Terry O'Neill
British photographer
A jazz drummer.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
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One of the Ghostbusters.
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
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I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.
At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
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