The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Somebody once told me I was the spitting image of David Cameron.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
Somebody wrote that my voice was more numbing than novocaine.
People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
“And for you, sir?” It happens a lot.
My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
I can’t say it.
Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
For world capitalism to grind to a halt.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
Just. Hanging. On.
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