- Jane: Bob, you look terrible! You should have stayed at home today.
- Bob: Don't worry Jane, I'll be taking a retrospective sickie tomorrow.
- Bob: Don't worry Jane, I'll be taking a retrospective sickie tomorrow.
by AustralianWorkEthic April 21, 2010
A phrase used to describe the agonizing frustration of realizing that you did something you regret, and wanting to do it differently but realizing it after-the-fact. This typically occurs about 5 minutes later but the realization of such can occur years later...
Looking back in fucking retrospect, I realized that cute girl didn't want to know the time: she was actually interested in me!
by Babo Sang Pyo December 4, 2005
A more common memory or cognitive bias is rosy retrospection, which is the tendency to remember and recollect events more favorably than when they occurred. It is related to the popular idiom “to see through rose-colored glasses.” So it is basically remembering the past as more positive than it was in reality.
Remember how when we worked in the shipping/receiving department at Menards and we would get in 6 DC trucks a day, then we would get Jeldwen with 200 windows, then we would get a garage door truck, and then appliances would come and we would have to put away fifty appliances in the racks with the Joe. Buliding materials would write picking tickets for stuff that was right in front of their desk. So we would have to walk all the way there then all the way back to door 10 with the stuff. Every customer that needed help would say they are injured so they need us to load up their stuff while they watch. We would get fucked so hard every day and then they would nominate the team member of the week and it would always be someone from the sales floor that didn't have to get fucked as hard as we did. Man, those were the good old days!
Dude, isn't that rosy retrospection
Dude, isn't that rosy retrospection
by Cz75 Shadow2 April 10, 2019
by The Grottomaster May 23, 2011
when someone claims to have known better about something that happened in the past but only because they are in the present
"I told you buying such a cheap bed was going to be a bad idea"
"No you didn't"
"Yes i did"
"You're only saying that cause you see how it turned out now you retrospect genius"
"No you didn't"
"Yes i did"
"You're only saying that cause you see how it turned out now you retrospect genius"
by Manof1000lb August 31, 2014
"Man in future retrospect i should have worn a condom" in reference to seeing a squaddie mattress your about to chat up and bone.
In telling your friend over the phone you dont appeaciate the lack of support he gave over the non condom incident: "dude in future retrospect i should have slapped you harder"(next time you see him give him a slap thus confirming your future retrospect)
In telling your friend over the phone you dont appeaciate the lack of support he gave over the non condom incident: "dude in future retrospect i should have slapped you harder"(next time you see him give him a slap thus confirming your future retrospect)
by Ugoindownsaka February 20, 2006
Theory of retrospective return; when one purchases a good from an auction, online or not, in the view that should the person ever require that item in the future, he quite possibly purchased it at a price well below market or retail price. Therefore making a retrospective return.
James buys 65 fun size garden gnomes because they were only $15 in an online auction. Several weeks later, James is held hostage and his captors demand 65 fun size garden gnomes. Fun size garden gnomes retail for $2 each. The Theory of retrospective return demonstrates that James made a return of $115.
by benjamin g August 22, 2008