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.
It would be a racist comment.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗
“You’re a reasonably intelligent girl,” by a teacher, and it drove me crazy and made me want to get into Oxford.
“And for you, sir?” It happens a lot.
'Excuse me, madam, you have a thong hanging out of your handbag.'
“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”
All the times I was mean to someone.
Being able to cram the quality of eight hours’ sleep into four.
By my friends and loved ones as someone who loved ferociously and always had their back.
Loyal, relentless, goofy.
The FA Cup final, watching Crystal Palace win.
I was 17 and about to go on a first date with my first boyfriend. I was so desperate for my mum not to meet him that I was trying to get to the door before she did. I ran down the stairs as she opened it, and slid down the last five steps on my arse.
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