What sense would you choose?

[-Spector-]

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]

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]

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!]

Obvious question is obvious.

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

[Jessifer]

I chose smell, duh.

Should have been: Sight, Hearing, or Voice?

[Kazilla]

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]

Poisonous*

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

[Grav]

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

[WetWired]

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

[-Spector-]

@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]

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

[-Spector-]

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]

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

[Wallow]

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]

How the hell would you lose your sense of touch?

Anyways, I put smelling.

[Kazilla]

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]

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

[D3V]

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]

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

[Kazilla]

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]

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]

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-]

....... im using my on screen keyboard


Uh.. why?

[talentedhamster]

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

[D3V]

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

I was thinking the same thing :confused:

[Kazilla]

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]

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!]

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]

exactly! thank you for wording it better than i could

[Grav]

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


Because the internet is serious business.

[Jessifer]

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]

Yea, nerves aren't that sturdy.

[D3V]

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]

I don't know how it works.

[D3V]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Jessifer]

I understood it perfectly the first time. :T

[Wallow]

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.

[D3V]

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

Actually, mirrors are sold almost everywhere.

[-Spector-]

Burn.

[Lenny]

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.


It would be nice (though I quite enjoy wearing glasses) but, alas, I don't believe it would work (and correct me if I'm wrong) as loss of sight is down to a physical deterioration of the eye.

[Wallow]

It would be nice (though I quite enjoy wearing glasses) but, alas, I don't believe it would work (and correct me if I'm wrong) as loss of sight is down to a physical deterioration of the eye.

Yea, I forgot about that. I have astigmatism = more oval eyes.

[Draco2003]

Yea, I forgot about that. I have astigmatism = more oval eyes.

WHOA! I have stigmata too!!!

Anyways, I would trade smell for hearing... super human hearing would be gnarly...

Also, is this a 100% loss of a sense? Because if not, I only want to lessen the strength of smell, about 25% efficiency, and a 75% boost in hearing...

[!King_Amazon!]

WHOA! I have stigmata too!!!

You should get that checked out. That's a pretty uncommon occurrence.

[Wallow]

You should get that checked out. That's a pretty uncommon occurrence.

Somewhat: "Forty-five percent of people who require vision correction have some degree of astigmatism."

http://www.coopervision.com/us/patient_visionneedsbycat.asp?id=1

[-Spector-]

I'm pretty sure that was blatant sarcasm, Wallow. =/

[Wallow]

I'm pretty sure that was blatant sarcasm, Wallow. =/

Well maybe he should've used sarcasm tags =P

[Willkillforfood]

I just read that. That was hilarious.

[!King_Amazon!]

Actually I was poking at the fact that he said he has "stigmata." Astigmatism and stigmata are not the same thing. Stigmata is when you suddenly develop wounds on your head, back, hands, and feet, resembling the wounds Jesus had when he was crucified.

[Wallow]

Actually I was poking at the fact that he said he has "stigmata." Astigmatism and stigmata are not the same thing. Stigmata is when you suddenly develop wounds on your head, back, hands, and feet, resembling the wounds Jesus had when he was crucified.

Well maybe he was also poking fun at the weird name of the "visual distortion" I have, and maybe I don't actually have astigmatism and was poking fun of something else. There seems to be a pattern in all of this. Solution? = Sarcasm tags.

[Draco2003]

Lol... actually, I have astigmatism too. I just call it stigmata... sounds cooler.

EDIT: Also, I think sarcasm tags were only invented to be used during insults... I usually assume everyone else on here is sarcastic all the time...

[Grav]

Well that's a good assumption.

[Jessifer]

Some people don't have the ability to read sarcasm. It makes for some amusing moments, imo.

[Wallow]

Some people don't have the ability to read sarcasm. It makes for some amusing moments, imo.

I can't when I'm tired...

[D3V]

I just read that. That was hilarious.

Lol, and he's banned now.

[Wallow]

Lol, and he's banned now.

How long, or is there no time limit :)

[-Spector-]

How long, or is there no time limit :)


1 more day of freedom.