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SATURDAY, 11 JANUARY 1986
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Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a recipe you'll never cook, and one is playing music from somewhere you can't find.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your step counter used to set goals. Now it just sends "Hello?" like a…
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- True love is choosing the same person every day. They're choosing, daily, whether to…
- Be your own boss. Your new boss naps at 2pm, can't pay you, and…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
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