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WEDNESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 1960
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 have 2,000 followers and nobody to help you move. Your audience is very…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Consistency is key. You've said "I'll go tomorrow" for three years. It's the only…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- You pre-ordered it for the cape. The cape is now £3.99 for everyone else.
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
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