Posted by Auguste March 29, 2008 in Signs of the Non-Apocalypse
If it weren’t such a gimme, this would be sublime headline writing:
‘George Bush is like crusty potato’
I would have said cold corn chowder, but I don’t happen to be synesthetic.
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Giggles. It would only be apt if he were a *crusty potato with black slime*, like the ones responsible for the Irish Potato Famine.
Yes- unfortunately “the crusty potato bit on top of a cottage pie” is quite yummy.
But I [i]like[/i] cold corn chowder!
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If only Synesthesia Synn, the Girl From LSD, and her fellow FemForce heroines could save us from George W. Bush.
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“Way to go- Idaho!” - Ham the Piggy Bank in Toy Story
Yo, you date Candy Buttons, you get what you deserve.
Not to mention makes you wonder what the poor bloke would think about the lot here . .
To be fair to him, though, if you had a horrible taste in your mouth every time you heard someone’s name, you’d probably not be inclined to like them.
You were probably joking, but I’d rather we didn’t dudge people whose lives are affected by things we never have to deal with. It may be irrational to pick people out by names, and even the man in question thinks it’s shallow (though I don’t think it’s any more shallow than being attracted to someone based on looks- it’s just a different kind of ‘chemistry’ to the one ‘normal’ people are used to), but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to have this kind of thing subtly shape all your decisions in life, and how you interact with people.
I’d say Bush is more like something that’s left at the back of the fridge too long, until it loses all semblance of what it was and becomes a shapleless soft sludge, myself. But that’s just me. *shrugs*
A while ago the Economist had an article on the sub-prime crisis featuring a picture of Bush giving a speech at Wall Street with the caption under it; “We must find a way out of here…” (complete the next line in the lyric)
You mean “There must be some kinda way outta here…”?
Actually, it’s “There must be some way out of here” if you want to quote the original lyrics.
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what? oh. Synesthesia is one of few conditions I actually envy. I mean, some people pay good money for the drugs to feel like that! It sounds so cool. I wouldn’t really classify it a mental illness so much as a sort of mental deviance. I’d imagine it works out really well for artistic types.
The name thing is something I understand; the particular spelling of a person’s name factors into my first impressions and prejudices me a little. It would be cooler, IMO, to base one’s opinions on their gematria value.
I’d guess it depends on the type and degree to which it affects people as to how interesting it might be. Having a bad taste come into your mouth at the sight or sound of something doesn’t seem fun. But from what I’vre read of synaesthetes recounting their experiences, the vast majority seem happy with it, and can’t imagine life without it. Certainly, it doesn’t deprive you of anything a ‘normal’ person has, so I wouldn’t class it as a disability.
I actually think I might be synaesthetic (I’m sure nobody could care less, but there we go), of the grapheme-colour sort. I’ve always strongly assiciated most numbers and letters with differenc colours, to the point where the colours involved helps me remember numbers (I’m still rubbish with numbers, anyway, but I suppose I can blame that on some colours being so darn similar. )I only actually learned that other people don’t see things the same way when I saw a programme about synaestesia on TV, and I was like ‘Other people don’t see coloured letters???’ It had enver occured to me that it was unusual.
I’m not sure what a proper synaethete is supposed to be or feel like, (so who knows? I may just be imaginative as opposed to synaesthetic, lol) but I can’t imagine what numbers or letters would be like without the colours attached to them. I can’t say whether it helps with creativity or not, I suppose because I find it very hard to draw the line between what is proper ‘inspiration’ and what might be hardwired into your brain. but I like being creative, so I suppose it can’t hurt to see things a little differently.
I was hoping there’d be a whole bunch of people here brought out of the woodwork about their synaesthesia, but alas, it seems there are none.
Supposedly quite a few famous artists and musicians have been synaesthesic.
Personally, I have a hard time drawing the line between “X reminds me of Y for reasons I can’t really explain” and actual synaesthesia. For instance, where does “Vick’s Vapo-Rub reminds me of wood paneling” fade into “blue + purple = 9″? The guy in the article sounds more like the former than the latter, in my opinion.
I have serious issues associating smells with particular abstract concepts, events, people, places, etc (and not necessarily obvious ones like ‘peppermint reminds me of Christmas”) - but I’m pretty sure I don’t have synaesthesia.
Scents are strongly tied into memory, even for us nonsynaesthesia folk. Dunno where the line is drawn for that, but I imagine there’s a whole range of synaesthesia, w/ no ‘right’ answer on how things are supposed to smell/sound/associate w/ colors.
I read the article and realized it’s not so much that he associates certain things with flavors, but that he physically tastes said flavors when he hears certain words.
Which, yeah, that’s seriously the most dramatic synaesthesia I’ve ever heard of!