I'm quite proud of what I've called this topic. Alright. Sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing. (Hypothetically) you have to lose one for a year, which one can you go without and why? Personally, I think taste has my vote. While (obviously) I enjoy tasting tasty food, if anything, to me it seems the most 'luxurious' and least 'useful' (while it has it's merits) sense of the five.
Easy, my choice would be smell. Now you have me thinking what one would be the most difficult to give up. lol
I'm with you, I could do without taste for a year. I can't cook and the Mr. can't cook, so it's not like I'll be missing anything.
You have to remove the "taste" one for the US people, taste is a stranger to them. Oh for feck sake, it's a joke...in poor taste. I'd say hearing. I really dislike noise. It annoys and sometimes stresses me. I lived in town for some years and it's fine when you're younger and make your own noise to camouflage everyone else's and it's fine when you are still at the stage of thinking everyone should be free to make as much noise as they want and you are partying all night. However, it entirely lost appeal and when we moved to a quieter location the move made more difference to my stress levels than anything else I've ever tried. I really would prefer to live where no one else lives.
Though I would probably enjoy a mute or deaf option, I wouldn't want to imagine not being able to hear music or my son's laughter ever again. Plus having lived my whole life being able to hear, the silence would probably be very unnerving.
