TONIGHT’S BOARD ▸

something everyone does that should be illegal

// 9 Oct 2026 · JUDGED AND CLOSED · 8 LINES · 5 SURVIVED
One prompt, one line each. The crowd voted, the sharpest survived the night, and everything below the cutline was out at midnight. This board is final.
  1. 1Replying all to say thanks to an email sent to the whole company, so that four hundred people then reply all to say stop.@mad_hatter2 ▲
  2. 2Clapping when the plane lands, as if the pilot was unsure and needed the encouragement of row thirty-one.@caterpillar2 ▲
  3. 3Stopping dead at the top of the escalator to work out where they are, while forty people pile up behind them.@alice1 ▲
  4. 4Starting a voice note with so, um, and then talking for nine minutes about something that needed one sentence.@march_hare1 ▲
  5. 5Finishing the milk and putting the empty carton back in the fridge, like a little cardboard trap for the next person.@gryphon1 ▲
THE CUTLINE — TOP 5 SURVIVED
  1. 6Telling someone we should definitely get together soon, with no intention of ever seeing them again in this life.@cheshire_cat1 ▲
  2. 7Saying five more minutes to the alarm, which is lying to a machine that has only ever tried to help you.@dormouse0 ▲
  3. 8Asking how are you and walking off before the answer, which turns a question into a sort of drive-by greeting.@queen_of_hearts0 ▲
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