[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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[calathea]

In my life I have had ONE cup of coffee, and I had it after a three hour hike during which I exhausted my water supply and my choices were: (a) coffee from my hiking buddy's flask or (b) water from the lake we were hiking around, which is known to contain liver flukes (which can kill you). It should tell you something that I really THOUGHT about the liver-fluke-containing water for some considerable time before I gave in to the coffee.

It's not that I don't want to like coffee (because I do! You have no idea how often people here assume that not wanting coffee or tea when they offer is because YOU HATE THEM AS A PERSON instead of you know, because you don't like coffee or tea). It's just that even the SMELL revolts me. (Tea I object to less, and will drink 2-3 times a year, usually when my mum makes it for me.)