The question
How would you describe yourself in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
Middle-class wanker.
Small, determined, lucky.
Just. Hanging. On.
Funny Irish woman.
In 2001, when my eldest son died.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
Being able to paint the way I do.
As a nice old man.
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