The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?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.
Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees
Talking too much.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2010 source ↗
Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
To relax without being bothered.
I’m very happy about it. You know, a kid from the Hill being elected to the Hall of Fame. Proud of it.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
Ally McCoist, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cathy Rigby, Rafael Nadal, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Hans Zimmer
Search the directory for somebody in particular.