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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
THURSDAY, 15 JULY 1965
Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad.
The news is still bad. Your eyes are warmer. So is your overdraft.
— Zack, unqualified
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- You rage quit because the game was rigged. You were also just bad. Both…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
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