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Broad classification for weather, seasons & holidays.
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The unrelenting, hypocritical British pastime of expressing total dissatisfaction with literally any atmospheric condition.
Read full entry →A tragically flawed mating ritual where you attempt 'banter' but accidentally attack their deepest insecurity.
Read full entry →An uncomfortably prolonged physical restraint masquerading as family warmth, usually deployed at Christmas.
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 miserable, freezing 7 AM chore necessitated by losing the proper scraper tool and being too late for the defroster to work.
Read full entry →A devastating, hissing sound made by a tradesman looking under your bonnet, signifying your savings are about to be wiped out.
Read full entry →The agonizing mental exhaustion of having to discuss holidays, the weather, and your job while trapped in a styling chair.
Read full entry →The ruthless, dawn-patrol territorial marking of prime holiday real estate by paranoid British tourists.
Read full entry →The uniquely British atmospheric betrayal that punishes optimism with sudden, torrential freezing rain.
Read full entry →The dangerous high-street game of stepping on suspicious concrete slabs after a rainstorm and hoping they don't squirt.
Read full entry →The physical attempt to jump-start a stalled brain by pivoting helplessly in the center of the kitchen.
Read full entry →The strategic use of meteorological observations to avoid discussing anything of actual personal substance.
Read full entry →The failure of the brain to absorb written words despite the eyes tracking them perfectly.
Read full entry →The precise thermal regulation technique involving a single exposed ankle in a cold room.
Read full entry →The phenomenon where your eyes track the words perfectly but your brain completely logs off.
Read full entry →The profound chronological disorientation experienced after sleeping heavily in the afternoon.
Read full entry →Liable to change or be cancelled entirely based on the conditions outside.
Read full entry →Caught unprepared outdoors because the sky looked temporarily reliable.
Read full entry →In a manner influenced more by the forecast than by actual current conditions.
Read full entry →To leave home without a coat despite an obviously uncertain forecast.
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