Wine is also an acceptable answer.
― jmm, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
the wine is always open.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
wd like to point out that "wake up" does not necessarily imply your eyes are already open but fuck it, what's the use.
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not immediately, no, but in the time it took for you to discover (somehow) that your parents were at the door, I'd assume they'd have opened? maybe people wake up differently, but for me, my eyes are open nanoseconds after I wake up.
― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
"You are awake, therefore your eyes are already open" is an assumption that is not borne out by the statement of the riddle. The instigating event is "someone wakes you up" and there is no clarification/specification re: being downstairs or at the door before the question "what's the first thing you open?" needs to be answered. The answer is "your eyes".
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
what if you typically answer the door with your eyes closed?
― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
The only defensible argument for "the door" is if you sleep with your eyes open
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
it doesn't matter, you only need to acknowledge that "wake up" does not necessarily imply "eyes open" to render the whole thing a load of bollocks
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
what if the house isn't your house
― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Xdy6zfO.jpg
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
Then by your own logic the answer is "your mouth" unless you are arguing that you open the door with your eyes closed without asking "who is it?"
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
乒乓 otm
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
between this and bitstrips, i'm selling my facebook stock.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
my heart valves to pump blood through my body so i can live
― Mordy , Tuesday, 29 October 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
I would accept door or eyes. Eyes is the stronger answer. The only reason for the detail about being woken up at 3 am is to point to eyes. Without that detail, it would be door.
― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
my man
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Who says I sleep at 3am?
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
The first thing I open is my fist so I can slap the face of my parents for thinking 3AM is the time to visit for breakfast.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
toilet bears!
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 7 November 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Fuck the parents in this riddle
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 November 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
It’s 3 a.m.
wtf
― jmm, Saturday, 19 November 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
Also how do I know it's your parents if they're unexpected and how do you know they want breakfast if yr asleep
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 November 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
Yeah, by the time I know they want breakfast, my eyes and the door are already open. And the question isn't "what was the first thing you opened?"
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 20 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
i assume the answer is a giraffe not gonna read to find out why or how
― ciderpress, Sunday, 20 November 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link