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.
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
Funny, loyal, genuine.
Kind, insubstantial and dedicated.
Warm, intelligent, accommodating.
Fairly decent bloke.
An inability to get myself to bed at a reasonable hour.
My penchant for having just one too many.
As not being a total bollix.
Overwhelming, discombobulating, irrational and unreasonable.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
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