This or That, the Last
14Posting a little early because my dad sold his house today (yay!) and he really needs help packing tomorrow. Sanity in the balance…
So we have come to the end of November, and of my goathood.
Now I know some of you have been frustrated at the lack of familiarity of some of the choices this month. But I do hope it has served to expand your knowledge base – or at least entertain you. But for this last question, I wanted to be sure there was no way anyone would feel left out. You know, because I’m just that kind of guy…
So we say goodbye with the classic question that is relevant to all, for it gets at the heart of how you view the world.
Do you see the glass as:
half empty
or half full
And to @bleedmichigan (making an assumption, but I don’t think I’m out too far on a limb):
That is all
I’m out!
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Glass is too big.
I do want to see how WW gets roped into this!
@JnKL Awesome!
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
@JnKL I actually already gave her the image (from my shopping today) though I am sure there are plenty more
@ybmuG BTW, I think you have been an entertaining Goat. Even if you do have a WW fetish…
@JnKL @ybmuG WW loves goats!!
@JnKL @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
/giphy Wonder Woman rope
@JnKL @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
/giphy Wonder Woman lasso
Depends. If I’m really thirsty or it’s really tasty, it probably feels half empty.
If it’s just water and I’m not feeling dehydrated at the moment, it’s half full.
@RiotDemon I think they call that the principle of diminishing returns, or in economics, diminishing marginal utility.
@RiotDemon i claim this as my answer too!
I thought about using your image, but found THIS!!! BOOM!!!
@tinamarie1974
Thank you for an amazing month of goat-dom!!
@tinamarie1974 Aww, thanks! You are most welcome!
@tinamarie1974 And thank YOU for making each day Wonder-full!
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG :groan:
@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 sorry, no coffee yet this morning. Was the best I could do.
@ybmuG yeah, I am glad you had a good sense of humor about it. For me it just became a personal challenge to see if I could relate it back to WW. Scary enough it always worked…well except for Jeff Goldbloom, until @aetris stepped in!
But you are welcome
You kept our entertainment glasses at least half-full Goat.
Well Done
/giphy applause
@therealjrn Thanks! And how perfect is THAT giphy?!
@ybmuG Ha ha, I thought so too!
And Imma half-full guy. I’ve been down enough times to appreciate at least the half that has something in it.
@therealjrn Well said. We could all do with more of that perspective.
Half Full
/giphy half full
Because that’s the only useful form of thinking, when seeking opportunity or possibility. .
Hey @ybmuY: you’ve been a blast as Goat! Thanks!
@f00l Indeed! And thanks. Now I strangely want a nightcap…
Btw congrats to your dad for getting his house sold!
@f00l Thanks. Less than a week!
Time to flip the perspective. If I’m enjoying it, it’s half empty but I still get to enjoy it for a while longer. If I’m being forced to swallow something putrid, it’s still half full and it’s going to take a while before I can choke down the rest of it.
Again I find myself answering your query with just one word: neither. I’m more (or less) the engineering type. We tend to look at it as the glass is neither half full nor half empty. There’s simply too much glass.
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While not confirmed by Wilhite, it is said he pronounced it as Jif because his new graphics format rendered faster
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If you put the glass in a thick lead case so that no one can observe it, the glass has a 0.5 probability of containing liquid.
@mehcuda67 But would it exist? Hmmm…
@mehcuda67 Not quite. It has a 100% probability of containing 50% liquid.
It’s just a half a glass of something…
@Kidsandliz
Until some sentient creature has an attitude about it and thereby takes an action.
(there exists no totally and purely objective perspective for limited-perspective sentient creatures to assume toward the glass, so ”attitudes” are inevitable if the limited-perspective creature notices and cares about the glass.)
Then it’s a half-full glass, and also a possible set of consequences. All in one.
Cool, huh? Or maybe purely nonsensical.
: )
@Kidsandliz That’s my answer!
If the optimist says half full and the pessimist says half empty, then, as a pragmatist I say it’s half a glass!
One more thing to thank our excellent Goat for:
I had never heard of the show
Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Before you featured the two leads in a daily “this of that”.
It turns it the show is on Amazon prime or something. Anyway, that show is a blast. I’m about 2/3 of the way through it. Comedy, so each ep is short.
