Saturday, September 18, 2021

PLACEBO INTERVIEWED BY FANS 1998 (part 2)

As I promised you last Saturday, today I bring you the ๐’”๐’†๐’„๐’๐’๐’… ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’• of the amusing questions ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ fans sent to ๐‘ต๐‘ด๐‘ฌ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’›๐’Š๐’๐’† in November 1998. The band answered what they would do if they were women for a day, what they think about facial hair, underwear and cleared up some rumors among other things.

Have a good time reading, dear soulmates!
Stay safe & much love. ๐Ÿ’–

๐™Œ & ๐˜ผ ๐™’๐™„๐™๐™ƒ ๐™‹๐™‡๐˜ผ๐˜พ๐™€๐˜ฝ๐™Š  (๐™ฟ๐šŠ๐š›๐š ๐™ธ๐™ธ)


Photo credit: Scarlet Page

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’• ๐’“๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’„ ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’๐’๐’†? (๐š๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŽ๐š• ๐š‚๐š’๐š–๐š™๐šœ๐š˜๐š—, ๐šˆ๐š˜๐š›๐š”)
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œProbably sending flowers. Used to be quite into that.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œI donโ€™t really date in that romantic way. I have to be really, really smitten, and that doesnโ€™t happen that often, unfortunately. I spend a lot of money, and shower them with loads of gifts.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œI threw a surprise party at Cafi Freedom.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’”๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’š ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’…๐’–๐’Ž๐’‘๐’†๐’… ๐’‚๐’๐’š๐’๐’๐’†? (๐šƒ๐š›๐šŠ๐šŒ๐šŽ๐šข ๐š‚๐š‘๐šŽ๐š›๐š•๐š˜๐šŒ๐š”/๐™ด๐š–๐š–๐šŠ ๐™ท๐šŠ๐šข๐šŽ๐šœ, ๐šˆ๐šŠ๐š›๐š–๐š˜๐šž๐š๐š‘)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œJust not phoning back. Pretending they donโ€™t exist. Itโ€™s really evil. But itโ€™s so easy.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œAnd at the same time you hate it when it happens to you, but sh*t happens, you know?โ€

๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’˜๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’‚๐’š, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’? (๐™ฑ๐šž๐š›๐š๐šŽ๐š› ๐š€๐šž๐šŽ๐šŽ๐š—, ๐™ด๐šœ๐šœ๐šŽ๐šก)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œIโ€™d probably have my period. Maybe invest in some exotic and extravagant battery-operated toys.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œIโ€™d probably fondle my breasts all day.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œDunno, maybe get some lesbian action.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’š ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’”๐’†๐’„๐’๐’๐’… ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’• ๐’๐’‡๐’‡๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†? ๐‘พ๐’‰๐’ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‰๐’†? (๐™ณ๐šŠ๐šŸ๐š’๐š ๐™ผ๐šŒ๐™ป๐šข๐š–๐š˜๐š—๐š, ๐š‚๐šŒ๐š˜๐š๐š•๐šŠ๐š—๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œHeโ€™s Bill Lloyd from the group Tram, and he plays a little bass when Stefan and I are both playing guitar, and plays a little keyboards. Itโ€™s his choice heโ€™s offstage. He doesnโ€™t want to be seen. Heโ€™s our tech, who got promoted.โ€

๐‘ฐ๐’” ๐’Š๐’• ๐’•๐’“๐’–๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’“๐’†๐’„๐’๐’“๐’…๐’†๐’… โ€˜๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’–๐’Š๐’”๐’† ๐‘ท๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’†โ€™, ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’Š๐’… ๐’Š๐’• ๐’๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’…? (๐™ผ๐šŠ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ๐š  ๐™ป๐šŠ๐š›๐šข, ๐š„๐š‚๐™ฐ)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œAbsolutely.โ€
 https://youtu.be/v6XhoHTDFSM

๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’“-๐’…๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰ ๐’†๐’™๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’? (๐™บ๐šŠ๐š๐š’๐šŽ ๐™ฒ๐šž๐š›๐š›๐šข, ๐™บ๐šŽ๐š—๐š)
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œNearly, when you dive into the crowd at gigs, and theyโ€™ve got you by the crotch and are strangling you.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œMost fans have been really sweet to me. Real darlings. But when you spend an hour signing autographs outside a gig, and then suddenly itโ€™s time to go, and they go from screaming โ€˜I love youโ€™ to you becoming the biggest cโ€“ in the world. Itโ€™s quite blinkered. A hotel receptionist in Zurich once pulled a gun on me, because I jumped behind reception and started to hug him because he was being such an arsehole. It was then I was told it would be a good idea to go to bed.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œI havenโ€™t. But I tried to hang myself when I was 16, from an apple tree, with a fucking garden hose. I was really pissed up. I was going down, and my mates sorted it out.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œYou never told us that.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’…๐’Š๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’• ๐’”๐’Ž๐’๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ? (๐™ฐ๐š•๐š’๐šŒ๐šŽ ๐š๐š˜๐š๐š‘, ๐™ฑ๐šŠ๐š›๐š—๐šœ๐š๐šŠ๐š™๐š•๐šŽ)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œWhen I was 13. I stole my motherโ€™s: Peter Stuyvesant luxury length, gold. And I went to the park in Dundee, where I grew up.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œWhen I was 11.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œProperly, when I was 17, but my first cigarette was at a Monsters Of Rock Festival in Germany when I was 12. They gave out free packets of three fags. โ€˜Kids! Smoke up!'โ€

