I lose bank cards, I’m untidy, I get bored very quickly.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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What is your greatest fear?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m quite stubborn.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗
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Minding not being liked.
My love of sugar.
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View profile →A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
Seeing my kids getting older scares me.
People who aren’t polite.
I was in Oliver! when I was 10 and I peed myself on stage in front of however many people the Palladium holds. It was the stuff of nightmares.
I’m afraid of the dark.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
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