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

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

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      360 deg is exactly the same as 0 deg. .

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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        Its more of a spiral, downward typically.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that lol

    • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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      can’t imagine why, not like it’s retarded or anything

  • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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    Because to completely turn around is to wind up going the other way, you fucking fuck.

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

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Broke: Saying ‘completely turned my life around’

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

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

  • db2@lemmy.world
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    Turn 360 degrees and walk away.

    • NoFuckingWaynado@lemmy.world
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      Make like a tree and split

  • stembolts@programming.dev
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    Well duh, the first statement is in radians.

  • NoFuckingWaynado@lemmy.world
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    Don’t make me completely turn this car around!

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      Obligatory

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

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    Make a 270

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

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    Do you know why they call it the Xbox 360?

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

  • WereCat@lemmy.world
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    “I’ve completely turned my life an arc” - Will Turner

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    “completely turned around” could be charitably interpreted as “swiftly and accurately corrected course”. 360, not so much.

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    It’s not the destination but the journey. In that 360 turn you may have looked inwards and at your past, identified failings of the past or remember things you forgot about that you loved. When you reach that 360 point you’re more aware of what has been and may have a different outlook on what could be. Or something like that…

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    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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      We do. Cowgirl is a sexual position.

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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.

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            You don’t know how old I am.

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

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    Since my husband vanished and apparently left his ID to his friends, I guess I should just tell everyone that my life flipped a d_ck. I could say it made a u-turn, but it sounds too much like the slogan on the sign of a local church. It was down the street from the church we used to attend together. Maybe their “God allows u-turns” sign was just their congregation’s way of telling me to flip a d_ck before it was too late.

    When you go through the divorce process sometimes you flip a house, sometimes you flip a car, …and sometimes, well, you know…

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