Not feeling old but everyone treating you that way.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
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Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
I go in every day to the office. I don't accomplish hardly anything. I mean, in terms of – it just takes me way longer to do things. And Greg is so good. It was kind of embarrassing how good he is, because he has covered – you know, we've got about 200 businesses within Berkshire, you know, that came about, and I can't name the manager's names or their wives names, or – and I haven't seen them, you know, in a long time. It's easier just to write the letter once a year and kind of do my own thing. Greg covers more ground in a day than I would in a week, even when I was at my peak, let alone my present condition.
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Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026
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Geoffrey Rush
Australian actor
It’s not sudden.
Not being there for my daughter.
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A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
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