Poll: Glass half full or half empty?

[fordneagles]

I like the answers about whether you're filling or emptying the glass Haven't heard that one before. But let's say for the sake of this discussion that the glass is being neither filled nor emptied, it's just a glass with half its volume being occupied. Actually, on that point, I asked my housemate this same question and received the response: "What did you fill it with?"

 

[TerribleAssassin]

I have taken you cup and added it to mine.

My cup is full.

Submit to my will.

We praise you, all mighty Cup Man!

And half full, like to be positive and stuff.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

My glass is not only half-full, but TOTALLY full because I am the kind of person the realises life is but a dream and thus I LUCID dream and MAKE the glass totally full BECAUSE I CAN and I defy anyone to say otherwise.

tl;dr: ^_____________________^

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

There is no cup or liquid. All is one and existence in the temporal sense is illusory. This question is therefore meaningless and impossible to answer

 

[joshuaayt]

I believe the correct response to the question is "The glass has twice the volume it requires".

Asked for a different, straightforward answer? I consider it half empty if liquid has been removed to make it so, and half full if liquid has been poured in.

Asked, in frustration, what kind of person I am, out of either optimist or pessimist? I'd say pessimist. I prefer it that way- If I'm wrong, I get to be pleasantly surprised, and there will be Pepsi in the fridge. If I'm right? I get to smirk at the idiots who thought that there would be Pepsi in the fridge.

 

[Fridge]

I think of it as half full, but recognize that not everything is hunkdory.

 

[Booze Zombie]

It's half full, but it's poison and you've drunken the other half.

If you get the references, move to "GO!".

 

[Geekosaurus]

I love messing with the minds of people who ask me this question, because my answer to it goes thus:

"It's both. That half's full and that half's empty."

Technically it's 100% full. Half is water and the other half is air.

 

[Peteron]

The glass is half empty if you drank half of the liquid in the glass. The glass is half full if you only filled it halfway. Its not that hard to understand.

I would say I am half full.

 

[tharglet]

The glass satisfies the conditions of both statements, therefore it is both.

Though I rarely care how much fluid there is in my glass, just whether there is any or not

 

[Peteron]

It's full.

50% Water, 50% Air.

But well, I'm a pretty optimistic person so my proper answer would be 50% full.

Keep in mind, one could be holding this glass of water in space, floatin' around in his little space suit. Air isn't always present!

 

[kuyo]

the glass is twice as big as it needs to be

 

[Alon Shechter]

I broke my cup.

 

[Berserker119]

Completely empty. I got thirsty and drank it.

 

[Suicidal Hobo]

Depends on how the water got to half, if it was poured out then it's half empty and if it was filled up it's half full.

 

[DatedSandwich]

I'm a REAL optimist, my glass is always Half Awesome.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Be more specific, what is in the glass? If it's a glass full of shit, I'm going half empty. (I haz a cookie)

 

[HellspawnCandy]

It's based on your perspective quite simply.