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.
I bought a Mercedes convertible brand new in 2016 and I’ve only done 4,000 miles. I love cars – if I’m going to blow it, it’ll be on a sports car. I already have my eyes on the next one – I’ll get Simon Cowell to buy it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
A Banksy painting.
Around 1972, I bought a Rolls-Royce to treat myself after finally achieving success. The year before, I had three hits: Las Vegas, I Did What I Did for Maria and Amarillo.
A black Russian terrier – I paid almost £4,000 for him.
A Porsche 911 Turbo.
Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
Meanness and lying.
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
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