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.
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗
My wife when I tried out some new material on her, said: “I’m sure the people who like you would like that.”
I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
A review of Phèdre said – because I was quite large at the time – Toby Stephens’s Hippolytus needs to get on a StairMaster.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
Do the secret thing you know you were born to do.
First loved, then laid, then paid.
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
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