What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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.
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