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                         The second instalment of the silently sinister flick is here. But                                   ng

                           could you really last in complete silence? Well, let’s see, shall e





                                                                            IT ’ S
                                Is Alan Titchmarsh around                                           Slut-dropping with Her Royal
                                    for a quick pint?                    FRI D A Y                    Highness Sharpay Evans.
                                                                     NIGH T , HO W
                                                                        ARE  Y O U
                                                                       S P E N DING

                     You bump into            Scream, wave                   IT ?                                           You stub
                      a friend on a           your arms and                                     Whittle a deadly          your toe on a
                     night out. What          jump around                                        weapon out of          doorframe. What’s
                       d do you do?             huggi ing.                                        the offending
                              d ?
                                                                                                   doorframe.             a reasonable
                                                                                                                            reaction?
                                                    d and
                                          A cursory nod                                         You internalise
                                           move on – m                   If you could          the pain, silently
                                                    must
                                           avoid small  talk            be a celebrity        shedding a single
                                             at all cost s.             for a day, who            salty tear.           A shouty monologue
                                                                        would it be?                                    that makes Gordon
                                                                                                                         Ramsay look PG.



                                               What’s your
                                                  dream                                        What colour                   You have
                                                breakfast?                                     crayon would                   a messy

                                                                        Meryl                    you be?                    housemate
                                                                        Streep                                                so you…



                                                                                  Gemma                            Put
                                                                                   Collins                      uncooked
                                                                                                               rice in their
                                                    G                                                            shoes.       Send them a
                                                    Gruel with
                                                     a
                                                     a side of         Granola,                                                totally chill,
                                                     intense            toast or      Black.   Fluoro orange:                 ultra-casual
                                                     misery.             Rice        Like my       vibrant                  WhatsApp, while
                                                                        Krispies.      soul.      and fun!                  screaming inside.






                                           UN T IL   T H E           FIVE  YE ARS                 A S O L I D           YO U ’ D  B E  T H E
                                          BI T T ER  END                  TO P S                 INNING S                FIRS T  T O  G O
                                          You’re ’ard a s nails,    Silence is no biggie to   You’ll get through the    Hey, the important thing      WORDS DANIELLA SCOTT. A QUIET PLACE II IS IN CINEMAS FROM 20TH MARCH
                                                    us you’re
                                        and quieter, plu           you; you’ve got a better   early years, but putting   is you tried. But, let’s be
                                         resourceful. Y ou make     internal monologue        you in the apocalypse      honest, you’d be gone
                                                    o
                                                    ook like
                                          Bear Grylls lo            than Lizzie McGuire.      is like putting Alan Carr   in three to five working
                                          Mary Berry. Y               But you do have        on a sponsored silence.      days. You’re gobby
                                                    You’ve
                                          mastered the             weaknesses: a loud and    Eventually you’ll sacrifice   and we love that about
                                                    e art of
                                         sneezing in sil ence so    deceptively crunchy       yourself for a joke that    you. But silence, my
                                         nothing can g             breakfast will prove to    was just too good not      friend, is just not your
                                                    get you.
                                          Not even hay y fever.      be your downfall.               to tell.              specialist subject.



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