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An item nobody originally wanted but everybody suddenly pretends was essential once the minimum spend is reached.
Read full entry →Purchasing unnecessary food solely because spending more somehow feels cheaper than paying a delivery fee.
Read full entry →Reducing extreme weather conditions to a mildly inconvenient observation.
Read full entry →Concluding an argument with apparent agreement while internally remaining unconvinced.
Read full entry →Trusting the British weather far more than experience suggests you should.
Read full entry →A precautionary layer that is apparently essential during every British summer.
Read full entry →Automatically bringing wet-weather clothing regardless of the predicted sunshine.
Read full entry →Constructing a defensive perimeter against coastal winds using colourful fabric screens.
Read full entry →An unwritten festive cut-off date that every household believes is objectively correct.
Read full entry →Treating a single day of supermarket closure as though civilisation is temporarily ending.
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 →Presenting your loyalty card at the earliest physically possible opportunity.
Read full entry →A highly tactical, meandering stroll through an office building designed to extract maximum financial compensation for minimum physical effort.
Read full entry →The stubborn, medically dangerous protest against energy companies, executed by sitting on the sofa looking like an Arctic explorer.
Read full entry →The sudden derailment of a conversation about football or pints by a sleep-deprived parent seeking validation for their offspring.
Read full entry →The aggressive, deafening clattering of ceramics in a sink designed to induce maximum guilt in whoever is sitting on the sofa.
Read full entry →The cowardly, relationship-preserving delay tactic of offering vague optimism to kill an argument about visiting their parents.
Read full entry →The venomous, entitled deployment of a keyboard to destroy a minimum-wage worker's livelihood over a minor, perceived slight.
Read full entry →Someone whose reliable recall of key dates quietly rescues the other partner from an entirely avoidable disaster.
Read full entry →Habitually characterising every past partner as unreasonable, without acknowledging any personal responsibility whatsoever.
Read full entry →A perfectly, cruelly timed piece of software maintenance that guarantees maximum disruption at the worst possible moment.
Read full entry →Caught completely off guard by a scheduling error that only becomes apparent once you're already late.
Read full entry →An internet joke that has fully cycled out of relevance before being sincerely embraced by an older relative.
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