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.
I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
“Let’s face it, you’re not Ingrid Bergman.” I was 19 and he was a potential boyfriend. My only thought at the time was: “I’m not?”
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
“You were amazing in Game of Thrones.” I say it’s the worst thing – it’s also the best!
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
A sense of what really matters.
An air traffic controller.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
If I bothered to read instructions.
Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
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