The question
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.
People who think they’re always right.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Impatience and temper. Enough already!
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
Self-absorption.
People-pleasing.
It is all there is.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
I think that’s a thesis.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
Haven’t done it yet.
Malala Yousafzai, Cathy Rigby, Martha Stewart, Bonnie Raitt, Richard Schiff, Lolita Chakrabarti
Search the directory for somebody in particular.