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.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗
Empathetic, humble and strong.
Impatient, funny, worrier.
Analytical, extreme and playful.
Small, determined, lucky.
A painting of a man who was killed on the Dutch coast in 1600.
Being too thin-skinned.
I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.
Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
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