|
|
Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Mar 23, 2017 6:30:25 GMT -5
Seriously, that term is just... weird. I really don't get the link between one's rear end and being uptight. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a bizarre attempt at making a PC version using "gay" as an insult and rolled my eyes at it, but it's apparently not the case. So what gives?
|
|
Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
Perpetually Constipated
Posts: 39,372
|
Post by Push R Truth on Mar 23, 2017 6:36:33 GMT -5
I remember a professor back in college went on a tangent about it being something like: There is a link between children that try to manage their bowel movements and them being very meticulous and anal retentive in their work later in life.
no clue if that was true or just the his wacky rant after smoking some bad stuff the night before
|
|
|
|
Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 23, 2017 7:45:43 GMT -5
I remember a professor back in college went on a tangent about it being something like: There is a link between children that try to manage their bowel movements and them being very meticulous and anal retentive in their work later in life. no clue if that was true or just the his wacky rant after smoking some bad stuff the night before Right on the money. Classic Freudian psychoanalysis. He also developed the theory that children who don't try to manage their bowel movements and just let it drop where it may tend to develop artistic, overtly emotional, abrasive, careless, rebellious traits as they reach maturity. |
|
Dub H
Crow T. Robot
Captain Pixel: the Game Master
I ❤ Aniki
Posts: 48,519
|
Post by Dub H on Mar 23, 2017 7:48:43 GMT -5
Well not to be crass...
|
|
ookkie
Unicron
Rated R.
Posts: 2,571
|
Post by ookkie on Mar 23, 2017 9:28:46 GMT -5
I remember a professor back in college went on a tangent about it being something like: There is a link between children that try to manage their bowel movements and them being very meticulous and anal retentive in their work later in life. no clue if that was true or just the his wacky rant after smoking some bad stuff the night before Right on the money. Classic Freudian psychoanalysis. He also developed the theory that children who don't try to manage their bowel movements and just let it drop where it may tend to develop artistic, overtly emotional, abrasive, careless, rebellious traits as they reach maturity. Yup. First year intro psychology. Ahhhh, that was an interesting class. |
|
Mozenrath
FANatic
Foppery and Whim
Speedy Speed Boy
Posts: 122,117
|
Post by Mozenrath on Mar 23, 2017 9:36:39 GMT -5
Right on the money. Classic Freudian psychoanalysis. He also developed the theory that children who don't try to manage their bowel movements and just let it drop where it may tend to develop artistic, overtly emotional, abrasive, careless, rebellious traits as they reach maturity. Yup. First year intro psychology. Ahhhh, that was an interesting class. Yup. It's not a widely accepted theory anymore, like a lot of Freudian stuff, but it stuck around in the culture, being anally retentive, anal for short, meaning obsessing over details. |
|
Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
Posts: 29,365
|
Post by Sephiroth on Mar 23, 2017 10:48:42 GMT -5
I remember a professor back in college went on a tangent about it being something like: There is a link between children that try to manage their bowel movements and them being very meticulous and anal retentive in their work later in life. no clue if that was true or just the his wacky rant after smoking some bad stuff the night before Right on the money. Classic Freudian psychoanalysis. He also developed the theory that children who don't try to manage their bowel movements and just let it drop where it may tend to develop artistic, overtly emotional, abrasive, careless, rebellious traits as they reach maturity. Freud was effing weird |
|
ookkie
Unicron
Rated R.
Posts: 2,571
|
Post by ookkie on Mar 23, 2017 11:03:12 GMT -5
Yup. First year intro psychology. Ahhhh, that was an interesting class. Yup. It's not a widely accepted theory anymore, like a lot of Freudian stuff, but it stuck around in the culture, being anally retentive, anal for short, meaning obsessing over details. True. On the plus side, at least we got this out of it all: |
|
|
|
Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Mar 23, 2017 11:18:43 GMT -5
Yup. First year intro psychology. Ahhhh, that was an interesting class. Yup. It's not a widely accepted theory anymore, like a lot of Freudian stuff, but it stuck around in the culture, being anally retentive, anal for short, meaning obsessing over details. Aaaah, okay. Guess that makes sense. Well, not Freud's theory, but the origin of the saying at least. Thanks for the help, everyone! |
|
