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THURSDAY, 4 JULY 1957
You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up.
Eleven kilometres later you'd caught three pigeons, a cold and a physio waiting list that will outlive the app.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You call it a "situationship" because "relationship" would mean someone has to commit to…
- You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month. The call took 94…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- You "grew out of" your old friends. They grew out of waiting for you…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
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