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An application for grumpy landlord
Our occasional contributor Antony Hawkins at the University of Sheffield adds fuel to the debate on glass half-fullness/half-emptiness after Ian Sewell decided this merely signified the glass was twice the size it needed to be.
‘Thanks to Ian for aptly demonstrating just how useless bean-counting analysts can be. No offence to useless bean-counting analysts, obviously,’ he says. ‘He has not even visited The Stack, but has merely read comments that, at some times, glasses are at 50 per cent capacity.
‘Were the glasses half their current size, they would still be at 50 per cent capacity at some times and Ian’s suggestion would have achieved nothing except longer queues at the bar. I hereby apply for position of Grumpy Landlord of the Stack, on a manifesto of pledging to ban anyone who says their glass is too big.’
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