If you had to lose one of your senses, what would it be?

lazygal · 31-08-2012 8:43am #1

Sight, touch, taste, smell or hearing?

I think I could live without a sense of smell, I wouldn't miss it as much as the others.

Hardonraging · 31-08-2012 8:44am

Sight so i'd never see this horrible horrible thread again

smash · 31-08-2012 8:46am

definitely smell. It's the least important.

at the same time, I'd like to not see dead people any more.

Eve_Dublin · 31-08-2012 8:46am

My common sense LOL ROLFL LMAO!!!

Savage Tyrant · 31-08-2012 8:47am

My sixth one. I don't use it.

Hardonraging · 31-08-2012 8:47am

smash wrote: »

definitely smell. It's the least important.

at the same time, I'd like to not see dead people any more.

Actually smell would be handy.... there's one guy in the gym .. FML .. dude seriously need to wash.. or like die .. one or the other ..

A Primal Nut · 31-08-2012 8:51am

Smell is more important that taste in my opinion.

That said, taste brings a lot of pleasure, but for me, my tastes don't work right (I don't like lots of healthy things) so I could probably do without it.

Real Life · 31-08-2012 8:52am

taste

KKkitty · 31-08-2012 8:52am

If you lose your sense of smell you lose your sense of taste.

FatherLen · 31-08-2012 8:53am

we have a shit load more than five senses.

mauzo · 31-08-2012 8:54am

If you can't smell, can you still taste?

I'd lose taste so I'd be skinny.

mackg · 31-08-2012 8:55am

I think we should all choose to lose our sense of entitlement, apparently it's ruining our country.

Mr Benevolent · 31-08-2012 8:57am

lazygal wrote: »

Sight, touch, taste, smell or hearing?

I think I could live without a sense of smell, I wouldn't miss it as much as the others.

Losing your sense of smell would mean you couldn't taste either. The two are utterly interconnected.

smash · 31-08-2012 8:57am

FatherLen wrote: »

we have a shit load more than five senses.

Actually Pain could be a good one to lose... just like kick ass!

ejmaztec · 31-08-2012 9:03am

Confab wrote: »

Losing your sense of smell would mean you couldn't taste either. The two are utterly interconnected.

Not in AH where the existence of fact is purely coincidental.

31-08-2012 9:04am

KKkitty wrote: »

If you lose your sense of smell you lose your sense of taste.

Really? My mam can't smell anything, hasn't for years, but she has never lost her sense of taste. Is she an exception?

I'd like to lose my sense of taste so I'd stop eating all the damn time.

eth0 · 31-08-2012 9:04am

Hardonraging wrote: »

Actually smell would be handy.... there's one guy in the gym .. FML .. dude seriously need to wash.. or like die .. one or the other ..

Like, omg, like toedally maaan.

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davet82 · 31-08-2012 9:10am

Deleted User wrote: »

Really? My mam can't smell anything, hasn't for years, but she has never lost her sense of taste. Is she an exception?

I'd like to lose my sense of taste so I'd stop eating all the damn time.

my dad also lost his sense of smell, he can still taste

KKkitty · 31-08-2012 9:17am

For some people losing their sense of smell affects their sense of taste. I guess there's exceptions to every rule.

BBDBB · 31-08-2012 9:19am

my fashion sense...........oops to late

charlietheminxx · 31-08-2012 9:19am

Taste! I would be so slim

cloud493 · 31-08-2012 9:20am

I'd say touch.

Jelly2 · 31-08-2012 9:21am

A Primal Nut wrote: »

Smell is more important that taste in my opinion.

That said, taste brings a lot of pleasure, but for me, my tastes don't work right (I don't like lots of healthy things) so I could probably do without it.

Unfortunately, if you lose your sense of smell, you lose 80% of your sense of taste too. Smell accounts for most of your sense of taste. Tastebuds have a more minor role.
Poor me - no smell, and worse, not much taste for many years now...:)
On the plus side, your brain compensates by imagining taste. Also, texture of food becomes much more important in judging whether you like it or not.
Oh, and sometimes you get phantom smells that follow you around all day! I used to get them a lot more when I first lost my sense of smell, but only occasionally now. It's quite weird, as the smell (always savoury!) can be overpowering.
It's almost impossible for me to remember what anything actually smells like now.

charlietheminxx · 31-08-2012 9:24am

cloud493 wrote: »

I'd say touch.

I would say that's one of the most important ones! Aside from anything else (risk of unknowingly injuring yourself etc) what about sex??

BBDBB · 31-08-2012 9:31am

charlietheminxx wrote: »

I would say that's one of the most important ones! Aside from anything else (risk of unknowingly injuring yourself etc) what about sex??[/QUOTE]

best offer Ive had in a while, you could at least offer to buy dinner though

charlietheminxx · 31-08-2012 9:35am

Bag of chips?

mauzo · 31-08-2012 9:37am

charlietheminxx wrote: »

Bag of chips?

