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The lethal feline tactic of figure-eighting through human shins near a steep drop.
Read full entry →The terrifying canine detection of entities, ghosts, or drafts that humans cannot perceive.
Read full entry →The malicious repositioning of a website layout designed to force you into viewing a pop-up.
Read full entry →The phenomenon of unlocking a device, being distracted by a notification, and completely forgetting your original intent.
Read full entry →The desperate, watery dilution of hygiene products to delay a trip to the supermarket.
Read full entry →A culinary robbery conducted under the thin veil of democratic sharing.
Read full entry →The sudden, financially ruinous upgrading of your groceries to impress a stranger you will never see again.
Read full entry →The exaggerated, highly suspicious swagger adopted to prove to security guards you haven't stolen a cucumber.
Read full entry →The strategic dispatch of a pointless message at dawn to establish a false narrative of extreme productivity.
Read full entry →A performance of intense concentration on a progress bar so coworkers think you are doing complex coding.
Read full entry →The cultural requirement to wildly understate personal success to avoid looking arrogant.
Read full entry →The single designated space in a kitchen for items that possess no logical category but cannot legally be thrown away.
Read full entry →The tactical deployment of fake empathy to end a conversation you are desperate to escape.
Read full entry →The act of performing a polite physical gesture while actively refusing to acknowledge the human benefiting from it.
Read full entry →The mechanical typing of laughter into a group chat while experiencing the emotional baseline of a damp sponge.
Read full entry →A terrifying two-word message that immediately convinces the recipient that someone has died or they are being fired.
Read full entry →The unconscious, selfish acquisition of extra head support at the expense of a loved one's neck alignment.
Read full entry →A covert domestic battle where partners incrementally turn the dial up and down without speaking.
Read full entry →The state of remaining perfectly still for hours to avoid disturbing a resting feline.
Read full entry →A mandatory sacrifice of dairy products demanded by a hound the moment the refrigerator seal is broken.
Read full entry →The violent punishment delivered by gravity when scrolling while lying flat on your back.
Read full entry →The maddening tech loop where you forget your login, only to discover you were trying to change it to what it already was.
Read full entry →A localized loss of vision that prevents you from locating condiments until someone else points them out.
Read full entry →The grim, sweetened sediment created when a dunked baked good loses structural integrity and drowns.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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