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Occasionally I've read a book where a character is being described and I'm getting a picture in my mind. Then either the narrator or another character says the person looks like _____. (insert name of real life movie star or other famous person) and that movie star looks very different from the picture I was building.
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"Seichan". My mind had been pronouncing her name "SAY chin". But the narrator pronounced it "say SHAWN". My heart just fell. How could this be? I had to abandon the audiobook and go back to reading the book myself. For my own sanity. |
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I remember getting a physical at the Selective Service prior to enlisting.
I watched persons in front of me, miss many of the colors on the simple Red, Green, White 2 dot (they turn a knob and 2 dots change color) light box. Turns out poor R or G is a more common issue for Males than I thought (I was into Electronics. We use color codes all the time. I had no issue) . |
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I just watched an episode of a show from the nineties where someone pulled a fax out of the machine, and I could smell it. I get that a lot.
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In a similar way, blue is known to be a peaceful and relaxing color; just throwing an idea here, but it could maybe be due to a similar evolutionary process, whereby plains (where a lot of the sky can be seen) are safer to humanoids than forests or jungles. As for food, we have documented examples that some substances taste differently for different people, although they still fall into categories of sort (e.g. "citrusy" vs "soapy" for cilantro). I'd think there's likely more variability here. Just my 2 cents! |
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It took an embarrassing amount of time to realize that most people can not taste the bitterness of the above items (or that of a number of cheap artificially colored red, pink, purple or brown sweets) |
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03-14-2023, 08:21 AM | #58 | |
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I've never found Dr. Pepper to be bitter. It's my favorite soda. I probably drink one a year. Ok, I'm not a big soda fan. |
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I've never tasted Dr. Pepper, but I have become curious about it since reading an essay by John Green in which he says...
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As far as I can tell I don't taste bitter more acutely but rather have the ability to taste a bitter that most can't. My amateur google-fu indicates that there is a wide variability in 'bitter taste receptor genes'.
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