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Lazy: You don't care how the cup is, you will just drink it.

Realist: If the water was poured INTO the cup, then it is half FULL. If the water was poured OUT of the cup, then the water is half EMPTY

Engineer: The cup is twice as big

Optimist: Half Full

Pessimists: Half Empty

"The government would say that the glass is fuller than if the opposition party were in power.

The opposition would say that it is irrelevant because the present administration has changed the way such volume statistics are collected.

The philosopher would say that, if the glass was in the forest and no one was there to see it, would it be half anything?

The economist would say that, in real terms, the glass is 25% fuller than at the same time last year.

The banker would say that the glass has just under 50% of its net worth in liquid assets.

The psychiatrist would ask, "What did your mother say about the glass?"

The physicist would say that the volume of this cylinder is divided into two equal parts; one a colorless, odorless liquid, the other a colorless, odorless gas. Thus the cylinder is neither full nor empty. Rather, each half of the cylinder is full, one with a gas, one with a liquid.

The seasoned drinker would say that the glass doesn''t have enough ice in it."

YOU IDIOTS!

If it is half full of water, doesnt mean its not filled with another liquid, so it could be:

half full of water , half of it isnt water, it is more full than half, it is less full then half.

make sense?

Here's an optimist-pessimist-realist thing; The three are on a sailboat, and the wind has changed. The optimist hopes for it to change, the pessimist complains, and the realist adjusts the sails.

Obviously, it depends on if the water was poured in or out.

I don't really care whether or not it's half full or half empty. However, if I had to choose, then it would be half full.

half full
you don't say give me some coca cola, half empty is enough
*stupid*

YOU IDIOTS!

If it is half full of water, doesnt mean its not filled with another liquid, so it could be:

half full of water , half of it isnt water, it is more full than half, it is less full then half.

make sense?

Personally I think it's subjective. If you're the one filling the glass, you've got a half full glass. If you're the one emptying it, it is half empty.

for me it is half full. i wanted just to ask the question in my last post in this thread.

you say how full I really don't care though it makes no difference to me

I would say "half full", I'm an optimistic person by nature, so that's the first thing I would think! =D

Just what the title says. If you see a glass filled halfway with water, would you think of it as half full or half empty?

Well, the OP doesn't say half full/empty of WATER so it's completely full. Of air and water.

If thaboss sees a glass half with water, he'd drink it, then refill it. Then drink it again.

I have the solution!! The glass is neither half full nor half empty. It is full!!! Half water and half air!!!!!!

why not both? half-full and half-empty?

It's half full. You wouldn't say it's 3 quarters empty or 1 thirds empty. You'd say 1 quarters full and 2 thirds full. As well as half full instead of half empty.