The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Impatient, funny, worrier.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
Un constructor.
Unimpeachable, nonpareil, self‑effacing.
Ponderous, over thinking.
Anything, because I’m a worrier. Also, if I’m working on a really exciting project, I can be awake like an excited child looking forward to going on holiday.
We’ve run out of champagne.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a job that I hate. I worked as a temp briefly when I was out of work and it was fun.
Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
I’m trying to write my will and I keep changing my mind.
I cry a lot at films; my mother and I were champion criers at Meet Me in St Louis.
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