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-Spector- 2008-12-04 09:08 AM

What sense would you choose?
 
Ok, [insert creative crazy reason here] you are forced to loose one of your 5 senses. Which would you choose to eliminate?

1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste
4. Touch
5. Smell

Thanatos 2008-12-04 09:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Spector- (Post 661840)
Ok, [insert creative crazy reason here] you are forced to loose one of your 5 senses. Which would you choose to eliminate?

1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste
4. Touch
5. Smell

Easy choice: smell.

Everything else is pretty vital.

HandOfHeaven 2008-12-04 09:28 AM

I was going to go with taste, but smell seems more logical. Although you may not be able to tell if you left the gas going on the stove if you lose your sense of smell, spark a smoke and then die...

!King_Amazon! 2008-12-04 09:30 AM

Obvious question is obvious.

Seriously, sometimes I wish I COULD lose my sense of smell.

Jessifer 2008-12-04 09:47 AM

I chose smell, duh.

Should have been: Sight, Hearing, or Voice?

Kazilla 2008-12-04 10:19 AM

Taste, nothing that you taste can tell you if its poisonious (sp) or not. There is nothing your sense of taste can do to save your life.

1. Sight - You can see danger.
2. Hearing - You can hear danger.
3. Taste - You can't taste danger.
4. Touch - You can feel danger.
5. Smell - You can smell danger.

Jessifer 2008-12-04 11:03 AM

Poisonous*

And I could never go without my taste. I love food too much. :(

Grav 2008-12-04 11:06 AM

My life would be a lot easier if I had no sense of taste.

WetWired 2008-12-04 11:26 AM

Smell contributes more to your sense of taste than actual taste does. Taste is pretty useless.

-Spector- 2008-12-04 11:41 AM

@Jessifer - I Don't think Voice is a sense.

@Kaz - What types of danger are you referring to that you can smell?

I would probably choose smell, but it is the strongest sense linked to memory and emotion.

So I would then have to choose taste, though I do love tasting food, it would allow me to eat stuff that might be extremely nutritional, but tastes like shit.

Jessifer 2008-12-04 11:44 AM

I'm aware that it's not. I just think it would have been more of a split vote.

-Spector- 2008-12-04 11:46 AM

Ahh I gotcha. Losing your voice completely would suck, but it wouldn't be AS bad if you could write down everything. Then again I'm not sure how you'd put emotion into what you were saying... it would be like online conversations. :p

talentedhamster 2008-12-04 01:06 PM

id probly go with taste. even though it would suck, it would just suck less than all other options

Wallow 2008-12-04 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !King_Amazon! (Post 661845)
Obvious question is obvious.

Seriously, sometimes I wish I COULD lose my sense of smell.

Isn't your sense of smell connected with your sense of taste? So you lose one and you lose the other?

I would also choose smell.

D3V 2008-12-04 01:21 PM

How the hell would you lose your sense of touch?

Anyways, I put smelling.

Kazilla 2008-12-04 01:22 PM

You can smell a fire, or in some cases a poisonous gas, you can smell a gas leak.. You can smell a lot of danger.

Wallow 2008-12-04 01:23 PM

A fire burning away all your nerves, although I don't know how one could live happily that way.

D3V 2008-12-04 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kazilla (Post 661885)
You can smell a fire, or in some cases a poisonous gas, you can smell a gas leak.. You can smell a lot of danger.

You can touch a hot stove.
You can see a person holding a gun to your head.
You can hear a helicopter about to crash.
You can feel the ground shaking before an earthquake.
You can taste poison before you engulf it.

You can apply bad situations to the loss of any sense.

Kazilla 2008-12-04 02:02 PM

Odds are you could smell the poison or see the poison before you would taste the poison.

Kazilla 2008-12-04 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D3V (Post 661888)
You can touch a hot stove.
You can see a person holding a gun to your head.
You can hear a helicopter about to crash.
You can feel the ground shaking before an earthquake.
You can taste poison before you engulf it.

