Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 21/09/2012 12:40 PM, scott wrote:
> >> But when somebody tells me "wine tastes sweet", when it clearly and
> >> obviously does not, and it's trivially easy to verify over and over
> >> again that it /actually/ tastes sharp, bitter and corrosive,
> >
> > Did you ever stop and think that not all wines are the same?
>
> Did you ever stop to think that I've tasted dozens of different wines
> over the course of my life? Sure, they didn't all taste the same. But
> I've yet to find a single one which could be described as "sweet". And
> when people sing lyrics like "kissing sweeter than wine", it makes it
> sound like sweetness is a very common property of many wines. This
> certainly does not appear to be the case at all.
>
It is entirely possible you are a "supertaster".

"In the case of the supertaster, it is difficult to imagine one being an
excellent wine connoisseur because most supertasters find red wine bitter and
thus, unenjoyable."
http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=282

This raises the rather interesting possibility that even if you and I (for
example) experience exactly the same thing, we may be completely at odds in our
descriptions of it. And yet, our opposing descriptions may both be entirely
correct, because our /perceptions/ are objectively different.

What do you think of coffee?

P.S. I'm entirely with you on not accepting (unless or until your survival
requires it) the false dichotomy of choosing between living in a place that
sucks or working at a place that sucks.

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