Stephen K Amos: What trait do you most dislike in other people? — FLAPSS

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What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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Stephen K Amos

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Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

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The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗

Incompetent leadership.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2013 source ↗

An arbitrary contrarian.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

Being untruthful.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

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Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.

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Question Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought? Money & investment

A Porsche 911 Turbo.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Question What would you most want to leave your children? Death & what remains

The notion that anything is possible.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

I last shed a tear when my nephew, who is under 10, announced that he was learning the trombone. When I was about the same age and wanted to learn the trumpet, a music teacher said: “The trumpet isn’t for you. You’ve got too-thick lips.”

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

Looking back is not productive.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Question What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

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