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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER 1961
Life is short.
A measurable chunk of it will be spent in the post office queue.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
- The update is 200GB. Your free afternoon was smaller.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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