The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Trying to exercise authority over one.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
When they don’t tell the truth.
It’s a toss-up between mean and petty.
Inefficiency. Whiners.
Those who create the doom.
Keep working, improving your step.
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
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 detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
My work. What shape will it take?
Being able to paint the way I do.
Robert De Niro, Andrea Bocelli, Leona Lewis, Mark Bonnar, Allison Janney, Nigel Havers
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