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.
Caring, patient, considerate, innumerate.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
Impatient, ambitious and happy.
Prepared, focused, a bit silly.
Glass half full.
Loving, creative, demanding.
Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
An unhackable, simple-to-remember password that works for everything.
When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
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