[Poll] Check One

[thefourthvine]

Internets! I am still compiling the Woobie Poll of Dooooooooom, but in the meantime, here is a PRESSING QUESTION that came up today while I was (yay!) visiting with norah. Plus some other pressing questions, because why have one forced choice when you can have five?

So. For the rest of your life, you can only have one of each of the following pairs. Which will it be? Which is the ONLY ONE YOU CAN HAVE FOREVER? (If you already live without one or more of these, then obviously your choice is easier. Like, I will have no trouble at all with question three, but question one might kill me.)

I am also taking suggestions for future horrible forced choices. I would like to find the hardest forced choice in all the land. (That isn't, you know, of great weight or import. No Sophie's Choices.)

Poll #2389 Choose Wisely

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You can only have one of these for the rest of your life. Which? Choose wisely:

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Onions
234 (37.1%)

Garlic
397 (62.9%)

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Fat
405 (64.3%)

Sugar
225 (35.7%)

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Coffee
159 (25.2%)

Chocolate
473 (74.8%)

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Caffeine
426 (68.3%)

Alcohol
198 (31.7%)

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Sex (including with partner(s) and with yourself, etc.)
427 (68.4%)

Sweets (including all desserts, candy, etc.)
197 (31.6%)

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[parhelion]

Having been forced through most of these choices in offline life -- thanks to active diabetes before the annoying Complete Lifestyle Change -- I was able to fill out most of the survey based on my own empirical experience.

Alcohol was a cakewalk, caffeine was somewhat harder, sweets were really rough, fats were downright brutal, and if anyone had suggested anything about cutting garlic and/or sex at that point, I do believe I would have slugged them. While cursing. And possibly weeping copiously.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, man. I just want to offer you a gentle hug and a mug of soothing, uncaffeinated, unsweetened tea. These are painful choices to have to make in real life!

And, yeah, I think punching anyone who suggests you give up sex or garlic is entirely appropriate. (Plus, how do you know for sure that anyone who suggests you give up garlic isn't a vampire? That would be my assumption, I tell you what.)

[parhelion]

I am delighted to be able to report that, after an intense half year of dietary boot camp, I won back small but tasty amounts of fats and sweets, not to mention the occasional cup of black tea. Paul Gross arms!

(While typing this, I was diverted by a chilling vision of the sort of vampire who would suggest I give up sex and garlic. I see him as wearing woolly cardigans over leisure slacks and pastel polo shirts, with a constant, cheerful smile that displays the perfect dental hygiene of his fangs.)