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Your Five Senses

BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
edited December 2008 in Social Entropy++
Touch, Smell, Taste, Hearing, and Sight.

Which one would you go without?

Also, if your significant other was missing a sense, how could you use that to your advantage?

Me? I'd be willing to lose smell. I love the smell of stuff, but I also enjoy touching, tasting, hearing, and seeing things. Fuck you smell.

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    SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've gone without the sense of style for years with no ill effects.

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    Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    the most important sense is touch

    if you lost that, your life expectancy would drop twenty years at the very least
    you'd have no sense of pain and no spatial sense of where or how your body is

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    BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Oh, and if my significant other lost smell, I could totally smoke a cigar without her knowing, have morning breath, and have another woman's perfume on me.

    I have to be creative in my abuse of this power.

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    Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Well it would have to either be smell or taste.

    Taste would be cool in a way. You could eat all sorts of foul shit and not bat an eyelid.

    At your significant other's parents house for dinner and they've cooked up something terrible? Just wolf it down and proclaim how great it was!

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    Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    Touch, Smell, Taste, Hearing, and Sight.

    Which one would you go without?

    Also, if your significant other was missing a sense, how could you use that to your advantage?

    Me? I'd be willing to lose smell. I love the smell of stuff, but I also enjoy touching, tasting, hearing, and seeing things. Fuck you smell.

    This topic seems a bit silly, but smell is actually very key to the way you taste foodstuffs. I also wouldn't mind dating a blind woman; sex might be more interesting if they had to rely on their sense of touch.

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    I think the senses I'd miss least would either be smell or sight. Not saying I wouldn't mind losing either, but if I had to choose a sense to loose it would be one of those, and probably end up being sight because taste and smell are so intertwined.

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    Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I dunno, I don't think I could give up my snes. It is just too much fun.

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    Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    Touch, Smell, Taste, Hearing, and Sight.

    Which one would you go without?

    Also, if your significant other was missing a sense, how could you use that to your advantage?

    Me? I'd be willing to lose smell. I love the smell of stuff, but I also enjoy touching, tasting, hearing, and seeing things. Fuck you smell.

    This topic seems a bit silly, but smell is actually very key to the way you taste foodstuffs. I also wouldn't mind dating a blind woman; sex might be more interesting if they had to rely on their sense of touch.

    Wouldn't mind dating a blind woman

    because you're so damn ugly, right?

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    BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yea this topic is kinda ridiculous but it was between this and how do superheroes use their powers during sex.

    And I started that topic a couple months ago already.

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    just so you know, if you lost your sense of smell you would also lose your sense of taste almost entirely

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    SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    What about a sense of decorum?

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    Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I think the senses I'd miss least would either be smell or sight. Not saying I wouldn't mind losing either, but if I had to choose a sense to loose it would be one of those, and probably end up being sight because taste and smell are so intertwined.

    You'd rather lose your ability to see, than your ability to taste something?

    I dunno, sight just seems to important to me, I can't imagine losing it.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Taste. You need smell to identify if something could be bad for you. Plus, isn't balance technically a sense?

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    BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Obviously but this is in an ideal world where the two senses aren't connected.

    God damn you people and your "facts"

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    Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'd give up my sense of achievement

    It's been too long since I've used it

    :(

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Sil would give up his sense of humour.

    If he had one.

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    SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'd lose my sense of humor.

    No-one would notice.

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    definitely give up smell, yeah

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    SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    It appears I do however have a sixth sense.






    That Chico is a lilac cunt,


    <3

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    BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    ohhh burn

    except you wouldn't feel it if you lost your sense of touch

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    KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    give up taste, since you can taste stuff by smelling it (but not really vice versa)

    I would probably kill myself if I lost my sight

    I cannot imagine a life like that

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I think the senses I'd miss least would either be smell or sight. Not saying I wouldn't mind losing either, but if I had to choose a sense to loose it would be one of those, and probably end up being sight because taste and smell are so intertwined.

