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paol to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

Saying 'completely turned my life around' is normal, but saying 'turned my life around 360°' (rather than 180) is stupid.

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Saying 'completely turned my life around' is normal, but saying 'turned my life around 360°' (rather than 180) is stupid.

paol to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    41•1 year ago

    I view “completely turned it around” as as 180 too. Think about it “I’ll turn this car around if you don’t quiet down” it means you’ll go the opposite direction. So “completely turning it around” means they did just that.

    • @whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world
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      17•1 year ago

      Came here to say this. If you do a 360, you turned around twice.

    • @C126@sh.itjust.works
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      10•1 year ago

      360 deg is exactly the same as 0 deg. .

      • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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        1•1 year ago

        Its more of a spiral, downward typically.

  • @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    21•1 year ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that lol

    • @unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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      2•1 year ago

      can’t imagine why, not like it’s retarded or anything

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    16•1 year ago

    “180, you Sicilian schmuck! If I did a 360 I would turn all the way around and be right back where I started!”

    • @SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
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      2•1 year ago

      Usually when I do dat it leaves a hole

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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    14•1 year ago

    Broke: Saying ‘completely turned my life around’

    Woke: Saying ‘completely turned my life around 360°’

    Bespoke: Saying ‘completely turned my life around 2π radians’

  • Dark Arc
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    12•1 year ago

    If you turn completely around are you going to same direction you were when you started?

    I think it’s valid that it’s “completely turned my life around” and “I pulled a 180 and changed my life.”

  • @unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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    11•1 year ago

    Because to completely turn around is to wind up going the other way, you fucking fuck.

  • Spaghetti_Hitchens
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    11•1 year ago

    Turning my life around 360 would mean my alcoholism is out of control again.

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    10•1 year ago

    Turn 360 degrees and walk away.

    • NoFuckingWaynado
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      3•1 year ago

      Make like a tree and split

  • @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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    8•1 year ago

    When someone says “turn around”, you turn 180° to the opposite direction of what you’re currently facing, not 360°.

  • @stembolts@programming.dev
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    7•1 year ago

    Well duh, the first statement is in radians.

  • Dr. Wesker
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    1 year ago

    While we’re on the subject, why is it called “reverse cowgirl” but we don’t really call regular woman on top “cowgirl”?

    • @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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      17•1 year ago

      We do. Cowgirl is a sexual position.

      • Dr. Wesker
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        Hmm. Maybe it’s a regional thing? Where I’m from, I’ve never really heard it called that.

        • NoIWontPickAName
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          I’ve heard of it, and that’s what all the books of fun positions call it

      • AmidFuror
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        In my day it was called female superior. And we invented it, so we should know.

        • @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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          References to it can be found as far back in history as the Kama Sutra, a 2,300-year-old Hindu text that included descriptions of hundreds of sexual positions.

          • AmidFuror
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            You don’t know how old I am.

  • NoFuckingWaynado
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    6•1 year ago

    Don’t make me completely turn this car around!

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      2•1 year ago

      Obligatory

      https://youtu.be/Tet-NCd63NA?si=pnfilkrC5MMEnN4z

      • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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        1•1 year ago

        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        https://piped.video/Tet-NCd63NA?si=pnfilkrC5MMEnN4z

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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  • Possibly linux
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    6•1 year ago

    Make a 270

    • @erie09@lemmy.world
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      Two wrongs don’t make a right but three rights make a left.

  • TheRealKuni
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    6•1 year ago

    Do you know why they call it the Xbox 360?

    Cause when you see it you turn 360° degrees and walk away! GOTTEM.

  • @Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf
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    Removed by mod

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