Horizon: Derek Tastes of Earwax

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Do you get any of the freaky things (called SYNAESTHESIA) that were covered by this programme what was on the telly last night? I get the numbers thing (but it doesn't help me with my maths)and the years thing. The numbers thing is most prominent when thinking about the Top 40, and the years thing is complicated by the fact that 1966 is a kind of hump-back bridge. I suppose this is because of the World Cup. It is funny that in 1990 we turned a corner, but not in 2000.

It had never occurred to me that there was anything unusual about these things. Now I feel special enough to arrange for my own STUFFING.

What about you?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago)

The programme seemed desgined to reassure us ordinary non-synaesthetic dullards living our in our grey and narrow little worlds that DON'T WORRY, YOU'RE SLIGHTLY SYNAESTHETIC, YOU'RE INTERESTING TOO! I found the Indian professor guy really hard to take after he said, "How did we progress from the caveman grunting to the sophistication of a William Shakespeare or a George Bush?" I'm not joking, he actually said that!!!!!!!!!!

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that was a strange thing to say. And his experiment with the shapes was a bit dud too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Booba and Kiki - aren't they number on in the charts as we speak?

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago)

That's over there in the corner.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago)

Professor Vilayanur S Ramachandran.

I hope he is one of those mythical self-googlers we're all so worried about.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:26 (twenty years ago)

He seemed like a cool dude apart from the Bush thing. I kind of know what he's getting at, it's a good idea.

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Really pissed off I missed the programme. I'd been looking forward to it for days.

Ramachandran's great. Did they talk about his work with stroke and epilepsy?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps the George Bush comment was a sly attempt to get some extra funding.

No, they didn't talk about strokes and epilepsy.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Some of it seem a bit obvious - low notes being dark and high notes being bright, tho I suppose you could say that is a display of residual synaesthesia or summat

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Most obvious things: Norwich is yellow, August is yellow.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago)

xxxpost... The stroke/epilepsy stuff Ramachandran did was looking at which brain functions, particularly associations, worked unusually following some kind of neurological "event" - e.g. a guy who thought his parents were imposters after he'd had an accident because his sight-recognition process bypassed the emotion section of his head. He could tell they looked like his parents but his brain couldn't reconcile that with not feeling any emotions towards them.

So anyway I guess he was talking about how extraneous associations can be formed or something? What did he say? Or should I just try and find someone who taped the programme?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Norwich is yellow

But what colour is Delia Smith?

I taped the programme, but haven't watched it yet. I'm slightly synaesthetic - mostly, I associate colours with sensations. An aching pain is blue; itching is green.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Shit brown.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago)

(Delia Smith is)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago)

my thoughts here:

What colour is seventeen

as usual the individual case studies were fascinating. i love the very specificness of these anomalies.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 1 October 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Koogy, I think You're being a bit cynical about the blind man on that other thread. If they'd asked him where 1967 was, you might have been surprised. (It is kind of a Magic Roundabout, third on the left.)

That is a good thread, almost as good as this one, but I am still disappointed at the low turn-out, freakwise. I thought you would all be on one.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Top two are related to 'Derek Tastes of Earwax':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index_surveys.shtml

You too can find out if you are a freak!

You are anyway!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, the title of this thread tastes of David Essex.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Watching enough eps of Horizon and you start seeing the same experts pop up here & there.

― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Thursday, 4 March 2010 08:29 (fifteen years ago)

So lightweight these days. Watched one on food as driving force for human evolution, and half the time was spent pointlessly watching random twunts talking about what food they liked, and manhandling it into their faces in glorious slo-mo.

― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:15 (fifteen years ago)

I feel like their might always've been an element of "nice vacant pictures for the television" to it? But I'd have to look at some properly old eps to compare and contrast.

Thought the factual content of that show was quite interesting tbh

― STFU Alumni (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:39 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe 'twas ever thus, I hate to be part of the "in my day..." crowd. But I would like them to pack more in, or fit what they have into half an hour. I'd rather not feel like I could be doing three other things while watching.

― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:56 (fifteen years ago)

That's the benefit of having the computer nearby, or watching it on a quarter-screen window of said computer. You get to do all sorts of useful things as it plays.

― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Thursday, 4 March 2010 18:03 (fifteen years ago)

Minesweeper!

― StanM, Thursday, 4 March 2010 18:04 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

gonna make my friends watch this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgL3uQvLNEs

― requiem for crunk (kingfish), Monday, 22 March 2010 08:10 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Do you like HORIZON (the programme)? Say why if so

― Elderflower Gimcrax Flores (admrl), Thursday, 11 August 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.