beer 'n' bear

This last winter a group of us were staying at a friends cabin in big bear for a couple days to get in some good riding. One night while we were all sitting around after a full day on the mountain, the topic of what one would consider a solid versus what one would consider a liquid was brought up. The initial argument was whether an orange was a solid or a liquid. From this point many other foods were called in to question with both sides standing firm to their beliefs.

I myself adhered to the fact that an orange is a solid. If you throw an orange at someone and hit him or her in the head it’s going to hurt, but if you throw water at someone it would be nowhere near as painful (excluding the affect of temperature of the water).

One side of the room attempted to claim that since an orange produces juice it therefore is a liquid, completely disregarding the nature of the orange’s peel. The other side of the room stood by the fact that an orange has the ability to break a window, can stand on its own, and remains as one item until cut apart. Despite our attempts at using the rhetorical technique of logos, the (clearly) wrong side of the room was unmoved to our belief.

From this point the argument progressed in an odd order of events, beginning with apples being called into question and eventually moving to a near brawl over whether or not burritos were a liquid or a solid. The (wrong) other side of the room did not truly believe that a burrito was a liquid, however they were so dug in to the trenches of their side of the argument that there was no way they were escaping with their dignity unless they rode their sinking ship to the bottom of the ocean.

Each side argued with their hearts on their sleeve and many scuffles were narrowly avoided yet in the end it was agreed upon; Oranges, as well as apples and burritos, were solids and that this argument would never again be spoken of with each other.