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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2022 source ↗
A bed from Savoir Beds. People spend loads of money on cars, but spend more of their lives sleeping than driving. The maths is wrong, if you ask me.
A matt grey Range Rover. It’s been rebadged, so instead of Range Rover it says Range Rylan.
A Vivienne Westwood & Burberry two-piece suit I bought for a press night. At the time I was: “Yeah, of course I’m going to be a 30-inch waist for the rest of my life.” Now the trousers don’t fit.
Thirty-odd years ago I bought a black pinstripe suit which I thought was £900. But when I went to pay that was just the jacket – the trousers and waistcoat were extra. I didn’t have the balls to put anything back. I dread to think how much it cost me in the end.
A steam train driver.
I was a waiter with my old friend Justin Clayton; we would sneak in too many drinks and were fired after spilling soup too many times on customers.
Anyone who promotes peace.
A partner – finding her and enjoying the rest of our lives together. Hopefully it will happen one day.
A bee in my bonnet – whether that’s a song in my head or a person I’m thinking about.
Ghosting, where you are mid-conversation with someone and they disappear off the face of the planet.
Alison Moyet, Andi Oliver, Belinda Carlisle, Beverley Knight, Billy Porter, Bruce Dickinson
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