The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Middle-class wanker.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 October 2025 source ↗
Content, assured, indecisive.
Loyal, funny, driven.
Faith-filled, never-give-up man.
Trying quite hard.
I’m a classic remoaner.
I’ve shat myself in public three times. It’s never quite as bad as you fear.
I used to give a fantastic talk about Frankenstein and Dracula, but I’ve never been able to finish either book.
All the kids I didn’t reply to who’ve written lovely letters about my books.
Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could.
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.
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