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The automatic application of human social norms to an animal.
Read full entry →The unsettling feline habit of gazing intensely at a spot where nothing exists.
Read full entry →The canine practice of loudly defending the house against a leaf blowing down the street.
Read full entry →The cruel but hilarious human deception of hiding a ball behind your back.
Read full entry →The feline assertion of dominance by sleeping on the only object you are trying to use.
Read full entry →The dangerous pet habit of staying exactly one millimeter behind a human's foot.
Read full entry →The immediate mobilization of a dog when they hear a crumb hit the linoleum.
Read full entry →The sudden, searing pain of a plastic toy embedding itself in your bare heel.
Read full entry →The structural failure of cheap plastic right as you lift rubbish over the kitchen floor.
Read full entry →The collection of paper leaflets for restaurants you will only ever order from via an app.
Read full entry →The intense frustration of plastic film shredding into an unusable, narrowing triangle.
Read full entry →The lazy act of returning an almost-empty container to the fridge to avoid the recycling bin.
Read full entry →The unpleasant surprise of tipping a mug back and receiving lukewarm leaf-water.
Read full entry →The highly dangerous practice of extracting stuck bread with metal cutlery.
Read full entry →The momentary searing of your eyebrows when checking on a pizza too closely.
Read full entry →The aerodynamic disaster of hitting the curve of a spoon with a high-pressure tap.
Read full entry →The structural failure of a baked good resulting in a sludgy ruin at the bottom of a mug.
Read full entry →The delusion that you will one day make preserves or require twenty identical jars.
Read full entry →The shame felt when throwing away a bag of liquefying spinach you swore you'd eat.
Read full entry →The act of passing a suspicious dairy product to a partner for a second opinion.
Read full entry →The terrifying and clammy attachment of wet plastic to your skin while washing.
Read full entry →The perpetual relocation of unfolded clothes rather than actually putting them away.
Read full entry →The mysterious phenomenon of bedcovers completely consuming a television remote.
Read full entry →An irrational psychological preference for one receptacle over all identical others.
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