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- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+100Next time some barkeep tries that, bust out your HP 50g and lay some geometry on their ass.
1/3 * pi * r^2 * h - kyoung989, on 10/12/2007, -2/+89Sometimes my life feels like a conical glass.
- curios, on 10/12/2007, -19/+93Everything is obvious once explained.
Then we get people like you claiming how idiotic it is. - krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -4/+66and dont forget volume lost to ice... or the fact that soda (salt and caffeine laden) and alcohol (a diuretic) dehydrate you, making you more thirsty.
- TruthElixirX, on 10/12/2007, -6/+62Neither, from an engineer's perspective, the glass is designed to big. :)
- mrgeekguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55This is why I drink alone, at home in a darkened room.
- raabco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45Heh "a big fraud"
There is a reason alcoholic drinks come in different sized and shaped glasses, and it has nothing to do with defrauding the customer. The shape and size of the glass has an effect on how the drink tastes. More specifically, how you're presented with the nose while drinking it.
If you see your martini come to you half full as shown there, that my be a problem, but more often that not the server/bartender's hand is covered in martini while the drink still looks almost full. - dattaway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Chemists are optimists. Their flasks are un-inverted with a low center of gravity. Chemists do not spill their drinks.
- EarthernJar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40If you're drinking urine and Windex, should your major concern be how full the glass is?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43probably just to show that the glasses were indeed conical on the inside and hollow all the way down to the stalk.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Some people like to do "socialising", whatever the hell that is. Never heard of it myself.
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37You can also pour an entire pitcher of beer into a regulation frisbee =)
- seamoon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Half full or half empty?
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Lay some related rates calculus on their ass.
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33If your an American it's your birth right to sue, so go and sue the arse of these conically incorrect *****.
- perryge, on 10/12/2007, -19/+45What was the point of the food colour in that video?
- Evari, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32that was 3 words
- sm1l3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22From the alcoholic's perspective, it just costs too much
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25fraud? does this mean i can go and sue my local bar now?
- MasterDirk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Yeah, and another thing ... they never fill my wine-glass to the rim either. What's with that?
- jetboyterp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Booze and wine are sold by the ounce, not by how "full" the glass is...
- MonkeyFondue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20If you really wanted to get drunk, why bother with going to the bar at all? Just stay at home and buy yourself some cheap vodka and drink straight out of the bottle.
- gcauthon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18There's no way it was obvious that those glasses were half full. Unless you're some kind of idiot savant, it would require a few measurements to determine at what height a cone is half filled. If you learned how to eyeball a cone and figure out without any measurements where it's halfway point is, then I congratulate you. This is not the usual 3rd grade curriculum.
- Throlkim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This is one of the reasons why all Pint glasses in the UK have a royal seal to verify that they do indeed hold a pint.
- 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14this being said,
Martini's should always be filled to the rim,
not some point further down the cone.
especially at $9-12 a piece ! - b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I heard "socialising" was bad for you...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Martini's should always be filled to the rim"
and apostrophes should never be used in an attempt to make something plural. - drgreenberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Glass size is irrelevant. If they'd sheared off the empty top portion of the glass so that the liquid reached the top, would that suddenly make things better 'cause the glass was now full? When you buy something, you have some idea of the volume of liquid you're expecting. The size of the vessel in which it's delivered doesn't matter, except in cases where the glass size/shape impacts the experience (due to concentration of vapors) such as with wine.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Socializing leads to awkward pauses, shame, and sometimes punches to the groin.
- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah, i want my drink on me the first couple times i pick it up!
- scratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9What about some ice?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love Windex! Sweet childhood memories.
- leoedin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6as far as I'm aware metacafe uses flv video and a flash video player - pretty standard really.
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Exactly. It's only fraudulent if you're getting less than advertised
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes, we all knew that these kinds of glasses are meant to make you think you are getting more then you are, but could you honestly tell by looking at it it was only -half- full?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Interesting fact.
1 US pint = 473.176475 milliliters
1 Imperial pint = 568.261485 milliliters - hppyfngy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6omg, I've been had. taking advantage of my inability to calculate volume.....
CONICAL BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wtf is the point of this? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13WTF is up with Digg?
Nearly all the stories on the frontpage are lamer than ***** like this sad POS story. (well, if you ignore the 2/3rds that are Wii/PS3 "gaming news" that is). I mean, "A hack to control traffic jams"? "Control christmas decorations"?
In the Upcoming section stories are disappearing faster than one can look at them - twice today stories have disappeared while I was trying to digg them!
Comments disappear left and right, seemingly without any pattern - it's not just inflammatory idiot posts that disappear.
Either there's been a new tweak of the algorithm (to the way, way, worse), or the newly appointed moderators might be a _tad_ overzealous. Just a smidgen. - DannyDiggler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Certainly not comedy - I used to supplement my income as a cocktail barman by doing bets with punters with a similar trick involving a 'full' sherry glass."........I bet I can pour this other 'full' sherry glass into this 'full' sherry glass without any overspill". I'd win every time and to be honest it looks more impressive than this video. It's all down to surface tension, you can get quite an impressive 'balloon' going before it spills.
Rushes to get DV camera, two sherry glasses and an account on Youtube.... - kaptein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I believe "socializing" is an old wooden ship used during the Civil War.
- Pezza131214, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll teach them to deceive me, armed with my new knowledge. I'm going to go to a bar and act drunk. When they give me my drink I'll complain.
"What, do you take me for some cheap fool. You know just as well as I, that the volume occupied by this empty frustum of a cone at the top of the glass is equal to the volume of the cone in the bottom of the glass. Frankly I'm a bit insulted. I'd like a glass where the rate of change of volume remains constant in relation to height. Is that too much to ask?" - lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You obviously didn't learn about the hindsight bias in kindergarten.
Also, extrapolation for a whole population is something you should never do, statistically speaking. (You said "we".)
It's a very simple optical illusion that could probably be predicted, but the volume of the dry part of the glass is very intriguing nonetheless. - logicnazi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is super lame. There is no 'fraud' going on here, this is simply the way the volume of a cone works (V=1/3*base*height). Since the area of the base is proportional to the height squared the total volume goes up with height cubed. So given a cone shaped glass one need only increase the height of the liquid in the glass by about 26% of the current height to double the volume.
Good demonstration for a geometry class. Not a good story for digg.
Besides,I get a bad vibe from the money making site this is posted on. If it's actually cool I don't mind someone making money on my viewing but I feel kinda cheated to watch something that sucks and help some guy make hundreds of dollars. - SkaVanker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I would be more pissed off if I got as full glass as he has at the end. Full glasses and drunk people don't go together
- PaiTrakt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I guess the biggest question is: Were the glasses half full or half empty?"
It was just twice as big as it needed to be :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Don't worry about it.
- AnotherBrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Re: TruthElixirX
That's be cause the engineer keeps half his water in a redundant glass.
/Dilbert cartoon - Dewars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Even if the glass was FULL your still over paying for the drink. If your so concerned, drink at home.
- gcauthon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"and apostrophes should never be used in an attempt to make something plural"
and you should never try to correct a drunk. - somespecialist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of a related rates / simple derivatives problem my Calculus I teacher presented me with in on a test back in high school.
A conical funnel of top radius r, bottom radius r2, and height h is filled to the brim with a delicious, amber-colored liquid. You're on the other end of the funnel and suddenly wonder what the....
Anyways, I thought it was pretty funny at the time. -
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