Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
I once had to dig a fire escape from a basement in a health club. It took two weeks.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 May 2018 source ↗
I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2019 source ↗
Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 December 2021 source ↗
The unguiltiest pleasure.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
I once found myself chatting to a big handsome bloke at a party in Oslo. I said, “And what do you do?” “Well,” he said, “I am the king.” Being a great wordsmith, I zinged back, “Oh. Errm. Cool.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
That it’s impossible to persuade other people of the value of the lessons that life has taught you.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
I took the whole family to live in the Basque Country for a year. My children and I have a hereditary blood condition so I took out a health insurance policy. I’m still furious that none of us so much as stubbed a toe.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
My inability to say no.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
So many. All childcarers and most primary teachers.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
Adam Kay, Adeel Akhtar, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen
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