The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Airline tickets. I spend a lot on flying because I’ve three kids in the UK.What would your superpower be?To drink as much beer as I can without putting on weight.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 September 2021 source ↗
A BMW 6 series convertible. It was smashing.
A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
A birthday present I hoped would mean a lot to the person. I had their family history researched and a book made.
My dogs. They didn’t cost that much to buy, but I’ve been paying for them since. We’ve two Tibetan terriers, Danny and Wilbur.
Every time I let my wife drive.
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
Barack Obama. On a daily basis he faced racism, and I admire him for trying to push through that to better his nation.
Another One Bites The Dust.
On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
A couple of days ago, saying goodbye to my children.
Martin Clunes, Andrea Riseborough, Josette Simon, Billy Porter, Edward Fox, Charlotte Church
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