Post #1839254
2025-08-20 15:45 UTC
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Physicist: The glass is full: half water, half air.
Pedantist: Actually it's more like 55-45%.
Essentialist: Who cares about measurements? There is water in the glass.
Chemist: What glass? It's polyethylene!
Existentialist: Is there actually a glass, or is it a construct of our collective consciousness?
Surrealist: The nectar of the clouds has yet to fill its prison of sand.
Realist: Who cares? Let's just... What the hell?
Opportunist: *swallows and sets down the empty glass.
Replies (2)
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@Perspective@c.im 2025-08-24 01:15
@violet@lgbtqia.space if I may make an addition - from a co-worker who worked in that field: Engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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@bloeckchengrafik@social.tchncs.de 2026-01-28 11:13
@violet@lgbtqia.space I'm sorry but I have to steal the Surrealists sentence. This is just too good