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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
THURSDAY, 5 JULY 1973
You're "healing your inner child".
Your inner child is fine. It's your outer adult that hasn't opened a letter since March.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Work smarter, not harder. You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
- Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
- Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. Your overdraft found it first.…
- Sleep when the baby sleeps. Also pay the mortgage when the baby pays the…
- Both parties say this is the most important election of your lifetime. They said…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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