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.
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗
Hasn’t happened yet, it’s coming.
Some man in the street stopped me and said: “If you were a few inches taller you’d be dangerous.” I’ve no idea what he meant.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
“Let’s face it, you’re not Ingrid Bergman.” I was 19 and he was a potential boyfriend. My only thought at the time was: “I’m not?”
Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.
Trying quite hard.
Working in farming in Somerset at 18, there were elements that were awful, and they were all really edifying. I mean, feeding chickens in sleet was hard work but I am so glad I did it.
Infinity. I can’t get my head round it.
I don’t care that much about legacy. Within family I do, but not externally.
Disneyland x a million.
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