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Broad classification for social life & etiquette.
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An insufferable individual who combines zero personal hygiene with an overwhelming desire to stand far too close, talk incessantly, and ruin the air quality of any room they enter.
Read full entry →To scribble 'Return to Sender' on a piece of mail for a former tenant who moved out five years ago, forcefully thrusting it back into the postbox in a desperate attempt to stop the endless tide of someone else's debt letters.
Read full entry →A ruthless, power-tripping cunt of a neighbour who runs a relentless, uninvited surveillance operation over the entire street, treating shared spaces like a high-security prison camp.
Read full entry →Someone called Karen, is horrible and acts like a cunt and often can be seen acting aggressively toward service workers, neighbours, or random bystanders.
Read full entry →A highly versatile, aggressive insult used to describe a profoundly annoying, incompetent, or malicious person who consistently makes a complete mess of basic situations.
Read full entry →To repeatedly move the same way as another person while apologising during an attempted pass.
Read full entry →An uncomfortable few seconds spent watching the driver slowly walk towards your already open door.
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 polite conversational gap left solely to avoid sounding blunt.
Read full entry →A verbal alarm indicating that something deeply insulting is about to be said.
Read full entry →Politely requesting approval before immediately ignoring whether it was granted.
Read full entry →A uniquely British sideways manoeuvre performed with unnecessary apologies.
Read full entry →An entirely fictional location into which inconvenient advice is politely deposited and never revisited.
Read full entry →Wrapping an unequivocal refusal in imaginary uncertainty for the sake of politeness.
Read full entry →Softening the introduction to a criticism without reducing its severity in any way.
Read full entry →A single-word review indicating that something is fundamentally awful while remaining impeccably polite.
Read full entry →A completely fictional social arrangement created purely to end an interaction on friendly terms.
Read full entry →Politely suggesting a future social engagement that both parties understand will never happen.
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 instantaneous, disgusted retreat from a restroom stall after making eye contact with a biohazard.
Read full entry →The strategic, open-ended postponement of a social event, acting as a polite smokescreen for the fact that you despise their company.
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