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.
Speedy, bossy, loving.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
Kind, loyal and (slightly) mad.
Needing order always.
Hungry, hard-working, cats.
Competitive, curious, silly.
You are good enough.
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
A glow of wellbeing.
Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.
Laziness, lack of empathy, lack of humour.
Andrew Ridgeley, Kerry Godliman, Bobbi Brown, Richard Eyre, Jack Davenport, Siobhán McSweeney
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