Kathy Lette
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I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My phobias. I’m down to two, so I take that as a positive sign.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2023 source ↗
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Adam Kay
British comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician
Self-destruction.
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
The boozing. I started on rum as a child.
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That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
Really? Okay, if I have enough time I might go to Switzerland and drink the drink. I believe in euthanasia. What we do for our beloved pets, we should be able to do for our beloved humans or ourselves.
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
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