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Telling me the menu is only accessible through the QR code.
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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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I guess lack of patience as well.
Using knowledge as a weapon.
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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Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
I am unable to use scissors.
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
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