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.
Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
Unimpeachable, nonpareil, self‑effacing.
Young, beautiful, deluded.
Fairly decent bloke.
Living a fairytale.
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
Finding your phone.
A house in west London.
I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.
When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
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