Self-loathing that rises to the level of deploring.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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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.
Well, I’m always right.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
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Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
Procrastination.
Procrastination.
That I don’t give myself enough credit.
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View profile →I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
Haven’t done it yet.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
I think that’s a thesis.
People who think they’re always right.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
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