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Entries relating to awkwardness.
Suggested home: Social life & etiquette / Public awkwardness
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An involuntary physical reaction to hearing your own recorded voice, which never once sounds the way you imagine it.
Read full entry →A reflexive, meaningless verbal filler deployed to close out any conversation, transaction, or awkward silence.
Read full entry →A lengthy, resigned wait for Swedish food that has somehow become the actual highlight of a furniture shopping trip.
Read full entry →The specific secondhand embarrassment felt watching a guest's decades of hope collapse in real time on national television.
Read full entry →A public act of enthusiastic greeting immediately followed by the crushing realisation it was never meant for you.
Read full entry →A rhetorical greeting mistakenly interpreted as a genuine enquiry, resulting in unwanted emotional disclosure by the pool table.
Read full entry →A non-committal gesture of recognition performed to avoid the crushing social cost of full eye contact with a near-stranger.
Read full entry →A completely fraudulent social pleasantry used to gracefully escape an awkward reunion on the high street.
Read full entry →A traumatic neurological flashback to a high school faux pas that your brain serves up exclusively when you are trying to sleep.
Read full entry →The agonizing public embarrassment of wrestling a metal spider that has violently snapped inside-out during a storm.
Read full entry →The intense regret of initiating a polite gesture too early, trapping yourself in an awkward stance for twenty seconds.
Read full entry →A highly embarrassing lack of coordination when boarding the tube, forcing the victim to immediately pretend they meant to do a weird hop.
Read full entry →A high-stakes, liquid-balancing dance performed to navigate from the bar back to your table without spilling.
Read full entry →The sudden, intense fascination with a blank lock screen to prevent an awkward sidewalk conversation.
Read full entry →A gravelly, embarrassing vocal malfunction that ruins your attempt to sound professional on a video call.
Read full entry →A polite managerial silencing tactic used to stop two nerds arguing about a minor technical detail.
Read full entry →The highly intimate, involuntary physical contact required to reach the bar in a crowded establishment.
Read full entry →A deeply embarrassing relative who uses social media exclusively to broadcast unhinged, easily disprovable garbage to everyone you know.
Read full entry →The pathetic, soul-destroying pursuit of algorithmic validation, usually involving a tripod, public dancing, or harassing minimum-wage workers.
Read full entry →The agonizing wait while holding your phone out for a friend, analyzing their face for the anticipated reaction.
Read full entry →A mirrored, side-stepping standoff where two pedestrians repeatedly fail to guess the other's path.
Read full entry →The development of a deeply embarrassing, private dialect used exclusively behind closed doors.
Read full entry →An embarrassing, squeaky vocal register humans adopt involuntarily when addressing anything fluffy.
Read full entry →The synchronized, awkward side-stepping performed by two strangers attempting not to collide on a sidewalk.
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