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THURSDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 1984
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 say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
- Good things come to those who wait. You waited so long they went to…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- Till death do us part. Not a vow. A fixed-term contract with an unspecified…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- You are a valued member of the team. So was the last person in…
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