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Today’s question:
If you had to live the rest of your life without one of your senses, which one would it be, and why?
Reminder, your senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell & touch.
Talk about it….
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I’d get rid of smell, as long as I could keep taste. By and large, people smell bad. I can live without that as long as I can still taste.
I would say taste. Sight, hearing and smell are necessary from a safety point of view. Touch is an emotional need. A sinus infection left me without taste for a year and I lost weight. Ate till full, not because I liked the taste.
Smell for sure.
Smell. I couldn’t bare to not see, hear or taste the world around me….
Hearing , I have a big hearing loss, but I can manage.
Smell, as long as it doesn’t interfere with my sense of taste. I’ve lost my sense of taste before and it was terrible! It almost drove me insane when eating my favorite foods and not tasting it’s yummy flavors.
But loosing the sense of touch wouldn’t be so bad, frustrating yes, but do-able.
Hearing – losing it anyhow.
I have a pretty horrible sense of smell already, so may as well let the rest of it go. It comes in pretty useful for changing the little Mamba’s diaper.
My sense of entitlement.
I would hate to lose my “sixth sense,” but that one isn’t on the list.
Final Answer: Taste
End of water cooler
“I am fast. To give you a reference point I am somewhere between a snake and a mongoose… And a panther.”
Pain. I know it is your friend, but I would take my chances..
I already do, common sense.
Taste. Then it would be so much easier to follow that list of healthy foods…..could just inhale deeply when around hot fudge sauce, meat sautéing in butter, pies baking, etc.. Oh, dang….you just HAD to make me go and think about those yummies!
Interesting to see the comments about losing smell as long as they could still taste.
As an ex teacher, one of my favorite experiments was to blindfold a student, have them pinch their nose and try to see if they could tell the difference between a piece of onion and a piece of potato. With out your sense of smell you have no sense of taste. Try it.
I have already lost my hearing so I guess I don’t have a choice.
As someone noted, taste and smell are intertwined, so lose smell and you lose taste as well.
Losing sense of touch equates to paralysis; so safe to say no one wants that.
Sight and hearing…. both important, but sight is more so, clearly.
Since I love food, and I like things quiet anyway….
C. Pete chooses loss of hearing.
most people are all living with the lack of
common sense, give up another and where
would they be?.(answer) in one of the two
Houses of Govt. or the Oval Office .
WHO WANTS TO SMELL FUNK ANYWAY!
Anything but sight. That would be terrifying.
Free Connie Dobbs
Nonsense.
sight and it is not fun. Can’t drive much. It has to be the worst sense to lose. I have relatives who have lost sense of touch, they have to pay attention when holding things or they drop stuff, exhausting.
None of the above…….but probably taste.
I would lose the sense of taste… considering I am in politics, one might argue that it has already happened.
Humor. If I were to lose that sense I’d be a real a-hole instead of …… a ….umm……….well…. Geez I guess I’m am one anyway.
I’ve known the answer to today’s question all my life, and I’m not going to commit one of my greatest fears to words here now.
All lot of people have no sense at all…..just clueless. Hearing…I have less than 80% hearing anyway.
80% loss of hearing….and not much sense
I know Sally. Your greatest fear is that one of these early mornings, oh, you gonna be wiping your weeping eyes.
I bought you a brand new mustang ’bout nineteen sixty five
Now you come around signifying a woman, you don’t wanna let me ride.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
You been running all over the town now.
Oh! I guess I’ll have to put your flat feet on the ground.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
Yep.
With my flat feet on the ground.
I can live without my sense of adventure. I’ve calmed way down in my old age.
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