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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
FRIDAY, 10 AUGUST 1979
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- The bins are now fortnightly. The council tax is still monthly.
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- You're "so random". You've told the same "so random" story at every party since…
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
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