the diplomatic poppadom

The performance of insisting a painfully hot curry is merely 'quite nice'.

A state of voluntary immobility entered into because disturbing a slumbering animal is deemed morally unacceptable.

A suffocating, enclosed quiet where two people stare intensely at the floor numbers rather than acknowledging each other's existence.

A physics-defying catastrophe where the stickiest, most absorbent part of a breakfast item violently meets a filthy rug.