John Waters
American filmmaker
Judgmental without investigation.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Originally asked
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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.
Those who create the doom.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗
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People’s need to feel superior to others. All it does is cause judgment and hate.
Careless cruelty.
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A Reform government.
I’m going to confess I haven’t finished The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.
Getting elected with 85% of the vote.
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