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Arguing about chilli intensity using entirely subjective evidence.
Read full entry →Achieving complete culinary routine by permanently abandoning experimentation.
Read full entry →Declining an entire portion of chips while fully intending to consume another person's instead.
Read full entry →Employing negotiation, guilt and diplomacy to secure the final poppadom.
Read full entry →Greeting a delivery driver using GPS timing rather than the sound of the doorbell.
Read full entry →Obsessively reopening a food delivery tracker in the hope that the driver's icon has moved another few metres.
Read full entry →Using 'cheers' as a greeting, farewell, acknowledgement, apology or vague conversational glue.
Read full entry →Restarting conversation by returning to Britain's most dependable topic.
Read full entry →Compressing catastrophic events into manageable anecdotes through understatement.
Read full entry →Acknowledging someone else's effort while quietly maintaining your original opinion.
Read full entry →Avoiding direct criticism by acknowledging only the existence of the chosen approach.
Read full entry →Adding imaginary hope to an answer that is, in reality, a firm refusal.
Read full entry →Pretending to deliberate despite having settled the matter long ago.
Read full entry →Attempting to neutralise an offensive statement by announcing it beforehand.
Read full entry →Politely requesting approval before immediately ignoring whether it was granted.
Read full entry →Reducing extreme weather conditions to a mildly inconvenient observation.
Read full entry →Deliberately understating personal happiness to avoid appearing overly enthusiastic.
Read full entry →Introducing an entirely ordinary opinion as though it required exceptional courage to reveal.
Read full entry →Concluding an argument with apparent agreement while internally remaining unconvinced.
Read full entry →Diluting obvious suffering with traditional British understatement.
Read full entry →Replacing direct criticism with a compliment so ambiguous it becomes an insult.
Read full entry →Ending discussion of an avoidable disaster by pretending it was somehow inevitable.
Read full entry →Projecting complete calm while internally cataloguing seventeen different concerns.
Read full entry →Attempting to navigate around an oblivious person while repeatedly apologising for their obstruction.
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