Half empty, or Half full?

[Skyline]

Ahhh, the age old question... Do you see the glass as half empty or half full?

What is your view and why?

I say why does it matter unless you're dying of thirst... If I had to pick half empty of half full.. I would say its half empty because I am a pessimistic person...

[PinkFloyd]

Ahhh, the age old question... Do you see the glass as half empty or half full?

What is your view and why?

I say why does it matter unless you're dying of thirst... If I had to pick half empty of half full.. I would say its half empty because I am a pessimistic person...

Well I would be sad that half is gone. I would say "Aww it's only half full!"

[Stryker125]

Half air, half water. Technically, the glass is always full.

[Lost in the Echo]

I usually refer to it as half empty. I don't know why, I just do. :P
If you're pouring something in a cup though, it would make more sense to say "it's half full", and when you've been drinking something out of that cup, it would make more sense to say "half empty".

[WaffleSingSong]

I'm a half full guy, Unless I'm not thinking straight :P

[Hypers]

Usually I say half full... Full sounds better than empty...

[DerBear]

Isn't this to do with if you are either pessimistic or optimistic?

If you are an optimistic person you say glass if half full, because you try to view everything on the bright side.

If you are an pessimistic you say half empty because you view more negatives. I dunno...its just the way I've always looked at it.

[ProudConservative]

I'm more of a half empty guy the way my life has gone. Which is terribly, how I still hide it from my parents successfully, I will never know.

[Jupiter]

"dear pessimist and optimist,
while you two were arguing whether the juice was half full or half empty, i drank it while I could.
sincerely the opportunist. "

[MrDaniel2K13]

If you're pouring something in a cup though, it would make more sense to say "it's half full", and when you've been drinking something out of that cup, it would make more sense to say "half empty".
I agree with that

[Skyline]

"dear pessimist and optimist,
while you two were arguing whether the juice was half full or half empty, i drank it while I could.
sincerely the opportunist. "

This has probably just made my day! :D

[Tolso]

I'm not a optimist or pessimist. The only -ist I am is scientist, hence realist. It's a good question, but neither are true or false. It's merely a figure of speech. The glass entails 50% water and 50% pure oxygen and probably various dust particles too.

[Skyline]

Why would the glass contain pure oxygen? Is someone trying to gas us? Even small amounts of pure oxygen can cause harm to the central nervous system...

[Tolso]

Why would the glass contain pure oxygen? Is someone trying to gas us? Even small amounts of pure oxygen can cause harm to the central nervous system...
Dioxygen then.

Don't do that.

[huginnmuninn]

Dioxygen then.

Don't do that.

why does the glass have pure oxygen in it in the first place? shouldn't it have air in it? you know nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc...

by saying it's pure oxygen it is implied that it's O2.

[Human]

Half air, half water. Technically, the glass is always full.

haha definitely this

[ComradeUnknown]

It all depends on the situation.

If someone told me that I was going to get a drink with a random amount of liquids between 0% and 100%, and it turned out to be 50%, I would be totally fine with that.

If I was dying of thirst, and I found a half full bottle of stuff, I'd be fine with that... As long as its a pretty sizable bottle.

Of course, if I bought a bottle of whatever and only got half, I'd be pissed, not gracious.

Perhaps I'm being to literal, but that's what you asked, so here's a small part of an answer.

[Silicate Wielder]

if you consider air a substance then the glass is full no matter how you look at it
but if you don't consider air a substance then a liquid that occupies half that space and air
fills the rest then it's half full.

Bad humor:
what do you say when you consider air an essential factor in the age old question of whether you see the glass as half full or half empty?
See, I fit air into the equation!

[Mirage]

Well if I was to approach this logically then I would have to say its technically both. Half empty AND half full

[Bath]

All perspective, guys.

I try to be optimistic, but not naive. If the glass is half filled of coca cola, then it's half full. If it's half-filled with puke, it's half empty.