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A crippling physical and mental fatigue resulting not from alcohol, but from prolonged exposure to a deeply toxic or draining human being.
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 →An escalating cascade of catastrophic failures, usually caused by terrible management, resulting in an unmitigated disaster.
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 manipulative, gaslighting tactic used to simulate contrition while entirely blaming the victim for having an emotional reaction.
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 →A spiritual strike action involving long toilet breaks, zero proactive emails, and a total refusal to engage with the capitalist machine.
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 →An invisible, compensatory markup added to a freelance invoice solely to cover the emotional damage inflicted by a nightmare customer.
Read full entry →The covert digital assassination of a coworker's character while maintaining a perfectly blank, professional facial expression.
Read full entry →An HR-enforced nightmare involving trust falls, escape rooms, or bowling, designed to foster morale but entirely destroying the will to live.
Read full entry →A state of profound, irrational hatred where an individual's mere existence and basic bodily functions become an unbearable provocation.
Read full entry →The highly efficient, guilt-free maneuver of abandoning a social event to go eat pizza in bed without navigating twenty goodbyes.
Read full entry →An unprompted, twenty-minute lecture delivered with unearned confidence about a podcast, cryptocurrency, or basic human logic.
Read full entry →The hostile takeover of an innocent online discussion about baking or pets by someone obsessed with starting a culture war.
Read full entry →The reckless consumption of excessive caffeine to simulate motivation in a job you actively despise.
Read full entry →The crippling, nauseating anxiety experienced upon waking up hungover and realizing you were active on WhatsApp at 3 AM.
Read full entry →A pedantic Reddit or Twitter user who believes that correcting your use of 'there' versus 'their' constitutes winning a debate.
Read full entry →An unwarranted, non-consensual jump-scare delivered via direct message, proving the sender possesses zero social intelligence.
Read full entry →The manipulative, attention-seeking practice of writing dramatic statuses like 'Some people are just fake' and refusing to elaborate.
Read full entry →A spiritual awakening that occurs around 3 PM on a Friday, wherein professional consequences cease to hold any psychological weight.
Read full entry →The pathetic, soul-destroying pursuit of algorithmic validation, usually involving a tripod, public dancing, or harassing minimum-wage workers.
Read full entry →The agonizing experience of being trapped behind a group of tourists or slow pedestrians who drift side-to-side, blocking all passing routes.
Read full entry →The deeply unfair and unprompted act of using a coworker, barista, or Tinder date as an unpaid, non-consensual therapist.
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