Actually, that’s not a bad question. It changes the dynamics for choosing to be optimistic or pessimistic. Be interesting to read some comments on its philosophical implications. For example, having to take some seriously bitter medicine or, similarly, being required to vote for your party’s candidate when you know he/she is a wrong’un. (The latter choice is soon to be faced)
The way I look at it, the glass in the question is the most versatile. A full vessel is useless if you want to put something into it, and an empty vessel is useless if you want to take something out of it. A glass at 50% capacity may not be ideal for either purpose, but it is useful for both.
Frazz14 hrs · Look, you can’t exactly explain this in the comics, but a good whisky or bourbon served neat, with a splash or on the rocks properly takes up a fourth, a third max, of its glass, certainly not half, while Diet Coke goes right up to the rim of something a good deal bigger. I believe I make myself clear as gin here.By the way, be grateful for the demitasse, or else you’d have had to read me going on about espresso yet again.
RAGs almost 5 years ago
Which half-way, there or back?
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
Caulfield is always at least half full of it…
jpayne4040 almost 5 years ago
As long as the Principal doesn’t meet you halfway, you’re good!
evilsofa almost 5 years ago
Caulfield’s going to be a half-full glass when his school shuts down.
sandpiper almost 5 years ago
Actually, that’s not a bad question. It changes the dynamics for choosing to be optimistic or pessimistic. Be interesting to read some comments on its philosophical implications. For example, having to take some seriously bitter medicine or, similarly, being required to vote for your party’s candidate when you know he/she is a wrong’un. (The latter choice is soon to be faced)
Ontman almost 5 years ago
Caulfield, future graduate of Smartarse U.
elizabethvshaffer almost 5 years ago
You are talking to a manager.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member almost 5 years ago
So Caulfield gets a half of a word baloon in the last panel.
DonLee2 almost 5 years ago
Don’t burn bridges, they tell me. What if, I ask, it’s a bridge to an open sewer running through a garbage dump, that’s on fire.
rshive almost 5 years ago
Where Caulfield didn’t want to go in the first place.
Teto85 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Would it disturb your metaphysical world if I told you somebody stole my glass?
fritzoid Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The way I look at it, the glass in the question is the most versatile. A full vessel is useless if you want to put something into it, and an empty vessel is useless if you want to take something out of it. A glass at 50% capacity may not be ideal for either purpose, but it is useful for both.
trainnut1956 almost 5 years ago
He’ll be the next Douglas Adams…
jackianne1020 almost 5 years ago
Anyone notice the “logo” on Frazz’s shirt?
Stephen Gilberg almost 5 years ago
What do you call someone who looks at a half-full, half-empty glass and says it’s completely empty?
Nick Danger almost 5 years ago
Are you a pessimist or an optimist if you were a philosophy major and you can’t get a job out of the food service industry?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
Jef Mallett’s Blog Posts.
Frazz14 hrs · Look, you can’t exactly explain this in the comics, but a good whisky or bourbon served neat, with a splash or on the rocks properly takes up a fourth, a third max, of its glass, certainly not half, while Diet Coke goes right up to the rim of something a good deal bigger. I believe I make myself clear as gin here.By the way, be grateful for the demitasse, or else you’d have had to read me going on about espresso yet again.
Bill Löhr Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Half way between the classroom and the principal’s office is where he enjoys being the most.