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.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
Nice, direct, loyal.
Hungry, hard-working, cats.
Middle-class wanker.
Living a fairytale.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
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