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Gone Gonzo
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Time for the philosophy question of the week.

Is the glass half full, or half empty?

A pessimist sees the glass half empty
An optimist sees it half full

Pshycochef:
A cynic thinks that it doesn't matter whether the glass is half full or half empty, because he's pretty sure someone pissed in the glass

A glutton drinks it regardless
A hedon wants it to be completely full, and for it all to be his
A dreamer believes one day it will be filled with liquid rainbows
A realist sees a shaped piece of clear silicon, containing half its maximum capacity of liquid
A politician promises to fill the glass
A communist shares it
A narcissist just sees his reflection

What do you think, is the glass half full or half empty, or something else? Got anymore examples?

EDIT: lets stay away from some of the more offensive stuff

Infamous Scribbler
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A capitalist tries to sell it to you claiming its full.
A conman tries to sell it to you claiming its full.
A pagan worships it
A gamer fills it with mountain dew and drinks it, repeats the process ad infinitum and becomes morbidly obese.
A fascist puts a gun to your head and makes you think its full
A Chinese communist claims to share it but instead turns it into an inefficient corporation with little regard to environmental issues and proceeds to turn a fortune and simultaneously poison America with lead.
A true OG decides it needs spinnaz
A redneck jacks it up and puts oversized tires on it.
A revolutionary sees it as an oppressor.
An oppressor sees it as the way to quench the rebellion.
An islamo-fascist extremist denounces it for supporting America even though its made in China.

Copy Clerk
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An engineer says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
An indecisive wavers back and forth between half-full and half-empty until he forgets the question.
A quantum physicist says there is no way to be sure.

Gone Gonzo
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A thirsty man drinks it regardless.
Nietzsche blames Christians for the lack of water.
Ayn Rand tells you to get away from her hard earned water.

Copy Clerk
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A communist claims that the water is for people
A transcedent sees no glass
A worker sees half of his pay is missing
A rich man ignores it as not worth his time
A normal person wonders what the hell happened to the other half of the water

Copy Clerk
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A guy with way too much time on his hands calculates how many half-glasses it would take to fill an Olympic swimming pool.

Muckraker
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A mathematician attempts to prove that a glass must exist.

Gone Gonzo
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Becoming Insane:
A guy with way too much time on his hands calculates how many half-glasses it would take to fill an Olympic swimming pool.

ha, that was a good one

a paranoid things the government put mind conrtol drugs in teh water
a thirsty person just drinks it
and Switzerland stays out of the whole thing (that's not a jab at Switzerland)

Me, being a realist and a bit of a cynic, sees a glass, half if which contains water, that someone may have piddled in (that's right, I said piddle.)

Pulitzer Laureate
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A man who died of thirst doesn't care, he just wishes he had it.
A critic thinks it's half full - which is good - but thinks that the glass leaves something to be desired.

Copy Clerk
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A mobster beats his share out of the glass.
A woman talks glass into misery and suicide.

Copy Clerk
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A full glass calls it a pussy for only being half full

Pulitzer Laureate
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An emo dumps the water and calls it empty.
An emo dumps the water, breaks the glass and cuts themselves while crying about a lack of water.

On the Record
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Godzilla stomps on the glass. Godzilla doesn't care for glasses of water!

Copy Clerk
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A scientist attempts to discover if the glass is a liquid or a solid.

Oh yes, I went there.

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zebubble:
A scientist attempts to discover if the glass is a liquid or a solid.

Oh yes, I went there.

Nooo! Glass is a lie sent by the liberals to kill us!

Gone Gonzo
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an egomaniac thinks that the glass half empty or not should bow down to him along with everyone else talking about the glass

Gone Gonzo
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Ray Mears makes a bear trap out of it

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A Gordon Freeman sees it. That's all.
A Goth sees it as seizable.
A Gothic sees it as a medium.
A Fanboy sees only the water.
A Gentlemen sees not a glass nor water, but inginuity.
A Prince of Persia reverses time to a point in which the glass was full, thereby defeating his enemies as they never would have bene parched to begin with. He then learns that now not being parched they are all the more powerful. So he reverses time again and eliminates water from existence. That having failed he reverses time and accepts the fate of the kingdom.

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Copy Clerk
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[Post removed due to stupidity and nanomachines]

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A Malcolm Reynolds sees it and suspects it of Alliance tampering.

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Copy Clerk
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TheNecroswanson:

zebubble:

TheNecroswanson:
A Gordon Freeman sees it. That's all.

Can you explain what the heck that means ("Sounds like something the vorts would say")

Edit: Nevermind, I think he was referring to the fact that Gordon never talks >_<

Actually you hit the nail ont he head with the Vorts.

Haha, ok. That makes sense. My other theory works too though.

Infamous Scribbler
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I fill the glass.

Copy Clerk
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Rabid Toilet:
I fill the glass.

Why the heck has no one said anything like that yet?!

Have an internet cookie. (It's made from a series of tubes)

Press Junketeer
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Portal players think the glass is a lie.

Gone Gonzo
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Heres one..

The glass is half full so I drink it but when the glass is half empty I think "geez.. its half empty.. I should fill it up"

Copy Clerk
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It depends on the direction in which the water was going when the glass ended up being half full/empty.
If it was being filled, it's half full. If it was being emptied, it's half empty.

On the Record
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The missing ingredient in Tang.

Muckraker
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A blind person sees no glass at all.

To a necromancer the glass is half undead.

King of the Yetis
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To a diablo fan the glass is too bright.

Gone Gonzo
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Esades:
It depends on the direction in which the water was going when the glass ended up being half full/empty.
If it was being filled, it's half full. If it was being emptied, it's half empty.

That has always been my answer to it, too.

It's simple logic if you think about it.

Beat Writer
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Decoy Doctorpus:
To a diablo fan the glass is too bright.

:) Good one

To me, the glass is irrelevant, as I drink from the bottle.

Gone Gonzo
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Decoy Doctorpus:
To a diablo fan the glass is too bright.

Hahaha.

A Narcisist kicks the glass over for attention.
A Spoilsport will do the same.

Pulitzer Laureate
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A Hammerite praises Master Builder for the wondrous glass.

Keepers think all is in balance. They choose not to take action.

Gone Gonzo
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More importantly, who's nicked half my pint?

Go on, own up you bastards!

Gone Gonzo
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A lawyer sees only half the opportunites to sue.

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