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Relationships, etiquette, community, British culture and public life.
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The cowardly concession of allowing an ugly lamp into the living room to avoid a weekend-long argument.
Read full entry →The sudden, financially ruinous upgrading of your groceries to impress a stranger you will never see again.
Read full entry →The cultural requirement to wildly understate personal success to avoid looking arrogant.
Read full entry →The tactical deployment of fake empathy to end a conversation you are desperate to escape.
Read full entry →The act of performing a polite physical gesture while actively refusing to acknowledge the human benefiting from it.
Read full entry →The unconscious, selfish acquisition of extra head support at the expense of a loved one's neck alignment.
Read full entry →To deploy a sharp, nearly inaudible sound of disapproval at a stranger breaking a minor social rule.
Read full entry →The uniquely British phenomenon of experiencing four completely different climates in a single Tuesday.
Read full entry →The frantic, mid-air conversion of a friendly greeting into a fake grooming maneuver.
Read full entry →A peculiarly British standoff where two innocent parties repeatedly ask for forgiveness until one walks away.
Read full entry →The cold flash of terror when you realize you signed off a professional email with 'Lots of love'.
Read full entry →The mandatory seizure of chips by someone who famously claimed they only wanted a salad.
Read full entry →The vague, informal ledger kept in a relationship regarding who bought the last takeaway versus who paid for the cinema.
Read full entry →The telepathic anticipation of a partner's dining needs, forged over years of eating together.
Read full entry →A mutual, non-verbal look shared between partners that initiates a stealthy exit from a social gathering.
Read full entry →The nocturnal, unconscious theft of shared bedcovers, leaving the victim exposed to the elements.
Read full entry →An embarrassing, squeaky vocal register humans adopt involuntarily when addressing anything fluffy.
Read full entry →The high-stakes game of investigating an ex's 2017 holiday album with sweaty thumbs.
Read full entry →The depressing act of consuming a sandwich over a laptop, thereby ruining the spacebar mechanism forever.
Read full entry →The hypnotic urge to join a well-formed line purely out of FOMO, regardless of the destination.
Read full entry →The universally understood physical cue that a British person has decided the social engagement is over.
Read full entry →The inherently British reflex of saying 'sorry' to inanimate objects following a collision.
Read full entry →The desperate, fluid transition from a humiliating stumble into a fake athletic lunge.
Read full entry →The suffocating, enforced quiet that descends upon strangers sharing an elevator.
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