Re: where to find web browser statistics information?
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:59:40AM +0000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Chris Wagner wrote:
> > At 12:35 PM 5/23/00 +0000, Sergey A. Ribalchenko wrote:
> > >> Hahah, Satanism, that was a good one. :) But I still prefer
> > >> individualism to socialism.
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >m.b. you missed, did you mean onanism?
> >
> > Ok, I don't really know what you mean?
>
> In Russia onanism (pronounced -follow spanish convention for vowels-
> as ananism) means self gratification, masturbation, and is used to
> indicate that the object referred to has little or no value.
correct up to here.
> Probably having root same as "one, uno", etc.
it's from a biblical story about a guy called Onan who had to marry
his dead brother's widow (because of some jewish inheritance thing, i
think), he didn't want to bonk her because he already had a wife or
something like that. the story's an injunction against wasting one's
"seed" by spilling it on the ground, and it has been generalised into
a prohibition against wanking. i'm not a christian or a jew and that's
about all i can remember of the story.
> So in this case he means that socialism is shit.
no, read it again. the insult was more personal than that. i'll leave it
up to you to figure it out :)
craig
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craig sanders
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