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.
Fizzy like lemonade.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 source ↗
Sensitive, kind, silly.
Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
Funny Irish woman.
Kind, funny, moany – I do love a moan.
It was a small gig and I was doing Three Minute Hero, which has a long, held note at the end, and I fell off the stage.
I fell asleep in a room that had an oil heater and it filled with carbon monoxide and, if it hadn’t been for my husband, Terry, I would have died.
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
I’m argumentative.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
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