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Entries relating to phones.
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A highly professional, aggressively polite phrase designed to highlight a colleague's spectacular incompetence without alerting HR.
Read full entry →The heart-stopping fear that a friend will see a screenshot of their own text message from three years ago.
Read full entry →The agonizing wait while holding your phone out for a friend, analyzing their face for the anticipated reaction.
Read full entry →The blinding, highly public humiliation of illuminating a dark room with your phone's LED while trying to check the time.
Read full entry →The paranoia that your podcast or music is secretly blasting out of your phone's main speaker on a quiet train.
Read full entry →The insertion of unpowered earbuds into the ear canal to project an aura of total unapproachability.
Read full entry →The phenomenon of unlocking a device, being distracted by a notification, and completely forgetting your original intent.
Read full entry →The violent punishment delivered by gravity when scrolling while lying flat on your back.
Read full entry →The terrifying uncertainty of whether your microphone is broadcasting your heavy breathing to the entire company.
Read full entry →The intense psychological distress of watching a battery icon drain to its final, fatal pixel.
Read full entry →The painful penalty for doomscrolling while supine, resulting in a bruised nose and dented pride.
Read full entry →A glitch in the human nervous system that perfectly mimics the sensation of an incoming text message.
Read full entry →Interacting with a blank home screen solely to appear busy and socially unavailable in a public space.
Read full entry →The tactical deployment of a silent phone to the ear to avoid high street fundraisers.
Read full entry →The sudden, sharp pain of yanking an earbud out without clearing the cartilage.
Read full entry →The painful consequence of losing grip strength while doomscrolling horizontally.
Read full entry →The conversational purgatory of thinking a call has ended, only for a new topic to be introduced.
Read full entry →The complete abdication of basic mental arithmetic to a digital device out of sheer laziness.
Read full entry →The agonizing state of being forced to hold a polite smile while watching an unfunny two-minute clip.
Read full entry →The heart-stopping panic of an empty pocket, cured only by looking at your palm.
Read full entry →The complete blanking of intent that occurs the moment the home screen appears.
Read full entry →The painful, humiliating consequence of losing grip strength while reading in a supine position.
Read full entry →The involuntary need to walk in circles through multiple rooms while speaking on the phone.
Read full entry →The intense rage caused by cables that inexplicably tied themselves into a sailor's knot in your pocket.
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