The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
In an audition at the Royal Court, this man called out, “Were you trained?”
Any time I’ve been racially profiled. The words might be different, but the feeling is the same.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
A sense of what really matters.
“Oh, she giggled, didn’t she?”
If I bothered to read instructions.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
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