The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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I’m a classic remoaner.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 October 2025 source ↗
Too many of my friends, family and peers dying.
Not pitching a perfect game in baseball to win the World Series.
That I never became a virtuoso musician.
Although I have a driving licence, I don't drive – I am very bad at it.
Middle-class wanker.
I used to give a fantastic talk about Frankenstein and Dracula, but I’ve never been able to finish either book.
I’ve shat myself in public three times. It’s never quite as bad as you fear.
Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X.
Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could.
I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
Alan Dale, Sue Townsend, Shirley MacLaine, Enrique Iglesias, Viggo Mortensen, Rory Bremner
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