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Showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

360 deg is exactly the same as 0 deg. .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Its more of a spiral, downward typically.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Usually when I do dat it leaves a hole

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months 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."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months 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'

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Turn 360 degrees and walk away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Make like a tree and split

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Well duh, the first statement is in radians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't make me completely turn this car around!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Do you know why they call it the Xbox 360?

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"I've completely turned my life an arc" - Will Turner

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We do. Cowgirl is a sexual position.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why are you flipping ducks?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Well, apparently the word never meant anything bad when it was originally put to that phrase, but now I have to edit it out because it means something else these days.

Trust me, I would have rather been in the business of flipping ducks, as some kind of duck farmer, than feeling like Book of Job and losing everything after my husband flipped his life and everything he owned to his friends.