If you had a rare illness...

[nixium]

which one would you pick, and why?

I'd go smell, just because there are so many bad ones out there.

 

[Drako]

Common

Because I've always been kind of crazy anyway.

 

[dbk]

taste or smell

 

[Pacemaker]

I picked taste, much easier to eat healthy that way. Picking food would be 100% based on how good it was for me.

 

[BeauJangles]

Taste and smell are pretty intertwined, so I think you'd have to lose both -- not one or the other.

But, yeah, despite how bland life would be, I'd probably want to lose taste / smell.

 

[dougp]

Originally posted by: nixium
which one would you pick, and why?

I'd go smell, just because there are so many bad ones out there.

Smelling and taste go hand in hand - you'd kinda be screwed.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Drako
Common

Because I've always been kind of crazy anyway.

http://packphour.files.wordpre...07/12/common-sense.jpg

 

[nakedfrog]

Given those choices, taste. Smell is more likely to alert you to danger.

 

[Baked]

Definitely smell. I live 4 blocks from a park and I can smell the nasty when skunks rip a huge one at night. Smell I can do without.

Ps. Stop messing w/ the damn skunks, you assholes.

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Given those choices, taste. Smell is more likely to alert you to danger.

You must have really poor hearing then, because that's your top alert alarm.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

smell, im always congested anyways

 

[BlackTigers]

I could drop taste, if my sense of smell wasn't affected.

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Given those choices, taste. Smell is more likely to alert you to danger.

What if I like the taste of danger?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Baked
Definitely smell. I live 4 blocks from a park and I can smell the nasty when skunks rip a huge one at night. Smell I can do without.

Ps. Stop messing w/ the damn skunks, you assholes.

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Given those choices, taste. Smell is more likely to alert you to danger.

You must have really poor hearing then, because that's your top alert alarm.

Not when there's a gas leak.

 

[speg]

I think living in rez first year ruined my sense of taste.

 

[Pepsei]

smell,

so i can eat rotten fish all day.

 

[DomS]

taste. If you choose smell you lose taste too.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Not when there's a gas leak.

That's why they made gas leak alarm.

 

[xSauronx]

temperature

 

[OCGuy]

I lost my sense of dignity one night in TJ in '04. Lets just say always check the undercarriage.

 

[Gunslinger08]

You may as well have asked smell vs. taste. No one is going to choose sight, hearing, or touch.

 

[Tiamat]

Taste. Most of the what "tastes" good is due to its smell.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Given those choices, taste. Smell is more likely to alert you to danger.

You must have really poor hearing then, because that's your top alert alarm.

More likely than taste, dummy.

 

[ManyBeers]

I chose "sight" so I won't have to read these stupid polls anymore that offer sight as an option to lose over the four other senses.

 

[Kirby]

Pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Pain

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Pain

If we also count pain as a sense in this discussion, losing it would be a bad choice. Pain is your body's way of telling you something is wrong. This means exercising would be dangerous, you might not notice a cut on your leg and bleed to death, etc.