The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When people talk over others.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2022 source ↗
Impatience and temper. Enough already!
Disrespect. My dad was a toolmaker and worked in a factory all his life, and he felt looked down on, and it really affected him. And so all my life I’ve loathed disrespect and valued respect.
Guys who use the word “snot.”
An inability to be authentic.
Seeing my family thrive and being underwater.
Michelle Obama.
Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
The birth of my children.
David Hasselhoff, Daphne Guinness, Hans Zimmer, Harrison Ford, Kevin Bacon, Seann Walsh
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