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The Taste of Pain
An anonymous reader writes "The more the human genome is unraveled and previously non-genetic based attributes are now associated with a specific genetic function, such as physical and emotional pain and taste, it seems, to me, that our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes." A related article links your sense of taste to your risk for cancer, heart disease, etc.
I don't know why but images of Sarah Kozer from "Joe Millionaire" comes to my mind...
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Of course, this correlation is based on an increased taste for pork products and heart disease... might not be strictly genetic.
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
You scientist schmucks.
Ack, I really need to quit watching mob movies.
(FYI: This was meant to be funny, it's saturday ... loosen up a bit ...)
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
I still think it's a combination of the two. My cousin and I attended the same private school as children, yet she completed K through 12 at the school, while I only spent 4 years there. Our IQ's are nearly identical, but she had the better learning environment.
She's currently a doctor, while I work as a civilian for the government.
I wish luck would've been more on her side. Poor girl.
Sadly, I must cut this post short; I need to file a grievance with the Union, blame my co-workers for my ineptitude, and take the rest of the day off.
Dammit, someone changed my Freecell settings again... I'm taking a coffee break.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
"...it seems, to me, that our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes."
What made it seem like that to you? Genes, I guess.
If the right kind of scientists figure out a way to genetically alter what people like, we could get rid of all those people who like velvet paintings, garden gnomes, and NASCAR racing!
Of course there is the darker side . . .
Chicken, pain tastes like chicken..
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In this case it's well worth it to RTFA:
She's lovely
Maybe it's just in my genetic makeup to fancy raven haired beauties who lick lollypops... Rrr.
# init 5
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Oh...
You haven't tasted Pain til you try my wife's cooking. /me passes slashdot he salt.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
"Far more women than men are 'super-tasters', as the 25% of people who are especially sensitive to bitterness are formally known."
So that's the excuse now eh? "Sorry honey, I can't because I am a Super Taster"
"if our personalities were more influenced by Genes, then why aren't all Australians violent people that steal, rape and kill?"
They're not!?!
Yea, I can only wish. My father is quite the ladies' man while I am reading slashdot.
They're really starting to understand how people feel about things.
But to know you is to know your weaknesses. And to know your weaknesses is to have power over you. And having power over you makes you less of a free human being and more of a tool.
But it's all academic, isn't it? People who can't come to this conclusion on their own, do so because they're unable to recognize it. And if they can't recognize it, they won't understand it, even if carefully presented to them. So this is merely a nod to the people who also find it interesting that people believe they've finally stumbled on reality through "reality" television.
What I'm trying to say, is that one person's enlightenment from reality television, is another persons opportunity for enlightenment in reality reality.
"They taste like burning." -Ralph
Researchers believe that further investigation may lead to revealing the source of ALS (Advanced Lawyer Syndrome), which is manifest by a high level of insensitivity to feeling their clients' pain. ALS is a recessive trait currently thought to be caused by one or several genetic mutations on Chromosome 7.
So, I'm thinking if you have a certain taste for brocoli, carrots, herbal tea, and celery, you have a very low risk of cancer... Whereas if you have a taste for chewing tobacco, fatty steaks, bacon, you have very high risk?