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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 1962
Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams
than you've had about anything since 2011.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- You asked the internet whether you were the bad guy. The internet read the…
- You "love deeply". Mostly a fictional man who doesn't know you exist. Neither do…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- You're ageing like a fine wine. Expensive, slightly sour, best kept in the dark,…
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