The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m argumentative.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 source ↗
I don’t give myself that much thought.
Minding not being liked.
Vic, my wife, has over the years reduced my impatience, but anybody who has been in a traffic jam with me will know that she hasn’t completed the task yet.
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
Fizzy like lemonade.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
An umbilical cord.
I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
It was a small gig and I was doing Three Minute Hero, which has a long, held note at the end, and I fell off the stage.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
Courtney Pine, Ina Garten, Cybill Shepherd, Philippa Gregory, Hugh Jackman, Jack Davenport
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