The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
For my dad not to have known our boys.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 October 2015 source ↗
My local Tesco stopping stocking Häagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Crunch.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
This country’s enchantment with privately educated, self-serving liars.
How little money really changes things. It buys doctors but not health, clothes but not taste, makeup but not beauty. When I was young and didn’t have anything, I imagined money had more power.
A soldier and adventure guy.
When it’s just us as a family on our island hideaway in Wales.
We finally get to be with Jesus, face to face.
Why is your nose so wonky?
Faith-filled, never-give-up man.
I love and admire Julia Roberts, one of our Running Wild guests, for the way she has a few close friends, is loyal to her family, doesn’t believe in all the fame stuff and can laugh at herself.
Matt Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Ed Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Speech Debelle, Grace Coddington
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