Does swimming effect your sense of smell?
My wife and I recently had a lovely dinner with a person very knowledgable about wines. We are both wine lovers and appreciated his wonderful "wine lesson". However, when he got into the description of the wines in terms of berrys and oak and leather etc I had to stop him and say that I can sometimes detect a raisin taste or maybe even a blackberry taste but I have never been able to get any of those other subtle tastes that the wine experts use to describe wines.
So he asked me if I had sinus problems or something else that might effect my sense of smell. Well, the only thing I could think of was chlorine. Does anyone have any thoughts or information on wether 30 plus years of swimming and breathing that wonderful chlorine smell could have ruined or at least altered my sense of smell? If so I may go to exclusively drinking 2 Buck Chuck!!!
Glenn:)
Just get the Charles Shaw stuff by the case at Trader Joes. It's cheap and the experts put it amazingly high on the list. If it bothers you that the pro says that your sinuses are fried just be content that you can probably take him in a 100 free. Priorities man, priorities!:D
Originally posted by laineybug
Geek, I bet there are a lot of folks who don't see the need in sitting around discussing whether or not your thumb or pinky should go in the water first on freestyle entry or where you should be looking while swimming breaststroke. Geeze, have a little bit of tolerance for others' interests.
It's pinky in my book. This isn't a wine forum. You need to be tolerant of my intollerance in order to claim you are tolerant.
Speaking of wine, do you have to extend the pinky when drinking a glass at a wine bar? Because I'm a swimmer and prefer the pinky entry, I wonder if I'd be an advanced wine drinker. Does sprint beer drinking translate to distance wine drinking?
Originally posted by meldyck
Ummm. Just go watch Sideways again and have another glass of Merlot.
While difficult to admit, this movie called Sideways is one of my all-time favorites, wine and all.
Originally posted by aquageek
I didn't say I don't like wine. I just don't see the need in sitting around talking about how it tastes like birch berries and then upchucking it into a spitoon.
Geek, I bet there are a lot of folks who don't see the need in sitting around discussing whether or not your thumb or pinky should go in the water first on freestyle entry or where you should be looking while swimming breaststroke. Geeze, have a little bit of tolerance for others' interests.
Lainey
Did you ask this person if he detected coconut in the wine? One must have dropped on his head to actually think a dinner discussing leather and oak in wine was a good time.
Um, if I may cut through all of the amusing sarcasm here to say that the thread was actually whether swimming/chlorine can affect a person's sense of smell, not a discussion on wine.
Originally posted by aquageek
Speaking of wine, do you have to extend the pinky when drinking a glass at a wine bar? Because I'm a swimmer and prefer the pinky entry, I wonder if I'd be an advanced wine drinker. Does sprint beer drinking translate to distance wine drinking?
Reminds me of my recent trip to Kalamazoo Michigan where I was asked to enter into a drinking contest against a Canadian college hockey player at Waldo's......
It was male against female, young against the old. The odds were against me......
Well, I don't mean to brag, but I must......I won! I believe I owe it all to the perfect extension of my pinky.
Originally posted by MichiganHusker
Geek, you don't know what you are missing.
I didn't say I don't like wine. I just don't see the need in sitting around talking about how it tastes like birch berries and then upchucking it into a spitoon.
