The question
How would you sum yourself up 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.
Funny, loyal, genuine.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗
Passionate, gobby, flabby.
Earnest, driven, Gemini.
Un constructor.
Empathetic, humble and strong.
I’m slightly impatient.
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
The notion that anything is possible.
A Porsche 911 Turbo.
I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.
John McCarthy, the journalist who was held captive for five years in Beirut. I’ve met him and he was so full of peace, humility and forgiveness – it was inspiring.
Tamsin Greig, Jason Donovan, Matthew Kelly, Tony Christie, Juliet Stevenson, Mark Radcliffe
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