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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.
I just hate to work, so I can’t choose one.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 June 2022 source ↗
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Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
Robert Carlyle
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The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
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View profile →The supreme court. Specifically the case Bush v Gore, which is where Sandra Day O’Connor – one person – decided the presidential election.
Rodents – including the tiniest mouse.
That I’ve never killed anyone – and I’ve been tempted numerous times. My other achievement is that I went to Australia, which meant I was on a plane without smoking for almost 24 hours, and I didn’t kill anyone on that flight.
At the moment, Ukraine’s president.
The moment I realised I knew how to read. I was five.
I’ve been awake almost my entire life. I have had insomnia since I was a child.
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