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    tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    DE?AD wrote: »
    I do not get the people saying they'd rather go blind than deaf. Yeah, I'd really miss music, too, but I do not use sound to navigate.

    i could find ways to get around

    it might take me awhile but i could do it

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    Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    breasts like rocket ships

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I could do without hearing

    my hearing's never been that great anyway

    and then I wouldn't have to hear people be stupid, so that's a plus

    closed captioning's got my back on the entertainment front

    and I love music, but it is really not essential to my life!

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    DE?AD wrote: »
    I do not get the people saying they'd rather go blind than deaf. Yeah, I'd really miss music, too, but I do not use sound to navigate.

    Once you adapted you could

    the blind girl I knew had hearing like fuckin' Daredevil

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Daric wrote: »

    you realize no matter how much you spoiler and tag it and link it you're not supposed to post cheap tawdry sluts, right

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    DE?ADDE?AD Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    DE?AD wrote: »
    I do not get the people saying they'd rather go blind than deaf. Yeah, I'd really miss music, too, but I do not use sound to navigate.

    Once you adapted you could

    the blind girl I knew had hearing like fuckin' Daredevil

    Oh, I'm not saying you can't - I'm just saying I'd much, much rather not have to.

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    DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Daric wrote: »

    you realize no matter how much you spoiler and tag it and link it you're not supposed to post cheap tawdry sluts, right

    fitness athletes are certainly not cheap

    all that tanning cream is expensive

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    Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    tugga wrote: »
    arent boobs like all curve though?

    except old or weird boobs that are shapped like V V

    Yes but they are placed on the front of the body, not on the sides. And remember about bras! Sure I guess it would eliminate some of the curvature on the silhouette but they also cause cleavage!

    Guys, take up some drawing! You'll appreciate the works of Alberto Vargas and the like even more and I guess you get to practice drawing pwetty ladies and their mammaries.

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    honestly i would rather lose my sense of taste more than anything

    i like the taste of food but it is probably the least important sense i have

    like compared to never hearing my loved ones' voices or seeing my loved ones' faces again, not getting to taste another cheeseburger or pop tart really doesnt seem that bad

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    DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I would prefer to lose my sense of urgency

    maybe take it slow every once in a while

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    DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Houk wrote: »
    honestly i would rather lose my sense of taste more than anything

    i like the taste of food but it is probably the least important sense i have

    like compared to never hearing my loved ones' voices or seeing my loved ones' faces again, not getting to taste another cheeseburger or pop tart really doesnt seem that bad

    yeah but how would you taste all that semen in your mouth, Houk?

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    DE?ADDE?AD Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Houk wrote: »
    honestly i would rather lose my sense of taste more than anything

    i like the taste of food but it is probably the least important sense i have

    like compared to never hearing my loved ones' voices or seeing my loved ones' faces again, not getting to taste another cheeseburger or pop tart really doesnt seem that bad

    Yes, this is the only sensible answer to a silly, entirely hypothetical question.

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    DE?AD quit being a Negative Nancy

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Houk wrote: »
    honestly i would rather lose my sense of taste more than anything

    i like the taste of food but it is probably the least important sense i have

    like compared to never hearing my loved ones' voices or seeing my loved ones' faces again, not getting to taste another cheeseburger or pop tart really doesnt seem that bad

    but what has smell ever done for you?

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    DE?ADDE?AD Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    DE?AD quit being a Negative Nancy

    Well I never...

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    DE?AD wrote: »
    I do not get the people saying they'd rather go blind than deaf. Yeah, I'd really miss music, too, but I do not use sound to navigate.
    actually, you absolutely do use sound to help you navigate unless you're deaf

    we rely predominantly on sight, but sound provides important cues for things that are going on outside our visual range
    that's the big limitation with vision, you have to actually be looking at stuff to see it

    but we tend to ignore the extent to which we use our other senses to navigate because those cues are more subtle and sub conscious most of the time

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Daric wrote: »
    Houk wrote: »
    honestly i would rather lose my sense of taste more than anything

    i like the taste of food but it is probably the least important sense i have

    like compared to never hearing my loved ones' voices or seeing my loved ones' faces again, not getting to taste another cheeseburger or pop tart really doesnt seem that bad

    yeah but how would you taste all that semen in your mouth, Houk?
    take it through the nose, obviously

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    SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'd probably lose smell. I can't listen to music without hearing, play it without sight, hearing or touch.

    Smell just isn't too important to me. In fact I think I would more often than not prefer to not smell things.

    Just to clarify, I am NOT the smelly kid.

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    GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    What's the point of having taste?

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    Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    things are delicious and you have to eat them to live

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Graves wrote: »
    What's the point of having taste?
    Well one thing to consider is, how often during sex do you say softly "mmm yeah baby, how does that smell?"

