There is if you are drinking a pan galactic gargle blaster.

There is if you are drinking a pan galactic gargle blaster.
what is the main ingredient of the pangalactic gargle blaster?
is it dry ice vodka and lemon juice?

There is if you are drinking a pan galactic gargle blaster.

If you are drinking a pan galactic gargle blaster, then the answer to the most difficult question known to man is 42.

No no no - 42 is the answer. We don't know the question.
And the ingredients of the PGGB are only known to a select few in the future and the late (as in deceased) Douglas Adams.

Please try to keep this thread user friendly and stop giving spritzer recipies! :)

The correct answer is whatever you think as the cup as being, either half full or half empty.

If you're not thirsty its half full, and if you're thirsty then its half empty :)

i know there's debates going on all over the place here but i haven't voted yet becaues i can't make my mind up :D

probably because there is no right answer, other than what sort of outlook you have at the time, for the many reasons that people have said before me :)

it's interesting to see what sort of things people have to say on this matter though

I think we can be sure that the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster was NOT a spritzer. Half full or half empty, who cares.....

Please try to keep this thread user friendly and stop giving spritzer recipies! :)

The correct answer is whatever you think as the cup as being, either half full or half empty.

This thread has "evolved" into something other than it's original intent. I think the concept, "is the glass half empty or half full" is so far from the "Most difficult question known to man" as to be completely absurd. I suspect that whoever started knew that at its inception, didn't you? The people here are giving it it's true measure of significance by joking about other things, thereby injecting new life into a dead issue.

If you really want that question answered truthfully by me, I can tell you in advance, you're not going to like my response.
Here goes. It's whatever the **** I want it to be, depending on my mood at any given time. The fact not withstanding that it's none of your business anyway.

So, I thought it was a good thing that our group was still participating. You can't expect this asinine discussion to go on forever without changing.

If we're just looking for a "debate" that could go on ad infinitum, why not try this one, a guaranteed winner, and a favorite of pseudo-intellectuals, potheads, first year psychology students and a******s everywhere.

"If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound".

Ahhh, existentialism, which is a euphmism for "mental m**********n".

Let's ponder something less weighty with little relevance in the modern world; should the USA nuke Iran?

Bo**ox to trees in the woods - if someone nukes someone else, does anyone hear the bang?

Bo**ox to trees in the woods - if someone nukes someone else, does anyone hear the bang?

Here, here, well reasoned....!

I say yes, because someone famous is bound to be killed, and "Access Hollywood" has correspondents everywhere.

By way of a not very difficult, perhaps stupid question on the part someone living in the colonies, is the term "b*****x" actually considered profane enough to be edited by the website? I recognize it as a British slang term, and over here it's usually replaced by dropping the "F" bomb. Or is that the "H" bomb?

I'm usually a mixture so I'll have to say that the glass is just perfect the way it is :D .

Yes they do...

B****x is unacceptable, whereas bo**ox is perfectly clear as a vernacular expression and spelling of the spelling of the contents of the scrote - which as you will know if you follow the words of Billy Connolly is what God made with all the spare outer elbow covers he had left over when doing the creation bit.
Equally obscure is the word "bugger" - in, for example, Norfolk (England) this is a perfectly permissable word. Use it in the snootier parts of London at it will be frowned upon. Ditto "prognosticator" - but thats because the buggers in London don't understand the meaning of the word.
Are we a bit off thread here?

Very much so.

Nah, the most difficult question known to man is " why do women have vocal chords" :D

Nah, the most difficult question known to man is " why do women have vocal chords" :D

Women possess the ability to shut a several body parts, why is it never their mouth?

The mouth has its uses, but not the vocal chords.:D

Point taken...! LOL..!!

Although I might add, all too infrequently.

Why the hell does every one find it fun to go so heavily off topic?!?

To piss you off God of Mana, it's the way of life

If a tree falls in the forest, would that make the God of Mana angry also?

On a more serious note, it seems really arrogant to expect a website full of intelligent people to go on ad infinitum arguing a question that has both no real answer and a different answer for every person. I'm sure you think that's terribly clever. Then when people get sick of it and move on, it's time to pout. Grow up, not everybody is going to say "how high", every time you deem it fit to say "jump". Does that give a more direct answer to the "way off topic" question?

Oh dear, I'm no fun at all am I?

BTW, I find it enormously satisfying to walk into church and thumb my nose at the altar. Is the communion wine glass half full or half empty? Nobody in their right mind gives a rats' a**.

But if the tree falls on ME then i would be pissed.This thread HAS a real answer but it may be of a different reasoning and if you are a optomist or pestimist.
(IDk spelling)
This question is a hypothetical question, a cup of wine or what ever it just must have 1/2 its CONTENTS.
oiiii my head hurts now.... hopw yur happy.
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What exactly would you gain if every member in this forum decided to answer your question without any deviation? Would you sit around and ponder each and every respondents answer? Would it enrich your life to know? If so, how so?

