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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 October 2025 source ↗
My wife. I am a lavish present-giver. I love worshipping my wife with beautiful bits and pieces – it is one of my greatest pleasures.
An education for my child.
My car, a dilapidated old Jag.
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
I used to give a fantastic talk about Frankenstein and Dracula, but I’ve never been able to finish either book.
I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
All the kids I didn’t reply to who’ve written lovely letters about my books.
Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X.
I’m a classic remoaner.
Middle-class wanker.
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