I’m only sorry there are just a mere two seasons.
So thx. You got my curiosity going, and I had an excellent result!
/giphy Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
@f00l Cool! Others said they got into Miss Fischer and other shows as well.
@f00l @ybmuG
*Fisher
Indeed. I just finished up season 2 yesterday. Only one more season left. : ( Too bad I can’t pre-blame the goat today for when I run out of episodes.
@f00l @therealjrn we’ll just know
@f00l A fun thing is to watch an episode of this show and then an episode of Jessica Jones back-to-back and then reconcile that it is the same actress.
The real This or That question is …
Do you drink it half-slow?
or
Do you drink it half-fast?
Me, I’m a half-fast kinda guy.
@mike808 I had to look up your reference and learned quite a bit. I had never heard of Fountain, but he seems like a great guy and icon for NO.
@ybmuG
Growing up, PF lived down the street from me for a while. Had a clarinet as the post on his mailbox.
https://art4now.com/products/jf-96
I have this poster (s/n by Rodrigue) and a few more of what I think are the best ones, saved from Katrina - the 95 Rodrigue/Louis Armstrong companion to this one, and all of the Michalopolous ones.
@mike808 Very cool. And love the dog! I assume that was his dog?
“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be”
@PhysAssist - In practical terms, you don’t usually get served a full glass anyway, to avoid spillage. So if it’s half empty you’ve still got more than half a serving.
@aetris @PhysAssist In Britain, the pint glasses have a mark on them for the pint because shady pubs were serving foam, and regulation was necessary to prevent businesses from perpetrating fraud.
Industry self-regulation never in the history of business and corporations has worked in the public interest. That is why government of the people, by the people, and for the people exists.
@mike808 Really? Good answer!
@mike808 @- I’m afraid I don’t know enough about any subject to declare anything as never ever true.
@aetris @mike808 We’d all be better off if we just minded our own Ps and Qs.
@therealjrn - Well, you DO have to mind the pints and quarts other people are selling you. But it IS a good idea to mind our own as well.
Just less entertaining.
@aetris @therealjrn Maybe the Millennials will finally change the world and go all Metric, so mind your Liters. Stonks!
Neither - the glass contains half its volume in liquid, and half its volume in not-liquid, so it is at a state where it could be filled or emptied equally, as with meridiem or nadir, neither am or pm, or the solstices, when the sun does not get higher or lower in the sky but appears to stand still - a state between active time or space. And how you felt about that and whether you’d like to fill it or empty it and whether that’s good or bad depends on the situation, the company, how loud the music is, and how many glasses you’ve already had.
And thank you @ybmuG for a great goat-term and the this-or-that threads that allowed us to happily wander far afield from the original subjects …
@stolicat like I could have stopped you anyway!
What glass?
Anyway, thanks for the interesting month!!
@llangley you’re welcome! It’s definitely a fun bunch here…
I like to say I’m a realist…
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/2iHborH
@Grumman ha! Worth the click!
@Grumman oh…that’s even better!!
@Grumman @ybmuG
FWIW … saw this pic while looking at your link!
https://imgur.com/gallery/2a2JCeF
Contents be damned, I’ll be wondering how strong the glass is.
Thanks for the great month, @ybmuG!
@narfcake LOVE the voice-over through the mask! Who knew there was a hydraulic press channel?? I now have a new favorite. Dang you!
@narfcake @ybmuG it’s a great channel. The Finnish accent makes me giggle sometimes.
@RiotDemon He can get away with cursing and not get demonetized. “Vat da faak?!” isn’t English.
@ybmuG Sorry not sorry.
@narfcake @RiotDemon @ybmuG I just wasted most of the day with these crazies. I didn’t know paper exploded under a couple tons of pressure …
@narfcake @RiotDemon @stolicat it’s a trap, sucks you in, kind of like a certain deal-a-day site we all know…
/giphy it’s a trap
@stolicat @ybmuG @RiotDemon Once you’re done with their main channel, go watch their other one.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCveB47lgzZJ1WOf4XYVJNBw
@narfcake @RiotDemon @ybmuG the frozen lake ones, especially. Winter fun in Finland!
@narfcake @RiotDemon @stolicat or when they test saw blade wheels on their Subaru on the lake. Dang you @narfcake!