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A customer who waits for the exact moment a customer service agent says, "Is there anything else I can help you with?" just to hijack the script with the single most unoriginal, overused "winning lottery numbers" joke in retail history.
Read full entry →The furtive act of peering into a public bin to determine if it's full before approaching it with your rubbish, usually to avoid the embarrassment of having to carry it back.
Read full entry →The sudden inability to remember where your payment method is until the exact moment you need it.
Read full entry →To announce the obvious state of the weather as an opening to conversation.
Read full entry →The act of delaying a decision until after making a cup of tea.
Read full entry →To repeatedly move the same way as another person while apologising during an attempted pass.
Read full entry →The misplaced belief that your chosen queue will move more quickly than all the others.
Read full entry →Treating the absence of complimentary sauces as a significant emotional event.
Read full entry →Declining an entire portion of chips while fully intending to consume another person's instead.
Read full entry →A remarkably understated account of events that were, in reality, absolute chaos.
Read full entry →The automatic British response of downplaying positive circumstances.
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 →A single-word review indicating that something is fundamentally awful while remaining impeccably polite.
Read full entry →Filling a suitcase with clothing for sunshine, frost, wind and torrential rain all at once.
Read full entry →Trusting the British weather far more than experience suggests you should.
Read full entry →Experiencing every season of the year during a single British afternoon.
Read full entry →A precautionary layer that is apparently essential during every British summer.
Read full entry →A silent promise to have fun no matter how aggressively unpleasant the weather becomes.
Read full entry →Refusing to cancel a beach trip regardless of meteorological evidence.
Read full entry →A traffic queue created entirely by people believing there wouldn't be any traffic.
Read full entry →Convincing yourself that millions of other motorists won't have the exact same travel plans.
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 →The dictionary is still being written
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