People who are not self-aware.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
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View all 202 →When they ruin my story because they think theirs is better, so butt in before I’ve finished mine.
Bigotry and cruelty in any form.
Unfriendliness.
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View profile →Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
As a good friend.
My first holy communion, where my trousers were too big for me and fell down, a circumstance which earned me both the instant contempt of the girls and the heightened interest of the priests. That’s just how it was in 1975.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
Just. Hanging. On.
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