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re: What About ...?

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Wilbury 08:32 am UTC 04/21/07
In reply to: re: What About ...? - RadioMaster 07:41 am UTC 04/21/07

Anal -- it means Anal retentive, which is a freudian theory about the manner in which some people have a strong desire or obsession about retaining, keeping and maintaining everything around them, due to their experience at a given stage of their childhood development.

But today it is just a figure of speech that means you are a bit obsessive about keeping any given thing/ things "right", "correct" and "nice" and is not necessarily used in an attempt to categorise an entire person's persona / attitude in accordance with Freudian theory.

Are you saying you didn't know this?

> you're anal?


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