GENERIC MESS HALL POST GO

[capthlock_rage]

[Over in a slightly out-of-the-way corner in the Mess Hall, there is a boy! A boy with a glass of water! And he appears to be studying it very, very intently.]

Does this look half-full or half-empty to you...?

Comments

[second_daddy]

Half-full or half-empty? What sort of question is that? Why sit around in the mess hall pondering when there is only one reasonable answer to your dilemma?

[capthlock_rage]

[blinkblink]

What answer?

[second_daddy]

[topping the glass off with some bottled water]

[capthlock_rage]

. . . I guess that does kind of solve the problem.

[moesaurus]

Why don't you just fill it the rest of the way?

[capthlock_rage]

That's... not really the point.

[moesaurus]

But it's water.

You drink it.

[capthlock_rage]

I know that!

[warpspace]

Half full!

[capthlock_rage]

[squints at it]

Really?

[warpspace]

Yeah! Look, see, there's just enough water to fill it halfway!

[capthlock_rage]

Yeah, but the top half is empty.

[anoathkept]

Don't those mean the same thing?

[capthlock_rage]

No.

[anoathkept]

Are you sure?

[capthlock_rage]

Completely.

[flashfaberge]

Well, that depends! Did you drink the water, or did you pour it into it?

[capthlock_rage]

Well, I had juice, but I drank it. And then I refilled it with water. ... But I tripped and spilled some on the way over.

[flashfaberge]

Then when you drank it, it became half-empty! But then it was full. And then half-empty again. It's easy! But if you refilled just half of it, then it would have been half-full!

[capthlock_rage]

... That's kind of complicated.