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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 →A small, considerate message sent to build anticipation for an evening meal already underway at home.
Read full entry →The unofficially appointed member of a friendship group responsible for documenting every single outing on camera.
Read full entry →A verbal caution that reliably precedes a comment guaranteed to be interpreted exactly as feared.
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 →A silent, mutual agreement to permanently drop a disagreement without either party formally apologising.
Read full entry →An act of quiet, unprompted generosity from a friend that reveals genuine care without needing a request.
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 →A tight-knit office friendship formed less through common interests and more through mutual workplace frustration.
Read full entry →An enduring, low-level tension between two partners with fundamentally incompatible relationships to time.
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 →A friendship secure enough to comment honestly on appearance without triggering offence or hurt feelings.
Read full entry →A disproportionately intense family conflict triggered by disputed house rules on free parking money.
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 →A perfectly warm and genuine friendship confined entirely to office hours, with zero contact outside them.
Read full entry →Falsely projecting patience via email while quietly expecting an immediate response within the hour.
Read full entry →A brief but ominous verbal preamble that always precedes unwelcome criticism delivered over shared food.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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