@phoneboy You’re going all out on the beta?
@kdfrawg My grandfather had no sense of smell during the time I knew him, after an accident. My mother (his daughter) also spent a few years with little or no sense of smell after brain surgery. Hers has returned to some degree.
// @sumudu @gtwilson
@kdfrawg I’ve never had cinnamon toast. My brother in law, who has lived in the USA for about 40 years, once told me that he doesn’t like cinnamon because it is too sweet. I don’t think he realised it’s only sweet because it’s usually used with sugar.
// @sumudu
@kdfrawg Lol. When I lived on my own, I used to practically live on toast and marmite at stressful times. It didn’t help.
@kdfrawg eg Last night, when Mr I and I ate out, we were sitting on adjacent sides of a small square table. The waitress laid a knife and fork at each place, and set mine the wrong way round. I didn’t notice that my knife was on the left, I noticed that my fork and Mr I’s were together at the corner where there should have been one of each kind of implement. It then took a closer look for me to work out which one was the wrong way round. Mr I doesn’t work with that sort of spatial pattern.
// @gtwilson
@kdfrawg I find it fascinating how differently people’s minds work. It’s like some kind of institutional cover-up exists to say that they’re all the same apart from the ones that are pathological. It took me a long time to spot that that’s not true.
// @gtwilson
@kdfrawg An excellent point. Indians traditionally sat on the floor to eat their dinner. It makes sense they’d do that for meditation too, but if you’re not used to it you risk wrecking your knees and not achieving much else. The essential part of the posture is that you can stay still and not fall asleep while you meditate.
// @gtwilson
