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Watch me somersault! Watch me do and say pointless things to impress you with how smart I am!

The car may make a backward somersault and fly over a barrier or land on top of another car.

Falls over backwards and does a somersault, and brings himself back onto his feet Look at the big board! They're getting ready to clobber us!

I think it's better analogy to think of it as a technique, like a somersault or a cartwheel. but I'm just nitpicking.

I agree that the somersault makes them "look bad" as the OP says, I just don't understand its specific legal implications.

Readcube is a spectacular somersault in the wrong direction. It is so much worse than a PDF - it actively fights me when I try to extract information.

I went over the handlebars, but instinctively did a forward somersault/roll and was pretty much unhurt except a slight graze. It happened so fast that I have no idea how I did it.

Has anyone bred one than gets past the dip after hill and doesn't somersault? The ones I have now seem to have optimum suspension for quickly motoring over the initial bumbs, but they all die in that damn ditch...

AKA "standing somersault" -- exceedingly hard to do, has to be seen to be appreciated. And in a tuxedo.

I think you made a logical somersault. Leetcode doesn't imply any of those, neither good memory for details or that you can "solve" problems that have been solved before by applying theory.

I start to fall forward, and just before I hit the ground, I do a beautiful forward somersault and bounce back up, to great applause." Asked why, Wilder said, "Because from that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth."

I think the turn would be considerably slower due to the extra friction in the somersault. When swimming straight, there is a "narrow frontal profile" and little form drag but that isn't true when spinning in the water.

I remember once pressing a rim dynamo into the spokes while trying to switch on the light while riding, which resulted in a spectacular somersault.

This isn't something that may help you somersault out of bed the next day, but once you understand what you learned you may find yourself being more compassionate in the long run.

"You are old," said the youth, "As I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door— Pray, what is the reason of that?" "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, "I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment—one shilling a box— Allow me to sell you a couple?"

This boils down to greed and selfishness, but people even on HN don't want to call spade a spade so they dance around it and give complex somersault answers because they are afraid/too socially conscious to speak the truth.

Take the expression “head over heels,” which makes far less sense than “heels over head” when you think about the physics of a somersault. It turns out “heels over head” entered English around 1400, over 250 years before “head over heels,” however, the “logical” version of this idiom hasn’t been in popular usage since the late Victorian era.

Alien races that see us may find us intriguing, but Douglas Adams did explain this sort of stuff in fantastic ways, for example, when humanity missed the Dolphins' last message to Earth and interpreted it as a really neat triple somersault. So, yes, maybe gorillas and ants and dolphins are trying to speak with us, but we're not trying to have those conversations.

My favorite scene in all three original trilogy is the opening when luke does the somersault flip as r2d2 launches the light saber at him... That said, as an adult, after being let down immensely by eps 1-3, and finding mediocre/nostalgic entertainment in 7-9, rogue one actually feels better to me than all other movies.

Called it Somersault to convey how easy it was now to switch lenses, and the icon was a camera somersaulty conveying kind of thing. But alas, not published, and haven't touched iOS dev again.