The taste of a station.....

mrfs42 71E25683904T 172E6538094T Big Hair Day Posts: 5,922	The taste of a station..... Aug 24, 2013 6:59:22 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mrfs42 on Aug 24, 2013 6:59:22 GMT This popped up on my FB feed. Synasthetic Stations- WS, it's the Telegraph.
	Last Edit: Aug 24, 2013 6:59:43 GMT by mrfs42 If we can have A 244/R 246^A, ODX 246^A/R 246^B, A 246^B/ROD 1, OD 1/ROD 2 then I'm going to have A (7)88/R (7)90^A, NHX (7)90^A/R (7)90^B, A (7)90^B/RNH 1, NH 1/RNH 2 and hang the consequences!

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	The taste of a station..... Aug 24, 2013 7:54:43 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 7:54:43 GMT Call me tasteless, what a pile of tosh!

nickf Posts: 781	The taste of a station..... Aug 24, 2013 8:19:19 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by nickf on Aug 24, 2013 8:19:19 GMT His real name isn't Gully Foyle, is it? (Tiger Tiger by Alfred Bester).

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The taste of a station..... Aug 24, 2013 13:33:18 GMT

Post by melikepie on Aug 24, 2013 13:33:18 GMT

Aug 24, 2013 7:54:43 GMT @xercesfobe said:

Call me tasteless, what a pile of tosh!

Synasthesia is in fact a very real condition. The stories I've heard about it I find quite fascinating and frankly this story does not surprise me.

I think I'm still lost

mrfs42 71E25683904T 172E6538094T Big Hair Day Posts: 5,922	The taste of a station..... Aug 24, 2013 22:33:52 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mrfs42 on Aug 24, 2013 22:33:52 GMT Likewise. Synaesthetic people have very interesting neural crossovers.
	If we can have A 244/R 246^A, ODX 246^A/R 246^B, A 246^B/ROD 1, OD 1/ROD 2 then I'm going to have A (7)88/R (7)90^A, NHX (7)90^A/R (7)90^B, A (7)90^B/RNH 1, NH 1/RNH 2 and hang the consequences!

railtechnician In memoriam one of a kind Posts: 2,973	The taste of a station..... Aug 25, 2013 16:33:09 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by railtechnician on Aug 25, 2013 16:33:09 GMT Aug 24, 2013 6:59:22 GMT mrfs42 said: This popped up on my FB feed. Synasthetic Stations- WS, it's the Telegraph. Without doubt the most ridiculous item I have ever seen quoted in this place.
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castlebar Planners use hindsight, not foresight Posts: 1,316	The taste of a station..... Aug 25, 2013 19:16:49 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by castlebar on Aug 25, 2013 19:16:49 GMT Agree with railtechnician +1 from me Here's the only taste l got from reading it > > > TRIPE!
	The next "station", if you can call it a station, will be Castlebar Park which was a nice place until 1935. Now, only leave the train here if you wish to use the "shelter" to pee in. Everyone else seems to.

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The taste of a station..... Aug 25, 2013 23:46:17 GMT

Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2013 23:46:17 GMT

Aug 24, 2013 22:33:52 GMT mrfs42 said:

Likewise. Synaesthetic people have very interesting neural crossovers.

Another example of this is sounds / colours. There are enough permutations to keep a host of neuroscientists gainfully employed for quite a considerable time.

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The taste of a station..... Aug 26, 2013 11:47:17 GMT

Post by nickf on Aug 26, 2013 11:47:17 GMT

I have heard similar stuff said about various musical keys - that C major for instance evokes different images, tastes and smells from A major. I think that you would have to be extremely musical, drunk or drugged (or all three)to become aware of these effects!

Last Edit: Aug 26, 2013 13:25:22 GMT by nickf: Deleting a superfluous 'for instance'.

jeebeelodo Poor-taste poet and Copywriter Posts: 594	The taste of a station..... Aug 26, 2013 12:21:42 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jeebeelodo on Aug 26, 2013 12:21:42 GMT It's to do with which parts of the palate are hit by words/morphemes, which also trigger taste sensations. Synaethesia is very common but I can image trainspotting would soon dull my senses.

melikepie Posts: 2,849	The taste of a station..... Aug 27, 2013 14:05:40 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by melikepie on Aug 27, 2013 14:05:40 GMT What first got me interested in Synaesthesia was this www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/derek_prog_summary.shtml
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The taste of a station..... Nov 20, 2013 13:54:34 GMT

Post by Chris W on Nov 20, 2013 13:54:34 GMT

Yesterday the German football team used the Underground. Now today a BBC magazine article on the news website reports that a man from Dollis Hill can taste every Underground station...

The man has Synesthesia, a condition where senses merge

Is Kilburn really that bad

!!!

This adds to the expanding types of Underground map that has been created in 2013.

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