One of the pleasures of not having yet found anywhere permanent to live and staying in a hostel is that I get to hear some great multicultural conversations. I overheard this classic meeting of minds between a German guy and an American girl. The topic was vegetarianism.
AMERICAN: So I'd been eating meat my whole life until I was 12, and then I did a complete 360. Just didn't want to eat the stuff any more. So I haven't touched it since.
[GERMAN looks puzzled.]
GERMAN: I'm sorry, but you'd still be facing the same way.
AMERICAN: What?
GERMAN: A 360 turn would take you the whole way round. So you'd still be eating meat.
AMERICAN: But I turned all the way round! Like as much as you can!
GERMAN: That's a 180 turn.
AMERICAN: OK, so maybe it's like a 365 degree turn. Like all the way around and a bit more.
GERMAN: No, you'd still be facing basically the same way. A 180 degree turn is the most you can do.
AMERICAN: Maths was never a good subject for me.
GERMAN: It's a 180 degree turn.
I love the Germans for their precision.
This is tremendous
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