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.
Lack of self-criticism.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2014 source ↗
Gossip and backstabbing.
Picking their nose and eating it.
The urge to be unpleasant to waitstaff in restaurants.
Unnecessary judgment.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
Self-criticism.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
Alex Hassell, Adrian Dunbar, Timothy Hutton, Charlie Munger, Joseph Fiennes, Helen Mirren
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