You can apply bad situations to the loss of any sense.

where is smell?

D3V 2008-12-04 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kazilla (Post 661890)
Odds are you could smell the poison or see the poison before you would taste the poison.

Carbon Monoxide is orodless.

Shit, even Anthrax is odorless, colorless and tasteless.

jamer123 2008-12-04 02:10 PM

smell and taste are prettey much the same thing because you use smell to help taste what your eatting....... im using my on screen keyboard

-Spector- 2008-12-04 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamer123 (Post 661893)
....... im using my on screen keyboard


Uh.. why?

talentedhamster 2008-12-04 02:40 PM

how come all of the sudden that you lose a sense you are surrounded by danger?

D3V 2008-12-04 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by talentedhamster (Post 661901)
how come all of the sudden that you lose a sense you are surrounded by danger?

I was thinking the same thing :confused:

Kazilla 2008-12-04 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by talentedhamster (Post 661901)
how come all of the sudden that you lose a sense you are surrounded by danger?

In order to determine which sense is the least useful we need to determine which sense are the most useful. If we surround ourselves with danger, and are capable of escaping through sight, touch, smell, taste, or hearing... then we know which one we want and which one we don't.

talentedhamster 2008-12-04 09:04 PM

but in reality, how often do these things happen to you? and if your attacker knows that your missing your sense of sound, he'll sneak up behind you. if your gonna be attacked, your gonna be attacked. the end. an extra sense wont stop that, it just might make you aware of it.

!King_Amazon! 2008-12-04 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kazilla (Post 661914)
In order to determine which sense is the least useful we need to determine which sense are the most useful. If we surround ourselves with danger, and are capable of escaping through sight, touch, smell, taste, or hearing... then we know which one we want and which one we don't.

That only determines which senses are the most useful in a situation in which you are surrounded with danger. That has no relation to which senses are the most useful in everyday life.

talentedhamster 2008-12-04 09:42 PM

exactly! thank you for wording it better than i could

Grav 2008-12-04 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by talentedhamster (Post 661901)
how come all of the sudden that you lose a sense you are surrounded by danger?


Because the internet is serious business.

Jessifer 2008-12-04 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D3V (Post 661883)
How the hell would you lose your sense of touch?

Anyways, I put smelling.


After falling 12 or so feet straight down feet first onto concrete, I've lost feeling in a portion of my right leg.

Willkillforfood 2008-12-04 11:13 PM

Yea, nerves aren't that sturdy.

D3V 2008-12-05 07:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jessifer (Post 661969)
After falling 12 or so feet straight down feet first onto concrete, I've lost feeling in a portion of my right leg.

that's a bummer. So basically you are telling me I can hit you in that area with a bamboo stick and you won't feel it? (like on Freddy Got Fingered)..

Jessifer 2008-12-05 07:40 AM

I don't know how it works.

D3V 2008-12-05 07:43 AM

Here's a cool question for another thread. Would you one of your senses in trade for a sixth sense type of deal? If so, which sense?

Kazilla 2008-12-05 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D3V (Post 662006)
Here's a cool question for another thread. Would you one of your senses in trade for a sixth sense type of deal? If so, which sense?

jamer please translate, you two seem to understand eachother.

D3V 2008-12-05 08:26 AM

Hahaha. I don't even know what the fuck I said.. i'll try again.

If you had an opportunity to trade one of your current senses for another sense (sixth sense) type of deal, would you do it? If you could do so and trade a sense, which would it be and why?

Kazilla 2008-12-05 08:49 AM

Trade taste for the ability to sense stupid before I communicate with it.

Jessifer 2008-12-05 09:22 AM

I understood it perfectly the first time. :T

Wallow 2008-12-05 01:53 PM

Just remembered that if you lose one of your senses, your other senses become more acute to compensate. Recent scientists have been doing experiments where they'd somehow disable a sense, such as eyesight with a blindfold.
I wonder if messing with the body this way can improve your eyesight so you don't have to wear glasses or contacts if you have a prescription.


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