“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
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Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗
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View all 122 →I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
When I was a child, a member of staff at Wood End Assessment Centre [a former children’s home in Wigan] bellowed: “He copies them poems off of Bob Marley records.”
“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.
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View profile →When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It doesn’t seem anyone has a bad word to say about him. They should let him be president – of the world. We had a brief Twitter chat, and I printed the tweets out and put them on my office wall.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
Wasting my life.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
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