Big Narstie
British entertainer
Documentaries, my dog and Pornhub.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Facebook and the need to pee.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
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Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
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Unfinished work and caffeine.
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Hormones – other than that, I sleep like a rock.
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To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
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