Photo credit: Levy

๐’€๐’๐’–โ€™๐’“๐’† ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’†๐’˜ ๐’Ž๐’†๐’ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’ ๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’–๐’‚๐’๐’๐’š ๐’๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’† ๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’Š๐’ ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†-๐’–๐’‘. ๐‘พ๐’‰๐’ ๐’•๐’๐’๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’Š๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’‚ ๐’•๐’ ๐’˜๐’†๐’‚๐’“ ๐’Š๐’•? (๐™ฝ๐š’๐šŒ๐š˜๐š•๐šŠ ๐š‚๐š–๐š’๐š๐š‘, ๐™ฟ๐š•๐šž๐š–๐šœ๐š๐šŽ๐šŠ๐š)
๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‡๐’‚๐’—๐’๐’–๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†-๐’–๐’‘ ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’…? (๐™ฝ๐š’๐šŒ๐š˜๐š•๐šŠ ๐™ผ๐š˜๐š˜๐š›๐šŽ, ๐š‚๐š๐š˜๐šŒ๐š”๐š™๐š˜๐š›๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œNo-one, really. I was about 11 when I started acting in school plays, and I instantly loved it. I figured it out by myself, really. I have an excellent make-up artist now. Maybelline does an excellent eyeliner and an excellent concealer. But as far as foundation goes, Ultra-Moist Max Factor Long-Lasting is pretty good if youโ€™re a working musician.โ€

๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’“๐’๐’˜, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’Š๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’”๐’๐’ ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’”๐’๐’†๐’†๐’‘ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’•๐’๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•? (๐™ฐ๐š๐šŠ๐š– ๐š†๐šŽ๐šœ๐š๐š ๐š˜๐š˜๐š, ๐™ฒ๐šŠ๐š—๐š๐šŽ๐š›๐š‹๐šž๐š›๐šข)
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œTara Banks.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œA girl I met in Spain.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œA guy I met in Spain.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œSpain, man. We just want to roll that country over and fuck it raw.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’ (๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜บ): โ€œWith no lube.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œNo lube! Jesus!โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œIโ€™m supposed to be the evil one. Heโ€™s the evil one!โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’”๐’• ๐’๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’”๐’• ๐’“๐’–๐’Ž๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’… ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“๐’”๐’†๐’๐’—๐’†๐’”? (๐™น๐šŽ๐šœ๐šœ๐š’๐šŒ๐šŠ ๐šƒ๐š‘๐š˜๐š–๐šŠ๐šœ, ๐™ฒ๐šŠ๐š–๐š‹๐šŽ๐š›๐š•๐šŽ๐šข, ๐š‚๐šž๐š›๐š›๐šŽy)
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œThat I was supposed to be going out with Tara Banks.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œThat I was a junkie. That was really hurtful, and also the one about me being a misogynist.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œThat I had an enormous d*ck.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’ ๐’๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’”? (๐™ถ๐šŽ๐š˜๐š›๐š๐šŽ ๐™ฑ๐š›๐š˜๐š ๐š—, ๐™ด๐šœ๐šœ๐šŽ๐šก) (๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ โ€“ Ed)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œIโ€™m from France: mine is Lancer Farrel.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œMineโ€™s Butch Williams.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œMineโ€™s more a Germanic one: Ihssdey Haha.โ€

๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’๐’“๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’“๐’, ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’˜๐’‚๐’๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐’๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’๐’๐’†? (๐™ท๐šŠ๐šฃ๐šŽ๐š• ๐™ฝ๐š˜๐š›๐š›๐š’๐šœ, ๐™ท๐š’๐š๐š‘ ๐š†๐šข๐šŒ๐š˜๐š–๐š‹๐šŽ)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œI hope so. I was talking about this last night, because it would have been fun to be a real rock chick superwench, and use my sexual powers to destroy men. Hopefully, Iโ€™d be a maneater.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’…๐’Š๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’๐’๐’”๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’—๐’Š๐’“๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š? (๐™ฒ๐š•๐šŠ๐š’๐š›๐šŽ ๐™ผ๐šž๐š›๐š™๐š‘๐šข, ๐™ณ๐šž๐š•๐š ๐š’๐šŒ๐š‘)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œWhen I was 14.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œWhen I was 13.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œAt the illegal age of 19.โ€

๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’…๐’Š๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’ˆ๐’†๐’• ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‡๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’…๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’ƒ๐’“๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰? (๐™ณ๐šŠ๐š—๐š—๐šข ๐™บ๐š’๐š—๐š๐šœ๐š๐š˜๐š—, ๐š๐š˜๐š–๐š๐š˜๐š›๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œThat wasnโ€™t us, it was a couple of our crew. These people heard a couple of cockney accents on them, and waited for them outside a pub and beat them with sticks.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œIt was a football thing. It was all because they supported a different football team. Sad f*cks. Every football fan can go and f*ck themselves.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’…๐’Š๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’ˆ๐’†๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’…๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’˜๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’• ๐‘ณ๐’๐’๐’…๐’๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’™๐’•๐’๐’ ๐‘จ๐’„๐’‚๐’…๐’†๐’Ž๐’š? (๐™ณ๐šŠ๐šŸ๐š’๐š ๐š‚๐šž๐š๐š๐š˜๐š—, ๐™ป๐š˜๐š—๐š๐š˜๐š—)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œItโ€™s a John Richmond. And please donโ€™t go out and buy it.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’• ๐’Ž๐’๐’๐’†๐’š ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’‘๐’‚๐’Š๐’… ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‚๐’ ๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’Ž ๐’๐’‡ ๐’„๐’๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ? (๐šƒ๐š›๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š’๐šŽ ๐š‚๐š‘๐šŽ๐š›๐š•๐š˜๐šŒ๐š”/๐™ด๐š–๐š–๐šŠ ๐™ท๐šŠ๐šข๐šŽ๐šœ, ๐šˆ๐šŠ๐š›๐š–)
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œAbout 250 quid. At Alexander McQueen.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œMine was a Moschino dress.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œAbout 400 pounds. I had a pinstripe suit made to measure.โ€

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๐‘พ๐’‰๐’š ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’Œ ๐‘ฝ๐’†๐’๐’—๐’†๐’• ๐‘ฎ๐’๐’๐’…๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’”๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‚ ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’๐’‡ ๐’”๐’†๐’๐’‡-๐’Š๐’๐’…๐’–๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’๐’๐’„๐’Œ๐’”? (๐™ฐ๐š—๐š๐š›๐šŽ๐š  ๐™ณ๐šŠ๐š•๐š๐š˜๐š—, ๐™ณ๐šž๐š‹๐š•๐š’๐š—)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œBecause you obviously didnโ€™t understand it. Itโ€™s a great , itโ€™s a feast of colour and music.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œAnd it has the most beautiful scene of two men kissing, ever.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’? (๐šƒ๐š›๐šŽ๐šŸ๐š˜๐š› ๐š†๐šŠ๐š”๐šŽ๐š›, ๐™พ๐š—๐š๐šŠ๐š›๐š’๐š˜, ๐™ฒ๐šŠ๐š—๐šŠ๐š๐šŠ)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œWeโ€™ve just been given a tape by some fans. These two s were waiting outside, and theyโ€™re playing โ€˜I Knowโ€™ off the first album really badly and theyโ€™ve changed the words to how much they want to have intimate knowledge of ourโ€ฆ er, privates. Itโ€™s not very musical, but it is hilarious.
โ€œAnother time, I got given a photograph of this girl with a black eye with โ€˜Kill/ /Dieโ€™ written on it, which I carry with me everywhere, because itโ€™s the most intense thing Iโ€™ve been given.โ€

๐‘พ๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’๐’˜ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’Š๐’“? (๐™ฝ๐šŠ๐š—๐š˜ ๐™ฟ๐š›๐š˜๐šŽ๐š—๐šŒ๐šŠ, ๐™ฟ๐š˜๐š›๐š๐šž๐š๐šŠ๐š•)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œStef, you used to have interesting facial hair: that Prince beard kind of thing. You looked very suave. Facial hair I donโ€™t think is my thing, really. Iโ€™m a pretty clean-shaven kind of guy. It doesnโ€™t suit me.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’Š๐’„๐’‰ ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‡๐’†๐’“? ๐‘ฌ๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’„๐’–๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’… ๐’‘๐’Š๐’† ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’‚๐’„๐’†? (๐™พ๐š•๐š•๐š’๐šŽ, ๐™ถ๐šž๐š’๐š•๐š๐š๐š˜๐š›๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œSorry. Itโ€™s going to have to be the custard pie.โ€

