Half empty / Half full ?

Mrs. MacGyver

Half empty... what a way to prove it though! Pity the poor old hangover.

Pocari Sweat

Its all roughly speaking of course, more so if your drinking.

The other question is, to what accuracy can you measure out half a pint, understanding in physical terms you can never actually get exactly half a pint in an estimated one pint glass.

This is due to the relationship of the pint glass and the contents.

If there was some method of counting the number of molecules making up the half pint of beer and a manufacturing method to guarantee an inner volume of the glass to the rim to exactly one pint, you would also have thermal variations affecting the size of the glass, the quality of glass and its coefficient of linear expansion, the irregularity of the glass's rim and moulded surface.

The beer's variation in volume with regard to temperature, the latent heat of vaporisation of the beers gases also causing thermal factors within the fluid, loss of dissolved gases from the beer, carbon dioxide, nitrogen etc, loss of evaporated alcohol within the beer, evaporated water etc, the list goes on.

Once poured the beer's true potability and character would diminish rapidly, so at what point would it be fresh or flat, would the impurities within the beer be counted as part of the beer for example the original water quality may have additional unwanted colour, odour, taste, turbidity, sediment, alkalinity, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, sulphide, heavy metals, free chlorine, chlorides, sodium, bacterialogical parameters and 30 other common water parameters that may not constitute pure water and therefore a pure beer.

Where does it all end, does the answer get any easier after drinking ten pints of the stuff?

So when fielding all the orignal responses to the original post, I suppose I was not taking any of the answers too seriously, so feck it, drink it and stop talking shyte.

renedescartes

AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I'mmmmmmmmmmmmmm off to the pub!
Rene

Pocari Sweat

Geeet doooon t'pub thee fecker.