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The profound financial and culinary sorrow of paying extortionate city prices for a bowl of dry spinach and a single cherry tomato.
Read full entry →The pathetic, attention-seeking auditory performance of a man lifting a mildly heavy dumbbell while pretending he's giving birth.
Read full entry →The profoundly arrogant positioning of a German vehicle over a white dividing line to protect it from the peasantry.
Read full entry →The stubborn, dangerous refusal to restart a laptop out of fear that the new interface will be mildly annoying.
Read full entry →The toxic relationship habit of claiming you have no preference for food, only to brutally reject every single option presented.
Read full entry →The humiliating public cleanup required when local wildlife tears open a cheap bin bag, exposing your dietary habits to the street.
Read full entry →The channeling of homicidal relationship anger into highly aggressive, spotless domestic sanitation.
Read full entry →The aggressive, deafening clattering of ceramics in a sink designed to induce maximum guilt in whoever is sitting on the sofa.
Read full entry →An insufferable pedant who weaponizes Instagram direct messages to point out that the building in your photo is actually neo-gothic.
Read full entry →The deep, irrational sting of rejection felt when a passing golden retriever refuses to acknowledge your high-pitched 'hello'.
Read full entry →The risky, bachelor-pad olfactory test performed on discarded laundry to delay putting the washing machine on.
Read full entry →The British stoicism required to tap your card on a reader for an extortionate London beverage without openly weeping.
Read full entry →An act of pure, unadulterated urban malice, denying a fellow human access to a vertical transport box out of sheer impatience.
Read full entry →The aggressive, deeply anti-social broadcasting of a private WhatsApp conversation to an entire carriage of innocent train passengers.
Read full entry →The cowardly, relationship-preserving delay tactic of offering vague optimism to kill an argument about visiting their parents.
Read full entry →The corporate practice of coating terrible news, a rejected pitch, or a lack of bonus in saccharine, fake positivity.
Read full entry →The British art of attaching a single lowercase kiss to a message to signify that you are currently vibrating with unadulterated rage.
Read full entry →The venomous, entitled deployment of a keyboard to destroy a minimum-wage worker's livelihood over a minor, perceived slight.
Read full entry →A highly selective domestic visual impairment where flatmates pretend not to see a mountain of bean tins balancing on the lid.
Read full entry →A toxic, insecure dating strategy involving artificially delaying a WhatsApp response to project an aura of high value.
Read full entry →The malicious canine instinct to bypass 400 square feet of easily washable laminate flooring to deposit stomach acid onto a Persian rug.
Read full entry →The euphoric, biologically necessary unhooking of an undergarment after nine hours of corporate servitude.
Read full entry →The malicious, highly effective deployment of a frozen facial expression followed by closing the laptop lid to escape a corporate meeting.
Read full entry →The narcissistic, deeply annoying habit of immediately invalidating a colleague's cold by boasting about a severe flu you had in 2019.
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