Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
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Originally asked
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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.
Greed and stupidity.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗
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Lying, unreliability.
Trying too hard to be funny.
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My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
Dick Cheney for hating him for being one of the most destructive people on Earth.
'You're not free.'
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