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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.
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A Cessna Golden Eagle eight-seater aircraft. I flew it across the Atlantic both ways and did two US tours and two European tours in it. I finally sold it and got a job as an airline pilot in which I was paid to fly, rather than the other way round.
A ring I bought at Reinstein Ross for myself after a big break-up. It was kind of shallow.
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
The most extravagant thing was a bottle of 1904 armagnac for $1,000. I spent $10,000 on a Martin guitar in the 90s. I also spent $100,000 on a Fairlight keyboard and I ended up giving it away. Oh well.
It isn’t supposed to hurt, I know that.
Ed Sheeran, a little ginger boy from the farmlands in Suffolk who ran away to London, slept on the streets and became the biggest musician in the world.
Yesterday – I’m bipolar.
As an honest person who tried to help where he could. Nothing fancy.
When I first got excluded from school at 15, my dad gave me experience as a roofer. That’s when I came to realise I’m scared of heights.
Documentaries, my dog and Pornhub.
Bruce Dickinson, Arlene Phillips, Adeel Akhtar, Charlie Higson, Ben Okri, Kim Gordon
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