The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Loved you in Dallas.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
A friend and I were talking about eating disorders and he said: “Well, we never have to worry about you not eating.”
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
An English teacher said, “You’ll never make anything of yourself.”
My father was a very macho, controlling man and we clashed a lot. He told me that I would never be able to keep a husband with my attitude. He was right! I’ve had two short, unsuccessful marriages.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
Well, I’m always right.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
I think that’s a thesis.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
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