptives; I find that a bit odd. I was one, and know many they all use them. Certain ethnic minorities maybe more strict though, I guess.

Uncle Karl:

You're correct. It has a lot to do with the Hispanic/Mexican population.
Maybe it's part of their plan to try and overpopulate the US.

Jesus just told me to post this.

globalwarmingpraiser: I had a catholic girlfriend give up sex for lent. I told fine then just lay there.

I think she's missing the point.

mrsdish

I humbly ask for your permission to use that. I LOL'd!

Granted, of course! So sayeth The Grinch, that good snark is not meant to be kept to oneself, but to be freely re-used to put all asshats in their rightful places.

Walljasper: In response to the oh-so-hip trend of knocking all religious thought and spirituality on FARK, nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to see the shock and awe on the your faces if "religion" and people of faith were to suddenly agree with you, pull the plug on volunteerism, charity and good works across the planet for a week.

It's too bad you can only be a good person if there's a consequence for not doing it set by you're imaginary friend.

thejoz: I'm 21, going to be 22 soon, and I have no doubt that I expect my elders to still see me as a kid. That's just how it's going to work.

That being said, as long as I am still treated legally like an adult, because I am, I don't care.

this.

that being said, the Byker girl they quoted in the article sure sounds like a twit.

/who the fark actually cares about shiat posted on their facebook wall?

Oh noes!!!1 Not Religion!!!1 That's the end of the world!!11

/Should have known this was going to be another thread for atheists to post non-stop about being persecuted.

I gave up alcohol. WHY OH WHY did I do that?

I'm going to give up picking my belly button for Lent.

/nothing, I've got it

Kome: One lent I gave up observing stupid religious bullsh*t. Best lent ever.

Well done! I lol'd.