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If you had to lose two of the six senses, which would you choose?

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  • 02-12-2017 7:44pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭


    Which ones would you choose. Nose, smell you later. Not essential in the 21st century.Taste is the same. We don't hunt or gather anymore so eating a dangerous plant or noticing a foul smelling meat isn't really a danger anymore for people in the western world


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    We need a new thread approval thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Which ones would you choose. Ears because I need my tunes, and sight because I need to see my surroundings for navigation

    Two out of the five is a bit nonsensical, if you'll pardon me saying (and the pun).

    Seeing and hearing but having absolutely no feeling sensation from head to foot would be a nightmare of an existence.

    At a stretch I'd forgo smell and taste but that's the absolute limit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭badabing106


    Patww79 wrote: »
    With only two of six you'd be better off dead, so I choose actual dead.

    You'd adapt. Some animals have two or less senses


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    2 out of the six? I'd have to go for telepathy and my eye-sight maybe..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    You'd adapt. Some animals have two or less senses

    Name a few with less than 2 senses and we'll see how tolerable life as some of them would be. Many animals have more senses than we do - eclectic sense, magnetic sense, echolocation etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell....

    Sight and sound. Everything tastes watered down these days anyway, could deffo live without the smell of randomers.. and I could see whatever I'm touching..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Name a few with less than 2 senses and we'll see how tolerable life as some of them would be. Many animals have more senses than we do - eclectic sense, magnetic sense, echolocation etc.

    You don't have echolocation?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Peatys wrote: »
    You don't have echolocation?

    Not since the operation to restore my infra red vision, last year.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    I'd say sight and touch op. I'd hate to live without sound, taste and sense of smell though.

    I remember reading that Michael Hutchence had lost his sense of taste and smell a while before he died after being attacked and it was said that it turned him into a completely different person.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,691 ✭✭✭buried


    Depends. What do I get for giving up the other 4?

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    My father lost sense of touch and feeling in his hands after an industrial accident , however his sense of smell was spot on with him often noticing his hands getting burned by the smell of roast pork.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,309 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'd probably go with smell and then taste. I'd be able to eat very healthy then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    If I lost my eyesight I wouldnt be able to see dead people anymore!


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Obviously everyone will pick smell and taste


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,094 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I've lost my sight briefly quite a few times times in the past two years wouldn't wish it on anyòne, smell would be the only one I'd part with although hearing wouldn't be much of a loss living where I do the noise of cretins talking so loud wouldn't be missed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭leonffrench


    There's more than 5 senses. What about balance?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Cloudio9


    Entitlement and self respect.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,369 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I'd think I'd give up my sense of style and....


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,506 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    considering we have over 20 senses I think we could loose one or 2 of those.

    I don't think you could cope without any of the 'normal 5' but I couldn't do without, sight . smell would go first then hearing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Cloudio9 wrote: »
    Entitlement and self respect.

    Don't forget Style.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,243 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    I’d lose my fabulous sense of humour and dress sense.


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I have already lost my common sense and fashion sense.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My sense of proportion and my common sense. I've been told I'm lacking in both anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Id give up my sixth sense. Aint got time to be dealing with dead peoples problems.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,195 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Sense of guilt and sense of betrayal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Two out of the five is a bit nonsensical, if you'll pardon me saying (and the pun).

    Seeing and hearing but having absolutely no feeling sensation from head to foot would be a nightmare of an existence.

    At a stretch I'd forgo smell and taste but that's the absolute limit.

    sense of time and direction and a few others
    its not 5


  • Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    Taste, Smell. I would be skinny again!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    If you had no sense of smell then taste is gone too (hold your nose and eat something and see for yourself)

    I’d chose to keep sight and hearing.


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