People who aren’t polite.
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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.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
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