>>>Does not compute.
>>>
>>>>I myself applaud you in your efforts to curb self-abuse.
>>>
>>>...
>>
>>Perhaps just does not translate :-) "self-abuse" is a euphemism for "the solitary vice"
>
>And what is "the solitary vice" referred to?
It's a Zen thing - the sound of one hand ... oh, you know what I mean, you're just being a wanker !
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
