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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
Working in a furniture factory in Warrington when I was 17. It was a summer job, and I had to cover the studs in the back of Chesterfield sofas with leather.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 September 2021 source ↗
There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗
I’ve never had a job.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
Working in an abattoir.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2022 source ↗
When my dog died a couple of years ago. We were in Greece on vacation and a friend was watching her at home, and she was bitten by a snake. We rushed home, but we were too late by a few hours.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
That I still don’t understand life. When I was young, I thought at some point I would find somebody who does. I am 45, and there is a good chance that I’ll never meet somebody like that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
I was almost run over by a bus when I was 13. And in 1991, in the Gulf war, an Iraqi missile hit close to my house.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
On a personal level, the friend who is a single mum raising two kids by herself during this Covid era. She is a real hero. If a historical personality, I choose Mikhail Gorbachev, who probably saved the world from world war three.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
Now. I’ve learned to adjust my expectations to reality better than when I was 20 or 10.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
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