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A completely pointless vehicular flex designed to assert dominance, saving the driver approximately zero seconds of journey time.
Read full entry →A brightly colored array of mechanical cries for help that the driver completely ignores due to sheer financial terror.
Read full entry →A dangerous display of ego where two commuters would rather trade paint and destroy their vehicles than let the other person go first.
Read full entry →A lightning-fast digital assassination of evidence, performed to protect your personal brand from a highly unflattering angle.
Read full entry →The deeply confusing phenomenon of a coward who refuses to reply to a text but aggressively consumes every piece of content you upload.
Read full entry →A tragically flawed mating ritual where you attempt 'banter' but accidentally attack their deepest insecurity.
Read full entry →A sophisticated pantomime performed in restaurants to trick the waiter into thinking you possess an ounce of culinary knowledge.
Read full entry →An uncomfortably prolonged physical restraint masquerading as family warmth, usually deployed at Christmas.
Read full entry →A traumatic auditory hallucination induced by corporate burnout, causing you to flinch when no computer is even in the room.
Read full entry →A desperate, scorched-earth digital cleansing where you accept failure and permanently ignore years of correspondence.
Read full entry →An apocalyptic email chain reaction that crashes the company server, driven entirely by idiots trying to be helpful.
Read full entry →A vicious corporate phrase utilized to publicly shame a coworker who was clearly not paying attention during the meeting.
Read full entry →A sudden, paralyzing dread induced by an incoming corporate message just as you are putting your coat on to leave.
Read full entry →A panicked, disorganized clawing of personal items from the counter to avoid holding up the queue of glaring shoppers behind you.
Read full entry →A purely theoretical commitment to eating only kale and running 5k, instantly destroyed the moment a coworker brings in doughnuts.
Read full entry →The agonizing inability of two British people to cleanly terminate a telephone conversation without saying farewell six times.
Read full entry →An enthusiastic, completely fake confirmation that your hair looks great, despite the fact they have ruined your life.
Read full entry →A densely packed, infinitely expanding mother-bag that houses sixty other crumpled supermarket carriers from 2014.
Read full entry →The soul-destroying realization upon entering a sticky-floored establishment that there is no seat, no paper, and the door doesn't lock.
Read full entry →The ultimate household treachery discovered when you have already sat down and realized the previous occupant was a lazy monster.
Read full entry →The humiliating process of proving to a teenage employee that you didn't steal a 20p loose carrot.
Read full entry →A suburban declaration of war authored by an infuriated homeowner tired of strangers utilizing their waste receptacle.
Read full entry →A sudden, catastrophic failure of muscle memory occurring at the worst possible moment while a line of people waits behind you.
Read full entry →The incredibly dangerous, high-speed intimidation tactic performed by a leased German car while you are already doing 75mph in the fast lane.
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