    You'd rather lose your ability to see, than your ability to taste something?

    I dunno, sight just seems to important to me, I can't imagine losing it.
    I've always been pretty comfortable in low/no visibility situations, so not being able to see doesn't scare me nearly as much as it does most people
    I've learned that my other senses can do a pretty good job of compensating

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'm already sort of losing my smell somewhat after a complication with a wisdom tooth removal.

    Doesn't seem to be affecting my taste, though.

    I would not want to lose Proprioception, though. That would be weak. Be failing roadside sobriety tests all over the place.


    ALTERNATE THREAD TOPIC: Which non-human sense would you most want to gain?

    I'm going with Electroreception, because it seems like it would be the first step toward technopathy.

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    Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    ditch sight

    a world without music or eating food for pleasure? count me out

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    MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'd give up taste

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I never really use my ESP anyways

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    ditch sight

    a world without music or eating food for pleasure? count me out

    you're losing smell over sight

    are you high

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'd give up my sense of dignity

    who needs that shit

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    ohhh burn

    except you wouldn't feel it if you lost your sense of touch

    Sense of Thermoception. It actually works somewhat differently.

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    KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    I'm already sort of losing my smell somewhat after a complication with a wisdom tooth removal.

    Doesn't seem to be affecting my taste, though.

    I would not want to lose Proprioception, though. That would be weak. Be failing roadside sobriety tests all over the place.


    ALTERNATE THREAD TOPIC: Which non-human sense would you most want to gain?

    I'm going with Electroreception, because it seems like it would be the first step toward technopathy.

    I would like to see the entire light spectrum

    Chernobyl would be pretty

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    Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Skull Man wrote: »
    ditch sight

    a world without music or eating food for pleasure? count me out

    you're losing smell over sight

    are you high

    I could not live in a world without scents

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    ditch sight

    a world without music or eating food for pleasure? count me out
    you think as I do

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    SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    I'm already sort of losing my smell somewhat after a complication with a wisdom tooth removal.

    Doesn't seem to be affecting my taste, though.

    I would not want to lose Proprioception, though. That would be weak. Be failing roadside sobriety tests all over the place.


    ALTERNATE THREAD TOPIC: Which non-human sense would you most want to gain?

    I'm going with Electroreception, because it seems like it would be the first step toward technopathy.

    I would like to see the entire light spectrum

    Chernobyl would be pretty



    A damn radio tower would be pretty.

    A city would be like a 60's acid trip.

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Skull Man wrote: »
    ditch sight

    a world without music or eating food for pleasure? count me out

    you're losing smell over sight

    are you high

    I could not live in a world without scents

    you'd prefer that to a world without books

    or movies or TV or comics or anything on the internet or driving or video games

    so you can smell a rose

    that's bullshit, you're bullshit, this whole court is bullshit

    anyone who doesn't say smell is retarded

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    KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    ditch sight

    a world without music or eating food for pleasure? count me out
    you think as I do

    you guys are seriously underestimating the worthlessness of taste

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    BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Skull Man wrote: »
    ditch sight

    a world without music or eating food for pleasure? count me out

    you're losing smell over sight

    are you high

    I could not live in a world without scents

    dawg needs to smell his weed

    seeing as he's high all the time

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    SticksSticks I'd rather be in bed.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Clearly sight is the least important. Based on watching Daredevil once, I now know that canes and dogs are just props that blind people use to fuck with us.

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    DE?ADDE?AD Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Taste, no question. Hell, I'd probably still choose it if it came packaged with a loss of sense of smell. Sure, you can no longer enjoy eating delicious things, but on the upside, eating well would be really, really easy. Plus, you'd no longer be aggravated by really foul smelling objects.

    Which non-human sense would I like? Full-spectrum vision, definitely. Walk around at night being able to see perfectly, see thermal signatures through walls. It'd be pretty great.

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    BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Sonar would be pretty badass.

    Part Daredevil, part Batman's from TDK

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    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.

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