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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
FRIDAY, 29 FEBRUARY 1980
You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up.
Eleven kilometres later you'd caught three pigeons, a cold and a physio waiting list that will outlive the app.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
- You can do anything you set your mind to. Your mind has set itself…
- Your company's core values are printed on the wall. So nobody has to have…
- They posted an apology in the Notes app. It was addressed to the fans.…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- You've "found your aesthetic". It's beige. It's always beige.
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