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    SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Houk wrote: »
    Graves wrote: »
    What's the point of having taste?
    Well one thing to consider is, how often during sex do you say softly "mmm yeah baby, how does that smell?"
    Uhh.

    Do you actually say "How does that taste?"

    I think most people say "feel".

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    SirToasty wrote: »
    Houk wrote: »
    Graves wrote: »
    What's the point of having taste?
    Well one thing to consider is, how often during sex do you say softly "mmm yeah baby, how does that smell?"
    Uhh.

    Do you actually say "How does that taste?"

    I think most people say "feel".
    i say a lotta things

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Graves wrote: »
    What's the point of having taste?
    I can get that some people value taste least of all, but do you really not appreciate your sense of taste at all?

    I can't tell if you're being serious.

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    GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    No I love tasting things.

    It just is a weird sense.

    And Houk wtf

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    oh ok
    but how is it a weird sense?

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    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Silmaril wrote: »
    I've gone without the sense of style for years with no ill effects.

    This is a goddamned lie

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    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Anyone mention yet that there actually aren't five senses? There are more like twelve or something?

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Graves wrote: »
    No I love tasting things.

    It just is a weird sense.

    And Houk wtf
    im tired and coming off an 8pm drinking frenzy, what do you expect from me?

    if we're being serious mcliteral in here, no i dont ask how it tastes

    they volunteer that info and it is rarely a good thing

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    GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    It's function is to what?

    Distinguish between different foods?

    I'm kind of just pondering it's function.

    I think it has something to do with barbeque ribs or ice cream.

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    if i understand it right, the original/main function of taste was so that animals would be attracted to the taste of fruits, the seeds of which would be ingested and pooped out, ready to start growing a new fruit in a big ol' pile of smelly fertilizer

    dunno how that translates into the tasty tasty flavor of charred flesh

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    Graves wrote: »
    What's the point of having taste?
    I can get that some people value taste least of all, but do you really not appreciate your sense of taste at all?

    I can't tell if you're being serious.

    It's not that people don't value it. It's that they value it least.

    Like I said, I use sight, smell, touch and hearing constantly every second not only for enjoyment but for living and moving around. I use taste a few times a day when I eat.

    In this hypothetical situation it is a simple case of numbers. Most of us use taste the least often and therefore value it the least. Though I guess if you eat a lot maybe it ranks higher.

    Smell is probably the other low one on the list, though that is used far more often than taste.

    Clearly ideally I wouldn't give up any sense, but discussing a hypothetical scenario where if forced to which would you choose, taste seems like the obvious choice. You lose least from your life.

    Unless you are a food critic or really really fucking value eating so much I can't see how you could value taste over sight or touch or hearing.

    If you want to look at it from a purely biological standpoint humans use sight, smell, touch and hearing for survival. Important senses that developed to enable our survival.

    If an ornate carved oak table is about to fall on my head, I see it and move out of the way. If a car is coming up behind me, I hear it and dodge. If I smell a fire or gas I vacate the area and similarly if I touch something hot I stop touching it.

    Other than stopping you from eating poison taste is low on the priorities here. If anything it would help as much as hinder by allowing you to eat more variety without concern for personal preference in flavour. Think of all the sprouts you would eat.

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    SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    My justification for losing smell is that you have far less control over it than taste and so bad smelly things would happen upon you more than bad tasting things.

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    Graves wrote: »
    What's the point of having taste?
    I can get that some people value taste least of all, but do you really not appreciate your sense of taste at all?

    I can't tell if you're being serious.

    tl;dr
    I was asking Graves, not you
    and he explained he did appreciate taste, he was just wondering what purpose it served
    but no, as usual you posted a bunch of really obvious shit to answer a question I didn't ask

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    JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I smell my hair when I am tired or want to de-stress

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    B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    trentsteel wrote: »
    Anyone mention yet that there actually aren't five senses? There are more like twelve or something?

    Yes.
    There was a video and everything.
    I honestly don't know which of the five "primary" senses I would lose. I use them all to experience this world and the loss of even one of them would probably ruin it all.

    If I had to absolutely positively give one up, it'd be taste. The whole association with smell shit aside, I would probably kill myself if I went blind or deaf.

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    Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i really wish i did not have the sense of smell right now

    these farts are atrocious

    but oddly satisfying

    wait, this isn'tthe poop thread.

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    Now I'm trying to imagine what full-spectrum vision would "look" like. Obviously it wouldn't appear as visible light.

    It would be pretty cool to look up in the air and tune into radio, though.

    This makes about as much sense as assuming that because you can perceive light in the visible spectrum, you could look into a fiber optic cable and see the internet

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    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim will know why we evolved tastebuds.

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    SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Birds can see ultraviolet light. That's pretty neat. I wonder exactly how that appears to them.

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