It can be equally interesting to be soaring with xx other gliders, all turning left, when you are joined by somebody who decides to turn.....right.
The International friendly gliding competition in France, Les Huit Jours d'Angers (known by the English as the '8 days of danger') used to very poular with the Brits. In the 1980s an intrepid ex-FAA Swordfish pilot, known among other things for his very ineffective hearing aids, entered.
At briefing half way through the comp, the Director announced, in French but then translated into fluent English, that a new verb 'dimoquer' had entered the language, meaning to enter a crowded thermal turning in the opposite direction to all the other gliders.