Lack of empathy and compassion.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Picking their nose and eating it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad.
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Gossip and backstabbing.
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Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.
Growing up in the 70s, in the country in England and Ireland.
A single-malt whisky.
Climbing in Tibet, surfing in Australia and a moment ago by a courgette cutter as I dithered over one of these questions.
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