Your most difficult question known to man, is simply something to spark debate. Which you seem to want to control. Hey, maybe kick back and watch the rest of us fools duke it out, (mentally of course).

Why would you want to know if someone is an optimist or a pessimist, especially in light of the fact you can't even spell it?

Incidentally, the spelling in the title is correct.

What I thought, and what I continue to think is that the continued participation of our members in this thread, however off topic it may get, is emblematic of a desire to relate to each other in a friendly and thoughtful manner. To which this end thread has been a success.

But, to insist on proceeding in a "just answer the question", everybody's a hostile witness manner, is IMHO the action of a juvenile control freak.

I have enjoyed this thread enormously as an opportunity to trade wit and wisdom with my fellow Techspotters, but not as an forced interrogation.

What I thought, and what I continue to think is that the continued participation of our members in this thread, however off topic it may get, is emblematic of a desire to relate to each other in a friendly and thoughtful manner. To which this end thread has been a success.

I concur, Captain.

And so do I.

I do as well. I do find this thread most intriguing

The glass is half full. It's the logical response.
Not becasue you are greedy or optimistic ... it makes sense.

Glass is filled with water .. not empty of or missing water ...
Filling ... until full.

Another try :

If you're filling a glass, then when the liquid level reaches the midway point, the glass is half full.

If you're emptying a glass, then when the liquid level reaches the midway point, the glass is half empty.

In school we were told that people with writing slanting upwards, were positive minded, and vice versa. Well, we all started the upward slant.

I guess it all depends on whether you are filling up the glass or drinking/pouring it out. :)

I would have thought the whole chicken and the egg question was the most difficult question ...

OK guys, this cup cant "spill" ok? :)

im going to say both the same

If you are a pessimist its half empty and if you're a optimist it's half full.

i would say half full because if something is empty its nothing there at all

Lol! Ic ant believe this has been revived...it was like my first post. :D

My glass is half full because everybody that sees it as half empty is usually(not always) depressed, and whats the point of being in a crappy mood all of the time

The real most difficult question is how to fully understand women. although im a glass is half full type of guy.

i agree with Edwin Phate the most difficuly Q is Women lol. (must not let gf see this thread lol).

Im a glass half full guy. live life to the full!


James

It depends on the glass. >.>

half full...with something u dont need or want

i would say it depends on what your drinking, if you like the drink then its half empty, if you dislike drink, then its half full

In my opinion;

- if the glass is being filled, it is half full.

- if the glass is being emptied, it is half empty

- if the glass is sitting unmolested, it is a half glass (of whatever)


:)

edit: ravisunny came closest to my opinion but stuck with the poll. I hate polls that don't offer answers like 'both of the above' and 'neither of the above' and 'Geisha Cartman' as choices.

However, I digress, and shall now post no further in this thread.

i would say it depends on what your drinking, if you like the drink then its half empty, if you dislike drink, then its half full

Here I would argue, (as is my nature), that if you like the drink it's too empty, and if you don't it's too full.

Am I two opinionated....? LOL

I know what you mean about likes but it doesn't actually mean its half full or empty it's just that you think that because of likes or dislikes. If the glass contains exactly half the max contents it can contain it's neither so it's not the most difficult question to man.

If you are a pessimist its half empty and if you're a optimist it's half full.
Posted 11/30/2007
I know what you mean about likes but it doesn't actually mean its half full or empty it's just that you think that because of likes or dislikes. If the glass contains exactly half the max contents it can contain it's neither so it's not the most difficult question to man. Posted today 5/19/08.
I agree completely. But stating the obvious is not the most difficult thing in the world either.

Please try to keep this thread user friendly and stop giving spritzer recipies! :)
The correct answer is whatever you think as the cup as being, either half full or half empty.
Posted by God of Mana, September 19, 2007
"God of Mana", seems to want to yank everybody's chain. Moreover, he thinks he's going to establish the rules.

Now, why tell us that this is not the most important question in the world. We all know that. This approach spoils all the "fun". Why not, take a deep breath, and come up with another more "philosophical" response, worthy of the utter nonsense that this thread is. You know, let pseudo-intellectualism have it's long winded pointless say.

Historically speaking this site was considering stopping polls due, to all of the stupid ones started by God of Mana" (and others). I said we should keep them, a decision I have come to question, deeply, along the lines of, "why am I posting to this thread, am I half crazy or only half sane"?

Yey! someone agrees with me. I'm so right am i? There is one thing though, you can fill a glass with water over the rim so it will be half empty unless you block the top :haha: ;)

Look here: http://reec.nsw.edu.au/k6/page/wa10.htm

lol thats definitely not the hardest question known to man, but yeah its pretty hard.....no its just dumb. hah. just depends on some stupid constraints really

Its half way to my next round