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Sight
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Touch

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[–] [deleted] 5 pts

I knew a girl that didn't have a sense of smell. The only difficulties she really told me about is that she'd have to have a friend to do a smell test when buying second hand furniture, and an funny story about a fire alarm.

She was woken up late at night by her fire alarm going off, and not seeing an actual fire she woke up her neighbors in her apartment building asking if they smelled anything, which they didn't. Fire department showed up and she had to explain that she had no sense of smell, and they were sceptical. They checked her apartment and found her roommate had left the oven on after cooking a pizza, and the heat going for hours eventually set off her fire alarm. She was horribly embarassed, but the firemen found it amusing.

[–] 3 pts

I was worried about the ending but luckily it's a happy one.

[–] 3 pts

You lose a lot of your sense of taste when you cannot smell, but I'd rather deal with anosmia than any of the other options.

[–] [deleted] 3 pts (edited )

taste... can just eat meat / lettuce greens (no dressing - not even a drop) / vegetables (maybe steamed to go down easier). meat / veggies only for the most part and nothing sweet and/or etc and no drinking my calories (I usually don't drink my calories anyways).

don't eat for pleasure anymore, but there's other ways to get pleasure such as music alone and obviously massive boobs (sight) if not huge boobs for that matter.


I don't eat for pleasure for the most part anymore myself anyways (I still do myself)...


boobs...

https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.thLtXKXmj3qSRXuwEjJYoAHaNJ&pid=Api&rs=1


smaller steak - some more tomatoes and/or etc - add in different veggies to as well most likely steamed to just make them quicker to eat. eat this 24/7

https://pixfeeds.com/images/appetizers/pork/1280-625798866-grilled-steak-and-vegetables.jpg


bird is a blue-footed booby

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/b/blue-footed-booby/

[–] 3 pts

Hard choice but I had to go with hearing.

[–] 4 pts

I went for smell.

I don't care as long as I can still taste.

Hearing is too important (music)

[–] 4 pts

yeah but taste and smell are closely linked together you'd lose some of the flavor without smell.

[–] 3 pts

Yeah, but hearing is more important to me.

[–] 2 pts

Id give up smell and taste if i had to choose

[–] [deleted] 2 pts

Your skills in the kitchen would suffer.

[–] 2 pts

I still cook when I got a cold with a temporary anosmia and it still tastes nice and balanced.

You've got to give up a sense. Which one is it?

Common. Nevah had any anyway!

You can't soundwhore on Rainbow Six without hearing bru

[–] 3 pts

I voted for smell. I could never navigate the world without sight. I enjoy music too much to lose hearing. I think I'd get into danger without touch. I need taste to make sure I eat. You'd think hunger would do the job, but taste is a big deal.

[–] 3 pts

I have tinnitus so fuck hearing!

[–] 2 pts

Taste , so I can loose some weight

[–] 2 pts (edited )

Taste and smell are at least partially tied together. Try to eat something with your nose plugged, flavor will be at least partially muted. We all get this when we are sick. I think it would have to be the sense of taste, even without our taste receptors we can still smell the things we shove in our faceholes. I say taste because most of the time i cram food into my mouth and swallow it so quickly that i barely taste it until i burp. Im a fast eater.

Just throwing this out there but there are a few more "senses" than the 5 most commonly known. Some are arguably tied to the 5, some are not. Mentioning it in case someone wants to research them.

PS: I voted wrong, lol. -1 from smell/ +1 to taste.

[–] 1 pt

Went ahead with touch. It would be nice to never have to feel pain. Freshly separated appendage? Tis but a scratch. Just duct tape that shit up and wait for the ambulance. I have a question about it though. Wife leaves, takes it all, would I still feel that?

[–] 1 pt

It would be nice to never have to feel pain.

Unpleasant experiences can come from any of the 5 senses.

Guess someone here can't get laid.

[–] 1 pt

Was not thinking of that. Eh, take a blue pill, still goes up. But I guess your right.

[–] 0 pt

The sense of touch is divided into separate senses... pain, hot, cold, pressure, etc. I'd give up pain if I could keep the other ones. It's not going to be easy to navigate life. You could hurt yourself badly, say, by leaning against a hot BBQ grill, and you wouldn't know it. You'd have to pay close attention.

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Depends. Taste would be good, because then I can eat anything (I'm a fussy eater). But bad because you wouldn't know if you're eating something you shouldn't.

On the other hand, I already wear earplugs to sleep or when I get a headache from too many people yelling gibberish (foreign language) at each other all day. So hearing would be my choice.

[–] 0 pt

Empathy. Mine's broken, anyway.

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