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Relationships, etiquette, community, British culture and public life.
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Broad classification for social life & etiquette.
Broad classification for relationships & dating.
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A brief, cherished instance of approval from a person known for being extremely sparing with compliments.
Read full entry →Immediately suspicious of a message that departs from the group's usual casual, chaotic tone.
Read full entry →Radiating a level of social energy that is genuinely lovely but occasionally too much for a Tuesday.
Read full entry →A silent, mutual agreement to permanently drop a disagreement without either party formally apologising.
Read full entry →Aware of an unsettling level of scroll-back activity into your own long-forgotten social media history.
Read full entry →An enduring, low-level tension between two partners with fundamentally incompatible relationships to time.
Read full entry →A disproportionately intense family conflict triggered by disputed house rules on free parking money.
Read full entry →The quiet, internal critique of a partner's driving decisions, expressed only through subtle winces and gripped armrests.
Read full entry →A brief, semi-serious physical and verbal struggle to be the one who covers a small, low-stakes bill.
Read full entry →A relationship secure enough that shared silence feels natural rather than something requiring filler conversation.
Read full entry →Stuck in an involuntary cycle of repeating the same recently discovered joke to every single person encountered.
Read full entry →A close friendship maintained primarily through relentless, affectionate insults rather than open sincerity.
Read full entry →Contradictorily sociable in low-stakes public settings despite professing a general dislike of casual conversation.
Read full entry →A quietly domestic sign of closeness in which partners intuitively anticipate each other's household needs.
Read full entry →Having received supportive gestures made up exclusively of unrelated, mildly funny internet images.
Read full entry →An apparently long-settled disagreement that reappears in conversation with startling, unexpected precision.
Read full entry →In perfect, wordless agreement with a partner that a social event has run its course and should be abandoned.
Read full entry →An extended, repeatedly interrupted farewell ritual that never quite manages to end with an actual exit.
Read full entry →A well-established, unequal but functional social arrangement based entirely on one person's organisational effort.
Read full entry →Consumed with missionary-level enthusiasm about a recently adopted interest, to the exhaustion of everyone nearby.
Read full entry →Willing to sit through significant personal tedium purely out of devotion to a partner's viewing preferences.
Read full entry →A significant, unspoken threshold of intimacy reached in a long-term relationship marked by bodily comfort.
Read full entry →Physically and emotionally depleted by an excessive period of standing patiently behind other people.
Read full entry →The uncertain social status of a relationship too formal for a casual cancellation and too casual for total honesty.
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