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Having received supportive gestures made up exclusively of unrelated, mildly funny internet images.
Read full entry →Pleasant and engaging but seemingly incapable of recognising the natural end point of a chat.
Read full entry →Successfully having a fabricated excuse accepted at face value without further probing or suspicion.
Read full entry →Overconfident about chilli tolerance right up until the exact moment reality sets in with tears and milk.
Read full entry →Relying on a single, overused phrase to describe every dining experience regardless of actual quality.
Read full entry →In perfect, wordless agreement with a partner that a social event has run its course and should be abandoned.
Read full entry →Possessing an uncanny ability to foresee precisely how a friend group dispute will unfold and conclude.
Read full entry →Excessively and unnecessarily apologetic, to the point of taking blame for events entirely outside their control.
Read full entry →Overtaken by inappropriate, uncontrollable amusement in a professional setting requiring total composure.
Read full entry →Consumed with missionary-level enthusiasm about a recently adopted interest, to the exhaustion of everyone nearby.
Read full entry →Unable to complete a story or joke due to being overwhelmed by their own amusement partway through.
Read full entry →Willing to sit through significant personal tedium purely out of devotion to a partner's viewing preferences.
Read full entry →Quietly and disproportionately pleased with oneself over an entirely mundane residential parking success.
Read full entry →Habitually adding unnecessary emotional intensity to entirely ordinary and low-stakes situations.
Read full entry →Physically and emotionally depleted by an excessive period of standing patiently behind other people.
Read full entry →Filled with disproportionate satisfaction achieved purely through the successful rising of a basic cake.
Read full entry →Obsessively focused on pedantic corrections of others' spelling and punctuation in situations that call for neither.
Read full entry →Displaying a level of competitive commitment to Monopoly or Cluedo that far outweighs the actual stakes involved.
Read full entry →Quietly betrayed by the gap between a glossy photograph and the sad reality delivered to the table.
Read full entry →Fully, deliberately satisfied with a day of achieving nothing beyond snacks and low-effort telly.
Read full entry →So painfully unfunny in construction that it achieves an unexpected, involuntary laugh from the listener.
Read full entry →Simmering with private resentment while maintaining an entirely normal, unbothered exterior.
Read full entry →In a state of alcohol-fuelled sincerity that goes well beyond appropriate workplace boundaries.
Read full entry →A well-meaning but entirely inaccurate compliment delivered by an elderly relative regardless of physical reality.
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