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Falsely claiming indifference to a birthday celebration while secretly, and visibly, hoping for a proper fuss.
Read full entry →A shared, unspoken agreement between two people that a poor film should be abandoned before the credits.
Read full entry →Publicly claiming platonic contentment with an ex while privately maintaining a level of interest that suggests otherwise.
Read full entry →The indiscriminate collection of dating app matches without any real intention of following up with most of them.
Read full entry →A rare, low-conflict evening in which one partner willingly cedes control of the television without negotiation.
Read full entry →The compulsive act of digging through old texts to re-analyse a comment whose meaning has suddenly become unclear.
Read full entry →Having spent an unreasonable amount of time drafting a single text, only to send a version you're still not happy with.
Read full entry →Announcing an intention for mindfulness or focus while simultaneously demonstrating the exact opposite behaviour in real time.
Read full entry →A rare, seamless video conference completed entirely without technical interruption or audio confusion.
Read full entry →A sudden overwhelming backlog of messages and app alerts discovered the morning after midnight celebrations.
Read full entry →The visually distracting failure of a virtual video background to properly render around a moving person.
Read full entry →The performative act of sending correspondence at an unreasonable hour purely to signal effort rather than urgency.
Read full entry →Delivering a passive-aggressive reminder of a prior message with just enough politeness to seem professional and just enough edge to sting.
Read full entry →Blindsided by an unintended text substitution that slipped past a hurried proofread and into a sent professional message.
Read full entry →A small but real disappointment triggered by a work notification arriving well outside any reasonable hours.
Read full entry →Having begun watching something purely as a joke, only to end up sincerely and unironically invested by the final act.
Read full entry →Requiring extensive prior internet context before the joke can be properly appreciated or understood at all.
Read full entry →So thoroughly repurposed across the internet that its true source is now completely untraceable.
Read full entry →A viral joke format with an unusually short but explosively intense lifespan before total cultural extinction.
Read full entry →So well-versed in a specific meme's context that a single image communicates an entire complex thought instantly.
Read full entry →An unexpected, slightly embarrassing act of restaurant staff generosity involving candles and forced group singing.
Read full entry →Culturally so specific to Britain that any joke or reference simply refuses to translate to an international audience.
Read full entry →Guilty of documenting a meal for social media only after already consuming a substantial portion of it.
Read full entry →An internet joke that has fully cycled out of relevance before being sincerely embraced by an older relative.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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