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A highly tactical, meandering stroll through an office building designed to extract maximum financial compensation for minimum physical effort.
Read full entry →The societal obligation to shower a squishy, potato-looking newborn with intense, fabricated adoration to appease a coworker.
Read full entry →The incredibly common, deeply humiliating corporate error of announcing a document that you completely failed to upload.
Read full entry →The pathetic, pride-saving attempt to casually carry a mangled, inverted wire skeleton as if it is a bold new fashion statement.
Read full entry →The passive-aggressive expulsion of air used to punish a stranger for occupying a chair you mentally claimed but did not legally book.
Read full entry →The hollow performance of community activism, involving photographing broken infrastructure with zero intention of actually sending an email.
Read full entry →The stubborn, medically dangerous protest against energy companies, executed by sitting on the sofa looking like an Arctic explorer.
Read full entry →A cowardly, lazy act of household sabotage where the burden of rinsing and recycling plastic is passed to the next thirsty victim.
Read full entry →The subtle, venomous use of basic punctuation to indicate that the sender is absolutely furious but refusing to admit it.
Read full entry →The frantic, high-speed pocket search for a plastic sack while an elderly resident glares at you through their front window.
Read full entry →The deployment of a linguistic shield designed to absolve the speaker of all guilt before they absolutely annihilate someone's character.
Read full entry →The naive, idiotic belief that a piece of red tape will stop a delivery driver from testing the aerodynamics of your new vase.
Read full entry →The stubborn, dangerous refusal to let a computer restart out of a paranoid fear that the new font will look slightly different.
Read full entry →The reckless, borderline suicidal deployment of metal cutlery into an active electrical appliance purely for the love of bread.
Read full entry →The grim olfactory assessment of a reusable box to determine if it has been forever corrupted by last week's vindaloo.
Read full entry →The covert, incremental adjustment of household climate controls to avoid initiating a massive argument about heating bills.
Read full entry →The pathetic, culturally ingrained habit of assuming blame when an oblivious idiot walks squarely into your chest.
Read full entry →The subconscious but deeply maddening act of weaponizing office stationery to project nervous energy into a quiet room.
Read full entry →The desperate deployment of digital laughter to avoid engaging with an uncle's genuinely concerning conspiracy theory.
Read full entry →The horrific, sudden confrontation with your own low-angle mortality caused by a slipped thumb in the camera app.
Read full entry →A catastrophic application of pulling force that bypasses the plug and destroys the structural integrity of the drywall.
Read full entry →An insufferable contrarian who derives sexual pleasure from manufacturing arguments about mundane topics just to sound intellectual.
Read full entry →The cowardly, non-committal deferral of a social invitation, designed to string the host along until the event has passed.
Read full entry →The terrifying, silent period following a vehicular crater-strike where the driver waits to hear if a wheel is about to detach.
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