Their goddamned fucking honesty.
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People who make you wait around for them.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 December 2022 source ↗
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