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Relationships, etiquette, community, British culture and public life.
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Broad classification for british life & culture.
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Politely requesting approval before immediately ignoring whether it was granted.
Read full entry →The automatic British response of downplaying positive circumstances.
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 →A polite observation indicating that someone has made an extraordinary error in judgement.
Read full entry →A uniquely British sideways manoeuvre performed with unnecessary apologies.
Read full entry →An entirely fictional location into which inconvenient advice is politely deposited and never revisited.
Read full entry →Wrapping an unequivocal refusal in imaginary uncertainty for the sake of politeness.
Read full entry →Softening the introduction to a criticism without reducing its severity in any way.
Read full entry →A single-word review indicating that something is fundamentally awful while remaining impeccably polite.
Read full entry →A completely fictional social arrangement created purely to end an interaction on friendly terms.
Read full entry →Politely suggesting a future social engagement that both parties understand will never happen.
Read full entry →A socially accepted deception in which your own desire to leave is disguised as concern for someone else's time.
Read full entry →Ending a conversation by generously pretending to give the other person permission to leave, despite secretly wanting to escape yourself.
Read full entry →A precautionary layer that is apparently essential during every British summer.
Read full entry →An unwritten festive cut-off date that every household believes is objectively correct.
Read full entry →The optimistic British tradition of firing up the barbecue at the first faint hint of warmth, regardless of the actual weather.
Read full entry →Systematically inspecting products until the one with the longest shelf life is found.
Read full entry →The deployment of a single, dismissive consonant designed to completely invalidate someone's feelings and win an argument through sheer apathy.
Read full entry →The instantaneous, disgusted retreat from a restroom stall after making eye contact with a biohazard.
Read full entry →The strategic, open-ended postponement of a social event, acting as a polite smokescreen for the fact that you despise their company.
Read full entry →A flat, emotionless stretching of the mouth deployed universally by British people to acknowledge an awkward, accidental visual connection.
Read full entry →The societal obligation to shower a squishy, potato-looking newborn with intense, fabricated adoration to appease a coworker.
Read full entry →The pathetic, pride-saving attempt to casually carry a mangled, inverted wire skeleton as if it is a bold new fashion statement.
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