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The toxic manipulation of someone's loyalty to force them into spending £100 on a night out they will actively hate.
Read full entry →The masochistic pursuit of terrible media, driven entirely by the desire to write furious, multi-paragraph rants on Reddit.
Read full entry →The digital art of flooding a forum or timeline with absurd, meaningless content simply to annoy people taking the internet too seriously.
Read full entry →The pathetic, insecure need to dominate a conversation by proving your suffering, success, or weekend was bigger than someone else's.
Read full entry →The cowardly, chemical warfare act of crop-dusting an enclosed space and leaving strangers to suffer the consequences.
Read full entry →The toxic, insecure behavior of a nerd trying to protect a massive pop-culture franchise from casual fans to feel superior.
Read full entry →A cynical mental game played by exhausted employees to survive corporate jargon without screaming out loud.
Read full entry →The infuriating, dangerously stupid act of creating a human bottleneck at a mechanical exit point because you received a WhatsApp message.
Read full entry →The weaponization of basic grammar in an instant message to signify that the conversation is over and you hate the recipient.
Read full entry →The hypocritical, profit-driven co-opting of social justice movements by soulless brands to distract from their own horrifying ethics.
Read full entry →A repetitive strain injury developed not from productivity or manual labor, but from relentlessly flicking a thumb over a glowing rectangle of garbage.
Read full entry →A financial penalty incurred not through malice, but through sheer, arrogant stupidity and the belief that rules don't apply to you.
Read full entry →The blood-sucking strategy of attaching oneself to competent people and taking full credit for their sleepless nights and hard work.
Read full entry →The reckless consumption of alcohol leading to the demolition of social filters, resulting in vicious, honest family confrontations.
Read full entry →The spineless, sickening display of sycophancy utilized by a corporate climber who lacks actual talent or morals.
Read full entry →A pathetic individual who adopts a highly aggressive, macho persona online to compensate for their crippling timidity in the real world.
Read full entry →The non-consensual trapping of a colleague in a confined space to forcibly deliver deeply uncomfortable, highly personal information.
Read full entry →The violent, immediate abandonment of a video game or task due to a sudden spike in uncontrollable, childish anger.
Read full entry →The act of behaving with such relentless, grating incompetence or arrogance that it incites raw, physical fury in an observer.
Read full entry →The desperate, petty pursuit of internet facts during a pub argument, driven purely by the desire to utterly humiliate a mate.
Read full entry →A profoundly stupid individual operating heavy machinery or existing in society with a staggering lack of spatial or social awareness.
Read full entry →The gleeful, malicious injection of a highly debatable topic into a peaceful environment for the pure entertainment of watching people fight.
Read full entry →The covert digital assassination of a coworker's character while maintaining a perfectly blank, professional facial expression.
Read full entry →A state of profound, irrational hatred where an individual's mere existence and basic bodily functions become an unbearable provocation.
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