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A shrieking, three-hour nocturnal event treated by an entire street as an unavoidable act of God.
Read full entry →A wildly inaccurate time estimate given before a kickabout that always somehow extends well past sunset.
Read full entry →A sudden collapse of weekend optimism triggered by six ominous words on a company messaging platform.
Read full entry →A deep, culturally specific disappointment felt when a hot drink arrives lukewarm and bagless in a foreign hotel.
Read full entry →A calm, confident lie told between mouthfuls of an entire packet of custard creams straight from the biscuit barrel.
Read full entry →A high-pressure, multi-pocket search performed under the judgmental gaze of an entire rush-hour queue.
Read full entry →A cruel mechanical trap sprung on drivers who assumed contactless technology had reached every corner of the country.
Read full entry →A hypnotic, entirely incomprehensible late-night broadcast that soothes millions of landlocked listeners into sleep.
Read full entry →A rising sense of existential doom triggered by a red battery icon and a full day ahead with no plug in sight.
Read full entry →A forced, low-stakes conversation conducted entirely through a mirror while trapped under a gown and scissors.
Read full entry →A brief, unearned surge of patriotic optimism that always evaporates the moment the voting actually begins.
Read full entry →An annual, self-imposed battle of will against rising energy bills, always lost within the first week of autumn.
Read full entry →A recurring national state of confusion regarding the extremes celebrities will endure for a Cyclone star.
Read full entry →A collective, unspoken agreement to never, ever acknowledge what has just happened in an enclosed metal box.
Read full entry →A meteorologically guaranteed event in which any planned outdoor gathering is cancelled by biblical rainfall.
Read full entry →A relentless, single chirp from a ceiling-mounted device timed exclusively for the deepest part of the night.
Read full entry →A ceremonial act of verbal outrage at inflation, entirely unaccompanied by any change in actual spending behaviour.
Read full entry →A sudden jolt of financial dread triggered by a single camera flash and an outdated Vauxhall Corsa.
Read full entry →A bold act of social fiction designed to appear like a regular, immediately undone when the barman asks what that actually is.
Read full entry →A collective, unspoken pact of avoidance performed by everyone on public transport, focused on a fixed point of absolutely nothing.
Read full entry →A full-body paralysis triggered by a red screen, during which time appears to slow to an absolute standstill.
Read full entry →A confident, entirely unqualified forecast about the romantic trajectory of two strangers in a Majorcan villa.
Read full entry →A sudden, total loss of memory occurring exclusively while holding a phone with the correct answer already open on it.
Read full entry →A media-manufactured, self-fulfilling gloom that convinces an entire nation to feel worse on a completely arbitrary Monday.
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