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.
Needing order always.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
Natural, caring, thoughtful.
Impulsive, enthusiastic, determined.
Unimpeachable, nonpareil, self‑effacing.
Independent, curious and funny.
Trying to exercise authority over one.
Picking up RAF pilots’ parachute packs and gear they dropped off in a pile.
As a nice old man.
A detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
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