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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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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Self-absorption.
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Lack of humility, the absence of goodness.
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At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
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