View Poll Results: If you had to choose one of the five senses to discard, which would you choose?

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  • Smell

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  • Touch

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  • Taste

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Thread: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

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    Default See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

    As said by the Three Wise Monkeys even though there's actually four.
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    I say smell cause well I don't mind not smelling gross stuff. Sure missing like good smells and food smells but at least I can still touch and see and hear who I interact with.

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    What I'd do was I'd thought I'd be one of those deaf mutes
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    Why are you people getting rid of smell!?
    Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again! I hardly knew I should use me feet again!

    What do you have to say for yourself?

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    I think if I couldn't smell things I'd be a more practical person at least

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    A man that can't smell himself is an ignant' one. I'd probably give up all my feeling or taste. Either one would be fine.
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    Dieting would be so much easier without taste. Tempting chocolate no more!


    Also, wouldn't you pretty much give up smell and taste if you gave up smell?

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    One's taste would be very much dulled without smell.
    Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again! I hardly knew I should use me feet again!

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    Taste, so that I can finally STOP EATING and lose weight. Yay!


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    Smell seems like the least important one to me.

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    If you give up smell you hurt your taste a little, but I don't think if you give up taste it'd hurt your smell. I don't know, maybe it does!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tama2 View Post
    Why are you people getting rid of smell!?
    I know right. xD Clearly, many of you have never smelt the wonders of Victoria Secret's lotion.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kes View Post
    Also, wouldn't you pretty much give up smell and taste if you gave up smell?
    I think the Olfactory system effects both smell and taste.

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    They're all terrible choices.

    I chose 'touch' because it would be interesting. I wouldn't be able to walk or drive a car though xD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sagensyg View Post
    If you give up smell you hurt your taste a little
    More than a little.


    I said this the last time we had a thread like this. Don't give up smell, because you'd be nerfing your sense of taste as well. Just give up taste.

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    Smell is pretty much worthless for the most part. BYE BYE!
    I would beg to differ. Smell is important in taste, and also in making sure food is safe to eat. It also is an alert system to tell you if something is burning, or if there is a gas leak or something-- and that's just to name a few things!

    I'd give up taste. Let's face it, if food was tasteless and unsatisfying, I wouldn't be tempted to eat more than I should, just enough that I'm full-- not to mention it would make eating foods that taste bad much more desirable. So it would be much better from a health standpoint, because you can avoid the foods that aren't nutritious but taste great, and eat all of the most bland, healthy food possible.

    Not only that, but you can keep all of your other senses. If you lose smell, your ability to taste is strongly impacted in a negative way.
    Human smell is actually terrible compared to EVERY OTHER MAMMAL ON THE PLANET.
    Nothing that owning a dog, and having common sense can't fix.
    Who cares if it's worse than other mammals? It's still our most primal/instinctive sense, and it's also the only sense that does not pass through the thalamus in the brain, so it's the first sense to stimulate the brain. All other sensations pass through the thalamus, the brain's 'relay center', and sent as impulses to their proper locations in the cerebral cortex.


    Not only that, but without the olfactory sense, your vomeronasal organ would also not work. That is the primary organ responsible for detecting pheromones that regulate behaviors like mating, territoriality, and aggressiveness. Now, while it is true that this is not as important to us as it is to other mammals, it still plays a role in human sexuality. Also, as I said before, without smell, your sense of taste wouldn't be very good either. Why give up two senses when you can lose one that can be beneficial to you in the long run? Also, smells also stimulate the memory more than other senses.
    *adjusts glasses and walks away*

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    Evil tastes pretty friggin' good, but I'm not sure if I can smell evil.

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