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What's your favourite?

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sweet peas.

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Why sweet peas?

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because they grow wild and don't give a shit about anything.

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So do weeds. And they strangle any flowers in their way.

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why can't you just let me have my flower?

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I just thought you might consider that perhaps being wild and uncaring isn't always a good thing.

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unless you're a weed.

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I like Graham Thomas roses.

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how are they different from an ordinary rose?

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What do you mean 'an ordinary rose'? Merlin. There's no such thing.

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what about those long-stemmed red ones that everyone buys?

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Just one member of the rosa family. And probably the most heavily tampered with, genetics-wise.

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so you're saying that they're generic. i always thought so.

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Most marketable things have to be generic. How else would anyone sell them?

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do they sell those graham thomas ones?

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Well yes, at garden centres. But not in the same mass quantities as red roses for lovesick couples.

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maybe i'll buy you some.

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They're a climbing rose bush, Merlin. You'd have to buy me a garden to go with them.

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so maybe i'll buy you a garden.

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Even you're not that ridiculous.

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challenge accepted.

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It's not a challenge!