Ronnie O'Sullivan
English snooker player
That they think they know it all.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People who barge into a lift instead of standing aside for anyone exiting should be dipped in kerosene and fired into the sun.
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Eleanor Tomlinson
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Narcissism. And people coughing on me in public.
Actually, I dislike dealing with schedules and logistics—mine and others’.
Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).
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A reviewer once called me “artistically bankrupt”, and it doesn’t feel like reviews can get much worse than that.
When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
A comedy gig at an army barracks for thousands of angry, horny squaddies just back from six months in the desert. I was on straight after the stripper.
I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.
In the one photo I’ve seen where my smile looks convincing – I’m four years old, so I’m guessing then. But I just won a Bafta and that felt amazing, too. So, roughly every 40 years.
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