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 ↗
Competitive, curious, silly.
Optimistic, creative, resilient.
Middle-class wanker.
Caring, patient, considerate, innumerate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
Not being able to perform adequately.
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 don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
My husband snoring.
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
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