Laziness, lack of empathy, lack of humour.
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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How close have you come to death?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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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.
People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
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Amid so much blatant cruelty in our political situation, such shocking indifference to the lives & welfare of those living at the margins of an affluent society, I think it must be this institutionalized cruelty, & the hypocrisy that surrounds it. “Making America great again”—for whom? Wealthy white people? The word “deplore” is particularly relevant here.
Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
Vindictiveness and spite.
Being untruthful.
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