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.
Brave, naughty, diligent.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.
Juicy, funny, impulsive.
Honest, empathetic, daring.
Kind, insubstantial and dedicated.
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
An earthquake in Peru forced me and a young man into the street, where he had to introduce me to his family at three in the morning.
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