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The delusional performance of general knowledge superiority achieved entirely from the safety of an armchair, under no pressure whatsoever.
Read full entry →A ceremonial act of verbal outrage at inflation, entirely unaccompanied by any change in actual spending behaviour.
Read full entry →A public act of enthusiastic greeting immediately followed by the crushing realisation it was never meant for you.
Read full entry →A sudden jolt of financial dread triggered by a single camera flash and an outdated Vauxhall Corsa.
Read full entry →A quiet, ambient expression of collective fury directed at a piece of electronic signage that cannot hear you.
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 →The forced participation in workplace jollity, usually involving a Secret Santa and someone's boss doing karaoke.
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 frantic, coin-based scavenger hunt through every pocket and glovebox compartment moments before a parking fine.
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 cowardly written attack on a colleague's dairy habits, deployed instead of the far simpler option of just asking them.
Read full entry →A confident, entirely unqualified forecast about the romantic trajectory of two strangers in a Majorcan villa.
Read full entry →An instinctive, near-telepathic ability to detect and join a line the second one begins forming, for reasons unknown.
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 compulsive digital ritual performed in the vain hope that a static webpage will suddenly reveal new information.
Read full entry →A media-manufactured, self-fulfilling gloom that convinces an entire nation to feel worse on a completely arbitrary Monday.
Read full entry →The public act of a queueing motorist expressing displeasure via horn at someone's ongoing spatial-awareness failure.
Read full entry →A calm, breezy verbal mask deployed over a rapidly escalating internal crisis.
Read full entry →An obsessive tracking behaviour performed with the same intensity as monitoring a hurricane, over a bag of chips.
Read full entry →A curt, defensive refusal issued before the automated request has even finished being read out.
Read full entry →The deeply British pastime of consuming other people's reactions to television as a superior form of television.
Read full entry →A rhetorical greeting mistakenly interpreted as a genuine enquiry, resulting in unwanted emotional disclosure by the pool table.
Read full entry →A sudden jolt of motorway dread requiring an immediate, undignified scramble across three lanes of traffic.
Read full entry →A fierce, semi-serious regional dispute over the correct topping for chips that has ended actual friendships.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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