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TUESDAY, 28 FEBRUARY 1961
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Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a recipe you'll never cook, and one is playing music from somewhere you can't find.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You "can't do mornings". You also can't do afternoons, evenings or emails.
- Remember when you stayed up late on purpose? Now you're up at 3am because…
- You call your mum "for advice". You call her for the Netflix password.
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- “I'm here for the right reasons.” The reasons are a teeth-whitening deal and a…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- Early access means you paid to watch someone not finish something. You do that…
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