The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not listening to me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
Never picking up the check.
People who make you wait around for them.
When people are disingenuous.
Inefficiency. Whiners.
My childhood. I was an only child, happy and secure, and there was always plenty of time to play cricket.
If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
I talk too much.
My first wife – we were too young.
When my mother died in my arms, I feel I witnessed her spirit leaving her body, so let’s just wait and see.
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