The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
There will always be so many who might say, “Ah, he’s a politician masquerading as an archbishop.” Politics is so all-pervasive, and in my theology, obviously, all of life belongs to God, and you don’t have compartments, this is your economic life, this is your political life, this is your religious life. Religion encompasses all of those. But yes, I wouldn’t myself have said I was setting out to be a political animal.
Is that the final mix?
“We’d love you to be on the cover of our magazine and we’ll give you a makeover.”
I can’t disclose that because it’s not suitable for public airing, but it was truly awful; they’ve since said worse.
The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
Manipulative greed and hate.
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
Big dick energy.
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