# Upside-down english thread closed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upside-down-english-thread-closed/611123>\
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**Created:** [January 30, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upside-down-english-thread-closed/611123 "2012-01-30T00:06:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upside-down-english-thread-closed/611123/41 "2012-01-31T20:14:43Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> For future reference, how does one post upside down?

Don a climbing helmet and a hip harness, toss a climbing rope over the frame of the chairlift in your living room, stand on the chairlift chair, feed the rope through a belay device that is clipped in to your harness, and then gently swing back until you are upside down. Then post away!  
(It’s what I did to get my lower back in place – hung upside down and jiggled a bit – and yes, I really do have a chairlift in my living room.)

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upside-down-english-thread-closed/611123/42 "2012-02-01T01:11:59Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Here is his link from the [other thread.](http://www.fliptext.org/)
> 
> Type your message, copy the infernal results and paste it into your thread reply.  
> It is the work of the Devil. On a bad day.  
> 🙂

Maybe on a mediocre day. I just tried it with 한글 (Korean writing) and all it did was reverse the order of the syllables. The letters weren’t even in reverse order, just the syllables.

I like the link though. But then I’m known for liking bad jokes and silly things.

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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upside-down-english-thread-closed/611123/43 "2012-02-01T01:25:56Z")

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Thanks very much to the other mods for recommending re-opening the thread and to **Ellen Cherry** for doing it.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upside-down-english-thread-closed/611123/44 "2012-02-01T02:00:55Z")

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Thanks for re-opening that thread!

> [@Muffin](#):
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> Don a climbing helmet and a hip harness, toss a climbing rope over the frame of the chairlift in your living room, stand on the chairlift chair, feed the rope through a belay device that is clipped in to your harness, and then gently swing back until you are upside down. Then post away!  
> (It’s what I did to get my lower back in place – hung upside down and jiggled a bit – and yes, I really do have a chairlift in my living room.)

Um… we’re not talking about those things that go up ski hills, are we? 'Cause if we are, your living room has got to look like [this](http://www.google.ca/search?q=ski+dubai&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=5ZQ&rls=org.mozilla:eo:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=lpwoT-HrEqrb0QG4kbneAg&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1247&bih=865).

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