My local Tesco stopping stocking Häagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Crunch.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
Question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’ve never been upgraded on a plane.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 218 →
Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
That my mum and dad didn’t move to live by the sea, where we live, before they died.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2019 source ↗
Jacqueline Wilson
English novelist
When I was in my 30s and taped myself singing. I always thought I had quite a sweet voice – my voice is terrible, I can’t hold a note.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2022 source ↗
Not playing James Bond.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
More from Adam Kay
View profile →Self-destruction.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
People who barge into a lift instead of standing aside for anyone exiting should be dipped in kerosene and fired into the sun.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
In the one photo I’ve seen where my smile looks convincing – I’m four years old, so I’m guessing then. But I just won a Bafta and that felt amazing, too. So, roughly every 40 years.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
A reviewer once called me “artistically bankrupt”, and it doesn’t feel like reviews can get much worse than that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗
More on failure & regret
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 209 answers
- If you could edit your past, what would you change? 203 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 122 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 122 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 49 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 35 answers
Also answered this · A–Z
Adam Clayton, Adam Lambert, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson, Adrian Scarborough
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject