The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
“Your cooking sucks” – before I learned to cook in Covid.
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
There will always be so many who might say, “Ah, he’s a politician masquerading as an archbishop.” Politics is so all-pervasive, and in my theology, obviously, all of life belongs to God, and you don’t have compartments, this is your economic life, this is your political life, this is your religious life. Religion encompasses all of those. But yes, I wouldn’t myself have said I was setting out to be a political animal.
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
When my kids were little – and now, in my old age.
Dependency. Fascism.
I will be dead, why would I care?
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