Poll: The Correct Answer to an age old question

[excessum ado]

Deciding something like that through an internet poll is just so flawed im not even going to bother.

 

[s-l-u-g]

milk....




and cereal...

 

[orifice]

I don't really care, I ordered a cheeseburger not a half a glass of water. Take it back and bring me a cheeseburger!

 

[poleboy]

Stephan Hawking - "PARTIALLY TRANSITIONED TO AN ALTERNATE STATE OF ENTROPY."

I could be wrong, but isn't this just the pessimist answer rephrased?

I lack the necessary information to correctly compute this answer. What was the previous state of the glass and the water? Empty or full? Am I thirsty? If so, the answer will usually be "half empty", since I will likely want more than half a glass of water. Who the hell drinks/orders half a glass of water anyway? You take a glass, hold it under the faucet and fill it. Then you may or may not drink all of it, and who cares? It's water, it's cheap and plentiful for the next 50 years at least. Whether or not the glass is half empty or half full is irrelevant compared to "Why is there only half a glass, you cheap bastard!?"

 

[perfectimo]

Well if it's half one thing.... Anyway I hope everyone realised that. I'd consider the glass half empty because it's not filling up. In daily life though I'd just say "I've got half left". Simple.

 

[Murrah]

It's half gay half straight... I think.

 

[Lord George]

I take the glass throw it out the window and replace it with a banana and that's how you solve all life's problems

 

[TerraMGP]

As an engineer (technically) I have always known the correct answer.

"Good thing I put half my water in a redundant glass"

 

[cuddly_tomato]

It is half empty when you are drinking it.

It is half full when you are filling it.

 

[Uskis]

I ORDERED A CHEESEBURGER!

My thoughts exactly ... Obscurity +5

 

[Beefcakes]

The glass is simply twice as big as it needs to be!
But who really fills a glass with water, you always leave that little bit at the top so you can carry it around without spilling it, so really, glasses are never, if very rarely, full.

 

[SaintDuskfall]

"The glass is -"

Optimist - "Half full."
Pessimist - "Half empty."
Realist - "Completely filled by air and water in an equal ratio."
Cynic - "Poisoned."
Engineer - "Twice as big as it needs to be."
Gamer - "In desperate need of a health pack."
Communist - "To be shared equally by the city of Minsk!"
Capatalist - "10% off."
Anarchist - "Mine."
Channers - "A lie lolrofl NATO."
Stephan Hawking - "PARTIALLY TRANSITIONED TO AN ALTERNATE STATE OF ENTROPY."
Nihilist - "Fuck you."
MacGyver - "Less awesome than me."
Ultrajoe - "Rent asunder as a spire of purest fire impaled the Earth before the trembling masses. They would be taught terror and this glass would be the first sacraficial lamb."

Andrew Ryan: "Yours"

 

[Souplex]

Both, remember there is another half.

 

[Uncompetative]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

The egg, which turned into a chicken. The egg was laid by an animal that was remarkably similar, but genetically not quite, a chicken.

This is correct.

I think the OP's rhetoric is valid in that they are employing Boolean logic.

"Glass Half-Full?" -> yes

"Glass Half-Empty?" -> yes

therefore an OR'd combination of the two 'true' subexpressions is:

yes OR yes -> yes

but, interestingly, it would yield the same answer if it were:

"Is the Glass Half-Full OR Empty?"

or

"Is the Glass Half-Full AND Half-Empty?"

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Doesn't it matter less if it's half full or half empty, rather what is actually in it?

 

[Baonec]

Fill it or drink it either way stop talking about it you're freaking everyone out including that hot barmaid over there *winks* .