That's the most useless censoring of the word "Fuck" I have ever seen π
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It looked like it was originally meant to censore word much smalller
I'll bet you CAN taste ants though
I never knew about this. Is this the same gene which makes people like/dislike bitter foods?
Years ago at a place I worked at, food manufacturers, the R&D team did a taste workshop. 5 cups of flavours, salt, bitter, water, umami, sweet. The bitter one just tasted of water to me. They called it "bitter blind"
Probably makes you easier to poison. I will keep that in mind.
I can smell ants and it's a pretty weird smell, but I don't get any of the bitter food problems that some people have with certain vegetables.
With the exception of mushrooms. For some reason mushrooms spark that same sensitivity to ant scents, it's a similar sickly scent and makes me think of decay and loamy undergrowth and is very unappetizing so I've never enjoyed mushrooms.
TIL I'm a mutant. X-men watch out!
Called evolution. Yes, it's still ongoing in humans. Btw, this is one of the reasons that smaller populations have less survival chances (the other being inbreeding).
I think I can hear ants. People probably think Iβm crazy. Like if you bend down and get your face really close to their trail. Itβs like a buzzing sound. Like static on an old TV. Creepy as fuck.
Ants definitely produce sound when they walk. And why wouldn't they?
Could it just be the reflections of ambient noise you also get when you hold your ear close to any surface? The old "If you hold a seashell to your ear, you can hear the ocean" kind of thing.
Whatever, keep your ant-smelling superpower, I'm not jealous. At least cilantro doesn't taste like soap to me! :P
We need a study on if thatβs the divide. If you can smell ants you also think cilantro tastes like soap
I can smell ants strongly and have an aversion to them, and cilantro tastes wonderful to me.
Can smell ants, love cilantro, can't smell stinkbugs.
Stinkbugs only smell bad if you scare them. They never smell bad to me, either, but I also try not to scare insects.
Idk if scooping them up and putting them outside is scary to them, but I'm told people can smell them just from being in the same room with them, or crushing them, and I've done (or been near) all of the above yet never smelled one. And they're constantly sneaking in my house so I should have by now I think.
Maybe itβs you who has bo and just canβt smell it. Everyone else has been hinting.
Do stink bugs smell like BO?
Though when I do, I do smell it, and I shower regularly, and it only comes up when talking about stinkbugs, so I'm doubting your hypothesis regardless.
Cilantro: tastes like soap
Can smell ants: no
Sorry, I'm a counterpoint. I got the worst of both.
But do ants taste like soap or cilantro
I'm with you. Can't smell ants, but cilantro is soapy.
There are lots of little genetic quirks out there. I experience Arnold's Reflex, that is, I cough when I stick a cotton swab in my left ear canal. (Only my left. My right doesn't react.) There's also the Photic Sneeze Reflex, which is where you sneeze when looking at light. I don't have that, but around 35% of the population does.
I'm sure there are countless more little things like this that people just haven't talked about/gathered enough data on yet.
Every single time I walk outside, 3 sneezes sometimes more because of the sun. Although I've never met somebody else who does the same
I learned about the Photic Sneeze Reflex when discussing the frustration of cancelled sneezes (you know, when you feel one coming on, but then it just doesn't happen and it leaves you feeling weird.) He told me, "When that happens, I just look at a light." I had no idea what he meant. Meanwhile, he thought it was normal for everyone. We both learned something that day.
I didn't know about the cough reflex. I'll have to check if it's both sides. Can you taste iodine? It's present in hot pink food dye, making things like pink peeps taste worse than yellow or blue for me
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I canβt smell ants, and cilantro tastes soapy. However, I do have dry earwax and my armpits donβt smell. (Which is just spurious information to your hypothesis.)
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