The question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?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.
Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
Bullying, whether face to face or online.
That they think they know it all.
I dislike dawdlers. When I walk, I do so with purpose. I have no time for people shuffling along.
President Zelenskyy.
Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
A meal alfresco with people I love.
I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.
Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.
Romesh Ranganathan, Rory Stewart, Jason Sudeikis, Jack Whitehall, Laverne Cox, Ben Stiller
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