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Broad classification for emotions & inner life.
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Entries concerning embarrassment & cringe.
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An intense, disproportionate spiral of anxiety triggered entirely by a short, deliberately vague message.
Read full entry →Recognising, mid-laugh, that a story or joke has already been told once and you're now hearing it for the second time.
Read full entry →A considerate, unprompted heads-up sent ahead of an unavoidable delay, sparing the other person any needless anxiety.
Read full entry →A rare, appreciated instance where a promised financial reward from an employer arrives exactly when expected.
Read full entry →A minor but real December crisis caused by an unreliable memory for who's already received a festive greeting.
Read full entry →A collective, televised heartbreak felt across the nation when a carefully constructed bake fails at the final hurdle.
Read full entry →A creeping, nationally shared sense of impending Monday triggered exclusively by a single BBC theme tune.
Read full entry →A wave of gratitude discovered when a task you were dreading has already been quietly handled by someone else.
Read full entry →A verbal caution that reliably precedes a comment guaranteed to be interpreted exactly as feared.
Read full entry →A brief, misleading surge of parcel optimism dashed the moment the van simply drives off again.
Read full entry →A frantic, last-minute grooming crisis triggered entirely by a forgotten calendar reminder for school portraits.
Read full entry →A sudden, sinking realisation that proof of purchase for an expensive item vanished in a house clear-out months ago.
Read full entry →A frantic, last-second scramble to rebook a delivery window that disappears the moment you hesitate for even a breath.
Read full entry →A sudden, visceral wave of parental panic triggered purely by caller ID, regardless of how minor the actual issue turns out to be.
Read full entry →A familiar, thirty-second wave of dread synchronised precisely to a xylophone melody most Britons know by heart.
Read full entry →The public humiliation of a payment failure witnessed by an entire line of increasingly frustrated onlookers.
Read full entry →A genuine, community-wide sadness felt over the loss of an institution more emotionally significant than most weddings.
Read full entry →A creeping dread of total navigational blindness triggered by a battery percentage in the single digits.
Read full entry →The devastating, slow disappearance of hope as a vehicle you needed to catch drives irrevocably out of earshot.
Read full entry →A frantic scramble through drawers for AA batteries occurring exclusively at the worst possible moment.
Read full entry →The collective, low-level neighbourhood panic triggered by a completely ordinary delivery vehicle parked slightly too long.
Read full entry →A red-light beep of shame delivered directly to your pride at the front of a full, watching bus.
Read full entry →A cynical, well-earned suspicion that a temporary closure sign is actually the beginning of the end.
Read full entry →A rising sense of existential doom triggered by a red battery icon and a full day ahead with no plug in sight.
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