Tallaght salad :P

BBDBB · 31-08-2012 9:37am

you smooth talking divil

Cú Giobach · 31-08-2012 9:37am

The only things you can sense with your tongue are sweet, salt, sour, bitter and probably "glutamate", every thing we really consider taste is from our sense of smell, so I would lose taste from my tongue.

phasers · 31-08-2012 9:37am

if I lose my sense of taste can I still smell stuff?

I choose taste either way because I'd be skinny then

Wibbs · 31-08-2012 9:49am

Smell, defo smell.

saiint · 31-08-2012 9:52am

hearing definity
so my bitch gf wont be able to moan at me anymore

wolfeye · 31-08-2012 9:54am

my sense humour.
lost it years ago,never missed it.Blah.

may or may not be the truth.

Simi · 31-08-2012 10:04am

smash wrote: »

Actually Pain could be a good one to lose... just like kick ass!

Not really... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain

I'm gonna go with smell/taste. I like the others too much.

nice1franko · 31-08-2012 10:09am

KKkitty wrote: »

If you lose your sense of smell you lose your sense of taste.

mauzo wrote: »

If you can't smell, can you still taste?

I'd lose taste so I'd be skinny.

A friend of mine lost his sense of smell after a head injury but he says he still gets the main basic tastes i.e. sweet, bitter, sour, salty- and he also gets the heat from chili.

He's lost all "flavours" though so, basically, everything else

It hasn't helped him lose much weight though!

_feedback_ · 31-08-2012 10:11am

KKkitty wrote: »

If you lose your sense of smell you lose your sense of taste.

KKkitty wrote: »

For some people losing their sense of smell affects their sense of taste. I guess there's exceptions to every rule.

Ah, jaysus AH is great

Rothmans · 31-08-2012 10:14am

Hold your nose, put somethin tasty like a strawberry into your mouth, chew it a bit, then release. That'll show how important your sense of smell is to taste.
There'll be an explosion of favours when you release.

smash · 31-08-2012 10:15am

Ladies, losing your sense of taste wont stop you being hungry... you'll still eat

31-08-2012 10:57am

smash wrote: »

Ladies, losing your sense of taste wont stop you being hungry... you'll still eat

Ah yeh, but I'll only eat when I'm hungry. I won't bother eating chocolate or bread with yummy butter.

Jelly2 · 31-08-2012 10:58am

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah yeh, but I'll only eat when I'm hungry. I won't bother eating chocolate or bread with yummy butter.

Sorry to disappoint, but you will! I'm a lady, have no sense of smell and little of taste, and still eat chocolate all the time!

charlemont · 31-08-2012 11:01am

Taste, then I could eat like an animal !! Raw fish with the scales on. Anyone for some uncooked meat ?? Drink of dish water ? Oh sure that just tastes like lager anyway..

xDramaxQueenx · 31-08-2012 11:02am

i would lose my common sense as it is only a burden since most people dont have it

KKkitty · 31-08-2012 11:03am

elviscostello wrote: »

KKkitty wrote: »

If you lose your sense of smell you lose your sense of taste.

KKkitty wrote: »

For some people losing their sense of smell affects their sense of taste. I guess there's exceptions to every rule.

Ah, jaysus AH is great

I'm not an expert am I? If you were to have a blocked nose wouldn't your sense of taste be somewhat diminished?

Mr Benevolent · 31-08-2012 11:12am

Cú Giobach wrote: »

The only things you can sense with your tongue are sweet, salt, sour, bitter

That's been discredited.

IvySlayer · 31-08-2012 11:14am

Balance.

Cú Giobach · 31-08-2012 12:32pm

Confab wrote: »

That's been discredited.

You forgot the umami (or glutamate) in your quote.

There are some who question it and feel the evidence for it is based more on linguistic reasons than perception but to my knowledge it hasn't been discredited, if I'm wrong please do show something on it, I would be genuinely interested in that.
Or are you maybe thinking of the "tongue map" which really is bunkum.
http://www.livescience.com/7113-tongue-map-tasteless-myth-debunked.html

juan.kerr · 31-08-2012 12:34pm

Body scents? Then I wouldn't need to wash.

Colmustard · 31-08-2012 12:39pm

We have actually 22 senses, apart from the usual 5 we have a sense of temperature, a sense of balance a sense of pressure and many more, I think I could live well enough without my internal sense of temperature.

Yeah See The movie "the sixth sense" should have been called the 23rd sense.

tomtherobot · 31-08-2012 12:52pm

My sense of decency so I could become a lawyer

Cú Giobach · 31-08-2012 1:08pm

Colmustard wrote: »

I think I could live well enough without my internal sense of temperature.

Not for very long though.

BBDBB · 31-08-2012 1:20pm

I have an enormous.......................sense of well being

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