๐‘จ๐’“๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’š? (๐™ธ๐šŒ๐šŽ๐š ๐™ถ๐šŽ๐š–, ๐™ฑ๐š›๐š’๐šœ๐š๐š˜๐š•)
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œYes. Iโ€™m fit, and well, and playing like a demon.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œIโ€™m relatively content. Itโ€™s a few hundred miles away from happy. I would like to have a meaningful relationship with somebody that I cared about. Loneliness is quite debilitating.โ€

๐‘ซ๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’Œ ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’‘๐’–๐’•๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‚๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’†๐’”๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‚๐’๐’š ๐’‰๐’‚๐’“๐’Ž ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’–๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’†? (๐š‚๐š’๐š–๐š˜๐š— ๐™ผ๐šž๐š•๐š•๐š’๐š—๐šœ, ๐š‚๐š‘๐šŽ๐š๐š๐š’๐šŽ๐š•๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œOnly if we start getting probe-searched at customs. Itโ€™s all complete , but itโ€™s all part of the myth.โ€

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๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’…๐’๐’†๐’” ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’†๐’ ๐‘บ๐’•๐’Š๐’‘๐’† ๐’”๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’ ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’†? (๐™ฟ๐šŠ๐š™๐šŽ๐š›๐š‹๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š” ๐š๐š’๐š˜๐š๐šŽ๐š›, ๐™ป๐š˜๐š—๐š๐š˜๐š—)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œHe smells really nice, actually. Very clean. Of expensive beauty products.โ€

๐‘ท๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’๐’“ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’๐’๐’‚ ? ๐‘พ๐’‰๐’ ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’ƒ๐’†? (๐š‚๐šŒ๐š˜๐š๐š , ๐š‚๐šŠ๐š— ๐™ต๐š›๐šŠ๐š—๐šŒ๐š’๐šœ๐šŒ๐š˜)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œMadonna.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œMadonna.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œPrince. So f*ck you two.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’‚๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’•๐’‰ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‡๐’๐’“? (๐šˆ๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š๐š๐šŽ ๐™ฒ๐š‘๐š’๐š๐š ๐š’๐š๐š๐šŽ๐š—, ๐š๐šŽ๐š๐š๐šŽ๐š›๐š—, ๐™ฐ๐šž๐šœ๐š๐š›๐šŠ๐š•๐š’๐šŠ)
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’—๐’†: โ€œLove.โ€
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œFreedom. I actually tried to beat up our crew the other day. The bus ran out of gas, and I lost it for a while. I didnโ€™t get on very well, theyโ€™re huge.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’‚๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’๐’๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’‚๐’“ ๐’Œ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ๐’†๐’“๐’”, ๐’๐’“ ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’๐’™๐’†๐’“ ๐’”๐’‰๐’๐’“๐’•๐’”? (๐™บ๐šŠ๐š›๐šŽ๐š—, ๐šƒ๐šŽ๐š•๐š๐š˜๐š›๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œOh, knickers. Lacy ones.โ€

๐‘พ๐’‰๐’š ๐’…๐’ ๐‘ฐ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†? (๐™น๐š˜๐šŽ๐šข ๐™ป๐šŠ๐šž, ๐™ฟ๐š˜๐š•๐š’๐šŒ๐šŽ ๐™ผ๐šŠ๐š›๐š›๐š’๐šŽ๐š ๐š€๐šž๐šŠ๐š›๐š๐šŽ๐š›๐šœ, ๐™ท๐š˜๐š—๐š ๐™บ๐š˜๐š—๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œBecause thereโ€™s nothing else to do.โ€
๐‘บ๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’‚๐’: โ€œThe grass is always greener somewhere else. But you have to be here to know that. Make sense?โ€

๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’…๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’–๐’”๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“๐’”๐’†๐’๐’—๐’†๐’” ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’๐’–๐’“๐’ƒ๐’–๐’”? (๐™ณ๐šŠ๐šŸ๐š’๐š ๐š‚๐šž๐š๐š๐š˜๐š—, ๐™ป๐š˜๐š—๐š๐š˜๐š—)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œWatch South Park. Also, we have a new court jester, our merchandising guy who amuses us for hours by talking complete bollocks over the intercom. Itโ€™s bollocks, but itโ€™s the funniest bollocks youโ€™ll ever hear.โ€

๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’ˆ๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’„๐’Œ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“๐’”๐’†๐’๐’‡ ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’‘๐’Š๐’†๐’„๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‚๐’…๐’—๐’Š๐’„๐’†, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’†? (๐™ฑ๐šŽ๐šŒ, ๐™ฒ๐š‘๐šŽ๐š•๐š–๐šœ๐š๐š˜๐š›๐š)
๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’: โ€œWhatever you do, donโ€™t sleep with her.โ€
๐˜Ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ. ๐˜ˆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‰๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ญ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ. ๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ด, ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต, ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ. ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต, ๐˜•๐˜”๐˜Œ ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ฆ. 

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