The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
A friend said, “If you remembered everything you did, you’d kill yourself.” He’s sort of crazy, but he’s probably right.
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
“Everyone hates you.” (My manager, a long time ago.)
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
It’s really, really nice.
OCD medication.
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
Kate Humble, Nuala McGovern, Siobhán McSweeney, Lee Child, Edward Enninful, Richard Eyre
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