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I'm sure you've all heard it. But I feel that no matter which side you take, you're still a pessimist. Hear me out:

Glass Half-Empty. Well, obviously. It was full, now it's being emptied. Meaning that there is an increasingly less amount in that glass. This being the usual pessimist position anyway, I'm not going to go into detail about it.

Glass Half-Full. The side usually taken by the optimist. However, I think it's still pessimistic. This means that the glass was never full to begin with. Somebody only filled it half way up. Why? Because the glass, or whatever it is containing, is not important enough to be full, only half way there. So, it just shows that whatever it was, was not important, and did not rate a full glass.

Now, could I have said it better, and organizied my thoughts in a more clear fashion? Possibly. But, hopefully, you'll understand my meaning.

Thought, comments, flames?

The glass is half-filled.

Just drink the rest!

verilon wrote:The glass is half-filled.

It's always been half-full when I heard it. But what difference does that make anyway?

RogueIce wrote:

verilon wrote:The glass is half-filled.

It's always been half-full when I heard it. But what difference does that make anyway?

It means the question is stupid.

NEXT!!

RogueIce wrote:

verilon wrote:The glass is half-filled.

It's always been half-full when I heard it. But what difference does that make anyway?

nonono... it's my conception. The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full, but half-filled.

What the hell is my glass doing half-full? Barkeep, fill up this glass right now!

Depends on how the water got halfway.

If the water was poured into the glass and stopped halfway, then it's half full.

If the water was poured out if the glass and stopped halfway, then it's half empty.

The glass is too big.

aerius wrote:The glass is too big.

Engineering major?

Computers actually, but I've always had a fondness for engineering and I've taken a few engineering courses as part of my course distribution requirements.

IMO, it's not so much how empty/full the glass is, it's what's inside the glass that matters.

A cookie to whoever can name the comic strip that ran this joke (minus the illustration of course):

The three basic personality types
1. The Glass is half-full
2. The Glass is half-empty
3. "Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!"

Who gives a shit? The glass is filled to 50% capacity. The use of the term "half-full" or "half-empty" is precisely literally identical in terms of meaning, so any attempt to assign psychological implications requires that one accept the notion of Freudian slips, hidden subconscious meanings behind choice of words in this situation, etc. If you reject those concepts, then it is purely academic whether you say it is half-full or half-empty.

I place the second half of my water in a reserve glass in a separate bunker for security.

Darth Wong wrote:Who gives a shit? The glass is filled to 50% capacity. The use of the term "half-full" or "half-empty" is precisely literally identical in terms of meaning, so any attempt to assign psychological implications requires that one accept the notion of Freudian slips, hidden subconscious meanings behind choice of words in this situation, etc. If you reject those concepts, then it is purely academic whether you say it is half-full or half-empty.

Hence why I said it's half-filled.

Yeah...that's one way to settle a debate.

Water? I don't need water. I subsist on LCL most of the time.

Lord Wong: Interestingly, its been said by many (Sherry Turkle, and her students) that "freudian slips" are merely information processing errors. To quote one of her students whos also a comp sci major, "In a computer, closed equals minus open." Its just a bit thatsbeen dropped, no problem, raw error in processing.

Thats the kind of psychology I like: Scientific grunge psych, not this theorising and labelling shit.

Given that this is SD.net, whatever answer is agreed upon should probably be suitably perverted, and make at least one or more pornographic references.

Jadeite wrote:A cookie to whoever can name the comic strip that ran this joke (minus the illustration of course):

The three basic personality types
1. The Glass is half-full
2. The Glass is half-empty
3. "Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!"

The Farside.

And you're missing one of the people.

The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full, it is all the way full, half with water and half with air. Does that make me an optimist?

Darth Utsanomiko wrote:

Jadeite wrote:A cookie to whoever can name the comic strip that ran this joke (minus the illustration of course):

The three basic personality types
1. The Glass is half-full
2. The Glass is half-empty
3. "Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!"

The Farside.

And you're missing one of the people.

Not to take the thread off-topic too far, but:

I'm not a fan of subtitles because I can recognize good Japanese, but becasue I can recognize bad English.

You might want to fix the word 'because'. It just looks weird when you say that you can recognize bad English, but misspell a word.

Either way it means some one does not know how to drink properly. If you have a beer, and it is half full, you wussed out and could not take a whole pint. If it is half empty, better bottom up you still have a have left to drink.

How many glasses of water have you seen that were exatley half full/empty?