Super People!

[mishalak]

trickofthedark wrote about supertasters, those people who taste bitter and hot things more intensely, and so don't like things like brussels sprouts. It the high level of flavanoids. I suspect that it is also what gets some people about sulfides used to stop fermentation in wine.

Anyway supertasters often find things like meat that have not been carefully prepared to have a off or metallic taste that the majority who are medium tasters or those who are non-tasters who don't get the bitter taste at all.

In my comment I noted that I didn't have this problem, but put in a bit about me being sympathetic because I hear things that most people aren't bothered by. Up in about the same register as my mild tinnitus I can hear the sound of cathode ray tubes in standard computer monitors and televisions. When the volume is off the noise is especially noticeable. And it can be really, really annoying.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Florescent lights used to be worse, but I think the newer ballasts (that's the right word, right?) work better so they don't buzz as much. Or else my ears are slowly becoming less sensitive as I get older. Anyway when I get a new job I'm going to get a LED monitor for my computer and then life will be as perfect as for those people with digital watches in HHGG.