The question
How would you describe yourself 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.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗
Unimpeachable, nonpareil, self‑effacing.
I’m a very happy, fat, bald bloke who sounds like a pirate.
Curious, playful and silly.
Independent, curious and funny.
A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
Very complicated.
On stage with my band.
I’m afraid of the dark.
I’m quite stubborn.
I was in Oliver! when I was 10 and I peed myself on stage in front of however many people the Palladium holds. It was the stuff of nightmares.
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