Racism and bigotry.
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What keeps you awake at night?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
Judgmental without investigation.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
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To my teachers in high school - that I didn't punch them in the mouth for discouraging all my interests.
I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.
Nothing, I can sleep everywhere but an aeroplane.
It's bad taste to brag about money.
Losing my mind and not knowing it.
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