my dad says , "you are either nice or mean"......"you have no medium"?
2006-10-07 19:23:03 · 13 answers · asked by porchpup552003 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
In art, a medium is the type of art, such as an oil, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, acrylic, etc.
As far as your dads meaning....well, he probably wants you to be nice. No one likes to be told they're mean,
Have you frustrated him lately for him to point this out to you?
2006-10-07 19:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the sense that your father used,
A medium is a middle ground between two opposing points.
Basically your dad just said: you don't have the ability to be between nice or mean- you're either one extreme or another
A medium could also be a path used to communicate. for example the medium that we're using to communicate is the internet. when you call your friends the medium is the telephone, or the airwaves that cell signals transmit through. When you read the newspaper, the medium is text and pictures (also with the internet). Medium could also be television, radio, speech, etc.
And your dad shouldn't use big words to confuse his daughter.
2006-10-08 02:36:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medium is the middle position between two extremes. Your dad has an interesting point. He wants you to be nice all of the time, every parent's wish.
2006-10-08 02:31:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He means the person he is talking about acts in extremes, either that person behaves very nice (and he may be implying that it's an act, not sincerity) or that person is a total "pain in the drain." He is saying that most people are a little of both all the time, not extremely one or extremely the other.
2006-10-08 02:37:07 · answer #4 · answered by The Invisible Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in other words that your not in the middle! For ex. bad or good!
Medium also has other meanings for ex. a surface an artist writes on!
2006-10-08 02:26:52 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Yahoo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is just being a dad foremost.
He probably means you are always in an extreme mood.
Just for kicks, always take what he says as an extremity, maybe he to will chill out.
Good luck :)
2006-10-08 02:28:29 · answer #6 · answered by Myra G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be ordinary.
To drive in a highway in the middle of road.
Instead of trying to goal, to pass trough the ball someone else.
To be a "normal person" according to sunday newspaper's psychology tests.
2006-10-08 03:28:54 · answer #7 · answered by act 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i answered your follow up first oops! but the saying is there's no happy medium, which simply means you're not too happy or too sad you're just right. (balanced!)
2006-10-08 07:08:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a medium is always happy and people are always trying to achieve one.
2006-10-08 02:25:44 · answer #9 · answered by lscrighton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By this he means that in his perception, you go to extremes, and are all sweetness, or the fangs come out, instead of being even tempered.
2006-10-08 02:34:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