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.
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2025 source ↗
Quiet, noisy, androgynous.
Chaotic, warm, northern.
Silly, loving and, as an Aries, passionate.
One handsome dude.
When I was losing my sight, I couldn’t see where I was going, and I went into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s. I asked the undertaker whether he had many waiting.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
Loud and noisy.
I’m judgmental.
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