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 ↗
People who abuse their power to subjugate others.
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
Coldness, selfishness.
Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Self-criticism.
Douglas Stuart, Joyce Carol Oates, Rosalind Eleazar, Indira Varma, Charlotte Church, Hugh Grant
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