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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.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
I am happy to sit in silence with my wife and I think that is a good sign – we are just happy being in each other’s company.
A dizzy flamenco.
A chihuahua giving you a cuddle.
Like you’ve got hot-water bottles all over you.
Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
My first holy communion, where my trousers were too big for me and fell down, a circumstance which earned me both the instant contempt of the girls and the heightened interest of the priests. That’s just how it was in 1975.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
I can’t say it.
My interest in Los Angeles.
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