“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 122 →“You’re selfish.” It was a friend.
Some man in the street stopped me and said: “If you were a few inches taller you’d be dangerous.” I’ve no idea what he meant.
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
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View profile →Fairly decent bloke.
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
A nice long rest.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
When I changed the toner cartridge in my printer all on my own – that was a day of pure euphoria.
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