After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being judgmental – how dare they!
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 197 →
Michael Flatley
American step dancer
I always try to see the good. I never look for the bad.
Enough with the constant smiling.
Caring too much about what others think.
More from Fay Ripley
View profile →When my kids had little teeth and curly hair, and hadn’t discovered the idea of wanting to leave home.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
Being judgmental.
See my greatest fear!
A Mary Berry victoria sponge.
Donny Osmond’s wife. Still do.
More on values & belief
- Which living person do you most admire, and why? 407 answers
- What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong? 79 answers
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 30 answers
- What have you come to understand about what it means to be human? 14 answers
- What is the most overrated virtue? 10 answers
- What do you need to believe in order to get through the day? 9 answers
Also answered this
Joseph Fiennes, Dolly Parton, Adrian Dunbar, Craig Charles, Robert De Niro, Alison Steadman
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All values & belief questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject