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.
Inefficiency. Whiners.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗
Talking in cliches. We have the most economic, resonant and versatile language in the world, yet so many people use it in a dull and boring way.
Ghosting, where you are mid-conversation with someone and they disappear off the face of the planet.
Casual cruelty; the wearing of essential oils.
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.
Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
Anthony Hopkins, Rose Tremain, Meghan Trainor, Erin O'Connor, Alex Lawther, Rebecca Lucy Taylor
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