Experimental Little Invention Takes Existence

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fairclaire wrote: »

Savvy, fascinating article I read today. Well I thought so anyway this really interested me. Thoughts??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10257633/What-do-London-Underground-stops-taste-like.html

I find synesthesia fascinating. Read about a father and daughters who see lines moving together when they feel acceleration in thier cars and a man who feels needles touching his skin when he tastes chicken. Three times moire common in women IIRC.

Anyhoo goodnight all.

I'll just check on the world using God's real-time worldmonitoring website.:wave:

3Dogs

All caught up so off to bed now - night night

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Savvy, fascinating article I read today. Well I thought so anyway this really interested me. Thoughts??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10257633/What-do-London-Underground-stops-taste-like.html

Yeah, I immediately thought 'a bit of synaesthesia' as soon as I saw the headline. It is (or can be!) fascinating how others perceive the world - this is where one sense triggers another. It can I think cause problems for the person with it sometimes, if for example the sense they get is one of pain every time they see a specific colour.

I'd love to have it though, other than that, such as the harmless one of seeing the "taste" (as long as it's a pleasant taste!) or "colour" of different notes in music or in that each specific number, or letter of the alphabet, is inherently a particular colour. For example, every number 4 you see is blue, every number 7 is always orange etc. (The colour of particular numbers is specific to the individual with that form of the condition.)

I don't have it, sadly. I've read on the internet about people such as Daniel Tammet, who is both autistic and believed to be a synaesthete. I think he holds the European record for reciting Pi from memory - to thousands of decimal places. Sadly I only manage about 20. There are people, such as Simon Baron-Cohen, who diagnoses autism, that also diagnose synaesthesia (easily enough for you to say!) and an organisation called UK Synaesthesia Association which he originally founded - http://www.uksynaesthesia.com/

As it says there, it is a "truly fascinating condition". I think people with the condition generally just think the world is how they see it and believe everyone sees it that way, until they are told they have the condition whereupon it becomes a surprise that others don't have exactly the same experience, of the number 1 being purple for example. Although I don't have it, I also thought the world was how it was to me, before I was diagnosed with Asperger's. I thought there wasn't any body language communication to the extent that now is a mystery to me (since I've never perceived it but am now aware that others perceive quite differently).

Anyroad.

Off the track -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qziIjQ3j_S4

Savvybuyer

That was actually a second vocal version which I heard many years later. Here's this completely different (to me!) one, from earlier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xVnK-bU4M

(You'll remember this one from UK number 28 in the official chart in 1999. (Thought not!:rotfl::D)) I guess I like these little changes in how songs go very slightly differently! It goes a different way that second one in this post now (or first one, to me!).

And of course there's the original which was an instrumental, and an original vocal club version that didn't have the "Fly Away" in it and loads and loads of others!!

Savvybuyer

Actually, that map of the Tube (you can enlarge it) doesn't appear to contain anything nasty-tasting - mmmm, it's making me feel quite hungry!! Must get back to buying some of those things, and figuring out how, for the cheapest possible price (or biggest profit!:D).

dipdap

You still up Savvy
I wonder if scamps fell back into a vodka induced sleep

Savvybuyer

Lucozade Sport (4x500ml) just shot back up in price in A:T.
Vs T or M on certain ones. Eg £1.92 in T / M but £2 GC back on top if they have the former £2 price on the SEL in your A! Potential to be better than free once again!!:rotfl::):)

[Edit: or even Sport Orange 4pk vs Sains' £1.79:T:T:T. So - deleted off the M list now and onto AvsS! Sport Carribean Burst vs T £1.92 N/A Sains. though - should your store's SEL limit you to that - with M in reserve:rotfl::rotfl: - Cherry is vs T £1.92, I don't have it for M, Lemon & Lime Lite vs Sainsbobs lower price, Orange Lite was on msm for A last week but doesn't seem to be now, these appear to be changing on msm by the day/week, so recheck on there! If the Orange Lite turns up, for what's it worth I have it at £1.92 in M this week, but unless it is on msm, do not buy it - unless it is part of a mltibuy in A that you want to use for some other reason of course.]

dipdap

All so quiet here tonight

dipdap

Back to work for me again

Savvybuyer

dipdap wrote: »

You still up Savvy
I wonder if scamps fell back into a vodka induced sleep

Of course. I bet everyone else has turned in though - so, just you and me!:) And the small matter of an M list:rotfl:.

Scamps caught up - but then didn't because he missed all about synaes..whatever it is called in the looonnnnggg posts I made. More catching up to do Scamps!:D

[Edit: sorry, it was 3dogs that said 'caught up'.]