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Broad classification for social life & etiquette.
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A flat, emotionless stretching of the mouth deployed universally by British people to acknowledge an awkward, accidental visual connection.
Read full entry →A high-stress social nightmare where you are solely responsible for ensuring your posh work mates don't offend your rough pub mates.
Read full entry →The cowardly, non-committal deferral of a social invitation, designed to string the host along until the event has passed.
Read full entry →An act of pure, unadulterated urban malice, denying a fellow human access to a vertical transport box out of sheer impatience.
Read full entry →An overwhelming, vaguely worded conversational opener that leaves the other person scrambling to summarise an entire life.
Read full entry →A sudden, deflating disappointment discovered only after a lengthy wait, forcing a hurried second choice.
Read full entry →Reflexively viewing everyday events through the lens of potential social media virality rather than lived experience.
Read full entry →Possessing an encyclopaedic, near-instinctive knowledge of British sitcom quotes deployed in almost any social context.
Read full entry →Compulsively drawn to the largest available option, regardless of practicality, portion sense, or actual hunger.
Read full entry →A perfectly placed sitcom reference that lands so cleanly it briefly halts the entire conversation with laughter.
Read full entry →So attuned to a friend's tastes that identical food orders happen without any conversation or coordination.
Read full entry →A silent, mutual agreement to permanently drop a disagreement without either party formally apologising.
Read full entry →A relationship secure enough that shared silence feels natural rather than something requiring filler conversation.
Read full entry →Contradictorily sociable in low-stakes public settings despite professing a general dislike of casual conversation.
Read full entry →In perfect, wordless agreement with a partner that a social event has run its course and should be abandoned.
Read full entry →A well-established, unequal but functional social arrangement based entirely on one person's organisational effort.
Read full entry →Physically and emotionally depleted by an excessive period of standing patiently behind other people.
Read full entry →Simmering with private resentment while maintaining an entirely normal, unbothered exterior.
Read full entry →A social sentence served between the starter and dessert, seated next to a stranger with no shared interests whatsoever.
Read full entry →A frantic, undignified jog performed purely out of social obligation not to make a polite stranger wait too long.
Read full entry →A serious social transgression against the unwritten laws of the Underground, punished swiftly by tuts and sighs.
Read full entry →A soft, meaningless parting phrase deployed to soften an otherwise abrupt end to a conversation with a stranger.
Read full entry →An awkward digital standoff where everyone waits politely for someone else to click the red button first.
Read full entry →An automatic apology issued by the injured party, regardless of who caused the actual injury.
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