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So attuned to a friend's tastes that identical food orders happen without any conversation or coordination.
Read full entry →Newly and enthusiastically claiming loyalty to a team purely on the back of a recent run of good results.
Read full entry →Displaying disproportionate satisfaction after a minor victory in a low-stakes pastime like darts or pool.
Read full entry →Habitually destroying the impact of a joke by immediately, unnecessarily explaining its own punchline.
Read full entry →Reflexively resigned to minor misfortune, treating every inconvenience as further proof of a personal pattern of bad luck.
Read full entry →Immediately suspicious of a message that departs from the group's usual casual, chaotic tone.
Read full entry →Feigning general helplessness with devices while displaying suspiciously precise skill in one specific area.
Read full entry →Radiating a level of social energy that is genuinely lovely but occasionally too much for a Tuesday.
Read full entry →Displaying an unusually thoughtful memory for small, personal facts mentioned only in passing.
Read full entry →Repeatedly claiming a rambling anecdote is building to something meaningful, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Read full entry →Overconfident about spatial orientation skills that are, empirically, consistently and thoroughly unreliable.
Read full entry →Aware of an unsettling level of scroll-back activity into your own long-forgotten social media history.
Read full entry →Excessively pleased with a temporary, improvised repair that has clearly outstayed its welcome by several years.
Read full entry →Prone to enthusiastically overstating mild sunshine as intense heat by British meteorological standards.
Read full entry →Visibly present and active across social platforms while conspicuously failing to answer a direct message.
Read full entry →Producing a small, obligatory laugh out of social duty rather than actual amusement.
Read full entry →Falsely projecting patience via email while quietly expecting an immediate response within the hour.
Read full entry →Instinctively offering hot tea as the answer to every crisis, from minor inconvenience to genuine tragedy.
Read full entry →Deliberately displaying subtle signs of distress specifically to prompt someone to ask if everything is okay.
Read full entry →Stuck in an involuntary cycle of repeating the same recently discovered joke to every single person encountered.
Read full entry →Displaying unwavering DIY optimism regardless of the actual complexity or danger of the task at hand.
Read full entry →Contradictorily sociable in low-stakes public settings despite professing a general dislike of casual conversation.
Read full entry →Unusually and disproportionately opinionated about the precise order and method of hot beverage preparation.
Read full entry →Displaying newfound, hard-earned assurance in a driving skill previously associated with total panic.
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