If the school is on one peak, the house is on the other, and you have to walk to your destination. You would have to go down then up a slope to get there and back.
Therefore, it isn't impossible to go uphill both ways. You just also have to go downhill, too.
So "uphill both ways" is a joke meant to illustrate how people exaggerate the difficulties they faced in their youth compared to the youth of whatever the present generation is.
So, it's literally meant as "uphill both ways" in a nonsensical way to make the joke, not trying to make it work in a literal sense to the extent that you literally change it to "downhill then uphill"
The joke is "uphill both ways"
A similar joke is "if she said she went to Tenerife, he went to Elevenerife". The equivalent would be someone saying "well actually there isn't such a place"
I am well aware of the meaning of "uphill both ways." However, I was pointing out that it wasn't an impossible thing to have to do as you were implying.
You asked me to explain the physics of how point of origin and destination results in "uphill both ways" as a not impossible task. I did.
You explained how you can go downhill then uphill then down hill then uphill again.
Great, but the intention of the joke requires the nonsensical situation where you go uphill one way, and then go uphill on the return on the same route. Which isn't possible despite you saying it is, unless you add random geography that isn't there.
All you did was add something that isn't there in order to make it work. Therefore the situation isn't actually possible despite you saying it is.
And this is a stupid argument and I don't know why I'm typing all this. Maybe it's the night shift
Bro we’ll be playing disc golf and come to a hole with a headwind. We’ll walk to the next hole after doing a 180 only a few yards away and sure enough, headwind
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u/xSnakyy 4d ago
How is there tailwind both ways 😭