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An adrenaline spike caused by the immediate, non-consensual threat of viewing a stranger's highly personal or explicit photographs.
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An adrenaline spike caused by the immediate, non-consensual threat of viewing a stranger's highly personal or explicit photographs.
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 →A hollow, greasy regret experienced when a family-sized share bag is violently consumed by a single person on a Tuesday.
Read full entry →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 →A devastating ambush where the excitement of an Amazon delivery is violently replaced by a stranger holding a pamphlet about salvation.
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 stubborn, dangerous refusal to restart a laptop out of fear that the new interface will be mildly annoying.
Read full entry →A terrifying, psychopathic breach of unwritten public transport etiquette, causing immediate panic and extreme discomfort.
Read full entry →An agonizing state of hyper-awareness where you are forced to observe the horrifying, loud reality of your drunk friends.
Read full entry →An uncertain, anxiety-inducing waiting period between a message being marked read and any actual response arriving.
Read full entry →A rare, appreciated instance of a partner offering pure emotional support without jumping straight to solutions.
Read full entry →An intense, disproportionate spiral of anxiety triggered entirely by a short, deliberately vague message.
Read full entry →Recognising, mid-laugh, that a story or joke has already been told once and you're now hearing it for the second time.
Read full entry →A considerate, unprompted heads-up sent ahead of an unavoidable delay, sparing the other person any needless anxiety.
Read full entry →A rare, appreciated instance where a promised financial reward from an employer arrives exactly when expected.
Read full entry →Habitually enabling captions on video content regardless of audio clarity, purely out of comfort or habit.
Read full entry →Overstating the length or completion of a health-related January challenge that was, in reality, abandoned early.
Read full entry →Disproportionately satisfied with the neatness and precision of their own gift-wrapping technique.
Read full entry →A minor but real December crisis caused by an unreliable memory for who's already received a festive greeting.
Read full entry →A well-intentioned annual promise to oneself with a shelf life reliably measured in days, not months.
Read full entry →Habitually overstating the cultural significance of minor, forgettable moments using increasingly grand language.
Read full entry →Habitually responding to online content with the barest possible editorial comment, usually just 'this' or 'yikes'.
Read full entry →A collective, televised heartbreak felt across the nation when a carefully constructed bake fails at the final hurdle.
Read full entry →A creeping, nationally shared sense of impending Monday triggered exclusively by a single BBC theme tune.
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