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.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Sensitive, kind, silly.
Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
Lovely but useless.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
Haven’t done it yet.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
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.
People who think they’re always right.
I think that’s a thesis.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
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