[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

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 634

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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%)

Comments

[everysecondtuesday]

Onions versus garlic is a terrible choice to make. Also, I am surprised at the number of people willing to give up coffee for chocolate. I suppose at least you'd still have tea.

[dhara]

ahahaha, I love everyone's priorities! ecause as of this moment, everyone has voted for chocolate over coffee, and sex over sweets. (Because there are other vehicles for caffeine, like tea! And as for sex, well, duh. Also I'd already chosen fat over sugar.)

[giglet]

Having indulged in many of these already today, I now feel the need to go have some chocolate and alcohol, too.

Giglet is an impressionable Giglet.

[naraht]

Neither coffee nor chocolate... I don't like either.

[ratherbe4gotten]

Actually, these ones were pretty easy for me... although I was feeling pretty lonely with the coffee there for a bit...

[dhara]

*puzzled* by the time I posted the above comment, the poll had been updated, and in this brave new world there are people who would give up chocolate for coffee, and sex for sweets.

[macey]

...oh god that last choice. T_T

[calathea]

I am totally indifferent to the caffeine/alcohol choice as I never have either.

[litotease]

*raises hand*

*g*

[giglet]

I didn't choose onions for the same reason that I didn't choose coffee: there are acceptable substituted for onions (shallots, scapes, or even ramps) the same way there are other acceptable carriers of caffeine.

[princessofgeeks]

does it mean that i am a bear of very little brain that the choices seems VERY EASY???

LOL.

[yvi]

*shrugs* I never liked coffee, so there's nothing to give up there :)

[flourish]

No, I felt that way too.

[cereta]

I would be a very sad Lucy if I had to give up chocolate. However, I have a headache right now. Chocolate makes my headaches worse, and coffee makes them better.

[happydork]

there are acceptable substituted for onions (shallots, scapes, or even ramps

I am so glad I read comments before I made my choice. Otherwise I think I would've spent twenty minutes just staring at question one, not daring to touch my mouse in case I tripped and clicked on the wrong one...

[monanotlisa]

Yeah, I was going to say that: for the tea drinkers here, this was the EASIEST choice. ;)

[monanotlisa]

Sex v. sweets is HARD. :/

[anatsuno]

thirded. :D

[abyssinia]

If I don't really want caffeine OR alcohol can I keep sweets with the sex?

[thefourthvine]

Even though I knew I had to choose garlic, it HURT to make that choice. But I was totally willing to give up coffee for chocolate; I mean, I'd give up coffee for wheat germ, since I never ever drink coffee at all.

[utterfrivolity.livejournal.com]

The only one that was extremely hard for me was sex v. sweets. At any given moment I'd choose sex over sweets, but if I have to abstain from one for the rest of my life, well, there are so many more occasions when I'd feel the pain of abstaining from sweets. Every person eating a candy bar would be a reminder of my deprivation. I don't think I could handle it.

[ell]

The sugar/fat question was the toughest for me as you need *both* sugar and fat to make cookies or cake or really any dessert worth eating...or even a good chocolate bar...

[midnitemarauder]

Not if you give up caffeine, too! :-P Some herbal teas are nice, but I'd never make it without my English and Irish Breakfast teas.

[thefourthvine]

You know, I figured that sex would be the winner but some people would choose sweets. But I was SO SURE that I would be among the few choosers of chocolate over coffee. My faith in my friends list and circle is restored!

[thefourthvine]

I support this life choice!