Life domain
Food, home, shopping, travel, weather and the routines of ordinary life.
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Broad classification for food & drink.
Broad classification for home & domestic life.
Broad classification for shopping & retail.
Broad classification for travel & transport.
Broad classification for money, admin & customer service.
Broad classification for weather, seasons & holidays.
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A stubborn, borderline heroic refusal to abandon outdoor cooking plans despite biblical weather conditions.
Read full entry →The council's ruthless refusal to empty an entire bin over a single item of contamination, discovered only after collection day.
Read full entry →A sudden demand for visual presence sprung on employees who assumed they could get away with pyjamas today.
Read full entry →A fierce, almost patriotic devotion to a local independent shop over any nearby chain, regardless of price.
Read full entry →A courteous but entirely useless verbal gesture broadcast to a platform of furious, delayed commuters.
Read full entry →A frantic, last-minute reshuffling of a journey home using increasingly desperate combinations of buses and walking.
Read full entry →A recurring, unresolved national debate about culinary classification that has genuinely been settled in a court of law and still nobody accepts it.
Read full entry →A deep, well-earned distrust of any British weather forecast that promises sunshine.
Read full entry →A rare, fortunate encounter with a rail catering service that has not yet sold out of everything edible.
Read full entry →The compulsive repetition of a phrase back at someone in a context where it makes absolutely no logical sense.
Read full entry →A national ritual of celebrating the completion of security by ordering a pint at 6am regardless of the destination.
Read full entry →A one-sided, entirely futile verbal confrontation between a customer and an unfeeling supermarket robot.
Read full entry →A euphoric rediscovery moment triggered entirely by a discontinued packet of prawn cocktail Skips.
Read full entry →A polite, entirely fraudulent display of comprehension performed to avoid a fifth explanation of what a googly is.
Read full entry →A shrieking, three-hour nocturnal event treated by an entire street as an unavoidable act of God.
Read full entry →A lengthy, resigned wait for Swedish food that has somehow become the actual highlight of a furniture shopping trip.
Read full entry →A deep, culturally specific disappointment felt when a hot drink arrives lukewarm and bagless in a foreign hotel.
Read full entry →The daily broadcast of green and yellow squares to an audience who did not ask and does not care.
Read full entry →A calm, confident lie told between mouthfuls of an entire packet of custard creams straight from the biscuit barrel.
Read full entry →A high-pressure, multi-pocket search performed under the judgmental gaze of an entire rush-hour queue.
Read full entry →A cruel mechanical trap sprung on drivers who assumed contactless technology had reached every corner of the country.
Read full entry →The silent, judgmental glares of an entire quiet coach directed at one oblivious phone user.
Read full entry →A small, genuine burst of comfort discovered upon realising a beloved cheap shop has survived another economic downturn.
Read full entry →A momentary loss of driving nerve at a junction, resulting in an entire queue of traffic building up behind you.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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