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Possessing an uncanny ability to foresee precisely how a friend group dispute will unfold and conclude.
Read full entry →An extended, repeatedly interrupted farewell ritual that never quite manages to end with an actual exit.
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 →A well-established, unequal but functional social arrangement based entirely on one person's organisational effort.
Read full entry →Consumed with missionary-level enthusiasm about a recently adopted interest, to the exhaustion of everyone nearby.
Read full entry →Someone with an uncanny, near-supernatural ability to be absent whenever unpleasant communal tasks arise.
Read full entry →Unable to complete a story or joke due to being overwhelmed by their own amusement partway through.
Read full entry →A mutual, unspoken agreement to let a familiar anecdote play out again without pointing out you've heard it before.
Read full entry →Willing to sit through significant personal tedium purely out of devotion to a partner's viewing preferences.
Read full entry →A dated in-family reference so old it's outlived its context, kept alive purely out of tradition and mild cruelty.
Read full entry →Quietly and disproportionately pleased with oneself over an entirely mundane residential parking success.
Read full entry →A person who claims total flexibility while covertly rejecting every option until their preferred choice is reached.
Read full entry →A significant, unspoken threshold of intimacy reached in a long-term relationship marked by bodily comfort.
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 →Someone who declares no appetite before systematically dismantling everyone else's meal one chip at a time.
Read full entry →Filled with disproportionate satisfaction achieved purely through the successful rising of a basic cake.
Read full entry →The uncertain social status of a relationship too formal for a casual cancellation and too casual for total honesty.
Read full entry →Obsessively focused on pedantic corrections of others' spelling and punctuation in situations that call for neither.
Read full entry →The predictable phenomenon in which nobody communicates snack plans and the table ends up with six identical bags of Doritos.
Read full entry →Displaying a level of competitive commitment to Monopoly or Cluedo that far outweighs the actual stakes involved.
Read full entry →An unplanned, unusually deep emotional exchange that happens purely because two people were waiting for the same kettle.
Read full entry →Quietly betrayed by the gap between a glossy photograph and the sad reality delivered to the table.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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