RL update
Uni is back. Couldn’t believe it. Want my holidays back
On Tuesday during aikido busted my wrist during a shihonage demo with the instructor. It’s likely sprained, so nothing serious. But hurts like hell right now whenever I try to turn it or anything and makes an intriguing clicking noise. Not happy. So looks like I’ll be off to the physio to have my wrists checked over once it get a bit better because they hurt sometimes after stuff like kotogaeshi, so might have to start straping them. I just hope the incident didn’t add to the guys at the dojo asking me whether allright I’m following each and every fall I do. The funny thing is that I was going to get graded next week. Oh dear what a pity, I get extra time :P! (Since I barely trained in February = not ready).
Having all of my wisdom teeth removed because they’re all wrong. So not going to be a happy bunny on the 24th and the 31st. It fact, will be one hurt bunny.
“In the 1950s, Dr Ernest Dichter, formerly a psychoanalyst in Vienna, adapted Freud’s psychoanalytic techniques to the study of consumer behaviour… Marketers were quickly fascinated by the glib entertaining and usually surprising explanations offered for consumer behaviour especially since many of these explanations had their origins in sex. For example marketers were told that cigarettes and Lifesaver lollies were bought because of their sexual symbolism, that men regarded cars as their surrogate mistresses, and that women baked cakes to fulfil their reproductive yearnings…”
“Finally, many motivational researchers began to question their recommendations (e.g. is it better to sell a man a pair of braces as a means of holding up his pants or as a ‘reaction to the castration anxiety’? Is it easier to persuade a woman to buy a garden hose to water her lawn or as a symbol of ‘futility of genital competition for the female’?). Motivational researchers often came up with sexual explanations for the most mundane activities.”
Now in more detail about the cakes and cars:
“Baking - Dichter descried baking as an expression of femininity and motherhood, evoking nostalgic memories of delicious odours pervading the house when the mother was baking. He said that when baking a cake a woman is subconsciously and symbolically going through the act of giving birth, and the most fertile moment occurs when the baked product is pulled out of the oven. Dichter also maintained that when a woman bakes a cake for a man, she is offering him a symbol of fertility…
Automobiles - … (my wrist hurts too much to type out the not as funny bit). Dichter also maintained that cars have personalities, and that people become attached to their cars and view them as companions rather than objects. This notion stands behind his view that a man views a convertible as a mistress and a sedan as his wife.”