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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-05 at 10:10

Here's a 🧵, answering the same questions as the Guardian asked Andrew Ridgeley in an interview just before Christmas. To be tooted at a rate of one daily. This is not a guaranteed service level.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-05 at 10:12

When were you happiest?

When I was 15 or 16, living in Germany, having mostly left my childhood behind, possibilities stretching ahead, and not having taken on any responsibilities.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-06 at 09:00

2. What is your earliest memory?

In my Mum's arms aged about three, being lifted up to see a green Wessex helicopter using the field behind our house in Taunton.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-07 at 07:45

3. Aside from a property, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?

Andrew Ridgeley replied "a pension" which is probably the true answer. The children's accommodation costs at uni are going to come close. My friend Mike once joked that he was counting on having thick kids.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-08 at 08:10

4. What is your most treasured possession?

I keep thinking the first thing I'll grab is my wedding photos, since they were pre-digital, and not backed up,

but...

Consider my birth certificate, which shows that I was born in a prosperous country to a middle-earning stable parental setup in the second half of the 20th century. Compared to most of the last 50,000 years of humanity, I'm ridiculously lucky to have been born, and lived, here and now.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-09 at 08:02

5. Describe yourself in three words.

Reserved. Callow. Selfabsorbed.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-10 at 08:01

6. What makes you unhappy?

Being trapped, in the sense of "Losing the opportunity to have opportunities." For example, pandemic travel bans, living in Europe after Brexit.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-11 at 07:15

7. If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?

A sense of community and shared responsibility.

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Written by Peter Αιγόκερως on 2025-01-14 at 19:28

@FourT4 I have been thoroughly researching Jon Roach for at least three and a half minutes, and the answer to Question 7 fits well with my new mental model of Jon Roach. In comparison, the answer to Question 5 seems incorrect.

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Written by Jon Roach on 2025-01-15 at 08:06

@peterwyrm supplementary answers to q5: inconsistent and lacking self knowledge.

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