today my priest told an anecdote in his sermon about how when he was a youth pastor he would make the youth play "mixer games" and one of them was where he would give an either/or option like "Batman or Superman" and each option had a side of the room, so (i guess, although it's left a little ambiguous:) whichever side you were "for" or "liked more," you'd go to that side. and I was immediately like: that's bullshit. chocolate or vanilla? well, first of all, it depends entirely on the application. i usually like chocolate ice cream and cake but i often like vanilla cake with vanilla frosting. but that doesn't even scratch the surface of all possible or even probable dessert options that could include chocolate or vanilla. this is assuming we're talking about Desserts That I Would Like To Eat Right Now and not, say, Desserts I Would Give My Enemy (i'd give him whichever he liked least in that application), or Paint Colors For My Bathroom, which given
  such a
 restricted choice I guess I'd have to go with vanilla. but like, what kind of fascist horseshit government am i living under that only allows brown and off-white (or maybe black, if you're talking about the actual color of a vanilla bean) as bathroom colors? after going through the other three examples of random dichotomies he gave my mind started itching from the inside and i realized that ten minutes had gone by and i'd missed half of an interesting sermon on predestination, which most people think is when God takes people's souls before they're born and puts them on either the Heaven side of the room or the Hell side of the room. (but i think his point was that it's not really like that.) and i didnt even think about "bill wurtz" until i was conscious of the brain itch but when i was i just smiled a little bit and thought i'd tell you about it.
wow, you shredded the "thing or thing" question. nice job. i think the "thing or thing" question is actually part of a divide and conquer strategy