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Entries relating to small talk.
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To announce the obvious state of the weather as an opening to conversation.
Read full entry →Using 'cheers' as a greeting, farewell, acknowledgement, apology or vague conversational glue.
Read full entry →A universally accepted fallback topic capable of rescuing almost any awkward silence.
Read full entry →Restarting conversation by returning to Britain's most dependable topic.
Read full entry →A dignified conversational withdrawal that avoids further disagreement.
Read full entry →A polite conversational gap left solely to avoid sounding blunt.
Read full entry →A conversational formality whose answer has absolutely no effect on what follows.
Read full entry →A dramatic conversational build-up to an opinion that surprises absolutely nobody.
Read full entry →Concluding an argument with apparent agreement while internally remaining unconvinced.
Read full entry →The conversational signal that nobody wishes to acknowledge whose fault the situation actually was.
Read full entry →A single-word review indicating that something is fundamentally awful while remaining impeccably polite.
Read full entry →A socially accepted deception in which your own desire to leave is disguised as concern for someone else's time.
Read full entry →Ending a conversation by generously pretending to give the other person permission to leave, despite secretly wanting to escape yourself.
Read full entry →The dramatic, attention-seeking exit from a digital chat, executed solely to harvest validation from the people you just abandoned.
Read full entry →An infuriating conversational dead-end where vital gossip is trapped inside a format you cannot physically play without getting fired.
Read full entry →The sudden derailment of a conversation about football or pints by a sleep-deprived parent seeking validation for their offspring.
Read full entry →An insufferable contrarian who derives sexual pleasure from manufacturing arguments about mundane topics just to sound intellectual.
Read full entry →A low-effort emoji reaction deployed specifically to kill a conversation you have absolutely no interest in continuing.
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 soul-crushing silence that follows a risky joke or a genuine request for weekend plans in a WhatsApp group of eight people.
Read full entry →A profoundly miserable individual who systematically destroys any joyful atmosphere by forcibly injecting depressing personal admin into the conversation.
Read full entry →A rare, smooth collaborative planning session between partners that reaches full agreement without any disagreement at all.
Read full entry →An uncomfortable, well-meaning nudge from extended family regarding the formal progression of a relationship.
Read full entry →Deliberately extending a journey for no practical reason, purely to prolong quality time or an unfinished conversation.
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